Overview of Georgia’s Publication Requirements
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GEORGIA Magazine:
- Monthly subscribers: half a million
- Readership: over 1 million
- Official publication of Georgia Electric Membership Corp
- Serves the state’s forty-one electric cooperatives
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Georgia’s Early Newspapers:
- First newspaper: Georgia Gazette (1763-1776)
- Atlanta’s major daily newspaper: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Owned by Cox Enterprises
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Georgia Government Publications Program:
- The University of Georgia Libraries oversight
- State agencies submit copies
- Digitization at the Digital Library of Georgia
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Impact of Archives:
- Enables data mining and historical insights
- Example: North Carolina’s slave advertisements archive
Publication Requirements in Other States
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Publication Requirement States:
- Arizona, Nebraska, and New York
- Arizona: 3-week notice
- New York: 6-week notice in two newspapers
- Newspapers to be in the county of the LLC’s place of business
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Other State Requirements:
- Pennsylvania and Georgia: corporations
- California, Georgia, and more: DBAs
- Failure consequences: fines, licenses revoked
- Affidavit filing after compliance
- Purpose: community awareness of new businesses
- Relevance questioned in the digital age