§ 50-4-7. State Service Delivery Regions

1. For the purpose of delivering state services to local units of government and citizens and for the purpose of establishing state agency regional boundaries, there are created 12 state service delivery regions as follows:
   1. State Service Delivery Region 1 shall be composed of Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, Gordon, Haralson, Murray, Paulding, Pickens, Polk, Walker, and Whitfield counties;
   2. State Service Delivery Region 2 shall be composed of Banks, Dawson, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, and White counties;
   3. State Service Delivery Region 3 shall be composed of Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, and Rockdale counties;
   4. State Service Delivery Region 4 shall be composed of Butts, Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Troup, and Upson counties;
   5. State Service Delivery Region 5 shall be composed of Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Jasper, Madison, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, and Walton counties;
   6. State Service Delivery Region 6 shall be composed of Baldwin, Bibb, Crawford, Houston, Jones, Monroe, Peach, Pulaski, Putnam, Twiggs, and Wilkinson counties;
   7. State Service Delivery Region 7 shall be composed of Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Taliaferro, Warren, Washington, and Wilkes counties;
   8. State Service Delivery Region 8 shall be composed of Chattahoochee, Clay, Crisp, Dooly, Harris, Macon, Marion, Muscogee, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor, and Webster counties;
   9. State Service Delivery Region 9 shall be composed of Appling, Bleckley, Candler, Dodge, Emanuel, Evans, Jeff Davis, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Tattnall, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne, Wheeler, and Wilcox counties;
   10. State Service Delivery Region 10 shall be composed of Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Terrell, Thomas, and Worth counties;
   11. State Service Delivery Region 11 shall be composed of Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Pierce, Tift, Turner, and Ware counties; and
   12. State Service Delivery Region 12 shall be composed of Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, and Screven counties.
2. This Code section shall not apply to or affect aging program planning and service areas, health districts, or mental health districts.

History. Code 1981, § 50-4-7 , enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1230, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 789, § 3; Ga. L. 2005, p. 143, § 1/SB 144; Ga. L. 2010, p. 451, § 1/HB 1260.

Code Commission notes.

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, “McIntosh” was substituted for “Mcintosh” in paragraph (a)(12).