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Public Health - Water Quality Control Board - Water Supply Feasibility Reports

Series

Identifier: 026-07-070

Scope and Contents This series contains documents relating to the planning and construction of water supply systems throughout Georgia. Included are construction plans and blueprints, layout map sheets and related technical data on both new systems and proposed improvements. All documents for a specific system are usually put together in report or theme binders, but some were never bound and are in file folders. For similar files dating after 1972, see Record Group 88, Environmental Protection Division of the...

Dates: Created: 1953-1970

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Health - Water Quality Control Board - Water Supply System Specification Files

Series

Identifier: 026-07-069

Scope and Contents

This series contains documents relating to the construction of water supply systems throughout Georgia. Included are construction specifications and related technical data in bound 8 1/2 x 11'' volumes often with tables of contents. This series is closely related to Water Supply Feasibility Report Files, Series 70. For similar records dated after Georgia government reorganization, see Record Group 88, Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources.

Dates: Created: 1952-1972

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Accident Reporting Section - Drivers' License Suspension Correspondence

Series

Identifier: 035-13-002

Scope and Contents

This correspondence mainly deals with suspension of driver's licenses. In it individuals are trying to obtain hearings in order to get restricted licenses or wanting to know the requirements to get their licenses back. In some cases they were allowed to operate vehicles for their employer or other special cases. This was done only if they met certain requirements. In some cases there is not a complete years correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1939-1964

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - Annual Reports

Series

Identifier: 035-02-003

Scope and Contents These published reports are primarily of a statistical nature. They are compiled from the reports of the Department's various divisions and units. Among the more important sections of these annual reports are: (1) organizational chart (2) Accident Reporting Division including all pertinent data concerning motor vehicle accidents such as mortalities, injuries, number of accidents, cost of accidents, city and county records and a statistical summary (3) Electronic Data (4) Personnel (5) Safety...

Dates: Created: 1958-1985

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - Commissioner's Subject Files

Series

Identifier: 035-02-017

Scope and Contents This series contains original and copied material that pertains to the administration of the Department of Public Safety (DPS). The majority of the records are unbound and reflect the high priority the department had assigned to highway safety. The records in this series include but are not limited to: 1) correspondence and memoranda 2) traffic safety and fatality reports 3) reports to the Governor 4) budget, planning and development documents 5) various questionnaires on law enforcement...

Dates: Created: 1970-1990

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - Georgia Driver's Manual

Series

Identifier: 035-02-030

Scope and Contents

This publication contains the various laws concerning driving, the use of highways and pedestrian safety.

Dates: Created: 1974

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - Georgia State Patrol Graduation Exercises

Series

Identifier: 035-02-031

Scope and Contents

This series contains programs of the graduating classes of the Georgia State Patrol.

Dates: Created: 1973-1973

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - Georgia State Patrol Monthly Newsletter

Series

Identifier: 035-02-026

Scope and Contents

This newsletter is composed of both personnel and professional news notes concerning the Georgia State Patrol. It is similar to The Trooper in record group 35-2-25 and Traffic Safety Coordinator in record group 35-2-24.

Dates: Created: 1975-1976

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - Georgia Traffic Accident Facts (Publication)

Series

Identifier: 035-02-028

Scope and Contents This publication contains a great deal of statistical information concerning traffic accidents and is published annually. The statistical schedules presented in this publication are summarized below. Many of these schedules are given by county, The schedules included (not all schedules are included in every issue) in the publications are (1) location and telephone numbers of Georgia State Patrol Posts; (2) traffic deaths for previous fifteen years; (3) traffic tolls for previous five years;...

Dates: Created: 1944-1953

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - News Releases

Series

Identifier: 035-02-029

Dates: Created: 1975-1976

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - Publications

Series

Identifier: 035-02-004

Dates: Created: 1974

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - the Trooper (Publication)

Series

Identifier: 035-02-025

Scope and Contents

This is an in house type of publication that is published monthly for the personnel of the department and other interested persons. It contains a monthly report of the activities at each of the State Patrol Posts that concerns personnel changes and similar news.

Dates: Created: 1972-1978

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Commissioner's Office - Traffic Safety Coordinator (Publication)

Series

Identifier: 035-02-024

Scope and Contents

This publication contains brief news notes concerning traffic safety and is published once a month. The publication is especially interested in recent legislation relating to traffic safety passed by the Georgia General Assembly and other state and national legislative bodies.

Dates: Created: 1970-1979

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Driver Support Division - Identification Card for Handicapped Driver

Series

Identifier: 035-09-021

Scope and Contents This series contains the first application for an identification card and the identification card itself issued to a handicapped holder of a valid Georgia driver's license under the provisions of Senate Bill 262 passed in the 1973 - 1974 session of the General Assembly. The bill was sponsored by Senators Tysinger of the 41st District, Howard of the 42nd and Overby of the 49th. It was recommended by the Department of Public Safety that these records be retained in the Archives for display...

Dates: Created: 1973

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Fiscal Division - Publication Record Set Files

Series

Identifier: 035-21-034

Dates: Other: no date

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Georgia State Patrol - Post Operations Files

Series

Identifier: 035-06-015

Scope and Contents This series consists of several statistical reports summarizing the field operations of each patrol post in Georgia. Included are: 1) inspection reports of each post (Form GSP-22) 2) Breakdown of Accidents (Form GSP-49) 3) arrests and disposition of cases by county showing breakdowns, types of dispositions and fines (Form GSP-6) 4) fatalities and arrests for DUI by county showing name, address, age and race of subject, time of death or arrest and location of incident and 5) related...

Dates: Created: 1972-1989

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Highway Safety - Publications

Series

Identifier: 035-20-032

Scope and Contents The Act of April 18, 1967 created the Office of Coordinator of Highway Safety to assist the Governor in the formulation, coordination and supervision of state and local highway safety programs in order to reduce traffic accidents, deaths, injuries and property damage in the state. The Governor was authorized to appoint the Coordinator. The Act of April 6, 1972 renamed the office the Office of Highway Safety and transferred it to the Department of Public Safety for administrative purposes...

Dates: Created: 1968

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Office of Highway Safety - Annual Reports

Series

Identifier: 035-20-033

Scope and Contents These annual reports contain statistical and narrative material and can be summarized with the following table of contents taken from the 1969 - 1970 fiscal year annual report: (1) 1969 statistical traffic data for State of Georgia; (2) chart showing accident reporting, traffic deaths, injuries and economic loss; (3) maps displaying political subdivisions that have participated in highway safety projects administered by the Office of Coordinator of Highway Safety; (4) individual breakdown of...

Dates: Created: FY70

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Peace Officers Standards - Newsletter

Series

Identifier: 035-18-027

Scope and Contents The Act of March 10, 1970 created the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council for the purpose of upgrading the selection and training of peace officers in Georgia and placed the Council within the Department of Public Safety for administrative purposes. The Council was authorized, strengthened by later acts, to establish standards to be used in certifying schools authorized to train peace officers, to certify schools that meet such standards as well as the instructors and...

Dates: Created: 1975-1979

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Planning and Operations - Director's Subject Files

Series

Identifier: 035-16-018

Dates: Created: 1969-1981

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - Public Information Office - Photographic Records of Traffic Accidents

Series

Identifier: 035-22-035

Dates: Created: 1952-1954

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Safety - State Board of Public Safety - Minutes

Series

Identifier: 035-01-019

Scope and Contents The Board of Public Safety was established by the Georgia General Assembly in 1972 to establish policy for the Georgia Department of Public Safety (Ga. Laws 1972 p. 1015). Topics dealt with by the board include public security issues, personnel and salaries, training, including a law enforcement training center, gifts and donations, a public safety memorial, and drug enforcement.In addition to minutes, documents include agendas, rosters, budgets, certificates, reports including...

Dates: Created: 1976-2005

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Administration - Correspondence Files

Series

Identifier: 017-01-019

Scope and Contents This series consists of directives, reports and incoming correspondence addressed to the various officials of the Public Service Commission, generally accompanied by their replies. As the series title implies, these records are mainly those from distinct individuals or companies who requested assistance from the PSC in answering specific questions on the establishment of truck companies, bus companies, the transporting of goods from a state into Georgia or through Georgia, the possible...

Dates: Created: 1923-1931

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Administration - Gas, Electric and Transportation Annual Reports

Series

Identifier: 017-01-033

Dates: Other: unknown

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Administration - Georgia Railroad Commission Annual Reports

Series

Identifier: 017-01-010

Scope and Contents These annual reports were submitted to the Governor as required by Section XIV of the Act of the General Assembly of 1878 creating the Georgia Railroad Commission. Although the format and length of these reports changed considerably from year to year, a random sample volume would contain: (1) a relatively brief narrative report on the year's activities (2) recommendations for the future including amendments to acts, safety innovations and regulations (3) opinions of the special attorney (4)...

Dates: Created: 1879-1921

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Administration - Public Service Commission Annual Reports

Series

Identifier: 017-01-003

Scope and Contents This series contains numbered published annual reports of the Georgia Public Service Commission. The commission was created to regulate public transportation and utility companies. The reports often include 1) the laws of the General Assembly relating public utilities, railroads, and motor carriers; 2) administrative rules of the Commission; 3) regulations governing passengers, freight, storage, motor carriers, depots, agencies and telegraph companies; 4) orders and...

Dates: Created: 1922-1978

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Administration - Publications

Series

Identifier: 017-01-012

Scope and Contents This series contains miscellaneous pamphlets, brochures, lists and several annual reports published periodically by the Georgia Public Service Commission. As the titles listed reveal, most deal with the Commission's chief role, the regulation of public transportation and utility companies operating in Georgia. These publications were issued to inform businessmen of laws, rules and regulations governing their businesses in the state and to complement the annual reports of the Public Service...

Dates: Created: 1910-1976

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Administration - Reading Files

Series

Identifier: 017-01-020

Scope and Contents This series consists of a fragmentary collection of outgoing correspondence generated by the commissioner, the chairman, the secretary and the rate expert of the Public Service Commission. Also included are telegrams and memos. These reading files, though usually destroyed by most state agencies, give an inside view into the thinking and planning of the Public Service Commission back in the early days when the trucking industry and the railroads were competing head to head for market...

Dates: Created: 1925-1933

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Administration - Subject Files

Series

Identifier: 017-01-018

Scope and Contents This series consists of (1) correspondence, (2) forms, (3) appointments, (4) reports, (5) directives, (6) legal reports, (7) minutes, (8) briefs, (9) rules and regulations, (10) financial statements, (11) contracts, (12) copies of petitions and (13) annual reports. These files, though fragmentary, are full of information on the efforts the Public Service Commission undertook in the early days to regulate the infant trucking industry, taxi commission, railroads and public utilities. Although...

Dates: Created: 1870-1933

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Administration - Tariff Schedules

Series

Identifier: 017-01-036

Dates: Created: 1960-1965

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Administration - Vouchers

Series

Identifier: 017-01-002

Scope and Contents

This series contains two volumes of vouchers or receipts for payment of salaries, goods, and services by the Railroad Commission of Georgia. Each entry recorded contains a voucher number.

Dates: Created: 1901-1915

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Corporations - County, School Districts and City Tax Assessments

Series

Identifier: 017-05-055

Dates: Created: 1932

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Hearing Reporter - Public Hearing Dockets

Series

Identifier: 017-04-027

Scope and Contents This series consists of Hearing Docket Books, one of the four elements that make up the complete Public Hearing Records Files. Authorized on October 4, 1954, the books, kept by the Secretary of the Commission, record all proceedings of matters assigned for public hearing, the time of such hearing and the appearances. Dockets "M", "R" and "U" were established and have been maintained since January 1, 1955. (These letters are contained in the docket number and signify what utility the...

Dates: Created: 1922-1981

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Hearing Reporter - Public Hearing Minute Orders

Series

Identifier: 017-04-028

Scope and Contents This series consists of the official copies of orders issued by the Public Service Commission. The orders are of two basic types: (1) orders changing the rules and regulations under which the Commission regulates whole classes of companies and (2) orders affecting only a specific company. The latter type of orders is the most frequently found. Orders amending rules and regulations for whole classes of regulated companies concern definitions of of terms as used in the rules and regulations...

Dates: Created: 1959-1981

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Hearing Reporter - Public Hearing Minutes

Series

Identifier: 017-04-026

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound handwritten and typewritten accounts of the meetings held by the Public Service Commission and when it was known as The Railroad Commission. These volumes are one of the four elements that make up the Public Hearing Records Files. Some examples of the business discussed include: (1) the case of the Georgia Power Company to show cause why its rates should not be revised, (2) calls for a hearing application of the Central of Georgia Railway for authority to...

Dates: Created: 1879-1975

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Hearing Reporter - Public Hearing Verbatim Transcripts

Series

Identifier: 017-04-025

Scope and Contents This series consists of verbatim transcripts of applicants and Protestants in public hearings before the Public Service Commission in one of the following forms: (1) audio recorded discs, (2) transcriptions from audio recorded discs and (3) audio tape cassettes. These transcriptions are one of the four elements in the Public Hearing Records Files. They give all the testimony presented to and by the Public Service Commission on its public hearings. The records contain both a file number and...

Dates: Created: 1922-1981

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Public Utilities - Public Utility Company Files

Series

Identifier: 017-03-004

Scope and Contents

This series contains various records of public utility companies operating in Georgia from the 1920's until the 1960's. The bulk of the records consist of requests for rate adjustments and territorial expansion of the companies. The records include requests to sell stock, requests to offer increased services, annual reports, complaints against the companies and general correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1920-1968

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Public Utilities - Telephone and Telegraph Company Annual Reports

Series

Identifier: 017-03-031

Scope and Contents These annual reports of telephone and telegraph companies operating in Georgia contain a great amount of detail about the ownership, officials, financial structure and status, and extent of operations. The amount of detail varies somewhat from year to year and from different classes (or sizes) of companies. By far the greater portion of a report breaks down the financial status of the company into in-dept analysis. Also included are names of directors, officers and leading stockholders. ...

Dates: Created: 1920-1970

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Public Utilities - Telephone Pole Line and Exchange Area Maps

Series

Identifier: 017-03-035

Dates: Created: 1950-1960

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Public Utilities - Utility Company Rate Case. Security/Finance Hearing Case Files

Series

Identifier: 017-03-032

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound material (bound inside individual folders) documenting the efforts made by utility companies in regard to rate, security and financial hearings before the Georgia Public Service Commission. The records include: (1) company filings (2) testimonies (3) exhibits (4) minimum filing (5) case summaries (6) approval memos (7) transcripts (8) audit reports (9) data requests and responses (10) briefs and proposed orders (11) petitions (12) correspondence (13) newspaper...

Dates: Created: 1946-1994

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Bond Registers

Series

Identifier: 017-02-015

Scope and Contents

This series consists of a bound volume containing registers of bonds. Included are the sale of 7% North Eastern Railroad Bonds endorsed by the governor on behalf of the state on January 19, 1878; the sale of 4% State of Georgia Bonds involved in the sale of the Macon & Brunswick Railroad in 1880 and the sale of 4 1/2% State of Georgia Bonds on July, 1885, under authority of the General Assembly Act of December 23, 1884.

Dates: Created: 1878-1885

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Central of Georgia Railroad Publications

Series

Identifier: 017-02-051

Dates: Created: 1934

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Closed Bus Schedules

Series

Identifier: 017-02-038

Scope and Contents

1946 - 1956, Atlantic Northern Lines thru Griffin Motor; 1948 - 1957, Hardage Bus Lines thru Shannon

Dates: Created: 1946-1957

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Freight and Passage Registers

Series

Identifier: 017-02-024

Scope and Contents This series consists of two volumes recording the amount of freight and passage for the steamships Mary Byrd and Resaca. Volume 1, for the Mary Byrd, has the freight and passage entries beginning about the middle of the book. A general heading contains trip number, debit and credit columns. Under this heading is listed (1) date, (2) transaction, (3) amount and (4) total. Volume 2, for the Resaca, is formatted on two pages. A general heading contains (1) trip number, (2) originating station,...

Dates: Created: 1869-1870

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Freight Rate Case, Ex-Parte 259

Series

Identifier: 017-02-040

Dates: Created: 1968

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Georgia Railroads Before Regulation

Series

Identifier: 017-02-001

Scope and Contents This series consists of an artificial collection of bound and unbound records accumulated by the Georgia Railroad Commission, the Office of the Governor or an agent of the General Assembly and its investigative committees for their reference or otherwise unidentified. The records include (1) correspondence, (2) accounting forms, (3) reports, (4) petitions, (5) copies of bills for reference and (6) a freight journal. Some of the reports deal with railroads aided by the State especially for...

Dates: Created: 1840-1915

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Grain Carrier Dockets

Series

Identifier: 017-02-044

Dates: Created: 1955-1959

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Highway Maps Used for Telephone Or Radio Bands

Series

Identifier: 017-02-034

Dates: Created: 1958-1965

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Icc Transportation Statistics Reports

Series

Identifier: 017-02-047

Dates: Created: 1949-1960

Found in: Georgia Archives

Public Service Commission - Transportation - Increased Freight Rates, Ex-Parte 206

Series

Identifier: 017-02-039

Dates: Created: 1956-1957

Found in: Georgia Archives

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