{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-28-2-2","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 28-2-2","heading":"Apportionment and qualifications for the Senate.","body":"(a) There shall be 56 members of the Senate. The General Assembly shall by general law divide the state into 56 Senate districts which shall be composed of a portion of a county or a county or counties or a combination thereof and shall be represented by one Senator elected only by the electors of such district.\n(b) A member of the Senate shall be a resident of the district which such member represents and at the time of such member’s election shall have been a resident of the territory embraced within such district for at least one year preceding such time.","path":["TITLE 28 General Assembly","CHAPTER 2 Apportionment of House of Representatives and Senate; Qualifications of Members"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.28.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"3c2d58c62758e38f295ce5a18b1fc5a2d1f2adc9d5c667288f5e3b1877cc37af","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-28-2-1","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-28-3-1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}