; The area is the world's largest toll-free calling zone spanning 7,162 square miles (18,549 km2) has four active telephone area codes and local calling extending into portions of two others 404 which originally covered all of northern Georgia until 1992 now covers mostly the area inside the Perimeter (Interstate 285) in 1995 the suburbs were put into 770 requiring mandatory ten-digit dialing even for local calls under FCC rules This made Atlanta one of the US's first cities to employ ten-digit dialing which was begun by BellSouth the year before the Centennial 1996 Olympic Games in 1998 678 was overlaid onto both of the existing 404 and 770 area codes Mobile phones originally only assigned to 404 may now have any local area code regardless of where in the region they were issued Area code 470 the newest area code was overlaid with 404 and 770 in the same fashion as 678 the local calling area also includes portions of 706/762 and a small area of 256 in Alabama on the Georgia border.
. ; United Airlines Whenever a vacancy occurs in the General Assembly an event that occurs whenever a member dies resigns or moves from the district from which he was elected it is filled according to Georgia law and the Constitution If the vacancy occurs anytime prior to the end of the legislative session in the second year of a term the governor must issue a writ of special election within ten days of the vacancy occurring and if the vacancy occurs after the end of the legislative session in the second year of a term then the governor may choose to issue a writ of special election But if the vacancy exists at the time that an extraordinary session is called then the governor must issue a writ of special election within 2 days after the call for the extraordinary session and if the vacancy occurs after the call but before the special session has concluded then the governor must issue a writ of special election within 5 days of the occurrence in each case the writ of special election must designate a day on which the election will be held which must be no less than 30 days and no more than 60 days after the governor issues the writ. . Heard (37/sq mi), Forsyth (227,967) Georgia is the state with the third-lowest percentage of older people (65 or older) at 12.8 percent (as of 2015). A related case Reynolds v Sims (1964) required state legislatures to end their use of geographical districts or counties in favor of "one man one vote"; that is districts based upon approximately equal populations to be reviewed and changed as necessary after each census These changes resulted in residents of Atlanta and other urban areas gaining political power in Georgia in proportion to their populations From the mid-1960s the voting electorate increased after African Americans' rights to vote were enforced under civil rights law, Georgia state legislators have claimed that in an 1818 survey the state's border with Tennessee was erroneously placed one mile (1.6 km) farther south than intended and have continued to dispute this with Tennessee Correction of this inaccuracy would allow Georgia access to water from the Tennessee River, In the 2018 elections the governor remained a Republican (by 54,723 votes against a democratic black female Stacey Abrams) Republicans lost eight seats in the Georgia House of Representatives (winning 106) while Democrats gained ten (winning 74) Republicans lost two seats in the Georgia Senate (winning 35 seats) while Democrats gained two seats (winning 21) and five Democrat U.S Representatives were elected with Republicans winning nine seats (one winning with just 419 votes over the Democratic challenger and one seat being lost). The Masters golf tournament the first of the PGA tour's four "majors" is held annually the second weekend of April at the Augusta National Golf Club. The British also sought to maintain peaceful relations with those Indian tribes that had allied with the French by keeping them separated from the American frontiersmen to this end the Royal Proclamation of 1763 restricted settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains as this was designated an Indian Reserve Some groups of settlers disregarded the proclamation however and continued to move west and establish farms the proclamation was soon modified and was no longer a hindrance to settlement but the fact angered the colonists that it had been promulgated without their prior consultation.
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