Section 20-3-413. Application for and payment of grants; certification of eligibility; refunds if students fail to enroll

   Each eligible student wishing to receive payment of the grant provided for in this subpart shall submit to the school an application for the grant payment at the time and in accordance with procedures prescribed by the authority. The authority is authorized to define such terms and prescribe such rules, regulations, and procedures as may be reasonable and necessary to carry out the purposes of this subpart. The authority shall not approve payment of any grant until it has received from an appropriate officer of the approved school a certification that the student applying for the grant is an eligible student. Upon timely receipt of such certification, in proper form, the authority is authorized to pay the grant to the approved school on behalf of and to the credit of the student. In the event a student on whose behalf a grant is paid shall not enroll as a full-time student for the school term for which the grant is paid, the school shall make a refund to the authority in accordance with regulations of the authority.

Ga. L. 1971, p. 906, §§ 4, 5; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1161, § 3; Code 1933, § 32-3761, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 835, § 3.