Section 34-14-20. Definitions

   As used in this article, the term:

   (1) "Board" means a local workforce investment board.

   (2) "Cause," unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, includes but is not limited to engaging in fraud or other criminal acts, incapacity, unfitness, neglect of duty, official incompetence and irresponsibility, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, or lack of performance.

   (3) "Fiscal agent/grant recipient" means a city or county government, or regional commission.

   (4) "Local workforce investment area" means an area that is:

      (A) Composed of one or more contiguous units of general local government;

      (B) Consistent with either a local labor market area or a metropolitan statistical area; and

      (C) Of a size sufficient to have the administrative resources necessary to provide for the effective planning, management, and delivery of workforce development, as defined by the Georgia Workforce Investment Board.

   (5) "Veteran" means a person who:

      (A) Has served in:

         (i) The Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, or Marine Corps of the United States; or

         (ii) A reserve or guard component of one of those branches of the armed forces; and

      (B) Has received an honorable or general discharge or an entry level separation from the branch of the service in which the person served, but shall not be a person who received an other than honorable discharge, a bad conduct discharge, or a dishonorable discharge.

Code 1981, § 34-14-20, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 573, § 2/HB 393.