DeKalb County v. Buckler

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• holding that substantial compliance with a statute may be sufficient, even if a statutory requirement is expressed with the word “shall,” “in the absence of injury to the defendant and in the absence of a penalty for failure to comply with the statute” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• decision of a county historic preservation commission was not void on the ground that the commission did not have seven members as required by the relevant ordinance because, although the law provided that the “commission shall consist of seven (7

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