ARTICLE 1 HOUSING AUTHORITIES

8-3-1. Short title.

This article may be referred to as the "Housing Authorities Law."

(Ga. L. 1937, p. 210, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Evidence in prosecution for possession of controlled substance with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of public housing project.

- Evidence was sufficient to sustain a defendant's conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a public housing project as evidence that the public housing complex where drugs were found in the apartment of the defendant's girlfriend was under the jurisdiction of a housing authority, pursuant to O.C.G.A. §§ 8-3-1 and8-3-2, was twice presented at trial, the evidence showed that the location consisted of dwelling units, and that these dwelling units were occupied by low and moderate income families. Robinson v. State, 314 Ga. App. 545, 724 S.E.2d 846 (2012).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

3B Am. Jur. Pleading and Practice Forms, Housing Laws and Urban Redevelopment, § 2.

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 8-3-1

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First Data POS, Inc. v. Willis, 546 S.E.2d 781 (Ga. 2001).

Cited 79 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | May 7, 2001 | 273 Ga. 792

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Georgia Motor Trucking Ass'n v. Georgia Dep't of Revenue, 301 Ga. 354 (Ga. 2017).

Cited 23 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jun 5, 2017 | 801 S.E.2d 9

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H. C. S. v. Grebel, 321 S.E.2d 321 (Ga. 1984).

Cited 12 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Oct 11, 1984 | 253 Ga. 404

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Guy v. Hous. Auth. of the City of Augusta, 321 Ga. 873 (Ga. 2025).

Cited 1 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jun 24, 2025

...We therefore vacate the Court of Appeals’s opinion and remand for further consideration of the housing authority’s immunity as an instrumentality of a municipality under the proper analytical approach. The General Assembly in 1937 passed the Housing Authorities Law, OCGA § 8-3-1 et seq....

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