O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-3-236 (2019)

Exercise of police power of authority; delegation of power to state or county

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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The authority is empowered to exercise such of the police powers of the state as may be necessary to maintain peace and order and to enforce any and all zoning, user, and personal conduct restrictions upon the properties and facilities and the persons under its jurisdiction to the extent that such is lawful under the laws of the nation and the state. The authority may delegate all or any part of performance of this function temporarily or permanently to the state or the county in which the park is located, or both.

History

Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 14.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 14 (see O.C.G.A. § 12-3-236) did not give authority exclusive police power, including law enforcement on Jekyll Island, nor did it prohibit Glynn County police from exercising the powers granted them by former

Code 1933, § 23-1403 (see O.C.G.A. § 36-8-5). Ferguson v. Leggett, 226 Ga. 333, 174 S.E.2d 913 (1970). Cited in Crews v. Undercofler, 249 F. Supp. 13 (N.D. Ga. 1966).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 73 C.J.S., Public Administrative Law and Procedure, §§ 97, 99 et seq.