O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-3-290 (2019)

Creation of authority as constituting instrumentality of state and public corporation; delegation of powers and duties; duration of authority’s existence

✓ 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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(a) There is created a body corporate and politic to be known as the North Georgia Mountains Authority, which shall be deemed an instrumentality of the State of Georgia and a public corporation, and by that name, style, and title such body may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and complain and defend in all courts.

(b) The authority may delegate to one or more of its members, or to its agents and employees, such powers and duties as it may deem proper.

(d) The authority is assigned to the Department of Natural Resources for administrative purposes only.

History

Ga. L. 1968, p. 297, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, § 1522.

Annotations

Cross references. - Effect of assign-

ment for § 50-4-3.

administrative

purposes,

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, §§ 8, 42 et seq.

C.J.S. - 73 C.J.S., Public Administrative Law and Procedure, §§ 17 et seq., 73.