O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-3-311 (2019)

Creation of authority; 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 Lake Lanier Islands Development 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. 1962, p. 736, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, § 1523; Ga. L. 2020, p. 827, § 1-1/HB 998. The 2020 amendment, effective August 5, 2020, added ‘‘and, upon the expi-

ration thereof, shall exist for an additional 40 years’’ at the end of subsection (c).

Annotations

Cross references. - Effect of assignment for administrative purposes, § 50-4-3.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1997–2005 · leading case: Howard v. State, 487 S.E.2d 112 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997).

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Howard v. State, 487 S.E.2d 112 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997). · cites it 2× “Service must be made upon: (1) the governmental entity allegedly responsible for plaintiff’s injury; (2) the director of the Risk Management Division of the Department of Administrative Services; and (3) the State Attorney General.”

Camp v. Coweta Cnty., 609 S.E.2d 695 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005). · cites it 2× “Appellant failed to include service of process upon the Attorney *353 General and upon the [governmental entity], OCGA §§ 12-3-311; 50-21-35. Id. at 545, n.”

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