O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-3-33 (2019)

County and municipal aid to state park system

✓ 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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Any county, and any municipality therein, may use any available funds to aid in the purchase of any land or other property within the county which is to become the property of the state for incorporation into the state park system, provided that the department shall have first agreed in writing to the acceptance of the same. Any county, and any municipality therein, may contribute any available funds to or perform services for the department in furtherance of the improvement, maintenance, and operation of any state owned park or other property which is as of November 1, 1982, or may thereafter become a part of the state park system.

History

Ga. L. 1937, p. 264, § 9; Ga. L. 1959, p. 75, § 1.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant

to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1992, in the second sentence, ‘‘state owned’’ was substituted for ‘‘state-owned’’.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL State can make permanent improvements on state parks which the

state owns in fee simple. 1954-56 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 655.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 56 Am. Jur. 2d, Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other

Political Subdivisions, § 195. 59 Am. Jur. 2d, Parks, Squares, and Playgrounds, § 5.