Appointment of House Speaker as member of authority constitutional.

- Since membership in the authority is neither an office to which emoluments are annexed nor a civil office, the appointment of the Speaker of the House of Representatives as a member did not offend the Georgia Constitution. Sheffield v. State Sch. Bldg. Auth., 208 Ga. 575, 68 S.E.2d 590 (1952).

Property owned by authority not public property.

- Although the authority is empowered to own and use properties for public school purposes, it is, nevertheless, the owner of that property and the authority is not the state, or a part of the state, or an agency of the state. Therefore, the property is not public property as contemplated by the Georgia Constitution. Sheffield v. State Sch. Bldg. Auth., 208 Ga. 575, 68 S.E.2d 590 (1952).

Properties of the authority are devoted exclusively to public charity as contemplated by the Constitution. Sheffield v. State Sch. Bldg. Auth., 208 Ga. 575, 68 S.E.2d 590 (1952).

County board of education authorized to enter rental contracts.

- Although the constitutional provision upon which this part and all proceedings taken thereunder are based does not expressly authorize a county board of education as such to enter rental contracts, it does expressly authorize counties to do so, and, under repeated rulings of the Supreme Court, such contracts by the county boards of education are corporate actions of the counties. Sheffield v. State Sch. Bldg. Auth., 208 Ga. 575, 68 S.E.2d 590 (1952).

Cited in Hospital Auth. v. Stewart, 226 Ga. 530, 175 S.E.2d 857 (1970).

ALR.

- Liability of school or school personnel in connection with suicide of student, 17 A.L.R.5th 179.

Liability of public or private schools or institutions of higher learning, or personnel thereof, in connection with suicide of student, 100 A.L.R.6th 563.