O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 32-4-61 (2019)

Authority of county to contract; form of contracts; approval of contracts by resolution

✓ 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 county shall have the authority to contract as set forth in this part and in paragraph (1) of Code Section 32-4-42. Any contract for work on all or part of the county road system shall be in writing and shall be approved by resolution which shall be entered on the minutes of such county.

History

Code 1933, § 95A-817, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Ga. L. 1937, p. 912, which was subsequently repealed but was succeeded by provisions in this Code section, are included in the annotations for this Code section. When petition for relief sufficient. - Petition alleging that county commissioners had entered into contracts with one of the commissioner’s members for the construction of roads in the county without contracts being in writing and entered

on the minutes of the board, and in violation of the contracts between the State Highway Department (now Department of Transportation) and the county was sufficient as against a general demurrer (now motion to dismiss) to show that the plaintiffs were entitled to some of the substantial relief prayed for. Ferguson v. Randolph County, 211 Ga. 103, 84 S.E.2d 70 (1954) (decided under former Ga. L. 1937, p. 912). Cited in Faulk v. Twiggs County, 269 Ga. 809, 504 S.E.2d 668 (1998).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1998–2000 · leading case: Faulk v. Twiggs Cnty., 504 S.E.2d 668 (Ga. 1998).
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Faulk v. Twiggs Cnty., 504 S.E.2d 668 (Ga. 1998). · cites it 4× “OCGA §§ 32-4-61; 36-10-1. Thereafter, as County funds became available, Epps was called upon to pave the designated projects.”
Twiggs Cnty. v. Oconee Elec. Membership Corp., 536 S.E.2d 553 (Ga. Ct. App. 2000). · cites it 2× “” See also OCGA § 32-4-61. And, the law is clearly established that in order to be enforceable, a contract with a county must be in writing.”
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