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

O.C.G.A. § 32-6-97 (2019)

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✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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Nothing in this part shall be construed to abrogate or affect any lawful ordinance, regulation, or resolution which is more restrictive than this part.

History

Ga. L. 1971, Ex. Sess., p. 5, § 20; Code 1933, § 95A-932, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS State law has not preempted police power authority of municipalities to regulate the location and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs within the municipalities’ territorial jurisdictions. City

of Doraville v. Turner Communications Corp., 236 Ga. 385, 223 S.E.2d 798 (1976). Cited in Lamar Co., L.L.C. v. City of Marietta, 538 F. Supp. 2d 1366 (N.D. Ga. 2008).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL General statutes control over local ordinances. - When issuing permits for outdoor advertising devices, the Department of Transportation must be guided by the law, notwithstanding the local zoning ordinances. 1975 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 75-24. When permit may issue for advertising in forest-agricultural district. - If, in the Department of Transportation’s uniform application of the law, one

or more of the following activities, that is, animal hospitals, golf courses, dredging, land fill, or the excavation of natural materials, boat marinas, bait houses, swimming beaches, and radio and television stations, are commonly or generally recognized as commercial, the department may issue permits for outdoor advertising devices in the forest-agricultural district. 1975 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 75-24.

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Municipal power as to billboards and outdoor advertising, 58 A.L.R.2d 1314. Municipality’s power to permit private

owner to construct building or structure overhanging or crossing the air space above public street or sidewalk, 76 A.L.R.2d 896.

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2008–2008 · leading case: The Lamar Co., LLC v. City of Marietta, Ga., 538 F. Supp. 2d 1366 (N.D. Ga. 2008).
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The Lamar Co., LLC v. City of Marietta, Ga., 538 F. Supp. 2d 1366 (N.D. Ga. 2008). · cites it 2× “” O.C.G.A. § 32-6-97. Lamar requested and received a permit to install an LED unit from the Georgia Department of Transportation.”
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