O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-1-1 (2019)

Names of counties

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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The state is divided into 159 counties, whose boundaries and limits shall be ascertained by the several Acts laying off the same and those Acts amendatory thereof. The names of the counties are as follows: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brantley, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Butts, Calhoun, Camden, Candler, Carroll, Catoosa, Charlton, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clinch, Cobb, Coffee, Colquitt, Columbia, Cook, Coweta, Crawford, Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Decatur, DeKalb, Dodge, Dooly, Dougherty, Douglas, Early, Echols, Effingham, Elbert, Emanuel, Evans, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Fulton, Gilmer, Glascock, Glynn, Gordon, Grady, Greene, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Haralson, Harris, Hart, Heard, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jackson, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Lamar, Lanier, Laurens, Lee, Liberty, Lincoln, Long, Lowndes, Lumpkin, Macon, Madison, Marion, McDuffie, McIntosh, Meriwether, Miller, Mitchell, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Paulding, Peach, Pickens, Pierce, Pike, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Quitman, Rabun, Randolph, Richmond, Rockdale, Schley, Screven, Seminole, Spalding, Stephens, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Taylor, Telfair, Terrell, Thomas, Tift, Toombs, Towns, Treutlen, Troup, Turner, Twiggs, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, Ware, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Wheeler, White, Whitfield, Wilcox, Wilkes, Wilkinson, and Worth.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 30; Code 1868, § 28; Code 1873, § 28; Code 1882, § 28; Civil Code 1895, § 29; Civil Code 1910, § 31; Code 1933, § 23-101.

Annotations

Cross references. - Limitation of number of counties to 159, Ga. Const.

1983, Art. IX, Sec. I, Para. II. Prohibition of creation of new counties other than by consolidation or merger of existing counties, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. I, Para. II. Editor’s notes. - For laws creating

counties, changing county boundaries or names, or otherwise affecting counties, see the Local Laws Index of this Code. JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Bearden v. Baldwin, 174 Ga. 191, 162 S.E. 802 (1931); Ga. Reg’l Transp.

Auth. v. Foster, 329 Ga. App. 258, 764 S.E.2d 862 (2014).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL County name may be changed by statute. 1945-47 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 65.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1988–2001 · leading case: Burton v. DeKalb Cnty., 415 S.E.2d 647 (Ga. Ct. App. 1992).
Burton v. DeKalb Cnty., 415 S.E.2d 647 (Ga. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 2× “In that event, proper service of the complaint would necessarily comply with the notice requirement of OCGA § 36-1-1. But we find no requirement in the notice statute that ante litem notice must be presented in the same manner as service of process.”
Tunarka v. State, 545 S.E.2d 15 (Ga. Ct. App. 2001). · cites it 2× “The State argues that, because Cobb County is the thirty-third county listed under OCGA § 36-1-1 which simply sets forth the names of Georgia counties in alphabetical order, this Court must presume that (1) the *580 “033” on Tunarka’s license refers to Cobb County and (2) the…”
Bendiburg v. Dempsey, 692 F. Supp. 1354 (N.D. Ga. 1988). “§ 36-1-1. The power of the General Assembly to create and define the state’s counties is derived generally from Article III of the Constitution of the State of Georgia (legislative power) and specifically from Article IX (counties and municipal corporations).”
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