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

O.C.G.A. § 36-3-3 (2019)

When new boundary lines deemed established

✓ 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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When all the proceedings have been had in the manner prescribed in Code Sections 36-3-1 and 36-3-2 and when the same have been fairly recorded by the judges of the probate courts on the minutes of their respective courts, the new line or lines shall be held to have been established in lieu of the original line or lines.

History

Ga. L. 1880-81, p. 52, § 3; Code 1882, § 508r; Civil Code 1895, § 384; Civil Code 1910, § 470; Code 1933, § 23-303.

Annotations

Cross references. - Rerecording of deeds, mortgages, or other papers to land affected by change in county boundaries, § 44-2-13.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Sovereign immunity not waived. - In an action arising out of an arrest, despite the way the arrestee was treated, the trial court properly dismissed a complaint against a county, and granted summary judgment on the same complaint

against a city, on sovereign immunity grounds and because the arrestee failed to show that the immunity had been waived. Scott v. City of Valdosta, 280 Ga. App. 481, 634 S.E.2d 472 (2006).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case (1 in the last 5 years), 2025–2025 · leading case: Robert H. Byrd, Jr. v. City of Pooler (Ga. Ct. App. 2025).
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Robert H. Byrd, Jr. v. City of Pooler (Ga. Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 2× “As held by the trial court and affirmed by this Court, the MSA violated OCGA § 36-3-3 (a) and is, therefore, ultra vires and void.”
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