O.C.G.A.
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.
As used in this article, the term ‘‘municipal corporation’’ means a municipal corporation which has a population of 200 or more persons according to the United States decennial census of 1960 or any future such census.
History
Ga. L. 1966, p. 409, § 7; Code 1981, § 36-36-20; Code 1981, § 36-36-30, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2592, § 3.
Annotations
Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 1992, p. 2592, § 3, effective July 1, 1992, renumbered former Code Section 36-36-20 as present Code Section 36-36-30.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS City failed to comply with publishing requirements. - Trial court properly granted summary judgment in favor of a county because the city failed to publish a notice as required by O.C.G.A. § 36-36-36(a) that accurately described the property to be annexed; thus, the city failed to comply, or to substantially com-
ply, with the requirements of that statute. City of Lovejoy v. Clayton County, 335 Ga. App. 881, 783 S.E.2d 395 (2016). Cited in City of Brookhaven v. City of Chamblee, 329 Ga. App. 346, 765 S.E.2d 33 (2014); City of Atlanta v. Mays, 301 Ga. 367, 801 S.E.2d 1 (2017).
RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 62 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, §§ 24, 25.
Notes of Decisions
City of Atlanta v. Mays, 801 S.E.2d 1 (Ga. 2017).
· cites it 2× “the authority to annex adjoining land under three alternative methods: (1) the “100% method,” by which a municipality may annex adjoining land upon application by all the owners of the land, with certain exceptions, OCGA §§ 36-36-20 to 36-36-23; (2) the “60% method,” by which a…”
City of Brookhaven Et Al. v. City of Chamblee, 765 S.E.2d 33 (Ga. Ct. App. 2014).
· cites it 2× “the authority to annex adjoining land under three alternative methods: (1) the “100% method,” by which a municipality may annex adjoining land upon application by all the owners of the land, with certain exceptions, OCGA §§ 36-36-20 to 36-36-23; (2) the “60% method,” by which a…”
Culpepper v. City of Cordele, 443 S.E.2d 642 (Ga. Ct. App. 1994).
· cites it 2× “See OCGA §§ 36-36-30 through 36-36-40. OCGA § 36-36-5 also provides that “any land of less than 50 acres in size located within such an unincorporated island may be annexed through the use of the annexation methods contained in Article 2, 3, or 4 of [Chapter 36] or by a local…”
City of Lovejoy Et Al. v. Clayton Cnty. Et Al., 783 S.E.2d 395 (Ga. Ct. App. 2016).
· cites it 2× “At issue is the procedure set out in Article 3 of that chapter, OCGA § 36-36-30 et seq., which provides for annexation pursuant to application by the owners of 60 percent of the land at issue and 60 percent of the electors residing on it.”
City of Atlanta v. Mays (Ga. 2017).
· cites it 2× “, with certain exceptions, OCGA §§ 36-36-50 to 36-36-23; (2) the “60% method,” by which a municipality may annex adjoining land upon application by a minimum of 60% of adjoining landowners, OCGA §§ 36-36-30 to 36-36-40; and (3) the “Resolution and Referendum method,” by which a…”
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