O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-36-58 (2019)

Referendum for ratification or rejection of annexation resolution generally; procedure; subsequent annexation attempt

✓ 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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The municipal corporation shall issue a call for a referendum to ratify or reject the adoption of the annexation resolution. The referendum shall be held not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days after the date of the public hearing required by Code Section 36-36-57. The referendum shall be held, insofar as possible, under the procedures set forth in Chapter 2 of Title 21 for special elections. Only those persons registered to vote for members of the General Assembly residing, on the date of the adoption of the resolution, in the proposed area to be annexed shall vote in the referendum. If a majority of those voting vote in favor of annexation, the area shall become a part of the corporate limits of the municipality, but not otherwise. If a majority of those voting vote against the annexation, a period of two years must elapse before annexation of the same area or any portion thereof may be attempted again under authority of this article.

History

Ga. L. 1970, p. 426, § 12; Code 1981, § 36-36-48; Code 1981, § 36-36-58, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2592, § 3; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 3.

Annotations

Cross references. - Elections, T. 21, C. 2.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Authority to pass local Acts. - Provisions of Ga. L. 1970, p. 426, § 1 et seq. (see now O.C.G.A. § 36-36-50 et seq.) do not take away legislative authority to pass local Acts annexing territory to municipal corporations. These sections provide an alternative method to the continuing

power of the General Assembly to extend or diminish the corporate limits of a municipality. Ballentine v. Willingham, 237 Ga. 60, 226 S.E.2d 593, appeal dismissed, 429 U.S. 909, 97 S. Ct. 298, 50 L. Ed. 2d 276 (1976).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 62 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 82 et seq. 82 C.J.S., Statutes, §§ 142, 143, 159.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2001–2001 · leading case: H-B Props., Ltd. v. City of Roswell, 545 S.E.2d 37 (Ga. Ct. App. 2001).

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H-B Props., Ltd. v. City of Roswell, 545 S.E.2d 37 (Ga. Ct. App. 2001). · cites it 4× “Plaintiffs also point to OCGA § 36-36-58, which requires that the “municipal corporation shall issue a call for referendum to ratify or reject the adoption of the annexation resolution.”

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