O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-39-10 (2019)

Publication and contents of notice of contract proposals

✓ 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 notice of the proposals specified in Code Section 36-39-8 shall be published in at least six consecutive issues of a daily paper or at least two issues of a weekly paper having a general circulation in the municipal corporation. The notice shall state the street or streets to be improved, the kinds of improvements proposed, what bond or bonds will be required to be executed by the contractor, the time when and the place where the sealed proposals shall be filed, and when and where the same will be considered by the governing body.

History

Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 7; Code 1933, § 69-408.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Presumption of acceptance of assessment terms. - When no objection to the assessment or prior proceedings was made by the property owner as provided in the act, and when no action was filed to enjoin the assessment or the improvement within 30 days after the passage of the ordinance making such assessment final,

the property owner will be presumed to have accepted the terms thereof and to have agreed that the assessment provided for in the act may be made. City of La Grange v. Frosolona, 52 Ga. App. 232, 183 S.E. 99 (1935). Cited in Carter v. City of Toccoa, 210 Ga. 167, 78 S.E.2d 487 (1953).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, §§ 37, 38. 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Works and Contracts, § 52 et seq. C.J.S. - 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1368 et seq.

ALR. - What constitutes newspaper of ‘‘general circulation’’ within meaning of state statutes requiring publication of official notices and the like in such newspaper, 24 A.L.R.4th 822.