O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-9-1 (2019)

Vesting in county of title under conveyances for use of county

✓ 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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All deeds, conveyances, grants, or other instruments which have been or may be made to any officer or person for the use and benefit of any county shall vest in the county the title as fully as if made to the county by name.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 466; Code 1868, § 528; Code 1873, § 494; Code

1882, § 494; Civil Code 1895, § 347; Civil Code 1910, § 395; Code 1933, § 91-601.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Titling of automobiles. - Trial court properly granted summary judgment to the board of county commissioners after a wrongful death action was filed against the county arising out of a collision involving the ambulance the employee was driving on an emergency call and the decedent’s vehicle; even if the ambulance was titled in the name of the board of county commissioners, the law regarded the am-

bulance as being titled in the name of the county and the county, not the board of county commissioners, was the proper defendant when liability was based on respondeat superior. Smith v. Bulloch County Bd. of Comm’rs, 261 Ga. App. 667, 583 S.E.2d 475 (2003). Cited in McElmurray v. Richmond County, 223 Ga. 47, 153 S.E.2d 427 (1967).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Property of county boards of education. - Former Code 1933, §§ 91-601 and 91-102 et seq. (see now O.C.G.A. §§ 36-9-1 and 50-16-1 et seq.) were not

applicable to property belonging to county boards of education. 1958-59 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 107.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 56 Am. Jur. 2d, Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other

Political Subdivisions, § 470. C.J.S. - 20 C.J.S., Counties, § 219.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2003–2003 · leading case: Smith v. Bulloch Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 583 S.E.2d 475 (Ga. Ct. App. 2003).

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Smith v. Bulloch Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 583 S.E.2d 475 (Ga. Ct. App. 2003). · cites it 2× “Under OCGA § 36-9-1, a conveyance or deed made “to any officer or person for the use and benefit of any county shall vest in the county the title as fully as if made to the county by name.”

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