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2018 Georgia Code 36-9-1 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 36-9-1 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 36-9-1

TITLE 36 LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Section 9. County Property Generally, 36-9-1 through 36-9-11.

ARTICLE 2 COUNTY GOVERNING AUTHORITIES

36-9-1. Vesting in county of title under conveyances for use of county.

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.

(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.)

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 ambulance 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 O.C.G.A. §§ 36-9-1 and50-16-1 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.

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