O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-2-69 (2019)

Service upon state, county, or municipality

✓ 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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If the petition discloses that it involves the determination of any public right or interest of this state or of any county or municipality thereof, the process or notice, in order to affect the state, the county, or the municipality, shall be served: (1) In the case of the state, upon the Attorney General; (2) In the case of a county, upon the judge of the probate court or, if the judge of the probate court is disqualified, upon the clerk of the superior court; or (3) In the case of a municipality, upon the mayor of the municipality or, if there is no mayor or if the mayor is disqualified, upon a majority of the members of the council or other governing body of the municipality.

History

(Ga. L. 1917, p. 108, § 11; Code 1933, § 60-211.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 66 Am. Jur. 2d, Registration of Land Titles, § 10 et seq.

C.J.S. - 76 C.J.S., Registration of Land Titles, §§ 9, 11.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2016–2025 · leading case: Tdga, LLC. v. Cbira, LLC, 783 S.E.2d 107 (Ga. 2016).

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Tdga, LLC. v. Cbira, LLC, 783 S.E.2d 107 (Ga. 2016). · cites it 2× “See also OCGA §§ 44-2-69 (providing for service of the petition upon the State or a county or municipality), 44-2-73 (stating that the notices provided for by the law “shall be conclusive and binding on all persons so notified and on all the world”).”

Sea Island Co., LLC v. Jane Fraser (Ga. Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 44-2-69. 22 nothing pleaded in Fraser’s petition or articulated in her arguments before this Court reflect that she is, in fact, “possessing [the] lands” she seeks to establish an interest in.”

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