O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-9-91 (2019)

Proceedings to lay out way; maximum width

✓ 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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When the application provided for in Code Section 44-9-90 has been filed in the office of the judge of the probate court or the office of the county commissioners, as the case may be, all the proceedings thereafter shall be the same as are allowed and directed by Title 22 for condemning property, except that the strip of land to be used for such purpose shall not exceed 20 feet in width.

History

Ga. L. 1887, p. 103, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 659; Civil Code 1910, § 805; Code 1933, § 83-302; Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 98, § 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 44.

History of Section. This Code section is derived, in part, from the decision in Normandale Lumber Co. v. Knight, 89 Ga. 111, 14 S.E. 882 (1892).

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS For enumeration of successive steps in proceedings, see Normandale

Lumber Co. v. Knight, 89 Ga. 111, 14 S.E. 882, 1892 Ga. LEXIS 278 (1892).