O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-3-125 (2019)

Purpose of authority

✓ 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 purpose of the authority shall be to acquire or construct, or to acquire and construct, and to operate and maintain, or to cause to be constructed, operated, and maintained, electric generation and transmission facilities. In addition, it shall be the purpose of the authority to take all other necessary or desirable action in order to provide or make available an adequate, dependable, and economical supply of electric power and energy and related services to those political subdivisions of this state identified in Code Section 46-3-130 which may desire the same and, incidentally and so as to take advantage of economies of scale in the generation and transmission of electric power and energy, to other persons and entities.

History

(Ga. L. 1975, p. 107, § 3.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Limitations on authority. - The Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia (MEAG) Act did not authorize MEAG to apply to the Public Service Commission for a certificate to offer its excess telecommunications capacity to the public for hire. Municipal Elec.

Auth. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm’n, 241 Ga. App. 237, 525 S.E.2d 399 (1999). Cited in Thompson v. Municipal Elec. Auth., 238 Ga. 19, 231 S.E.2d 720 (1976); Appling County v. Municipal Elec. Auth., 621 F.2d 1301 (5th Cir. 1980).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 29 C.J.S., Electricity, § 25.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1986–1999 · leading case: Greensboro Lumber Co. v. Georgia Power Co., 643 F. Supp. 1345 (N.D. Ga. 1986).

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Greensboro Lumber Co. v. Georgia Power Co., 643 F. Supp. 1345 (N.D. Ga. 1986). · cites it 6× “The statutory purpose of MEAG, as set out in O.C.G.A. § 46-3-125, is, to acquire or construct, or to acquire and construct, and to operate and maintain, or to cause to be constructed, operated, and maintained, electric generation and transmission facilities.”

Mun. Elec. Auth. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n, 525 S.E.2d 399 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 9× “OCGA § 46-3-125. In December 1997, the Superior Court of Fulton County confirmed and validated MEAG’s revenue bonds totaling $35 million, to be used to fund the construction and acquisition costs of an internal telecommunications system.”

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