O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-4-80 (2019)

Legislative findings; declaration of need

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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The General Assembly finds that certain political subdivisions of this state now own and operate gas distribution systems to serve their citizens, inhabitants, and customers by providing them with gas for all purposes; and if such political subdivisions are to furnish, and if the members of the public in the areas they serve are to receive, adequate service, such political subdivisions must have adequate, dependable, and economical sources of gas supplies. The General Assembly declares that there exists in this state a need for an authority to function without profit in developing and promoting for the public good in this state adequate, dependable, and economical sources and supplies of gas for the purposes expressed in this Code section, and to assist in the financing of additions and other expenditures for the municipal gas systems of such political subdivisions.

History

(Code 1981, § 46-4-80, enacted by Ga. L. 1987, p. 745, § 1.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Natural gas company's certification application properly denied. - Georgia Public Service Commission was authorized to dismiss a natural gas company's application for certification because creation of a natural gas company as a Limited Liability Company (LLC) wholly owned by the city's utility board was in derogation of a city charter as the charter required the utility board to create a wholly owned subsidiary in the form of a non-profit corporation rather than a LLC; thus, the city's creation of a LLC was an ultra vires act. Infinite Energy v. Marietta Natural Gas, 349 Ga. App. 343, 826 S.E.2d 189 (2019).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2019–2019 · leading case: Infinite Energy, Inc. v. Marietta Nat. Gas, LLC, 826 S.E.2d 189 (Ga. Ct. App. 2019).
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Infinite Energy, Inc. v. Marietta Nat. Gas, LLC, 826 S.E.2d 189 (Ga. Ct. App. 2019). · cites it 2× “3 See OCGA § 46-4-80 et seq., enacted by Ga. L.”
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