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O.C.G.A. § 50-16-3.1 (2019)

State authorities prohibited from selling real property; exceptions

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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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(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘state authority’’ means:

(1) The Jekyll Island - State Park Authority provided for in Part 1 of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 12; or

(2) The Stone Mountain Memorial Association provided for in Part 4 of Article 6 of Chapter 3 of Title 12.

(b) The provisions of any other laws of this state to the contrary notwithstanding, no state authority shall be authorized to sell real property; provided, however, this prohibition shall not apply to the sale or other disposition of real property by a state authority when such real property is necessary for a public road right of way.

History

Code 1981, § 50-16-3.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1635, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 50/HB 79.

Annotations

The 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted former paragraph (a)(1), which read: "The Georgia Building Authority (Hospital) provided for in Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 31;" and redesignated former paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(3) as present paragraphs (a)(1) and (a)(2), respectively.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2004–2004 · leading case: Gay v. Georgia Dep't of Corr., 606 S.E.2d 53 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004).
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Gay v. Georgia Dep't of Corr., 606 S.E.2d 53 (Ga. Ct. App. 2004). · cites it 2× “The purposes of the Association are “(1) To preserve the natural areas situated within the Stone Mountain Park area; (2) To provide access to Stone Mountain for Georgia’s citizens; and (3) To maintain an appropriate and suitable memorial for the Confederacy.”
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