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

O.C.G.A. § 50-16-4 (2019)

Use and keeper of capitol buildings and grounds

✓ 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 use of the capitol building and grounds shall be limited to departments of the state government and to state and national political organizations, and the keeper of public buildings and grounds shall not grant the use of either the capitol buildings or grounds for any other purposes, except that the Georgia Building Authority as keeper of public buildings and grounds is authorized to provide space in the capitol building for use as a vending stand, as described by Article 2 of Chapter 9 of Title 49, for the use of state officials and employees and their invited guests.

History

Ga. L. 1882-83, p. 18, §§ 1-16; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 27, § 1; Ga. L. 1888, p. 14, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1892, p. 95, §§ 1, 2; Civil Code 1895, § 1017; Civil Code 1910, § 1284; Code 1933, § 91-105; Ga. L. 1961, p. 218, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1137, § 9; Ga. L. 2012, p. 303, § 8/HB 1146.

Annotations

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, substituted "Article 2 of Chapter 9 of Title 49" for "Article 2 of Chapter 15 of Title 34" near the end of this Code section.

Cross references. - Assignment of office space in state capitol, §§ 28-4-2, 50-16-61.

Prohibition against panhandling, solicitation, or vending in capitol building and on capitol grounds, § 50-9-9.

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2000, "Article 2" was substituted for "Article 3" in this Code section.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Use as fall-out shelter. - Department of Administrative Services is precluded by law from allowing the use of capitol grounds for a fall-out shelter. 1962 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 471.