O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-2-20 (2019)

Extent of sovereignty and jurisdiction generally

✓ 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 sovereignty and jurisdiction of this state extend to all places within the limits of her boundaries except so far as she has voluntarily ceded her sovereignty and jurisdiction over particular localities to the United States or adjacent states.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 22; Code 1868, § 20; Code 1873, § 20; Code 1882, § 20; Civil

Code 1895, § 21; Civil Code 1910, § 21; Code 1933, § 15-201.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL O.C.G.A. § 50-2-20 contemplates cession of jurisdiction by legislature and not Governor. - This section does not contemplate the cession of jurisdiction to the United States by the Governor but instead contemplates that such cession shall be granted exclusively by the General Assembly. 1950-51 Ga. Op. Att’y Gen. 75.

Policing power. - Although a reciprocal agreement is entered into, power of policing within the boundaries of Georgia cannot be delegated to another state nor can the policing power of this state be extended outside the territory of Georgia. 1957 Ga. Op. Att’y Gen. 147.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, §§ 3, 4, 19 et seq., 35.

C.J.S. 81A C.J.S., States, § 33 et seq.