O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-9-13 (2019)

Exemption from taxation

✓ 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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It is found, determined, and declared that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purpose are in all respects for the benefit of the people of this state and are a public purpose and the authority will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the power conferred upon it by this article and Article 2 of this chapter. This state covenants with the holders of the bonds that the authority shall be required to pay no taxes or assessments upon any of the property acquired or leased by it or under its jurisdiction, control, possession, or supervision or upon its activities in the operation or maintenance of the buildings erected or acquired by it or any fees, rentals, or other charges for the use of such buildings or other income received by the authority and that the bonds of the authority, their transfer, and the income therefrom shall at all times be exempt from taxation within the state. The tax exemption provided in this Code section shall include an exemption from all sales and use tax on property purchased, leased, or used by the authority.

History

Ga. L. 1951, p. 699, § 21; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 50; Ga. L. 2010, p. 317, § 1/HB 333.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Items exempt from taxation. - Authority is exempt from paying taxes on state-derived revenues as well as on the authority’s other property. McDevitt & St.

Co. v. Georgia Bldg. Auth., 343 F. Supp. 1238, 1972 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13126 (N.D. Ga. 1972).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 71 Am. Jur. 2d, State and Local Taxation, §§ 255, 256. C.J.S. 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 275 et seq., 346 et

seq., 371 et seq., 455. 84 C.J.S., Taxation, § 281.