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

O.C.G.A. § 52-3-12 (2019)

Effect of chapter on state’s jurisdiction over lands affected by chapter; effect on service of process on such lands

✓ 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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Neither this chapter, nor any part thereof, nor any grant or deed made under the authority hereof shall operate to divest the State of Georgia of jurisdiction over any lands; and all civil and criminal process issued under the authority of any laws of this state may be executed in or on any part of the lands or premises devoted to the use of the intracoastal waterway or to any use incidental thereto, to the same effect as if this chapter had not been enacted and as if the grant or deed had not been executed.

History

Ga. L. 1939, p. 331, § 8.

CHAPTER 4 CANAL COMPANIES Sec.

Filing of petition for incorporation; contents of petition; filing fee. Issuance of certificate of incorporation. Maintenance by Secretary of State of files and books regarding canal companies. Time of commencement of corporate existence; duration of corporate existence. Petitioners as constituting first board of directors; election of officers; prescription of rules and bylaws; opening books of subscription for capital stock. Publication of notice upon subscription for all of capital stock and payment of 10 percent thereof; authorization for commencing transaction of business; personal liability of directors and stockholders. Location of principal office.

Sec.

Powers and duties of companies generally. Right of corporation to increase or decrease capital stock. Power of companies to enlarge works and appliances of canals and branch canals and to deepen and widen canals. Furnishing of canal water by canal companies; charges for use of water. Toll rates for use of canals. Encroachment of canals upon public roads; construction and maintenance of bridges. Mortgage, sale, or lease of canal, other properties, corporate rights, and franchises. Disagreements as to compensation for taking of lands, tenements, or riparian rights pursuant to chapter. Taxes applicable to canal companies.

Annotations

Cross references. - Corporations generally, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. VI, Para. V and T. 14, C. 4.