Georgia Senate - 1995/1996 Sessions

SB 569 - Municipalities - new charters for inactive ones

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1. Boshears  6th


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Code Sections amended: 36-30-7.1                                                                    


SB 569 96                                          LC 21 3702

      SENATE BILL 569

      By:  Senator Boshears of the 6th


                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Code Section 36-30-7.1 of the Official Code of
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to inactive municipalities, so
  1- 3  as to provide that a new charter may be granted to a
  1- 4  municipal corporation which ceased to exist because of the
  1- 5  provisions of such Code section; to provide an effective
  1- 6  date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

  1- 7       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1- 8  Code Section 36-30-7.1 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1- 9  Annotated, relating to inactive municipalities, is amended
  1-10  by striking in its entirety subsection (i) and inserting in
  1-11  lieu thereof the following:

  1-12    "(i) At the session of the General Assembly held in the
  1-13    year 1996 only, a A new charter may be granted to a
  1-14    municipal corporation which ceased to exist under the
  1-15    provisions of this Code section solely because of a
  1-16    failure to make the required filing with the Department of
  1-17    Community Affairs (not including any case where the
  1-18    municipal corporation failed or for failure to meet the
  1-19    minimum standards of an active municipality enumerated in
  1-20    subsection (b) of this Code section), without regard to
  1-21    the minimum standards for incorporation set out in Chapter
  1-22    31 of this title. In such a case the local law granting
  1-23    the new charter shall have attached thereto, in lieu of
  1-24    the certificate otherwise required by Code Section
  1-25    36-31-5, a certificate by the author of the bill stating
  1-26    that the requirements of this subsection are met by the
  1-27    municipal corporation being reincorporated. In any such
  1-28    case assets and property and rights and obligations which
  1-29    devolved upon the county shall be retransferred from the
  1-30    county back to the municipal corporation."

                         Section 2.

  1-31  This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the
  1-32  Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

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                         SECTION 3.

  2- 1  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2- 2  repealed.












































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