GA Code § 36-40-44 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 40 - Grants of State Funds to Municipal Corporations|Article 3 - Grants for Purchase and Construction of Capital Outlay Items|§ 36-40-44. Computation of Allocation of Funds

  To the extent that funds are made available by any law for the purposes set out in Code Section 36-40-41, the Office of the State Treasurer is authorized and directed to grant such funds to the municipal corporations of this state, as defined in Code Section 36-40-40, on the following basis:   An amount equal to five ten-thousandths of the total sum available at any given time for grants under this article shall be first determined, and each municipal corporation whose population is 500 or less shall receive as its total grant such portion of the five ten-thousandths amount so determined as its population proportionately bears to 500. Such grants shall be referred to as "paragraph (1) grants."   The amount remaining for distribution after deducting the total amount of paragraph (1) grants shall then be divided by the total population of all municipal corporations whose population exceeds 500, to arrive at a per capita amount. Such per capita amount shall be multiplied, in turn, by the population of each municipal corporation whose population exceeds 500. Any such municipal corporation whose population when so multiplied equals less than the five ten-thousandths amount as first determined under paragraph (1) of this Code section shall receive as its total grant the five ten-thousandths amount. Such grants shall be referred to as "paragraph (2) grants."   The amount remaining for distribution after deducting the total amount of paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) grants shall then be divided by the total population of all remaining municipal corporations (eliminating those receiving paragraph (1) and paragraph (2) grants), to arrive at a per capita amount for such remaining municipal corporations. The per capita amount as so determined shall then be multiplied by the population of each such remaining municipal corporation to arrive at its respective grant. Such grants shall be referred to as "paragraph (3) grants."     Whenever the term "population" is used in this article, it means population as determined according to the United States decennial census of 1980 or any future such census.   The computation and payments of individual municipal grants as called for in this article shall be made by the Office of the State Treasurer.    (Ga. L. 1965, p. 458, § 2; Ga. L. 1973, p. 524, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 18; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, § 2/SB 296.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Eligibility of municipalities to share in funds.   - All incorporated municipalities appearing in the 1970 United States census would be eligible to share in the distribution of the second half of funds appropriated for fiscal year 1970-71 regardless of whether the municipalities were eligible prior to that time. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-62.   Distribution of funds on basis of 1960 and 1970 censuses.   - In distributing grants to municipalities for fiscal year 1970-71, the state treasurer should distribute one-half of funds appropriated on the basis of the 1960 United States decennial census and the remaining one-half on the basis of the 1970 census. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-62.   Computation of allocation for city qualifying under 1970 census.   - A municipality which did not qualify under the 1960 United States census, but which does qualify under the 1970 United States census, would receive, when applicable, 5/10,000ths of the amount which is available for distribution under the 1970 United States census; this would be one-half of the total amount appropriated for fiscal year 1970-71. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-62.