reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
GA Code § 36-13-8 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 13 - Building, Electrical, and Other Codes|§ 36-13-8. Notice and Hearing Prior to Enactment of Codes, Rules, or Regulations

 Before enacting any of the codes, rules, or regulations permitted in this chapter, the county governing authority shall hold a public hearing thereon. At least 15 days' notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county.   (Ga. L. 1961, p. 560, § 7.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 101A C.J.S., Zoning and Land Planning, § 14.   ALR.   - What constitutes newspaper of "general circulation" within meaning of state statutes requiring publication of official notices and the like in such newspaper, 24 A.L.R.4th 822.
GA Code § 36-13-9 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 13 - Building, Electrical, and Other Codes|§ 36-13-9. Appropriation and Expenditure of Funds

 The county governing authorities are authorized to appropriate and expend funds for the purposes of this chapter.   (Ga. L. 1961, p. 560, § 12.)
GA Code § 36-13-10 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 13 - Building, Electrical, and Other Codes|§ 36-13-10. Remedies for Actual or Proposed Violations of Codes, Rules, or Regulations

 When any violation of any of the codes, rules, and regulations which are adopted by the county governing authority under this chapter is or is proposed to be committed, the inspectors appointed under this chapter, the county attorney, some other appropriate authority of the county, or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be damaged by the violation, in addition to other remedies, may institute injunction, mandamus, or other appropriate action or proceeding to prevent, correct, or abate the violation or threatened violation.   (Ga. L. 1961, p. 560, § 11.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 101A C.J.S., Zoning and Land Planning, § 432 et seq.
GA Code § 36-13-11 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 13 - Building, Electrical, and Other Codes|§ 36-13-11. Compliance as Prerequisite to Issuance of Permit; Failure to Secure Required Permit

 Full compliance with all rules, regulations, and requirements set up under this chapter shall be a prerequisite to issuance of any permit. Failure to secure such permit as is required is declared to be a misdemeanor.   (Ga. L. 1961, p. 560, § 9.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 13 Am. Jur. 2d, Buildings, § 8 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 101A C.J.S., Zoning and Land Planning, § 255 et seq.
GA Code § 36-13-12 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 13 - Building, Electrical, and Other Codes|§ 36-13-12. Criminal Penalty for Violations of Codes, Rules, or Regulations

 The violation of any of the codes, rules, and regulations adopted by the county governing authority under this chapter is declared to be a misdemeanor. Any person violating any such codes, rules, and regulations shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each and every day such violation continues shall be deemed a separate offense.   (Ga. L. 1961, p. 560, § 10.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 101A C.J.S., Zoning and Land Planning, § 449 et seq.
GA Code § 36-14-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 14 - County Bridges|§ 36-14-1. Erection of Bridges Across Navigable Streams

 The consent of the state is given to and authority is vested in the county governing authority to erect bridges across the navigable streams that lie wholly within the state, whenever in the judgment of the county governing authority the public interest may be subserved thereby, upon its compliance with the law of Congress requiring the approval of the secretary of transportation and the chief of engineers of the United States, as embodied in the statutes of the United States passed by the Fifty-fifth Congress and approved March 3, 1899.   (Ga. L. 1904, p. 100, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 427; Code 1933, § 23-2004.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, §§ 44 et seq., 92 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 11 C.J.S., Bridges, § 4 et seq.
GA Code § 36-14-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 14 - County Bridges|§ 36-14-2. Building and Maintaining Bridges Over Rivers Bordering Adjacent States

 Counties lying adjacent to any river on the border or forming the boundary between this state and another shall have the same power, acting by and through the proper county authorities, to build and maintain bridges over such river as the counties now have to build and maintain bridges over streams lying wholly within their borders, provided that this power shall not be exercised except to cooperate with the proper authorities of the adjacent state in building and maintaining such bridges, on the principle that each state is to build simultaneously from its own bank to the middle of the river and afterwards to maintain and keep up the part of the bridge which it has built; and provided, further, that no bridge shall be erected under this Code section at any point where the river exceeds, at low-water mark, 2,000 feet in breadth.   (Ga. L. 1895, p. 78, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 372; Civil Code 1910, § 424; Ga. L. 1920, p. 62, § 1; Code 1933, § 23-2001; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 36.)
GA Code § 36-14-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 14 - County Bridges|§ 36-14-3. Contracts With Federal Government for Bridges Across Streams Bordering Land Ceded to United States

  The county governing authority may contract and pay out of the funds of the county such sums of money as it deems equitable and just to the authorities of the United States for the county's fair proportion of the cost of building any bridge which it deems necessary to erect across any stream dividing the county or some part thereof from lands over which the jurisdiction has been ceded to the government of the United States for any purpose, provided that it shall thereafter be the duty of the authorities of the United States to keep such bridges in repair, to renew them as often as may be necessary, and to keep them open for the free and uninterrupted travel of the public.   The United States is vested with full and complete jurisdiction over grounds necessary for the erection of piers and approaches to such bridges on each side of such streams, so far as may be necessary for the erection, repair, and protection of the bridges and approaches.    (Ga. L. 1895, p. 76, §§ 1, 2; Civil Code 1895, §§ 373, 374; Civil Code 1910, §§ 425, 426; Code 1933, §§ 23-2002, 23-2003.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, § 45.
GA Code § 36-15-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-1. Board of Trustees Created in Each County; Composition; Chairperson; Quorum

 There is created in each county in this state a board to be known as the board of trustees of the county law library, hereafter referred to as the board. The board shall consist of the chief judge of the superior court of the circuit in which the county is located; the judge of the probate court; the senior judge of the state court, if any; the chief judge of the magistrate court; the district attorney of the circuit in which the county is located; a solicitor-general of the state court, if any; the clerk of the superior court; and two practicing attorneys of the county. The practicing attorneys shall be selected by the other trustees and shall serve at their pleasure. All of the trustees shall serve without pay. The chief judge of the superior court shall be chairperson of the board. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of transacting all business that may come before the board.   (Ga. L. 1971, p. 180, § 1; Ga. L. 1973, p. 430, § 1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 392, § 1; Ga. L. 2016, p. 435, § 2/HB 851; Ga. L. 2017, p. 548, § 1/HB 453.)    The 2017 amendment,  effective July 1, 2017, inserted "the chief judge of the magistrate court;" in the middle of the second sentence.
GA Code § 36-15-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-2. Secretary-Treasurer of Board; Designation and Compensation of Librarian

  There is created an office to be known as secretary-treasurer of the board of trustees of the county law library in each county. The secretary-treasurer shall be selected and appointed by the board and shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The board may appoint one of its own members as secretary-treasurer or, in its discretion, may designate some other person to act as secretary-treasurer of the board. The secretary-treasurer of the board shall perform the duties provided for the treasurer in this chapter.   The board of trustees may designate the judge of the probate court or a deputy clerk of the superior court of each county to act as librarian; any such official shall not receive any additional compensation for the performance of such duties. The board, however, in its discretion, may designate some other person to act as librarian and shall fix the compensation for such person.    (Ga. L. 1971, p. 180, § 2; Ga. L. 1973, p. 430, § 2; Ga. L. 1976, p. 700, § 1.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Dual capacity prohibited.   - Librarian designated and compensated under this section may not serve in dual capacity as librarian-secretary. 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U75-16.
GA Code § 36-15-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-3. Bond of Secretary-Treasurer

 The secretary-treasurer of the board shall give a good and sufficient surety bond, payable to the county, in such an amount as may be determined by the board, to account faithfully for all funds received and disbursed by him. The premium on the bond shall be paid out of the county law library fund.   (Ga. L. 1971, p. 180, § 8.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 20 C.J.S., Counties, § 160.
GA Code § 36-15-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-4. Powers and Duties of Board of Trustees Generally

 The board of trustees is given the following powers and duties:    To provide for the collection of all money provided for in this chapter;   To select the books, reports, texts, and periodicals;   To make all necessary rules and regulations governing the use of the library;   To keep records of all its meetings and proceedings;   To exercise all other powers necessary for the proper administration of this chapter; and   To enter into agreements with the boards of trustees of other county law libraries within the same judicial circuit for the purpose of pooling funds to purchase books, reports, texts, and periodicals and to purchase or lease computer related research equipment and programs; to provide for the joint use of such books, reports, texts, periodicals, and computer related research equipment and programs within the same judicial circuit; and to provide where said books, reports, texts, periodicals, and computer related research equipment and programs may be maintained.    (Ga. L. 1971, p. 180, § 4; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1923, § 1.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1994, "computer related" was substituted for "computer-related" in three places in paragraph (6).
GA Code § 36-15-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-5. Control, Deposit, and Investment of Funds

 The board shall have control of the funds provided for in this chapter. All funds received shall be deposited in a special account to be known as the county law library fund. The board shall have authority to expend the funds in accordance with this chapter and to invest any of the funds so received in any investments which are legal investments for fiduciaries in this state.   (Ga. L. 1971, p. 180, § 3.)
GA Code § 36-15-6 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-6. Receipt and Investment of Money and Property

 The board may take, by gift, grant, devise, or bequest, any money, real or personal property, or other thing of value and may hold or invest the same for the uses and purposes of the library.   (Ga. L. 1971, p. 180, § 5.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 20 C.J.S., Counties, § 219 et seq.
GA Code § 36-15-8 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-8. Furnishing of Space and Utilities by County Governing Authority

 The county governing authority shall furnish necessary space, offices, lights, heat, and water for the maintenance of the county law library.   (Ga. L. 1976, p. 700, § 3.)
GA Code § 36-15-10 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-10. Prior Actions, Decisions, Contracts, and Purchases of Boards Prior to March 19, 1971, Ratified

 All actions, decisions, contracts, and purchases made by any board of trustees of a county law library or any other person charged with the responsibility of operating or maintaining a county law library under any law of this state enacted prior to March 19, 1971, are ratified.   (Ga. L. 1971, p. 180, § 10.)
GA Code § 36-15-11 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-11. Receipt and Disbursement of Funds by Counties Having Population of 950,000 or More

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2019, p. 723, § 1/HB 134, effective May 7, 2019.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1981, p. 959, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 1031, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 555, § 3/HB 858.
GA Code § 36-15-12 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-12. Applicability to City Court of City Having Population of 300,000 or More

 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, this chapter shall not apply to a city court, which is authorized to try state traffic offenses, of any city of this state having a population of 300,000 or more according to the United States decennial census of 1980 or any future such census.    (Ga. L. 1982, p. 586, § 1; Code 1981, §36-15-12, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 586, § 2.)
GA Code § 36-15-13 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 15 - County Law Library|§ 36-15-13. Annual Audit Required

 Each board created pursuant to this chapter shall, at the end of each fiscal year for the preceding year, have an annual audit of its financial affairs, books, and accounts performed by the county accountant as employed pursuant to Code Section 36-1-10; the internal auditor employed by the governing authority of the county, if such internal auditor is a certified public accountant; or a certified public accountant. The determination of the performance of such audit by the county accountant, the internal auditor, or a certified public accountant shall be made by the board. Such audit shall be conducted in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including, but not limited to, a report on whether the control, deposit, and investment of funds, the receipt and investment of money and property, and the use of funds by such board have been conducted as provided for under this chapter. A copy of such audit shall be made available to the governing authority of the county and shall be a public document.    (Code 1981, §36-15-13, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 435, § 5/HB 851.)
GA Code § 36-16-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 16 - County Historical Container|§ 36-16-1. Furnishing of Historical Container

 The county governing authority shall furnish, purchase, or cause to be furnished or purchased a suitable filing case or other container to be placed in the office of the judge of the probate court of the county and labeled "Historical."   (Ga. L. 1935, p. 383, § 1.)
GA Code § 36-16-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 16 - County Historical Container|§ 36-16-2. Receipt of Historical Data for Preservation in Container

 The judge of the probate court of the county shall be required to receive from any responsible citizen or citizens any data of a historical nature and place the same on file in the historical container provided for in Code Section 36-16-1, for safe preservation and historical reference. The matter to be entered for preservation must be of general interest and not of a personal nature; it may include records, proceedings, or minutes of any religious body or organization; school records not otherwise preserved; records of civic, patriotic, or fraternal organizations; and records of purely community affairs when of such nature as to be of general interest and not otherwise recorded by court procedure.   (Ga. L. 1935, p. 383, § 2.)
GA Code § 36-16-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 16 - County Historical Container|§ 36-16-3. Determination of Admissibility of Documents Submitted for Filing; Deposit of Documents Relating to Soldiers and Widows

 The judge of the probate court and the county board of education are made the sole judges of the admissibility of any matter or document which may be submitted to the judge of the probate court for filing, should any question arise as to the historical value of such matter or document so submitted; and the judge of the probate court and the board of education sitting in regular session shall have authority to accept or reject any matter so submitted, provided that the judge of the probate court shall be required to deposit in the historical container all documents in his office pertaining to records of Confederate soldiers and widows of such soldiers, as well as soldiers and their surviving spouses of all other wars of our nation, a record of which he may have in his office, and to make proper notations thereof in the book of record.   (Ga. L. 1935, p. 383, § 4.)
GA Code § 36-16-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 16 - County Historical Container|§ 36-16-4. Maintenance of Record and Index; Fee for Filing of Documents

 The judge of the probate court shall be required to keep a suitable record and index in a book prepared for that purpose of all matter placed in the historical container, with notations as to the nature of the matter on file, by whom, and when placed on file. He shall be entitled to a fee of 25›, payable by the person filing such historical matter, for each article or document so deposited by such person for preservation with him, provided that the county historian may submit documents for preservation without payment of a fee to the judge of the probate court.   (Ga. L. 1935, p. 383, §§ 3, 4.)
GA Code § 36-16-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 16 - County Historical Container|§ 36-16-5. Applicability of Chapter

 This chapter shall not become operative in any county of this state until it has been adopted and recommended by a majority vote of two successive regular grand juries of the county.   (Ga. L. 1935, p. 383, § 5.)
GA Code § 36-18-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 18 - Regulation of Cable Television Systems|§ 36-18-1. "Cable Television System" Defined

 As used in this chapter, the term "cable television system" means a nonbroadcast facility consisting of a set of transmission paths and associated generation, reception, transmission, and control equipment, under common ownership and control, that distributes or is designed to distribute to subscribers the signals of one or more television broadcast stations and programs received via satellite, microwave, video tape, or video discs or produced by the franchised cable system.   (Ga. L. 1981, p. 865, § 1.)
GA Code § 36-18-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 18 - Regulation of Cable Television Systems|§ 36-18-2. Powers of Governing Authorities

 The governing authority of each county in this state is authorized to limit the operation of cable television systems within its territorial limits, except as limited by Code Section 36-18-3, to operators licensed and franchised by the county; to grant, in its sole discretion, one or more franchise licenses for the operation of cable television systems within the territorial limits of that county, except as limited by Code Section 36-18-3; and to regulate by ordinance or resolution the operation of cable television systems licensed and franchised by that county. The governing authority of each such county, in connection with the grant of such franchises, is further authorized to charge franchise fees to cable television systems for the right to operate the systems within the unincorporated areas of the county and within any incorporated areas which are subject to the limitation contained in Code Section 36-18-3. Cable television system franchise fees shall be negotiated between each county and each franchisee, in an amount not to exceed that amount authorized under applicable federal law and regulations.   (Ga. L. 1981, p. 865, § 2.)   Cross references.   - Taxation of special franchises, § 48-5-420 et seq.   Law reviews.   - For article surveying developments in Georgia local government law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 187 (1981).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   No authorization of municipalities.    - O.C.G.A. § 36-18-2 confers authority only upon the governing authority of each county in the state, and there is no similar authorization of municipalities. Cable Holdings of Battlefield, Inc. v. Lookout Cable Servs., Inc., 178 Ga. App. 456, 343 S.E.2d 737 (1986).    Cited in  Cable Holdings of Battlefield, Inc. v. Cooke, 764 F.2d 1466 (11th Cir. 1985).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 36 Am. Jur. 2d, Franchises from Public Entities, §§ 36, 37.   C.J.S.   - 37 C.J.S., Franchises, §§ 26, 27.   ALR.   - Validity and construction of municipal ordinances regulating community antenna television service (CATV), 41 A.L.R.3d 384.   Standing to contest award of, or acquisition of right to operate, cable TV certificate, license, or franchise in state court action, 78 A.L.R.3d 1255.
GA Code § 36-18-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 18 - Regulation of Cable Television Systems|§ 36-18-3. Restriction on Authority of Counties and Municipalities to Regulate

 A county shall neither grant a franchise nor collect a franchise fee for the operation of cable television systems within the corporate limits of any municipality except by agreement with the municipality. A municipality shall neither grant a franchise nor collect a franchise fee for the operation of cable television systems within the unincorporated area of a county except by agreement with the county.   (Ga. L. 1981, p. 865, § 3.)   Law reviews.   - For article surveying developments in Georgia local government law from mid-1980 through mid-1981, see 33 Mercer L. Rev. 187 (1981).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 36 Am. Jur. 2d, Franchises from Public Entities, §§ 36, 37.   C.J.S.   - 37 C.J.S., Franchises, §§ 26, 27.
GA Code § 36-18-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 18 - Regulation of Cable Television Systems|§ 36-18-4. Intent and Construction of Chapter

 It is the intent of this chapter to confirm expressly the authority of counties to grant franchises for, and to regulate by ordinance or resolution, cable television systems within their territorial limits, except as limited by Code Section 36-18-3. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to impair any cable television system franchise license lawfully issued by a county or municipality prior to April 9, 1981; and any such license shall be entitled to the benefits of this chapter.   (Ga. L. 1981, p. 865, § 4.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 36 Am. Jur. 2d, Franchises from Public Entities, §§ 36, 37.   C.J.S.   - 37 C.J.S., Franchises, §§ 26, 27.