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GA Code § 20-2-463 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-463. County-Wide Bonds - Petition to Call Election; Call of Election; County Board to Determine Terms

 When one-fourth of the registered qualified voters of the county or of the county outside the incorporated limits of a municipality or municipalities, as the case may be, shall file with the county board of education a petition asking for an election for the purpose of determining whether or not bonds shall be issued for the purpose of refunding, refinancing, or retiring outstanding school bonds of such territory, the required number of petitioners to be determined by the county board, it shall be the duty of the county board to fix the amount, denomination, rate of interest, and dates when due of the proposed bonds to refund, refinance, or retire outstanding schoolhouse bonds of such territory; and the county board shall also specify the amount, denomination, rate of interest, and dates when due of the outstanding school bonds which are sought to be refunded, retired, or refinanced and call such election in terms of law now provided or which may hereafter be provided for the county issue of bonds, except as otherwise provided in this Code section.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 4.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 114 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 761.
GA Code § 20-2-464 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-464. County-Wide Bond Elections - Notice

 The county board shall order such election to be held at the various polling places throughout the county or throughout the territory to be affected, of which it shall give notice by publication thereof once a week for four weeks previous to the election in the newspaper in which the legal advertisements of the county are published.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 4.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 130 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, §§ 765 et seq., 773 et seq.
GA Code § 20-2-465 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-465. County-Wide Bond Elections - Eligible Voters; Conduct of Election; Declaration of Result

 None but registered qualified voters residing within the territory to be affected shall be permitted to vote in the election. The election shall be held and the result declared as provided in Title 21.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 4.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 147 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, §§ 765 et seq., 773 et seq.
GA Code § 20-2-466 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-466. County-Wide Bonds - Vote Required to Approve; Issuance, Sale, or Exchange

 In the event that two-thirds of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of refunding "outstanding schoolhouse bonds" and such two-thirds are also a majority of all the voters qualified to vote in such election, then the refunding schoolhouse bonds shall, after validation, as provided in Code Section 20-2-470 be issued, sold, or exchanged under all of the regulations now provided for the sale of county bonds under Code Section 20-2-430 or provided in this subpart for the sale or exchange of such refunding bonds.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 4.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, §§ 110, 184 et seq., 236 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, §§ 756, 779 et seq.
GA Code § 20-2-467 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-467. County-Wide Bonds - Handling and Use of Proceeds

 The proceeds from the sale or exchange of the refunding bonds shall be turned over to the county board of education in trust for any purposes provided in this subpart.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 4.)
GA Code § 20-2-468 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-468. County-Wide Bonds - Tax Levy to Provide Sinking Fund to Retire Bonds

 The county authorities, in levying and assessing taxes for the purpose of paying the interest and retiring and paying off the bonds shall, in the event that the entire county is not embraced within the area or territory in which the election is held, levy and assess such taxes only against the property located within the area or territory within which the election is held. For the purpose of taking care of and paying the principal and interest of such refunding schoolhouse bonds, the county board of education shall recommend and the board of county commissioners or judge of the probate court, as the case may be, shall levy upon the property subject to taxation in the entire county or in the area or territory within which the election is held, such tax as may be necessary to provide a sinking fund for the retirement of the bonds and for paying the principal thereof and the interest thereon, this to be in addition to the general tax for the maintenance of the schools of the county or territory.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 4; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 20.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, §§ 241, 386 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, §§ 787, 799 et seq., 881 et seq.
GA Code § 20-2-469 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-469. County-Wide Bonds - Paying Off Outstanding Bonds; Sinking Fund for Holders Failing or Refusing to Sell, Exchange, or Surrender Outstanding Bonds

 The manner of paying off the outstanding schoolhouse bonds with the proceeds of the sale of the refunding schoolhouse bonds, or exchange of bonds, and the sinking fund provided, in cases where holders of outstanding bonds fail or refuse to sell, exchange, or surrender them for cancellation, shall be the same as provided in this subpart for other school districts.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 4.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 355 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, §§ 787, 788.
GA Code § 20-2-470 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-470. Validation of Bonds

 Before the schoolhouse refunding bonds provided in this subpart shall be issued, they shall first be validated in accordance with Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 82 of Title 36.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 6.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 349.   C.J.S.   - 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 784.
GA Code § 20-2-471 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-471. Exchange or Sale of Bonds; Use of Proceeds

 Bonds issued under this subpart may be exchanged for not less than an equal principal amount and accrued interest, if any, of indebtedness to be retired thereby, including indebtedness not yet due, if such indebtedness is then redeemable or if the holder thereof is willing to surrender the indebtedness for retirement, but otherwise shall be sold and the proceeds thereof shall be applied to the payment of such schoolhouse bonded indebtedness or accrued interest due or redeemable which may be so surrendered.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 8.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 230.
GA Code § 20-2-472 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-472. Establishment of Sinking Fund for Unsurrendered Bonds

 Should the holder of any outstanding schoolhouse bonds be unwilling to surrender them for retirement, either in exchange for refunding bonds in a principal amount equal to the principal and interest accrued on the bonds under the authority of this subpart or upon tender to him of the par value of the bond or bonds held by him, plus accrued interest thereon, then and in that event, when any of the refunding schoolhouse bonds are sold, a sufficient amount of the proceeds derived from the sale of the refunding bonds shall be set aside and shall constitute a sinking fund for the eventual retirement of any such bond or bonds and the payment of interest thereon in accordance with the provisions of such bonds when they mature or are surrendered for retirement.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 9.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 355 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78 C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, §§ 787, 788.
GA Code § 20-2-473 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-473. Limitations on Issue and Use of Bonds and Proceeds

 The proceeds derived from the sale of any refunding schoolhouse bonds issued under the authority of this subpart shall be applied exclusively to the purposes provided in Code Sections 20-2-450 through 20-2-472. None of such refunding bonds shall be exchanged except for outstanding bonds for which they were issued to retire. In no event shall the refunding schoolhouse bonds so issued exceed in amount the previously existing total schoolhouse bond debt of the district issuing such bonds with interest thereon.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 10.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, §§ 88, 201, 236 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78 C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 756 et seq.
GA Code § 20-2-474 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-474. Powers and Duties of Officials as to Bonds, Taxes, and Sinking Funds

 Wherever in this subpart it is made the duty, without specific designation, of any official or officials to perform any duty with reference to the issuance, exchange, sale, or retirement of any bonds, such duty is imposed upon the same officials with respect to such duties as are now imposed upon the officers charged with the same duties under the laws of Georgia relating to bonds issued in the first instance. Such officers shall have the same authority and are charged with the same duties with respect to the investment of sinking funds and levying taxes to retire bonds and interest on bonds issued under this subpart as is now provided with respect to the levying of taxes to retire bonds and the creation and administration of sinking funds to retire the bonded indebtedness of any local school district, consolidated school district, or independent school district, where a local tax is levied for school purposes.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 11.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 78 C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 762.
GA Code § 20-2-475 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-475. Interest on Bonds

 The interest rate on such refunding schoolhouse bonds shall in no event exceed, but may be less than, the interest rate on the bonds for which they were issued to refund.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 12.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, §§ 236, 238.
GA Code § 20-2-476 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-476. When SubPart Applicable to Independent School Districts

 The provisions of this subpart for issuance of refunding schoolhouse bonds in the case of independent school districts shall apply only where the Act creating such school district, or as amended, authorizes such issuance.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 13.)
GA Code § 20-2-477 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 2 - Refunding Bonds|§ 20-2-477. Construction of SubPart Against Impairment of Outstanding Bonds

 This subpart shall not be construed to impair the obligation of any bond outstanding on March 31, 1937, or to prejudice the rights of any bondholder of an outstanding bond issued prior to that date.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 869, § 14.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, §§ 377, 378.   C.J.S.   - 78 C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 788.
GA Code § 20-2-480 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 9 - Local Public School Finances|Part 3 - Bond Issues|Subpart 3 - Withholding Appropriations to Pay Indebtedness|§ 20-2-480. Notification of Proposed Issuance of Bonded Indebtedness; Authorization to Withhold Appropriations to Pay Indebtedness

  Prior to the issuance of any bonded indebtedness, the governing body of any county school district or system, any independent school district or system, or any area school district or system may notify the State Board of Education of the proposed issuance of such indebtedness and authorize and direct the State Board of Education to withhold from such school district or system sufficient moneys from any state appropriation to which such school district or system may be entitled and apply so much as shall be necessary to the payment of the principal of and interest on such indebtedness then due.   The notice and authorization referred to in subsection (a) of this Code section shall set forth the following information:   The proposed date of issuance of the bonded indebtedness;   Each payment date with respect to such indebtedness and the principal of and interest on such indebtedness coming due on each such date; and   The name and address of the financial institution serving as custodian, trustee, or paying agent for such indebtedness to whom any payment by the State Board of Education should be made.       (Code 1981, §20-2-480, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1579, § 2.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1991, "Code section" was substituted for "Code Section" in subsection (b).
GA Code § 20-2-691 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 16 - Students|Part 1 - School Attendance|Subpart 2 - Compulsory Attendance|§ 20-2-691. Minimum Annual Attendance Required; Child Completing High School Exempt

 The minimum session of annual school attendance required under this subpart shall be for the full session or sessions of the school which the child is eligible to attend. Such attendance shall not be required where the child has successfully completed all requirements for a high school diploma.   (Ga. L. 1945, p. 343, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 851, § 2/SB 413.)   Law reviews.   - For comment on Crim v. McWhorter, 242 Ga. 863, 252 S.E.2d 421 (1979), see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 341 (1979).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   Summer School Fee.    - A public school system within the State of Georgia can establish a policy requiring the payment of a tuition fee as a precondition for attendance during a summer school session. Crim v. McWhorter, 242 Ga. 863, 252 S.E.2d 421 (1979).   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Provisions neither authorize nor prohibit parents from sending children to school during teacher's absence.   - Former visiting Teacher's Law neither authorizes nor prohibits a school from directing the parents of children whose teacher is absent not to send the children to school during the teacher's absence. 1952-53 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 331.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Regulations forbidding pupils to leave school grounds during school hours, 32 A.L.R. 1342; 48 A.L.R. 659.   Conditions at school as excusing or justifying nonattendance, 9 A.L.R.4th 122.
GA Code § 20-2-692 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 16 - Students|Part 1 - School Attendance|Subpart 2 - Compulsory Attendance|§ 20-2-692. General Assembly Pages Granted Excused Absences

 Children who serve as pages of the General Assembly during the school year, either at regular or special sessions, shall be credited as present by the school in which enrolled in the same manner as an educational field trip, and such participation as a page shall not be counted as an absence, either excused or unexcused.   (Ga. L. 1961, p. 580; Ga. L. 1963, p. 254, § 1; Ga. L. 2007, p. 235, § 1/HB 375.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 68 Am. Jur. 2d, Schools, § 274 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 1008.
GA Code § 20-2-692.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 16 - Students|Part 1 - School Attendance|Subpart 2 - Compulsory Attendance|§ 20-2-692.1. Excused Absences for Days Missed to Visit With Parent or Legal Guardian in the Military Prior to Deployment or While on Leave; Attendance at Military Affairs Sponsored Events

  A student whose parent or legal guardian is in military service in the armed forces of the United States or the National Guard, and such parent or legal guardian has been called to duty for or is on leave from overseas deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting, shall be granted excused absences, up to a maximum of five school days per school year, for the day or days missed from school to visit with his or her parent or legal guardian prior to such parent's or legal guardian's deployment or during such parent's or legal guardian's leave.   A student whose parent or legal guardian is currently serving or previously served on active duty in the armed forces of the United States, in the Reserves of the armed forces of the United States on extended active duty, or in the National Guard on extended active duty may be granted excused absences, up to a maximum of five school days per school year, not to exceed two school years, for the day or days missed from school to attend military affairs sponsored events, provided the student provides documentation prior to absence from:   A provider of care at or sponsored by a medical facility of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs; or   An event sponsored by a corporation exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code.     Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to require a local school system to revise any policies relating to maximum number of excused and unexcused absences for any purposes.     (Code 1981, §20-2-692.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 533, § 1/HB 984; Ga. L. 2018, p. 208, § 1/HB 718.)    The 2018 amendment,  effective July 1, 2018, designated the existing provisions of this Code section as subsection (a); redesignated the former last sentence as subsection (c); and added subsection (b).
GA Code § 20-2-692.2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 16 - Students|Part 1 - School Attendance|Subpart 2 - Compulsory Attendance|§ 20-2-692.2. Foster Care Student Attending Court Proceedings Related to That Student's Foster Care to Be Credited as Present at School

  As used in this Code section, the term "foster care student" means a student who is in a foster home or otherwise in the foster care system under the Division of Family and Children Services of the Department of Human Services.   A foster care student who attends court proceedings relating to the student's foster care shall be credited as present by the school and shall not be counted as an absence, either excused or unexcused, for any day, portion of a day, or days missed from school.     (Code 1981, §20-2-692.2, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 260, § 2/HB 314.)   Cross references.   - Foster Parent Bill of Rights, § 49-5-281.   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2011, p. 260, § 1/HB 314, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "This Act shall be known and may be cited as 'Jessie's Law.'"
GA Code § 20-2-693 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 20 - Education|Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education|Article 16 - Students|Part 1 - School Attendance|Subpart 2 - Compulsory Attendance|§ 20-2-693. Exemptions

  Children during the ages of mandatory attendance as required in subsection (a) of Code Section 20-2-690.1 who are excused from attendance in public school by county or independent school system boards in accordance with general policies and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education shall be exempt from this subpart. The state board, in promulgating its general policies and regulations, shall take into consideration sickness and other emergencies which may arise in any school community.   Children during the ages of mandatory attendance as required in subsection (a) of Code Section 20-2-690.1 who are excused from attendance at private schools or home study programs for sickness or emergencies or for other reasons substantially the same as the reasons for excused absences from attendance at public school authorized by state board policy pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section shall be exempt from this subpart.    (Ga. L. 1945, p. 343, § 3; Ga. L. 1984, p. 1266, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 851, § 3/SB 413.)   Cross references.   - Employment of persons under 16 during school hours, § 39-2-4.   Law reviews.   - For article on 2006 amendment of this Code section, see 23 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 129 (2006).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS    Cited in Pitts v. State, 293 Ga. 511, 748 S.E.2d 426 (2013).   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Local boards can release students to attend religious services.   - If authorized by general policies and regulations of the State Board of Education, local boards of education can release pupils upon the request of the pupils' parents to attend religious services or instruction given off the public school premises, provided such a program is not directly or indirectly financed in whole or in part from public funds and the students are not coerced to attend such services by the school system or the school's employees. 1968 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 68-228.   Provisions neither authorize nor prohibit parents from sending children to school during teacher's absence.   - Former visiting Teacher's Law neither authorizes nor prohibits a school from directing the parents of children whose teacher is absent not to send the parents' children to school during the teacher's absence. 1952-53 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 331.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 68 Am. Jur. 2d, Schools, § 274 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 78A C.J.S., Schools and School Districts, § 1008.   ALR.   - Conditions at school as excusing or justifying nonattendance, 9 A.L.R.4th 122.