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GA Code § 36-37-8 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 37 - Acquisition and Disposition of Real and Personal Property Generally|§ 36-37-8. Disposition of Public Utility Plants or Properties - Notice of Intent to Dispose; Petition Objecting to Disposition; Election and Notice

 Notice of intention to make such sale, lease, or other disposition of a municipal waterworks or electric or gas plant, setting out the price and other general terms and conditions of the proposed sale, lease, or disposition, shall be given by publication once a week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the municipality and, if no newspaper is published in the municipality, then in some newspaper published in the county in which the municipality is located and, if there is no such newspaper, then in some newspaper having a general circulation in the municipality. After ten days from the last publication of such notice, the plant may be disposed of unless, within ten days after the last publication of the notice, a petition signed by not less than 20 percent of the qualified voters of the municipality is filed, objecting to and protesting against the sale, lease, or disposition. If the petition, so signed, is filed, the sale shall not be made unless submitted to a special election ordered for the purpose of determining whether a majority, which shall constitute two-thirds of those voting at the election, favors the sale, lease, or other disposition. Such election shall be ordered by the municipality to be held not less than 50 days after the date of the filing of the objecting petition with the municipality. The election shall be held in accordance with and in all respects be governed by the Acts of the General Assembly in regard to elections to determine whether municipalities shall issue bonds or not. The notice of the election shall state its purpose.   (Ga. L. 1925, p. 177, § 2; Code 1933, § 91-902.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 56 Am. Jur. 2d, Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions, § 509.   C.J.S.   - 63 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, §§ 1152 et seq., 1162, 1165.   ALR.    - Sufficiency of compliance with condition of sale or lease by municipality of public utility plants, 52 A.L.R. 1052.
GA Code § 36-37-9 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 37 - Acquisition and Disposition of Real and Personal Property Generally|§ 36-37-9. Disposition of Public Utility Plants or Properties - Ballots for Election

 The ballots provided for the election shall have plainly written or printed thereon the words "Shall the waterworks, electric, or gas plant (as the case may be), be sold, leased, or disposed of (as the case may be)?" Beside such words shall be suitably placed, on separate lines, the words "Yes" and "No," so that the voter may indicate the way he desires to vote on the question submitted.   (Ga. L. 1925, p. 177, § 3; Code 1933, § 91-903; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 36.)
GA Code § 36-37-10 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 37 - Acquisition and Disposition of Real and Personal Property Generally|§ 36-37-10. Disposition of Public Utility Plants or Properties - Proposed Disposition Determined by Two-Thirds Vote

 If two-thirds of those voting in the election vote in favor of such sale, lease, or disposition, the proper officers of the municipal corporation may proceed to sell, lease, or dispose of such plant in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in the notice of proposed intention to sell, lease, or dispose of such plant. If such election is determined against the sale, lease, or disposition of the plant, the plant shall not be sold, leased, or disposed of but shall remain the property of the municipality.   (Ga. L. 1925, p. 177, § 4; Code 1933, § 91-904.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Sufficiency of compliance with condition of sale or lease by municipality of public utility plants, 52 A.L.R. 1052.
GA Code § 36-39-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-1. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the term:    "Frontage" means that side or limit of the lot or parcel of land in question which abuts on the improvement.   "Governing body" means the mayor and council, board of aldermen, board of commissioners, or other chief legislative body of a municipal corporation.   "Improve" and "improvement" include the grading, regrading, paving, repaving, macadamizing, and remacadamizing of streets, alleys, sidewalks, or other public places or ways and the construction, reconstruction, and altering of curbing, guttering, storm sewers, turnouts, water mains, and water, gas, or sewer connections therein.   "Municipal corporation" means any city or town incorporated in this state, having a population of 600 or more.   "Pave" includes storm draining, paving, macadamizing, and grading.   "Streets" means streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, and other public places or ways.    (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 1; Code 1933, § 69-401.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, § 1 et seq. 56 Am. Jur. 2d, Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions, §§ 1, 3.   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Highways, §§ 1, 211, 218. 40 C.J.S., Highways, § 250 et seq. 62 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1 et seq.   ALR.    - Scope and import of term "owner" in statutes relating to real property, 2 A.L.R. 778; 95 A.L.R. 1085.    Obligation for local improvements as within municipal debt limit, 33 A.L.R. 1415.    Right of municipality to hasten flow of surface water along natural drain ways by improvements of street or highway, 36 A.L.R. 1463.    Assessment of right of way other than that of railroad or street railway for street or local improvement, 58 A.L.R. 127.    Power to impose cost of maintenance or operation of street lighting system on local improvement district, 60 A.L.R. 272.    Underground conduits for electric wires as local improvements supporting special assessments, 66 A.L.R. 1389.    Character of improvement contemplated by statute, ordinance, or contract relating to "surface" or "resurface" of highway, 84 A.L.R. 1158.   Special assessments: What constitutes reconstruction or the like, as distinguished from repair, of pavement, 41 A.L.R.2d 613.
GA Code § 36-39-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-2. Adoption of Chapter; Election; Effect of Adoption of Chapter Generally

 The governing body of any municipal corporation in this state is authorized to hold an election or elections, at such time and under such conditions as may be determined by the governing body, for the purpose of adopting this chapter. When such election has been duly held, if a majority of the qualified electors voting therein voted in favor of such adoption, the election managers shall duly certify the results of the election to the governing body and the same shall be adopted and entered on the minutes thereof. Thereupon, the governing body of the municipal corporation shall be authorized and empowered to improve any street or streets in such municipal corporation whenever, in the judgment of the governing body, the public welfare or convenience requires such improvement, subject only to the conditions and limitations prescribed in this chapter.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 2; Code 1933, § 69-402.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, § 77.   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Highways, § 43 et seq. 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1902.   ALR.    - Estoppel of municipality to open or use street, 171 A.L.R. 94.
GA Code § 36-39-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-5. Improvements When County Owns Abutting Property

 Whenever the abutting landowners of any street of the municipal corporation petition the governing body as set out in subsection (b) of Code Section 36-39-3 or whenever the governing body passes the resolution provided for in subsection (a) of Code Section 36-39-3 for the improvement of any street, where the county is owner of property on the street and where the governing body of the county has assented to the proposed improvement and has provided funds to pay in cash its proportionate part of the cost of the improvement, the frontage so owned shall be counted as if owned by an individual for all the purposes of this chapter. The chairman of the board of commissioners of the county is authorized to sign the petition or file objections in behalf of the county.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 13; Ga. L. 1933, § 69-425.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Public property as subject to special assessment for improvement, 90 A.L.R. 1137.    Manner of enforcing special assessments against public property, 150 A.L.R. 1394.
GA Code § 36-39-6 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-6. Paving by Railroad Having Tracks in Street

 Any railroad or street railway having tracks located in a street at the time of a proposed improvement shall be required by the governing body to pave the width of its tracks and two feet on each side thereof. Such paving shall be done with the same material and in the same manner as the rest of the street to be paved, provided that the governing body may require such paving to be of a different material and manner of construction when, in its judgment, this is rendered necessary by the uses of the street by the railway. The work shall be performed under the supervision and subject to the approval of the city's municipal corporation's engineer. If the railway, within a period of 30 days after receipt of the notice to do such work, does not agree in writing to comply with such order or if the work is not completed to the satisfaction of the municipal corporation's engineer within such time as may be prescribed by the governing body, the governing body may have the work done and may charge the cost and expense thereof to the railway company. The governing body shall have a lien against the railway company for such cost and expense. Such lien shall have the same rank and priority and shall be enforced in the same manner as the liens provided for in Code Section 36-39-20.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 5; Code 1933, § 69-405; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 36.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, §§ 307, 328.   C.J.S.   - 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, §§ 1499, 1503.   ALR.    - Paving ordinance as impairment of obligation of street railway franchise, 10 A.L.R. 897.    Liability of railroad or street railway which paves or is liable for paving occupied portion of street to assessment for improvement of remainder, 29 A.L.R. 679.    Duty of street railway to keep street in repair as affected by change in traffic conditions, 33 A.L.R. 131.
GA Code § 36-39-7 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-7. Payment for Street Improvements and Construction of Water, Gas, and Sewer Connections; Payment of Costs of Connections

 Whenever the petition provided for in subsection (b) of Code Section 36-39-3 is presented or when the governing body has determined to improve any street and has passed the resolution provided for in subsection (a) of Code Section 36-39-3, the governing body shall have the power to enact all such ordinances and to establish all such rules and regulations as may be necessary to require the owners of all the property abutting on the improvement and of any railway in the street to pay the cost of such improvement and to cause to be put in and constructed all water, gas, or sewer pipe connections to connect with any existing water, gas, or sewer pipes in and underneath the streets where such improvement is to be made. All cost and expense of making water, gas, or sewer pipe connections shall be taxed solely against the property abutting on the improvement; but such cost and expense shall be included and made a part of the general assessment to cover the cost of the improvement.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 6; Code 1933, § 69-406.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 70C Am. Jur. 2d, Special or Local Assessments, § 181 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Highways, § 43 et seq. 40 C.J.S., Highways, § 250 et seq.   ALR.    - Construction of provision of statute, ordinance, or franchise relating to "repair" of street railway zone, 10 A.L.R. 928.    Eligibility of public officer or employee to appointment as member of body to lay assessments for public improvement, 71 A.L.R. 540.   Power to include in special assessment interest accruing during the construction of the public improvement and running until the special assessments therefor become due, 58 A.L.R.2d 1343.
GA Code § 36-39-8 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-8. Resolution Letting Contract for Improvements Following Time for Protests or Filing of Petition

 After the expiration of the time for objection or protest on the part of the property owners, if no sufficient protest is filed, or on receipt of a petition for an improvement signed by the owners of a majority of the frontage of the land to be assessed, if the petition is found to be in proper form and properly executed, the governing body shall adopt a resolution reciting that no protest has been filed or that a petition was filed, as the case may be, and expressing the determination of the governing body to proceed with the improvement. The resolution shall state the kind of improvement, define the extent and character of the same, and specify such other matters as may be necessary to instruct the engineer employed by the municipal corporation in the performance of his or her duties in preparing for such improvement the necessary plans, plats, profiles, specifications, and estimates. The resolution shall set forth any and all such reasonable terms and conditions as the governing body deems proper to impose with reference to the letting of the contract and the provisions thereof. The governing body, by such resolution, shall provide that the contractor shall execute to the municipal corporation a good and sufficient bond, as provided in Part 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 91 of this title, and may also require a bond in an amount to be stated in the resolution for the maintenance of the good condition of the improvements for a period of not less than five years from the time of completion, in the discretion of the governing body. The resolution shall also direct the clerk of the municipal corporation to advertise for sealed proposals for furnishing the materials and performing the work necessary in making such improvements.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 7; Code 1933, § 69-407; Ga. L. 1952, p. 310, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 498, § 3; Ga. L. 2001, p. 820, § 11.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, §§ 34 et seq., 106 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 40 C.J.S., Highways, §§ 265, 325. 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1225.
GA Code § 36-39-10 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-10. Publication and Contents of Notice of Contract Proposals

 The notice of the proposals specified in Code Section 36-39-8 shall be published in at least six consecutive issues of a daily paper or at least two issues of a weekly paper having a general circulation in the municipal corporation. The notice shall state the street or streets to be improved, the kinds of improvements proposed, what bond or bonds will be required to be executed by the contractor, the time when and the place where the sealed proposals shall be filed, and when and where the same will be considered by the governing body.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 7; Code 1933, § 69-408.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, §§ 37, 38. 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Works and Contracts, § 52 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1368 et seq.   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 § 36-39-11 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-11. Examination of Bids and Award of Contract; Readvertisement for Bids

 At the time and place specified in the notice provided for in Code Section 36-39-10, the governing body shall examine all bids received. Without unnecessary delay, the contract shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder, who will perform the work and furnish the materials which may be selected and perform all the conditions imposed by the governing body as prescribed in the resolutions and notice for proposals. The governing body shall have the right to reject any and all bids and readvertise for other bids when the bids submitted are not, in its judgment, satisfactory.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 7; Code 1933, § 69-409.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Works and Contracts, § 72 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1364 et seq.   ALR.    - Validity of promise based on invalid paving assessment, 20 A.L.R. 1326.    Right of municipality to exact of contractor additional consideration as condition of extension of time for completion of improvements, 71 A.L.R. 904.   Right of public authorities to reject all bids for public work or contract, 31 A.L.R.2d 469.   Public contracts: authority of state or its subdivision to reject all bids, 52 A.L.R.4th 186.   Public contracts: low bidder's monetary relief against state or local agency for nonaward of contract, 65 A.L.R.4th 93.   Encroachment of trees, shrubbery, or other vegetation across boundary line, 65 A.L.R.4th 603.
GA Code § 36-39-12 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-12. Appointment of Board of Appraisers to Appraise and Apportion Cost

 After the contract has been let or after the improvement has been made by the municipal corporation, in the event the governing body elects to have the work done by the municipal corporation, and after the cost for such improvement, which shall include all other expenses incurred by the municipal corporation incident to the improvement in addition to the contract price for the work and materials or in addition to the cost of all materials, labor, machinery, equipment, and services used in the making of each improvement, in the event the work is done by the municipal corporation, has been ascertained, the governing body shall, by resolution, appoint a board of appraisers, consisting of three members, to appraise and apportion the cost and expense of the same to the several tracts of land abutting on the improvement as provided in Code Sections 36-39-4 and 36-39-6.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 8; Code 1933, § 69-410; Ga. L. 1952, p. 310, § 2.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 70C Am. Jur. 2d, Special or Local Assessments, §§ 7, 60, 87 et seq., 113.   C.J.S.   - 40 C.J.S., Highways, §§ 470, 471. 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1584.
GA Code § 36-39-13 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-13. Filing of Board of Appraisers' Report

 Within 30 days from the date of the resolution appointing the board of appraisers, such board shall file with the clerk of the municipal corporation a written report of the appraisal and the assessment and cost upon the several lots and tracts of land abutting on such street, as well as upon the property of any street or steam railway whose tracks are located in such street where such railway has failed or refused to do the paving as provided in Code Section 36-39-6 when and as required by the governing body.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 8; Code 1933, § 69-411.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 70C Am. Jur. 2d, Special or Local Assessments, § 129.   C.J.S.   - 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1587.
GA Code § 36-39-14 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 36 - Local Government|Chapter 39 - Street Improvements|§ 36-39-14. Hearing Upon Board of Appraisers' Report; Review of Report and Objections; Ordinance Fixing Assessments; Taxation of Interest

 When the report of the appraisers has been returned and filed, the governing body shall appoint a time for the holding of a session or shall designate a regular meeting of its body for the hearing of any complaints or objections that may be made by any interested person concerning the appraisal, apportionment, and assessment. Notice of such session for the hearing shall be published by the clerk of the governing body once a week for two weeks in a newspaper having a general circulation in the municipal corporation. The notice shall provide for an inspection of the return by any property owner or other party interested in such return. The time fixed for the hearing shall be not less than five nor more than ten days from the date of the last publication of the notice. The governing body at the session shall have the power and duty to review and correct the appraisal, apportionment, and assessment, to hear objections to the same, and to confirm the same either as made by the board or as corrected by the governing body. The governing body, by ordinance, shall fix the assessment in accordance with the appraisal and apportionment, as so confirmed, against the several tracts of land liable therefor. The rate of interest to be taxed shall not exceed 1 percent per annum over and above the rate of interest stipulated in the bonds provided for in this chapter.   (Ga. L. 1927, p. 321, § 8; Code 1933, § 69-412.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 70C Am. Jur. 2d, Special or Local Assessments, § 135 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, §§ 1589 et seq., 1671, 1675, 1676, 1682.   ALR.    - Qualification of owner of property affected by public improvement to act in making assessment, 2 A.L.R. 1207.    Loss of right to contest assessment in proceeding for street or sewer improvement by waiver, estoppel, or the like, 9 A.L.R. 634.    Loss of right to contest assessment in drainage proceeding by waiver, estoppel, or the like, 9 A.L.R. 842.    Inclusion in assessment for public improvement of amount to cover delinquencies as contrary to constitutional guaranties, 40 A.L.R. 1352; 42 A.L.R. 1185.    Eligibility of public officer or employee to appointment as member of body to lay assessments for public improvement, 71 A.L.R. 540.    Failure of property owner to avail himself of remedy provided by statute or ordinance as precluding attack based on improper inclusion of property in, or exclusion of property from, assessment, 100 A.L.R. 1292.   Exclusiveness of method prescribed by statute or ordinance for enforcement of special assessment for public improvement or service, 88 A.L.R.2d 1250.   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.