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GA Code § 12-3-245 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-245. Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority - Term of Leases; Assignment; Preservation, Continuance, and Survival of Rights and Privileges

 The leasing of the subdivided lots shall be for not more than 99 years. Such leases as the authority shall designate may be made freely assignable, subject to all the liabilities, obligations, and duties imposed upon the lessee by the authority in its original lease. In its leasehold conveyance or rental contracts, the authority may create and provide for the preservation of such rights and privileges in the present or future security grantees, mortgagees, or other lenders upon the security of the lessee's or tenant's rights, as the authority may deem wise. Such rights and privileges, when created, may also provide for their continuance or survival after termination or forfeiture of the original leasehold or rental contract.   (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 11; Ga. L. 1951, p. 782, § 4; Ga. L. 1952, p. 276, § 2; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 261, § 3; Ga. L. 1957, p. 608, § 3.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Lands, § 64 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 73B C.J.S., Public Lands, § 294.
GA Code § 12-3-246 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-246. Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority - Limitation as to Number of Lots to Be Leased or Sold to One Party

  Subject to the exceptions provided in subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this Code section, no person, partnership, or corporation except the authority may, during the life of the authority, hold under lease or by deed or any combination of leases and deeds a total of more than three lots in the residential subdivisions made on Jekyll Island by the authority.   No violation of the limitation provided in subsection (a) of this Code section by any party shall in any wise affect the good and sufficient title of any bona fide assignee or transferee or any subsequent assignee or transferee thereof.   The limitation provided in subsection (a) of this Code section shall not apply to any bank, insurance company, building and loan association, mortgage loan company, or federal or state lending agency which may be holding lots under lease or by deed or under any combination of leases and deeds by virtue of foreclosure of loans made upon the security or improvements erected or existing on such lots.   The authority may waive the limitation provided in subsection (a) of this Code section as regards groups of not more than 25 lots if the lessee or owner thereof is a person or a corporation or other business enterprise engaged in the construction and sale of houses, and such entity covenants to erect houses upon the lots so leased or owned and to sell and assign all lots so leased or owned as improved within a reasonable period of time as determined by the authority.   The authority may waive the limitation provided in subsection (a) of this Code section as regards groups of not more than 25 lots when the lessee or owner thereof covenants to erect or causes to be erected a shopping center or business block or housing project thereon which, when completed, shall be offered for rental or sale, unit by unit, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed to by the authority.    (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 11; Ga. L. 1951, p. 782, § 4; Ga. L. 1952, p. 276, § 2; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 261, § 3; Ga. L. 1957, p. 608, § 3.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Lands, § 64 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 73B C.J.S., Public Lands, § 294.
GA Code § 12-3-248 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-248. Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority - Sales of Property for Which Approval by General Assembly Is Required

 Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the authority shall under no circumstances sell any real property on Jekyll Island on which a building or buildings were standing at the time the island was leased to the authority, without the express prior approval of the General Assembly to such sale or sales.   (Ga. L. 1957, p. 608, § 3.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Lands, § 64.   C.J.S.   - 73B C.J.S., Public Lands, § 294.
GA Code § 12-3-249 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-249. Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority - Publication of Schedule of Lease Rentals; Applications Exceeding Available Lots; Leasing by Negotiation; Leases as Constituting Contracts

  The lots in the various subdivisions created on Jekyll Island by the authority may be leased either singly or in groups deemed appropriate by the authority, only after publication of a complete schedule of the lease rentals applicable to the lots in the official organs of Glynn and Fulton counties.   If at any time the number of acceptable applications for lots received by the authority shall exceed the number of lots available in any one of the property subdivisions created by the authority, a drawing shall be held to determine which of the acceptable applications shall be accepted by the authority for leases upon the available lots, and to determine the sequence in which they will be accepted.   The authority may lease by negotiation any number or all of the existing buildings together with appropriate grounds, provided that the authority may lease by negotiation for commercial purposes any one or a number of the lots it shall set aside for commercial purposes; provided, further, that when in the exercise of its discretion the authority shall offer for lease groups of lots as provided for in Code Section 12-3-246, such blocks may be leased by negotiation.   All such leases granted by the authority shall, upon execution, become a contract between the individual lessee, his approved assigns, the authority, and the State of Georgia.    (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 12; Ga. L. 1952, p. 276, § 3; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 261, § 4.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Leases executed by authority not mere subleases of authority.   - Leases executed by the authority constitute contracts of lease between the individual lessees, the Jekyll Island Authority (now Jekyll Island - State Park Authority), and the state; not mere subleases of the authority. 1952-53 Op. Att'y Gen. p. 145.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Lands, § 64 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 73B C.J.S., Public Lands, § 294.
GA Code § 12-3-250 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-250. Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority - Conversion Prices of Lots

 Immediately upon the approval of this part, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the authority shall prepare and publish a conversion price for each residential lot then under lease, stating the price at which the lot may be purchased from the authority. Thereafter the authority shall publish at the same time and in the same manner as schedules of lease rentals are published, as required by Code Section 12-3-249, a conversion price for each residential lot that is available for lease. The conversion price for residential lots shall not be less than the appraised value of such lots, taking into consideration the market value of comparable resort property in Glynn County, as determined by an appraisal or appraisals made or to be made by the Glynn County Real Estate Board. Every lease which the authority may grant for a residential lot shall contain therein the conversion price at which the lot may be purchased.   (Ga. L. 1957, p. 608, § 4.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Lands, § 64.   C.J.S.   - 73B C.J.S., Public Lands, § 294.
GA Code § 12-3-251 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-251. Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority - Leases to Counties for Charitable Purposes

  The authority is directed, as soon as it deems it feasible to do so, to set aside sufficient land on Jekyll Island to provide a suitable plot for each county in the state for use for charitable purposes.   The authorities having charge of the fiscal affairs of any county desiring to use such plot shall file with the authority a proposal setting forth the use to which such plot is to be placed, the person or persons to have charge and control of the same, and the nature of improvements to be placed thereon. Such proposal shall also disclose how funds are to be secured for the improvement and operation of the facilities.   If the authority deems such proposal to be in the public interest and to the advantage of the state park, it may lease such plot for a period not exceeding 20 years to the fiscal authority of such county or to properly appointed trustees. Such lease shall provide such restrictions, covenants, and conditions as the authority deems proper and shall provide for the termination of the lease upon violation of the provisions of the lease.   Should the authorities having charge of the fiscal affairs of any county fail to claim and present a plan to improve on or before March 1, 1960, the plot of land set aside for such county under this Code section, the authority shall be under no further obligation to furnish any such plot of land on Jekyll Island.    (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 13; Ga. L. 1957, p. 608, § 5.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Lands, § 64 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 73B C.J.S., Public Lands, § 294.
GA Code § 12-3-252 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-252. Revenue Bonds - Issuance by Authority; Payment of Principal and Interest From Special Fund; Dating of Bonds; Determination of Rate of Interest; Medium of Payment; Redemption Before Maturity

 The authority, or any authority or body which has succeeded or which may succeed to the powers, duties, and liabilities vested in the authority created by this part, shall have power and is authorized at one time, or from time to time, to provide by resolution for the issuance of negotiable revenue bonds for the purpose of paying all or any part of the cost, as defined in Code Section 12-3-231, of any one or combination of projects. The principal and interest of such revenue bonds shall be payable solely from the special fund provided in Code Section 12-3-264 for such payment. The bonds of each issue shall be dated; shall bear interest at the lowest obtainable rate, payable in such medium of payment as to both principal and interest as may be determined by the authority, and may be made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the authority, at such price or prices and under such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the authority in the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds.   (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 15; Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)   Cross references.   - Revenue bonds generally, § 36-82-60 et seq.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, §§ 39, 108, 152, 347.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 449, 450, 455 et seq.
GA Code § 12-3-253 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-253. Revenue Bonds - Form of Bonds; Denominations; Place of Payment of Principal and Interest; Issuance in Coupon or Registered Form; Registration of Coupon Bonds

 The authority shall determine the form of the bonds, including any interest coupons to be attached thereto, and shall fix the denomination or denominations of the bonds and the place or places of payment of principal and interest thereof, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the state. The bonds may be issued in coupon or registered form, or both, as the authority may determine, and provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bond as to principal alone and also as to both principal and interest.   (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 17; Ga. L. 1952, p. 276, § 4; Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, §§ 149, 157, 161.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 453, 454, 460..
GA Code § 12-3-254 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-254. Revenue Bonds - Signatures; Seal

 In case any officer whose signature shall appear on any bonds or whose facsimile signature shall appear on any coupon shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such bonds, such signature shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if he had remained in office until such delivery. All such bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the authority, and the official seal of the authority shall be affixed thereto and attested by the secretary of the authority; and any coupons attached thereto shall bear the signature or facsimile signature of the chairman of the authority. Any coupon may bear the facsimile signature of such person, and any bond may be signed, sealed, and attested on behalf of the authority by such persons, as at the actual time of the execution of such bonds shall be duly authorized to so sign, seal, or attest or shall hold the proper office, although at the date of such bonds such persons may not have been so authorized or shall not have held such office.   (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 17; Ga. L. 1952, p. 276, § 4; Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 153.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, § 454 et seq.
GA Code § 12-3-255 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-255. Revenue Bonds - Status as Negotiable Instruments

 All revenue bonds issued under this part shall have and are declared to have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the negotiable instruments law of the state.   (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 16; Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 32.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, § 458 et seq.   ALR.    - Bond or warrant of governmental subdivision as subject of taxation or exemption, 44 A.L.R. 510.
GA Code § 12-3-256 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-256. Revenue Bonds - Manner of Sale; Determination of Price

 The authority may sell such bonds in such manner and for such price as it may determine to be for the best interests of the authority.   (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 17; Ga. L. 1952, p. 276, § 14; Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, §§ 39, 174.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 449, 455 et seq., 463 et seq.
GA Code § 12-3-257 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-257. Revenue Bonds - Use and Manner of Disbursement of Proceeds; Procedure Where Proceeds Are Less Than or Greater Than Cost of Projects

 The proceeds of such bonds shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of the project or combined project and shall be disbursed upon requisition or order of the chairman of the authority under such restrictions, if any, as the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or the trust indenture mentioned in Code Section 12-3-262 may provide. If the proceeds of such bonds, by error of calculation or otherwise, shall be less than the cost of the project or combined project, then unless otherwise provided in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or in the trust indenture, additional bonds may in like manner be issued to provide the amount of such deficit, which bonds, unless otherwise provided in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or in the trust indenture, shall be deemed to be of the same issue and shall be entitled to payment from the same fund without preference or priority of the bonds first issued for the same purpose. If the proceeds of the bonds of any issue shall exceed the amount required for the purpose for which such are issued, the surplus shall be paid into the fund provided for in Code Section 12-3-264 for the payment of principal and interest of such bonds.   (Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 449, 455 et seq.
GA Code § 12-3-258 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-258. Revenue Bonds - Issuance of Interim Receipts, Interim Certificates, and Temporary Bonds

 Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the authority may, under the restrictions expressed in Code Section 12-3-257, issue interim receipts, interim certificates, or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, which receipts, certificates, or temporary bonds shall be exchangeable for definitive bonds upon the issuance of the latter.   (Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)
GA Code § 12-3-259 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-259. Revenue Bonds - Replacement of Mutilated, Destroyed, or Lost Bonds

 The authority may provide for the replacement of any bond which becomes mutilated or is destroyed or lost.   (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 19; Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, § 228.
GA Code § 12-3-260 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-260. Revenue Bonds - Bonds of a Single Issue as Payment for One or More Projects; Immediate Effectiveness of Resolutions Providing for Issuance of Bonds; Time and Manner of Passage of Resolutions

 Revenue bonds may be issued without the conducting of any proceedings, or the satisfaction of any conditions, or the happening of any events other than those proceedings, conditions, and events which are specified or required by this part. In the discretion of the authority, revenue bonds of a single issue may be issued for the purpose of paying the cost of any one or more, including a combination of, projects at any one institution or any number of institutions. Any resolution providing for the issuance of revenue bonds under this part shall become effective immediately upon its passage and need not be published or posted; and any such resolution may be passed at any regular or special or adjourned meeting of the authority by a majority of its members.   (Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 64 Am. Jur. 2d, Public Securities and Obligations, §§ 39, 113.   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, § 454.
GA Code § 12-3-261 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources|Chapter 3 - Parks, Historic Areas, Memorials, and Recreation|Article 7 - Public Authorities|Part 1 - Jekyll Island-State Park Authority|§ 12-3-261. Revenue Bonds - Status as Constituting Debt or Pledge of Faith and Credit of State; Effect of Issuance on Obligation of State to Tax or Make Appropriation; Recitals on Face of Bonds

 Revenue bonds issued under this part shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the State of Georgia or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state, but such bonds shall be payable solely from the fund provided for in Code Section 12-3-264, and the issuance of such revenue bonds shall not directly, indirectly, or contingently obligate the state to levy or to pledge any form of taxation whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment. All such bonds shall contain recitals on their face covering substantially the foregoing provisions of this Code section. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code section, such funds as may be received from state appropriations or from any other source are declared to be available and may be used by any department, board, commission, or agency of the State of Georgia for the performance of any lease contract entered into by the department, board, commission, or agency.   (Ga. L. 1950, p. 152, § 16; Ga. L. 1960, p. 89, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 449, 455 et seq., 461, 462.