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GA Code § 46-9-328 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 9 - Transportation of Freight and Passengers Generally|Article 11 - Southwest Georgia Railroad Excursion Authority|§ 46-9-328. Implementation of Rail Passenger Excursion Projects

 The implementation of rail passenger excursion projects within the service area develops and promotes, for the public good and general welfare, trade, commerce, tourism, industry, and employment opportunities and promotes the general welfare of the state by creating a climate favorable to the location of new industry, trade, and commerce and the development of existing industry, trade, and commerce within the State of Georgia. Implementation of rail passenger excursion projects within the service area under this article will develop and promote, for the public good and general welfare, trade, commerce, tourism, industry, and employment opportunities and will promote the general welfare of the state. It is therefore in the public interest and is vital to the public welfare of the people of Georgia, and it is declared to be the public purpose of this article to so develop rail passenger excursion projects within the service area. No bonds, notes, or other obligations, except refunding bonds, shall be issued by the authority pursuant to this article unless its membership adopts a resolution finding that the project for which such bonds, notes, or other obligations are to be issued will promote the foregoing objectives.    (Code 1981, §46-9-328, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1117, § 1.)
GA Code § 46-9-329 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 9 - Transportation of Freight and Passengers Generally|Article 11 - Southwest Georgia Railroad Excursion Authority|§ 46-9-329. Liberal Construction of Provisions

 The provisions of this article shall be liberally construed to effect its stated purpose. The offer, sale, or issuance of bonds, notes, or other obligations by the authority shall not be subject to regulation under the Georgia laws regulating the sale of securities, as heretofore and hereafter amended. No notice, proceeding, or publication except those required by this article shall be necessary to the performance of any act authorized by this article, nor shall any such act be subject to referendum.    (Code 1981, §46-9-329, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1117, § 1.)
GA Code § 46-9-330 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 9 - Transportation of Freight and Passengers Generally|Article 11 - Southwest Georgia Railroad Excursion Authority|§ 46-9-330. Indebtedness Not Obligation of State or Political Subdivision

 No bonds, notes, or other obligations of and no indebtedness incurred by the authority shall constitute an indebtedness or obligation of the State of Georgia or any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision thereof nor shall any act of the authority in any manner constitute or result in the creation of an indebtedness of the state or any such county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision. No holder or holders of any such bonds, notes, or other obligations shall ever have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the state or any county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision thereof nor to enforce the payment thereof against the state or any such county, municipal corporation, or political subdivision.    (Code 1981, §46-9-330, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1117, § 1.)
GA Code § 46-9-331 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 9 - Transportation of Freight and Passengers Generally|Article 11 - Southwest Georgia Railroad Excursion Authority|§ 46-9-331. Purpose of Authority's Creation; Tax Exemption

 The authority is created for nonprofit and public purposes; and it is found, determined, and declared that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purpose is in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state, that the authority is an institution of purely public charity and will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it by this article, and for such reasons the state covenants with the holders from time to time of the bonds, notes, and other obligations issued hereunder that the authority shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments imposed by the state or any of its counties, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, or taxing districts upon any property acquired by the authority or under its jurisdiction, control, possession, or supervision or leased by it to others or upon its activities in the operation or maintenance of any such property or on any income derived by the authority in the form of fees, recording fees, rentals, charges, purchase price, installments, or otherwise, and that the bonds, notes, and other obligations of the authority, their transfer, and the income therefrom shall at all times be exempt from taxation within the state.    (Code 1981, §46-9-331, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1117, § 1.)
GA Code § 46-9-332 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 46 - Public Utilities and Public Transportation|Chapter 9 - Transportation of Freight and Passengers Generally|Article 11 - Southwest Georgia Railroad Excursion Authority|§ 46-9-332. Authorization for Rail Passenger Excursion Projects Not Limited

 The authorization for rail passenger excursion projects provided by this article shall be in addition to and not limited by any other authorization for rail passenger service or rail passenger service projects provided by this chapter.    (Code 1981, §46-9-332, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 1117, § 1.)
GA Code § 47-1-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 1 - In General|§ 47-1-1. Intent of Codification and Enactment of This Title

 The enactment of Title 47 of this Code is intended only as a recodification of the existing laws of this state relating to retirement and pensions. The codification and enactment of this title are not intended to nor shall they be construed to increase, diminish, grant, destroy, impair, alter, or otherwise affect any pension, retirement benefit or allowance, survivors benefit, membership or right to membership, creditable service or right thereto, prior service or right thereto, membership service or right thereto, or any option, election, or right of any kind which is in existence on November 1, 1982.    (Code 1981, §47-1-1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 131, § 1.)   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was created as part of the Code revision and was thus enacted by Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., p. 8 (Code enactment Act).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.   - Construction and application of Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 USCA § 1001 et seq.) by United States Supreme Court, 150 A.L.R. Fed. 441.
GA Code § 47-1-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 1 - In General|§ 47-1-2. Pooling of Funds by Retirement Systems for Investment Purposes; Accounting Practices With Regard to Pooled Funds

  The boards of trustees or directors, by whatever name known, of any two or more retirement systems created by general law, pursuant to the mutual consent of such boards, may pool their trust funds for the purposes of joint investment.The board of trustees or directors, by whatever name known, of any two or more local retirement systems funded by a single political subdivision may likewise pool their trust funds for the purposes of joint investment.When such pooling occurs, the board of trustees of the managing retirement system shall account for the pooled trust funds in accordance with generally accepted principles of accounting, in order to maintain separate accountability of such funds while under its management.   The pooled trust funds may be invested in accordance with Chapter 2 of this title, relating to the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia, notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary.   Nothing in this Code section shall establish a legal provision for combining the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia with the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia.    (Ga. L. 1974, p. 1178, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 994, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 313.
GA Code § 47-1-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 1 - In General|§ 47-1-4. Report of the State Auditor on the Condition of Local Retirement Systems

 Based on the most recent actuarial investigations on file pursuant to subsection (d) of Code Section 47-1-3 and financial reports submitted under subsections (e) through (j) of Code Section 47-1-3, the state auditor, once every two years beginning on January 1, 1997, shall submit a report on the condition of local retirement systems to the Governor and each member of the General Assembly. The report shall deal specifically with any local retirement system which the state auditor has reason to believe is not in actuarially sound condition or has not been in compliance with the provisions of Code Section 47-1-12. A copy of the state auditor's report shall also be sent to the Attorney General and to the applicable governing authority of the political subdivision and the applicable board of trustees or other governing authority of the local retirement system which the state auditor finds is not in actuarially sound condition or has not been in compliance with the provisions of Article 7 of Chapter 20 of this title.   (Ga. L. 1981, p. 931, § 3; Ga. L. 1996, p. 651, § 2; Ga. L. 2001, p. 21, § 1.)   Cross references.   - Triennial report to include list of local retirement systems not in conformance with minimum funding standards, § 47-20-21.
GA Code § 47-1-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 1 - In General|§ 47-1-5. Duty of Governing Authorities to Make and File Actuarial Investigations and to File Financial Reports; Withholding of State Funds for Failure to Meet This Duty

 It shall be the duty of the governing authority of each county, municipality, or other political subdivision whose employees are covered under a local retirement system and the duty of a local board of education whose employees are covered under a local retirement system to cause the actuarial investigations required by subsection (d) of Code Section 47-1-3 to be made and to cause such actuarial investigations to be filed with the state auditor as required by that subsection. It shall also be their duty to cause financial reports to be submitted to the state auditor as required by subsections (e) through (j) of Code Section 47-1-3. If a required actuarial investigation and financial report are not submitted, then within 30 days after the date on which such investigation and report were due in the office of the state auditor, the state auditor shall notify, in writing, the governing authority of the county, municipality, or other political subdivision whose employees are covered under the applicable local retirement system. If the actuarial investigation and financial report are not received by the state auditor within 60 days after the date such notice is sent to the governing authority, the state auditor shall notify the state treasurer; and it shall be the duty of the state treasurer to withhold any state funds payable to the applicable political subdivision or local board of education until the actuarial investigation and financial report are submitted to the state auditor. The state auditor shall advise the state treasurer within five days after receiving the actuarial investigation and financial report to release any state funds payable to the applicable political subdivision.   (Ga. L. 1981, p. 931, § 3; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 18; Ga. L. 2010, p. 863, §§ 3, 4/SB 296.)    The 2010 amendment,  effective July 1, 2010, substituted "state treasurer" for "director of the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services" in the fourth and fifth sentences and substituted "state treasurer" for "director" in the fourth sentence.
GA Code § 47-1-6 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 1 - In General|§ 47-1-6. Effect of World War Ii Armed Forces Service on Retirement Benefits; Payments to Retirement Systems for Such Periods

  No veteran of World War II who was discharged other than dishonorably and who was furloughed from a position of employment with a county or municipal government which has a retirement or pension plan for the position occupied shall suffer or otherwise lose any seniority toward his retirement or pension by virtue of such service in the armed forces of the United States.   No such veteran shall be required to make any payments to any such retirement or pension fund for and during his period of service with the armed forces of the United States.   This Code section shall apply to a political subdivision of any county or municipality where such a retirement or pension plan is in effect.    (Ga. L. 1947, p. 858, §§ 1-3.)   Cross references.   - Rights of public officers and employees absent on military duty as members of organized militia or reserve forces, as such rights relate to retirement systems, § 38-2-279(f).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 60 Am. Jur. 2d, Pensions and Retirement, § 44; 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Officers and Employees, §§ 4, 87 et seq., 103 et seq., 149 et seq. 77 Am. Jur. 2d, Veterans and Veterans' Laws, §§ 3, 82, 85.   C.J.S.   - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, §§ 46 et seq., 95 et seq.   ALR.    - Constitutionality of welfare Acts for veterans of World War, 22 A.L.R. 1542.    Re-employment or reinstatement of public officer or employee as restoration of original status as regards incidental rights privileges, 89 A.L.R. 684.    Constitutionality of statutes providing for bounty or pension for soldiers, 147 A.L.R. 1432; 156 A.L.R. 1458.   Re-employment of discharged servicemen, 29 A.L.R.2d 1279; 9 A.L.R. Fed. 225.   Applicability to fringe benefits of Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act provision establishing veterans' reemployment rights (38 USCS sec. 2021), 83 A.L.R. Fed. 908.
GA Code § 47-1-7 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 1 - In General|§ 47-1-7. Powers of Retirement, Pension, or Emeritus Systems or Funds With Regard to Agents Employed to Act as Custodians of Assets or Investment Advisers

 The board of trustees or other person or body having the power to manage, invest, and reinvest the assets of any retirement, pension, or emeritus system or fund created under the laws of this state may authorize any agent, including a bank or trust company, employed to act as custodian of such assets or to act as an investment adviser and to make investments for such retirement, pension, or emeritus system or fund, provided that such agent has a nominee or nominees in whose name securities, including, without limitation, bonds, stocks, notes, and other evidence of title to intangible personal property, held by the agent may be registered, to register securities which are held under the terms of such agency in the name of the nominee or nominees, without mention of the agency relationship in the instrument evidencing such securities or on the books of the issuing entity. The records of such agent shall at all times clearly show that such securities are held in such agency capacity and shall indicate the beneficial owner of the securities. Such agent shall not be relieved of liability for the safe custody, control, and proper distribution of such securities or the income therefrom by reason of the registration of those securities in the name of any nominee. The authorization of any such agent to register securities in the name of such nominees shall be in writing and may contain such other restrictions as the board of trustees or other person or body charged with the management and investment of the assets of any such retirement, pension, or emeritus system or fund may deem appropriate.   (Ga. L. 1972, p. 427, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 146, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 65/SB 436.)    The 2010 amendment,  effective July 1, 2010, substituted "adviser" for "advisor" in the middle of the first sentence.   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2010, p. 1207, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "The intent of this Act is to repeal obsolete and inoperative provisions and to make certain stylistic corrections in Title 47 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Nothing in this Act shall deny, abridge, increase, renew, revive, or on any way affect any right, benefit, option, credit, or election to which any person was entitled pursuant to such title on June 30, 2010, and the board of trustees of each public retirement system is authorized and directed to provide by regulation for the continuation of any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election not otherwise covered in this Act; provided, however, that any such right, benefit, option, credit, or election shall be subject to the statutory provisions in effect on June 30, 2010."
GA Code § 47-1-8 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 1 - In General|§ 47-1-8. Restrictions on Ability of Members of the General Assembly to Receive Pension Plan Credit for Service in the General Assembly

 No person becoming a member of the General Assembly for the first time on or after July 1, 1984, shall be entitled to receive or shall receive any creditable service under any local retirement or pension system for service as a member of the General Assembly unless the law, ordinance, or resolution which is the source of authority for such local retirement or pension system specifically authorizes creditable service to be obtained under such local retirement or pension system for service in the General Assembly.    (Code 1981, §47-1-8, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 758, § 1.)   Cross references.   - Crediting of time served in General Assembly to pension plan of political subdivision, § 28-1-9.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 67 C.J.S., Officers and Public Employees, § 316 et seq.
GA Code § 47-1-11 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 1 - In General|§ 47-1-11. Creditable Service Not Allowed for Military Service From Which Discharge Was Other Than Honorable

  As used in this Code section, the term:   "Creditable service" means any period of time which may be used as a factor in the computation of any benefit under a public retirement system.   "Military service" means service in the armed forces of the United States or in a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the National Guard.   "Public employee" means elected and appointed officials and employees of the state or any branch, department, board, bureau, commission, authority, or other agency of the state and elected and appointed officials and employees of any political subdivision of the state or of any authority or other agency of any such political subdivision.   "Public retirement system" means any retirement or pension system now or hereafter created by or pursuant to the authority of Georgia law or the Constitution of Georgia which has public employees as members of the retirement or pension system.   "Source of authority" means the law, resolution, or ordinance which creates or provides for a public retirement system.     Only military service for which a person was discharged or separated under honorable conditions shall be eligible to be counted as military service for the purpose of obtaining creditable service under any public retirement system, whether presently existing or hereafter created, when the source of authority for such public retirement system authorizes military service to be used as a basis to obtain creditable service under such public retirement system.   The provisions of this Code section are a limitation on the use of military service as creditable service under any public retirement system and shall not be construed to create a right to obtain creditable service for military service under any public retirement system when such right does not exist independently of this Code section.     (Code 1981, §47-1-11, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 1233, § 1.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1986, Code Section 47-1-11, as enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 1240, § 1, was redesignated as Code Section 47-1-12.   Law reviews.   - For annual survey of local government law, see 38 Mercer L. Rev. 289 (1986).
GA Code § 47-1-12 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 47 - Retirement and Pensions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|Article 1 - In General|§ 47-1-12. Investment and Reinvestment of Assets of Local Retirement System; Valuation and Limitation on Investments; Duties of State Auditor

  The board of trustees of any local retirement system shall have full power to invest and reinvest assets of the retirement system and to purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, and dispose of any securities and other investments in which assets of the retirement system have been invested, any proceeds of any investments, and any money belonging to the retirement system; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in this Code section, such power shall be subject to all terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions imposed by Article 7 of Chapter 20 of this title in making and disposing of their investments.   Notwithstanding the provisions of Code Section 33-11-21, the board of trustees of any local retirement system shall not be restricted to investing in those equities which have paid a cash dividend in at least three of the last five years preceding the purchase of such equities.   Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to limit or restrict the authority of the board of trustees of any retirement system to invest or reinvest assets of such system in such manner and under such conditions as are authorized by law.   The state auditor shall monitor the investment activity of local retirement systems and shall submit a report to the Governor and the presiding officer of each chamber of the General Assembly describing the effect, if any, changes in investment policy have had on those systems. Such report shall be submitted not later than December 31, 2001.     (Code 1981, §47-1-12, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 1240, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 651, § 3; Ga. L. 1998, p. 126, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 2, § 3; Ga. L. 2015, p. 898, § 1/HB 266.)    The 2015 amendment,  effective July 1, 2015, substituted "Article 7 of Chapter 20 of this title" for "the laws of this state upon domestic life insurance companies" near the end of subsection (a).   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1986, Code Section 47-1-11, as enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 1240, § 1, was redesignated as Code Section 47-1-12.