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2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 1 - COUNTY, DISTRICT, AND JOINT HIGH SCHOOL BONDS (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-438) › Section 20-2-435 - Joint county-city high school contracts for building and maintenance - County and city tax levies to pay bonds and maintenance costs

When an election for the bonds provided for in Code Section
20-2-434
has been carried as provided by law, then the county and municipal authorities may thereafter each levy a tax sufficient to pay the principal and interest of such bonds issued by each party and the cost of maintenance of such building in addition to any other taxes they are authorized by law to levy.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 1 - COUNTY, DISTRICT, AND JOINT HIGH SCHOOL BONDS (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-438) › Section 20-2-436 - Provisions of Code Sections 20-2-432 through 20-2-435 cumulative

Code Sections
20-2-432
through
20-2-435
shall not be construed to be the exclusive means for the building of high school buildings, but such Code sections shall be construed to be permissive and cumulative to any other means now or hereafter provided by law.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 1 - COUNTY, DISTRICT, AND JOINT HIGH SCHOOL BONDS (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-438) › Section 20-2-437 - Local and consolidated school district trustees' powers and duties as to buildings and equipment transferred to county boards

The county board of education of each county shall succeed to and be vested with all of the rights, powers, and duties formerly vested in the local or consolidated school district trustees with respect to the building and equipping of schoolhouses in the county, preparing tax digests, and furnishing them to the tax collector of the county.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 1 - COUNTY, DISTRICT, AND JOINT HIGH SCHOOL BONDS (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-438) › Section 20-2-438 - Local and consolidated school district bonds - Transfer to county board; disbursing funds to bondholders; recommending tax levy

In any local or consolidated school district in any county where there is an outstanding bonded indebtedness created for the purpose of building schoolhouses or equipping schoolhouses, the county board of education shall, on February 1, 1946, become the trustee of all funds which shall have been or may be collected from taxes or received from other sources for the purpose of retiring the principal and interest on the bonds or for creating a sinking fund for such purpose. The county board is charged with the duty of disbursing such funds to the bondholders in accordance with the terms under which the bonds were issued and the duty of constructing any buildings or acquiring any building sites or any equipment for which the bonds were issued. The county board shall also annually, within the time required by law or the terms of the bond issue, recommend to the fiscal authorities of the county the levy upon the property subject to taxation in the district originally voting the bonds of 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 in accordance with the terms under which the bonds were issued, this to be in addition to the general tax for the maintenance of the schools of the districts.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-450 - Subpart to govern refunding, retiring, or refinancing outstanding district bonds

Where any school district or consolidated school district or any independent school district, in cases provided in this subpart, has outstanding schoolhouse bonds or shall hereafter issue, in accordance with the laws of this state, any such bonds, and it becomes necessary or advisable to refund, retire, or refinance such bonds, the refunding, retirement, or refinancing shall be done in accordance with the procedure and in the manner provided in this subpart.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-451 - Electoral approval required for refunding, retiring, or refinancing outstanding district bonds

The advisability or necessity of refunding, retiring, or refinancing such bonds shall be determined by the qualified voters of the school district concerned in an election to be held in such district in the manner provided in this Code section.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-452 - Elections to approve refunding, retiring, or refinancing outstanding district bonds - Calling of election by county board

Should the county board of education for any school district or consolidated school district or board of education, or corresponding body, in any independent school district in which a local tax is now or may hereafter be levied for school purposes deem it necessary or advisable to refund, retire, or refinance any outstanding schoolhouse bonded indebtedness of such district, it shall, by written resolution, call an election to be held in the district by giving notice by publication thereof once a week for four weeks previous to the election in the newspaper in which the legal advertisements for the county are published, notifying the qualified voters that on the day named an election will be held to determine the question whether bonds shall be issued by the district for refunding, retiring, or refinancing outstanding schoolhouse bonds of such district.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-453 - Elections to approve refunding, retiring, or refinancing outstanding district bonds - Contents of election notice

The county board of education or board of education or corresponding body, as the case may be, shall specify in the election notice what amount of bonds are to be issued, for what purpose, what interest they are to bear, how much principal and interest are to be paid annually, and when they are to be fully paid off. It shall also specify in the notice the amount of bonds and interest, if any, date of issue, rate of interest, and dates due of the outstanding schoolhouse bonds which are sought to be retired, refunded, or refinanced.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-454 - Elections to approve refunding, retiring, or refinancing outstanding district bonds - Eligible voters; conduct of election; declaration of result

None but the qualified voters of the district concerned shall be permitted to vote in the election. The election shall be held and the result declared as provided in Title 21.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-455 - Elections to approve refunding, retiring, or refinancing outstanding district bonds - Referendum to call election

In addition to the manner provided in Code Sections
20-2-451
through
20-2-454
for calling such an election, should as many as one-fourth of the qualified voters of any such school district file a petition with the county board of education for any local tax school district or consolidated school district or the board of education or corresponding body in an independent school district, requesting that an election be called for the purpose of submitting the issue as to whether the schoolhouse bonded indebtedness of such district be refunded, retired, or refinanced, it shall become the duty of such board or body to call an election in the same manner as provided in Code Sections
20-2-451
through
20-2-454
.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-456 - Elections to approve refunding, retiring, or refinancing outstanding district bonds - Vote required; declaration of favorable result; issuance of refunding bonds

In the event that two-thirds of the votes cast at an election held as provided in Code Sections
20-2-451
through
20-2-455
are in favor of refunding "outstanding schoolhouse bonds" and such two-thirds are also a majority of all the voters qualified to vote in the election, then the officials as named in Code Sections
20-2-451
through
20-2-455
shall so declare the result; and such officials shall have the power and authority, after validation as provided in Code Section
20-2-470
, to issue such refunding schoolhouse bonds for sale or exchange for the purpose of retiring the outstanding schoolhouse bonds in the district under all of the regulations now provided by law for school district bonds.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-457 - District bonds - Tax levy to provide sinking fund to retire bonds

Where an election held in the manner provided in Code Sections
20-2-451
through
20-2-455
results favorably to the issue of such bonds, the county board of education or corresponding body of independent school districts, as the case may be, shall recommend, and the board of county commissioners or judge of the probate court or municipal tax levying authorities, as the case may be, shall annually levy upon the property subject to taxation in the school district in which the election was 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 district.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-458 - Local or consolidated school district bonds - Sale or exchange

Any refunding bonds of a local school district or consolidated school district shall, after validation, be turned over to the county board of education to be sold or exchanged as provided in this subpart, and the county board is authorized to sell or exchange such bonds under all of the regulations now provided by law for the sale of school district bonds or as provided in this subpart. When such bonds are sold by the county board, the proceeds derived therefrom shall be held in trust by the county board only for the purposes provided in this subpart. When such bonds are exchanged by the county board, which is authorized to do so, such exchange shall be in accordance with Code Section
20-2-471
.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-459 - Independent school district bonds - Sale or exchange

In independent school districts over which the county board has no jurisdiction, such refunding bonds, after they have been issued and validated, shall be turned over to the officials who under the law are now authorized to handle in any manner bonds issued by such independent school districts; and such officials are authorized to sell or exchange, in like manner as the county board, such refunding bonds for the purposes of and in accordance with this subpart.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-460 - District bonds - Sinking fund for holders failing or refusing to sell or exchange outstanding bonds

Should any holder of an outstanding schoolhouse bond which is not due or which has not matured in accordance with the provisions thereof fail or refuse to sell or exchange such bond or bonds for refunding schoolhouse bonds issued in accordance with this subpart, it shall be the duty of the officials of the school district which issued such bond or bonds to set aside from the proceeds of the sale of the refunding schoolhouse bonds a sinking fund under all the regulations now provided by law for sinking funds for schoolhouse bonds for the purpose of retiring such bonds when they mature and paying the interest accrued or to accrue thereon.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-461 - Elections to approve refunding, retiring, or refinancing outstanding district bonds - Limit of one per year

No election as provided in this subpart shall be held in any one district more often than once a year.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 20-2-462 - County-wide bonds - Powers of counties as to refunding, refinancing, or retiring

All counties in which a local tax is now or may hereafter be levied for school purposes throughout the entire county or throughout the entire county except that part embraced within the incorporated limits of a municipality or municipalities are authorized to refund, refinance, or retire outstanding schoolhouse bonds of such territory in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as provided in Code Sections
20-2-451
through
20-2-455
, except that in elections for such territory, the manner of holding elections shall be as provided in Code Sections
20-2-463
through
20-2-466
.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 2 - REFUNDING BONDS (§§ 20-2-450 — 20-2-477) › Section 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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 3 - BOND ISSUES (§§ 20-2-430 — 20-2-480) › Subpart 3 - WITHHOLDING APPROPRIATIONS TO PAY INDEBTEDNESS (§ 20-2-480) › Section 20-2-480 - Notification of proposed issuance of bonded indebtedness; authorization to withhold appropriations to pay indebtedness

(a)
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.
(b)
The notice and authorization referred to in subsection (a) of this Code section shall set forth the following information:
(1)
The proposed date of issuance of the bonded indebtedness;
(2)
Each payment date with respect to such indebtedness and the principal of and interest on such indebtedness coming due on each such date; and
(3)
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.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 4 - TAXATION (§§ 20-2-490 — 20-2-491) › Section 20-2-490 - Municipalities authorized to levy school taxes

Authority is given by the Constitution of Georgia to municipalities now authorized by law to operate independent school systems to maintain public schools in their respective limits by local taxation.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 9 - LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES (§§ 20-2-390 — 20-2-491) › Part 4 - TAXATION (§§ 20-2-490 — 20-2-491) › Section 20-2-491 - Performance audit on capital outlay projects funded by sales tax

(a)
When a sales tax for educational purposes is imposed for capital outlay projects as provided in Part 2 of Article 3 of Chapter 8 of Title 48 and such tax generates or is reasonably anticipated to generate annualized proceeds of $5 million per year or more, the expenditure of tax proceeds shall be subject to an ongoing performance audit or performance review as provided in this Code section; but this Code section shall not apply if such tax generates annualized proceeds below $5 million.
(b)
Each local board of education expending tax proceeds for capital outlay projects shall provide for a continuing performance audit or performance review of the expenditure of such funds. The local board of education shall contract with an outside auditor, consultant, or other provider for such performance audit or performance review. The performance audit or performance review contract shall:
(1)
Include a goal of ensuring to the maximum extent possible that the tax funds are expended efficiently and economically, so as to secure to the expending school district the maximum possible benefit from the tax dollars collected;
(2)
Provide for the issuance of periodic public reports, not less often than once annually, with respect to the extent to which expenditures are meeting the goal specified in paragraph (1) of this subsection; and
(3)
Provide for the issuance of periodic public recommendations, not less often than once annually, for improvements in meeting the goal specified in paragraph (1) of this subsection.
(c)
The auditor, consultant, or other provider to carry out the performance audit or performance review shall be selected through a public request for proposals process. The cost of the performance audit or performance review may be paid from the proceeds of the sales tax for educational purposes or any other available funds of the local school system.
(d)
The performance audit or review shall be required when the sales tax for educational purposes is imposed in whole or in part for capital outlay projects but shall not be required when the sales tax for educational purposes is imposed for the sole purpose of retirement of previously incurred general obligation debt.
(e)
The requirements of this Code section shall apply with respect to any sales tax for educational purposes which is in effect on July 1, 2003, as well as any sales tax for educational purposes imposed or reimposed on or after that date.
Added by 2003 Ga. Laws 30, § 6, eff. 5/20/2003.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 10 - CONTRACTS AND PURCHASES BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (§§ 20-2-500 — 20-2-506) › Section 20-2-500 - Contracts for purchases authorized of certain supplies, materials, equipment, or agricultural products to give preference to in-state manufacturers or producers; purchases over $100,000.00; vendor preferences

(a)
(1)
Local boards of education shall provide that contracts for or purchases of supplies, materials, equipment, or agricultural products, including but not limited to school buses but not including instructional materials or beverages for immediate consumption, for public elementary and secondary schools supported in whole or in part from public funds shall give preference as far as may be reasonable and practicable to such supplies, materials, equipment, and agricultural products as may be manufactured or produced in this state. Such preference shall not sacrifice quality.
(2)
Local boards of education shall provide that, in determining whether such a preference is reasonable in any case where the value of a contract for or purchase of such supplies, materials, equipment, or agricultural products exceeds $100,000.00, the local school district shall consider, among other factors, information submitted by the bidder which may include the bidder's estimate of the multiplier effect on gross state domestic product and the effect on public revenues of the state and the effect on public revenues of political subdivisions resulting from acceptance of a bid or offer to sell Georgia manufactured or produced goods as opposed to out-of-state manufactured or produced goods. Any such estimates shall be in writing. No local school district shall divide a contract or purchase which exceeds $100,000.00 for the purpose of avoiding the requirements of this paragraph.
(b)
Vendors resident in the State of Georgia are to be granted the same preference over vendors resident in another state in the same manner, on the same basis, and to the same extent that preference is granted in awarding bids for the same goods or services by such other state to vendors resident therein over vendors resident in the State of Georgia.
(c)
Nothing in this Code section shall negate the requirements of Code Section
50-5-73
.
Amended by 2012 Ga. Laws 619,§ 25, eff. 7/1/2012.
Amended by 2010 Ga. Laws 421,§ 3, eff. 7/1/2010.
Amended by 2009 Ga. Laws 58,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2009.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 10 - CONTRACTS AND PURCHASES BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (§§ 20-2-500 — 20-2-506) › Section 20-2-501 - through 20-2-503 - [Reserved]

Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2012, p. 358, §§ 26-28/HB 706, effective July 1, 2012.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 10 - CONTRACTS AND PURCHASES BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (§§ 20-2-500 — 20-2-506) › Section 20-2-504 - Authority to contract for pupil transportation

County, independent, and area school systems shall have authority to contract for the transportation of pupils in accordance with the provisions of Code Section
20-2-506
.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 10 - CONTRACTS AND PURCHASES BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (§§ 20-2-500 — 20-2-506) › Section 20-2-505 - Member prohibited from selling school supplies or equipment to county board; penalty

(a)
No member of any county board of education in this state shall sell to any county board any supplies or equipment used, consumed, or necessary in the operation of any public school in this state unless there are fewer than three sources for such supplies or equipment within the county; provided, however, that any purchase pursuant to this subsection for supplies or equipment that is equal to or greater than $10,000.00 shall be approved by a majority of the members of the board in an open public meeting.
(b)
Any member of any county board violating subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Amended by 2008 Ga. Laws 419,§ 1, eff. 5/6/2008.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 10 - CONTRACTS AND PURCHASES BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS (§§ 20-2-500 — 20-2-506) › Section 20-2-505.1 - Board transacting business with bank or similar institution in which member has interest

A local board of education having any member thereof who is an employee, stockholder, director, or officer of a bank or similar financial institution shall nevertheless be authorized to transact business with such bank or financial institution without the board or member thereby incurring any criminal liability therefor, as long as such member owns less than 30 percent of the stock or other ownership interest in such bank or financial institution.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 1 - POWERS OF LOCAL BOARDS (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-522) › Section 20-2-520 - Acquiring and disposing of school sites; building, repairing, renting, and furnishing schoolhouses

(a)
The county boards of education shall have the power to purchase, lease, or rent school sites; build, repair, or rent schoolhouses; purchase maps, globes, and school furniture; and make all arrangements necessary to the efficient operation of the schools. Such county boards are invested with the title, care, and custody of all schoolhouses or other property, with the power to control such property in such manner as they think will best serve the interests of the public schools; and when, in the opinion of the county board, any schoolhouse site has become unnecessary or inconvenient, they may sell it in the name of the county board; and the conveyance for any such sale shall be executed by the president or secretary of the county board, according to the order of the county board. Such county boards shall have the power to receive any gift, grant, donation, or devise made for the use of the public schools within the respective counties; and all conveyances of real estate which may be made to such a county board shall vest the property in such county board and its successors in office. Such county board may provide for the building of schoolhouses by a tax on all property located in the county and outside the territorial limits of any independent school system. The construction of all public school buildings must be approved by the county school superintendent and county board and must be according to the plans furnished by the county school authorities and the State Board of Education. All public school construction contracts in excess of $100,000.00 shall be publicly advertised and awarded through an open and competitive process, regardless of the funding source.
(b)
If a schoolhouse site has become unnecessary or inconvenient, as provided by subsection (a) of this Code section, and if the state or the county or municipality whose territorial boundaries include such schoolhouse site needs such site for any governmental purpose, then the county board may sell or convey such schoolhouse site to the state or such county or municipality for such consideration and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be determined by such county board.
(c)
In addition to school property and facilities provided for in subsection (a) of this Code section, a county board of education or an area board of education is authorized to expend educational funds available to it for the purpose of acquiring, improving, and selling real or personal property in connection with its secondary and postsecondary vocational education curricula or program.
Amended by 2010 Ga. Laws 544,§ 0.5, eff. 7/1/2010.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 1 - POWERS OF LOCAL BOARDS (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-522) › Section 20-2-521 - Power of condemnation

County boards of education and independent school systems are authorized to take and damage, by condemnation, private property for public school purposes, either for public school building sites, playgrounds, athletic fields, or other purposes in connection with the public elementary or high schools or any public educational program which is now or may be hereafter authorized by law.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 1 - POWERS OF LOCAL BOARDS (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-522) › Section 20-2-522 - Condemnation procedure

Condemnation proceedings by the boards and systems referred to in Code Section
20-2-521
shall take the form provided in Chapter 1 of Title 22 and Article 1 of Chapter 2 of Title 22 or the form provided in Article 3 of Chapter 2 of Title 22, provided that county boards of education in counties of this state having a population (including the population of any independent school district located in such county) of more than 500,000 according to the United States decennial census of 1950 or any future such census may use the form provided in Article 2 of Chapter 2 of Title 22.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 2 - EXEMPTION FROM LEVY AND SALE (§ 20-2-540) › Section 20-2-540 - Exemption of school property from levy and sale

Each and every lot or parcel of land which has been or may hereafter be obtained by any county board of education or independent school district, together with any buildings erected thereon for school purposes and all school furniture, shall be exempt from levy and sale under any execution or other writ or order in the nature of an execution, provided that the lot of land so exempted shall not exceed ten acres; and if there is any excess over that number of acres, then that portion not to exceed ten acres most convenient for school purposes shall be exempt as provided in this Code section, the exempted portion to be set off by order of the county board or the boards of trustees of the independent school system.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 3 - GEORGIA EDUCATION AUTHORITY (SCHOOLS) › Section 20-2-550 - [Repealed and Reserved]

Repealed and reserved by 2024 Ga. Laws 609,§ 3-1, eff. 5/6/2024.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 3 - GEORGIA EDUCATION AUTHORITY (SCHOOLS) › Section 20-2-551 - [Repealed and Reserved]

Repealed and reserved by 2024 Ga. Laws 609,§ 3-1, eff. 5/6/2024.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 3 - GEORGIA EDUCATION AUTHORITY (SCHOOLS) › Section 20-2-552 - [Repealed and Reserved]

Repealed and reserved by 2024 Ga. Laws 609,§ 3-1, eff. 5/6/2024.
Amended by 2010 Ga. Laws 647,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2010.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 3 - GEORGIA EDUCATION AUTHORITY (SCHOOLS) › Section 20-2-553 - [Repealed and Reserved]

Repealed and reserved by 2024 Ga. Laws 609,§ 3-1, eff. 5/6/2024.
Amended by 2015 Ga. Laws 70,§ 2-5, eff. 7/1/2015.
Amended by 2010 Ga. Laws 647,§ 3, eff. 7/1/2010.
Amended by 2005 Ga. Laws 63,§ 1, eff. 7/1/2005.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 3 - GEORGIA EDUCATION AUTHORITY (SCHOOLS) › Section 20-2-554 - [Repealed and Reserved]

Repealed and reserved by 2024 Ga. Laws 609,§ 3-1, eff. 5/6/2024.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 3 - GEORGIA EDUCATION AUTHORITY (SCHOOLS) › Section 20-2-555 - [Repealed and Reserved]

Repealed and reserved by 2024 Ga. Laws 609,§ 3-1, eff. 5/6/2024.
Amended by 2010 Ga. Laws 647,§ 4, eff. 7/1/2010.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 3 - GEORGIA EDUCATION AUTHORITY (SCHOOLS) › Section 20-2-556 - [Repealed and Reserved]

Repealed and reserved by 2024 Ga. Laws 609,§ 3-1, eff. 5/6/2024.
Amended by 2010 Ga. Laws 647,§ 5, eff. 7/1/2010.
2023 CODE OF GEORGIA › Title 20 - EDUCATION (§§ 20-1-1 — 20-18-7) › Chapter 2 - ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (§§ 20-2-1 — 20-2-2140) › Article 11 - PUBLIC SCHOOL PROPERTY AND FACILITIES (§§ 20-2-520 — 20-2-582) › Part 3 - GEORGIA EDUCATION AUTHORITY (SCHOOLS) › Section 20-2-557 - [Repealed and Reserved] S

Repealed and reserved by 2024 Ga. Laws 609,§ 3-1, eff. 5/6/2024.