House Bill 1555 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE)
By: Representatives Ballard of the 147th and Stinson of the 150th
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To amend an Act providing a new charter for the City of Fort Valley, approved
August 22, 1907 (Ga. L. 1907, p. 651), as amended, so as to deannex certain territory from
the city limits; to provide that the city shall be obligated to transfer title in any real or
personal property related to the operation of the utility system upon the request of the utility
commission; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION 1.
An Act providing a new charter for the City of Fort Valley, approved August 22, 1907
(Ga. L. 1907, p. 651), as amended, is revised by adding a new section following Section 1A
to read as follows:
"SECTION 1B.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this charter to the contrary, the right-of-way of
State Route 96 east of a point found at 32.554019, -83.865025 and any portion of the
right-of-way of Houser's Mill Road shall be removed from the corporate limits of the city."
SECTION 2.
Said Act is further amended in Section 1.1 by revising subsection (f) as follows:
"(f) The commission is hereby expressly authorized to purchase or sell real or personal
property at public or private sale in its own name and under such terms and conditions and
for whatever consideration the commission deems necessary. The commission is further
authorized to trade, exchange, lease, rent, and otherwise contract in its own name
concerning any real or personal property that the city may now or hereafter own or have
an interest in and which forms a part of the commission's utility system, provided that the
commission satisfies any indebtedness thereon. All proceeds from any such sale shall be
used solely for the benefit of the utility system, provided that the commission has satisfied
any indebtedness thereon or purchased the same, as applicable, from commission proceeds.
All such property acquired after July 1, 2019, shall be the property of the commission, but
the commission shall have the right and responsibility to manage and operate any real or
personal property that the city may now or hereafter own or have an interest in and which
forms a part of the commission's utility system; provided, however, that nothing in this
subsection shall impair obligations or covenants entered into in respect of such property
or revenues prior to the date of its enactment; and provided, further, that the terms of
existing agreements permitting additional and future obligations to be issued or refinanced
by the repledging of such property or revenues shall be unaffected by the terms of this Act.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this charter to the contrary, the city shall be
obligated to transfer title to the commission of any real or personal property that the city
may now or hereafter own or have an interest in and which forms a part of the
commission's utility system upon the commission adopting a resolution requesting that title
in such property be transferred to the commission."
SECTION 3.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.