--- title: O.C.G.A. § 20-2-430. Issuance and retirement of county schoolhouse bonds. collection: code id: 20-2-430 cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 20-2-430 (2025) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-430 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-430.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-430/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t20-ch1-2a-(v17)-2022-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=9db936c6_0#page=555 date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-411.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/20-2-431.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md version: the only printed version in_force: true current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly heading_path: EDUCATION / ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION / LOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOL FINANCES / BOND ISSUES / County, District, and Joint High School Bonds --- # O.C.G.A. § 20-2-430. Issuance and retirement of county schoolhouse bonds. When any county board of education shall deem it to the best interests of education in the county to incur any bonded debt for building, equipping, or purchasing sites for the building and equipping of schoolhouses pursuant to Article IX, Section V, Paragraphs I and IV of the Constitution of Georgia, the election required shall be called and held in the manner prescribed by Article 1 of Chapter 82 of Title 36, and the bonds shall be validated in the manner provided by Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 82 of Title 36. The purpose of this Code section is to permit and require the same procedure to be followed in the voting, issuance, levying of taxes for, and the retirement of bonds issued by county boards for building and equipping schoolhouses or purchasing sites therefor as is required in the case of municipalities and other county bonds; provided, however, that in any such election persons residing within territorial limits of independent school districts may not participate as qualified voters in the election, and should the election result favorably to the issuance of the bonds, the property located within the limits of an independent school district shall not be subject to taxation for the retirement of any bonds so issued. ## History Ga. L. 1919, p. 288, § 145; Ga. L. 1921, p. 221, § 2; Code 1933, § 32-1403; Ga. L. 1946, p. 206, § 23; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 53.