Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 3. POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 4. JUNIOR COLLEGES

20-3-132. Authority to establish and maintain junior colleges.

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Every city, county, local school system, or other political subdivision of the state possessing a power to tax, which shall possess the requisite powers under the Constitution and laws of this state may either alone or in combination with any other such city, county, local school system, or other political subdivision of the state establish, maintain, and operate one or more junior colleges under the terms of and subject to this article.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1958, p. 47, § 3; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 53; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 20; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 20(20)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “local school system,” for “county school system, independent school system,” in two places.

Cross references

Health insurance coverage for retired former employees of community colleges operated by a local school system, § 20-2-915.

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