Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 5. LIBRARIES · Article 2. LOCAL AND REGIONAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES · Part 1. CITY PUBLIC LIBRARIES

20-5-20. Power of city to tax and appropriate for library purposes; election of trustees to control library funds.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

Any city, through its properly constituted municipal authorities, may raise by taxation from year to year and permanently appropriate money for the purpose of establishing, erecting, maintaining, or assisting in maintaining a public library. Any such sum or sums of money so appropriated shall be expended by and under the direction of a board of trustees of such public library elected by the city council of such city.

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.

Ga. L. 1901, p. 52, § 1; Ga. L. 1904, p. 90, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 1566; Code 1933, § 32-2701.

General power of municipal corporation to construct and operate libraries, § 36-34-3.

For article, “Cities and Towns in Georgia: A Distinction with a Difference?,” see 14 Mercer L. Rev. 385 (1963).

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