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title: O.C.G.A. § 20-5-20. Power of city to tax and appropriate for library purposes; election of trustees to control library funds.
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# O.C.G.A. § 20-5-20. Power of city to tax and appropriate for library purposes; election of trustees to control library funds.

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.

## History

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

## Cross References

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

## Law Reviews

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