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Title 22. EMINENT DOMAIN · Chapter 3. EXERCISE OF POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES · Article 5. CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF WATERSHED PROJECTS, FLOOD-CONTROL PROJECTS AND RELATED RECREATIONAL PROJECTS BY COUNTIES

22-3-100. Authority of counties to exercise power of eminent domain.

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

  1. Every county of the State of Georgia may exercise the power of eminent domain for the purpose of taking and acquiring the property or other interests necessary:

  2. (1)

    To enable the county to institute and to accomplish the completion of small watershed projects, works of improvements for watersheds, and projects for watershed protection and flood control and prevention under any applicable Act of the State of Georgia or act of the United States;#

  3. (2)

    For certain public parks, playgrounds, recreation centers, or other recreational facilities to be developed in connection with the development or construction of any small watershed project, any project for watershed protection or flood control and prevention, or works of improvements for watersheds; and#

  4. (3)

    To allow for ways of ingress to and egress from any and all such watershed projects, improvements of watershed projects, projects for watershed protection and flood control and prevention, and public parks, playgrounds, recreation centers, or other recreational facilities.#

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. 1964, p. 234, §§ 1-3.

Cross references

Granting of easements, rights of way to electric utilities for purposes of producing hydroelectric power from dam sites on property owned by governing authority of recreation system, § 36-64-3.1.

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

Text read from t22-t23-(v19)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V19, 2020 edition, pages 196 to 197; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 b3cf4ff62f2f.