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Title 3. ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES · Chapter 12. RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS

3-12-1. ‘‘Residential community development district’’ defined.

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

  1. As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘residential community development district’’ or ‘‘district’’ means a private residential development that:

  2. (1)

    Is not less than 500 acres of contiguous land area;#

  3. (2)

    Is located either within a county where the sale of alcoholic beverages is authorized or within a county that has one or more municipalities where the sale of alcoholic beverages is authorized, but outside the corporate limits of any municipality;#

  4. (3)

    Has at least 200 residential sites, platted and recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county as a residential subdivision;#

  5. (4)

    Has streets that were or will be built with private funds and are or will be maintained by private funds of the developers or property owners within the development; and#

  6. (5)

    Has a social club with:#

    1. (A)

      An 18 hole golf course of regulation size;#

    2. (B)

      A restaurant or eatery used exclusively for the purpose of preparing and serving meals, with a seating capacity of at least 60 patrons;#

    3. (C)

      A golf or social club membership and has at least 200 paid-up members who have paid a membership fee for family or individual membership;#

    4. (D)

      A membership policy whereby membership is not denied or limited by an applicant’s race, color, creed, sex, religion, or national origin; and#

    5. (E)

      A full-time management staff for the social activities of the club, including the management of the premises where food and drink are sold.#

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

Code 1981, § 3-12-1, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 486, § 2.

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

Text read from t1-t2-t3-(v3)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V3, 2019 edition, pages 896 to 897; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 206dab95f27a.