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title: O.C.G.A. § 32-5-26. Reimbursement of counties and municipalities in regard to acquisition of rights of way.
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# O.C.G.A. § 32-5-26. Reimbursement of counties and municipalities in regard to acquisition of rights of way.

The department shall be required to reimburse any county or municipality of this state the sums actually expended by it in accordance with subsection (e) of Code Section 32-3-3 where construction on the right of way so acquired by the county or municipality has not been begun within ten years from the date title to such right of way was acquired in the name of the department.

## History

Ga. L. 1947, p. 1186, § 1; Code 1933, § 95A-708, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1422, § 18.