Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 3. COUNTY BOUNDARIES · Article 2. SETTLEMENT OF BOUNDARY DISPUTES

36-3-24. Notice and hearing of protest or exceptions by Secretary of State.

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If a protest or exceptions to the survey and plat are filed in the Secretary of State’s office within the 30 days, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to give, through the mail, ten days’ written notice of the time when he will hear the protest or exceptions at his office to the county governing authorities of the respective counties. Upon the hearing, the Secretary of State shall determine from the law and evidence the true boundary line in dispute between the respective counties.

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. 1899, p. 24, § 3; Civil Code 1910, § 475; Code 1933, § 23-405.

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