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title: Title 36, Chapter 35. Home Rule Powers
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id: code:chapter:36-35
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date: 2025
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heading: HOME RULE POWERS
title_heading: LOCAL GOVERNMENT
section_count: 10
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# Title 36, Chapter 35. Home Rule Powers

Title 36. Local Government

10 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 36-35-1, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-1.md
- 36-35-2, Incorporation, dissolution, merger, and boundary changes by local Act or under general law; annexation of deannexed property, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-2.md
- 36-35-3, Adoption of ordinances, rules, and regulations; amendment of charters and amendment or repeal of ordinances, rules, and regulations by petition and referendum, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-3.md
- 36-35-4, Compensation and benefits for employees and members of governing authority; conditions and requirements governing increases for elective members of governing authority, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-4.md
- 36-35-4.1, Reapportionment of election districts for municipal elections, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-4.1.md
- 36-35-5, Filing of charter amendments or revisions, notices, and affidavits; publication and distribution of amendments and revisions by Secretary of State, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-5.md
- 36-35-6, Limitations on home rule powers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-6.md
- 36-35-6.1, Signs for privately owned businesses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-6.1.md
- 36-35-7, Provisions of chapter general law; enactment of local or special laws on subject matters covered by chapter; effect of chapter upon amendment of municipal charters, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-7.md
- 36-35-8, Effect of conflict with Chapter 34, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/36-35-8.md