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Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 4. CHANGE OR REMOVAL OF COUNTY SITE

36-4-3. Ballot language; number of votes required to authorize removal.

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

  1. At the election, the form of the ballot and the procedure for marking the ballot shall be as provided in Chapter 2 of Title 21, the “Georgia Election Code.” The ballot for such election shall have written or printed thereon the following:

  2. “( ) YES Shall the county site of County be

  3. ( ) NO moved to ?”

  4. In any such referendum election, all persons desiring to vote in favor of moving the county site shall vote “Yes,” and those persons desiring to vote against moving the county site shall vote “No.” If two-thirds of the votes cast at the election are in favor of removal, the General Assembly next convening after the election may provide for the removal of the county site by appropriate legislation.

Reading note: the printed indentation of one or more subsections was ambiguous, so their nesting is the extractor's best reading. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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. 1878-79, p. 44, § 3; Code 1882, § 508z; Civil Code 1895, § 393; Civil Code 1910, § 488; Code 1933, § 23-503; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 36.

Other notes

History of Code section.
The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Wells v. Ragsdale, 102 Ga. 53, 29 S.E. 165 (1897).

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

Text read from t35-t36-ch1-59-(v27)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V27, 2025 edition, pages 381 to 382; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 6c7b6bcea397.