Skip to content
Georgia Commons
Menu

Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 42. DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES

36-42-17. Assessments under Code Section 36-42-16; priority of liens regarding assessments for downtown development authorities.

Active

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

  1. (a)

    An assessment under Code Section 36-42-16 that relates to any project described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (6) of Code Section 36-42-3 shall be levied and may be collected when:#

    1. (1)

      A written contract regarding such assessment is executed by the property owner, the authority, and the project administrator;#

    2. (2)

      Such contract is administratively acknowledged by the relevant local jurisdiction with the taxing authority; and#

    3. (3)

      A notice of assessment is recorded in the property records of the relevant local jurisdiction.#

  2. (b)

    A lien for any assessment under Code Section 36-42-16 that relates to any project under subparagraph (B) of paragraph (6) of Code Section 36-42-3 shall have the same priority as municipal liens under paragraph (4) of subsection (b) and subparagraph (g)(2)(B) of Code Section 48-2-56.#

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, § 36-42-17, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 1329, § 1/SB 4; Ga. L. 2017, p. 753, § 1/HB 428.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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, page 903; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 6c7b6bcea397.