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Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 70. COORDINATED AND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND SERVICE DELIVERY BY COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES · Article 2. (EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2026.) SERVICE DELIVERY

36-70-22.1. Response proposals.

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

  1. (a)

    Within 60 days of the initiation of the process for developing a local government service delivery strategy, all local governments that received the written notice provided for in Code Section 36-70-22 shall provide all other local governments identified in such written notice with a written proposal of a local government service delivery strategy containing the components required by Code Section 36-70-23 in compliance with the criteria required by Code Section 36-70-24 together with all factual information, data, and evidence supporting such proposal.#

  2. (b)

    Such written proposal for each local government may be modified periodically with written notice provided to all local governments that received the written notice provided for in Code Section 36-70-22; provided, however, that written proposals shall be finalized by each local government prior to an agreement to enter into nonbinding arbitration under Code Section 36-70-25.2 and the judicial process provided for in Code Section 36-70-25.3. Modifications to written proposals pursuant to this subsection may include written responses to any written proposal of another local government in the same county.#

  3. (c)

    All such written proposals and supporting documentation shall be considered public records and subject to disclosure pursuant to Code Section 50-18-71.#

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, § 36-70-22.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2024, p. 1044, § 1/HB 1407, effective January 1, 2026; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 36(32)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted “, and” following “Code Section 36-70-23” and substituted “all factual” for “all such factual” in subsection (a).

Editor's notes

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