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title: O.C.G.A. § 36-70-22.1. Response proposals.
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heading_path: LOCAL GOVERNMENT / Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations / COORDINATED AND COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AND SERVICE DELIVERY BY COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES / (EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2026.) SERVICE DELIVERY
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# O.C.G.A. § 36-70-22.1. Response proposals.

(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.

(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.

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

## 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.

## Editor's Notes

This Code section is set out twice in this Code. See the delayed effective date note at the beginning of this article.

## 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).