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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 80. GENERAL PROVISIONS

36-80-11. Notice of election for unbonded debt.

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

  1. The officers charged with levying taxes, contracting debts, and the like for the county, municipality, or political subdivision shall give notice, for a period of 30 days next preceding the day of the election, in the newspaper in which sheriff’s advertisements for the county are published, notifying the qualified voters that on the day named an election will be held to determine whether the debt desired or proposed to be incurred shall be incurred by the county, municipality, or political subdivision. The notice shall specify the amount of the debt to be incurred, the purposes for which it is to be incurred, the amount of the debt to be paid annually or at shorter periods, the terms of the contract under which the debt is to be incurred, and the wording of the ballots to be used in the election for or against incurring the debt.

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. 1904, p. 85, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 463; Code 1933, § 87-601.

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

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