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title: O.C.G.A. § 36-81-10. Effect of article on right to make expenditures and raise revenues; effect on home rule powers.
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# O.C.G.A. § 36-81-10. Effect of article on right to make expenditures and raise revenues; effect on home rule powers.

This article shall not be construed so as to prohibit local governments from making authorized expenditures for any lawful purpose or from raising revenues in any manner otherwise authorized by law. It is the specific intent of the General Assembly in adopting this article that local units of government shall continue to have and to exercise their home rule powers as provided by law.

## History

Ga. L. 1980, p. 1738, § 2; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 36.