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title: O.C.G.A. § 44-4-29. Validity of use of coordinate system.
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# O.C.G.A. § 44-4-29. Validity of use of coordinate system.

(a) Any legal description prepared under the provisions of the Georgia Coordinate System provided by an Act approved March 6, 1945 (Ga. L. 1945, p. 218), and continued as a part of this Code until July 1, 1985, shall not be invalid based on the use of such coordinate system.

(b) Any continual use of legal descriptions prepared under the terms of the Georgia Coordinate System provided by an Act approved March 6, 1945 (Ga. L. 1945, p. 218), and continued as a part of this Code until July 1, 1985, which have been recorded or filed in official records within this state, shall not be invalid based on the use of such coordinate system.

(c) Any continual use of legal descriptions prepared under the terms of the Georgia Coordinate System provided by an Act approved on March 28, 1985 (Ga. L. 1985, p. 650), and continued as a part of this Code until July 1, 2022, which have been recorded or filed in the official records within this state, shall not be invalid based on the use of such coordinate system.

## History

Code 1981, § 44-4-30, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 650, § 1; Code 1981, § 44-4-29, Ga. L. 2022, p. 674, § 1/SB 581.

## Amendments

The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, redesignated former Code Section 44-4-30 as present Code Section 44-4-29, and added “based on the use of such coordinate system” at the end of subsections (a) and (b), substituted “this state” for “the State of Georgia” in subsection (b), and added subsection (c).