Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 48. REVENUE AND TAXATION · Chapter 5. AD VALOREM TAXATION OF PROPERTY · Article 8. SCHOOL TAXATION

48-5-400. Power of county governing authorities to levy and collect taxes for educational purposes.

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The governing authority of each county may levy and collect taxes for educational purposes in such amounts as the county governing authority shall determine. Amounts collected from such levies shall be appropriated to the use of the county board of education and to the educational work directed by the county board of education.

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.

Ga. L. 1922, p. 81, § 1; Code 1933, § 32-1127; Code 1933, § 91A-1701, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2.

Free public education prior to college or postsecondary level and support by taxation, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VIII, Sec. I, Para. I.

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