Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 50. STATE GOVERNMENT · Chapter 16. PUBLIC PROPERTY · Article 5. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD

50-16-101. Relationship of state as owner of railroad.

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The state occupies the same relation to the railroad, as owner, that any company or corporation does to its railroad; and the obligations of the state to the public concerning the railroad, and of the public to the railroad, are the same as govern the other railroads of this state, so far as is consistent with the sovereign attributes of this state and the laws of force for its conduct.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 889; Code 1868, § 968; Code 1873, § 964; Code 1882, § 964; Civil Code 1895, § 1021; Civil Code 1910, § 1288; Code 1933, § 91-202.

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