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# O.C.G.A. § 50-2-3. Boundary between Georgia and North Carolina and Tennessee.

The boundary between Georgia and North Carolina and Georgia and Tennessee shall be the line described as the thirty-fifth parallel of north latitude, from the point of its intersection by the River Chattooga, west to the place called Nickajack.

## History

Orig. Code 1863, § 19; Code 1868, § 17; Code 1873, § 17; Code 1882, § 17; Civil Code 1895, § 18; Civil Code 1910, § 18; Code 1933, § 15-103.

## Editor's Notes

By resolution (Ga. L. 2008, p. 1180), the General Assembly stated its clear and express intent to correct, establish, survey, and proclaim the northern border of the State of Georgia and the southern border of the States of Tennessee and North Carolina at the true 35th parallel.

## Law Reviews

For article discussing the disputes over Georgia’s northern boundary with North Carolina and Tennessee, see 8 Ga. St. B.J. 197 (1971).