--- title: Title 52, Chapter 2. Georgia Ports Authority collection: code id: code:chapter:52-2 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/52/chapter/2 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2.md date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-1.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-3.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: GEORGIA PORTS AUTHORITY title_heading: WATERS OF THE STATE, PORTS, AND WATERCRAFT section_count: 39 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2.md?full=1 --- # Title 52, Chapter 2. Georgia Ports Authority Title 52. Waters of the State, Ports, and Watercraft 39 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 52-2-1, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-1.md - 52-2-2, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-2.md - 52-2-3, Projects which may be considered self-liquidating; lease or sale of manufacturing or processing facilities; inclusion in projects of leased facilities and facilities acquired for use as ports, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-3.md - 52-2-4, Creation of authority; status of authority as an instrumentality of state and a public corporation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-4.md - 52-2-5, Composition of authority; appointment, terms, and qualifications of members generally; filling of vacancies; election of chairperson, vice chairperson, and secretary-treasurer; quorum, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-5.md - 52-2-6, Compensation of members and reimbursement for expenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-6.md - 52-2-7, Making of rules and regulations; delegation of powers and duties; perpetual existence of authority, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-7.md - 52-2-8, Eligibility for membership, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-8.md - 52-2-9, Powers of authority generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-9.md - 52-2-10, Peace officers of the authority; jurisdiction; qualifications; additional duties and powers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-10.md - 52-2-11, Power of authority to borrow money, to execute evidences of indebtedness, and to secure such indebtedness; sale and other disposition of property; utilization of proceeds of sale, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-11.md - 52-2-12, Funds for acquisition of land and construction of port facilities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-12.md - 52-2-13, Approval and consent of State Properties Commission for acquisition of real property by authority, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-13.md - 52-2-14, Conveyance of Medical Depot site to authority; power to sell conveyed surplus lands and improvements; power to borrow and to issue revenue anticipation certificates, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-14.md - 52-2-15, Revenue bonds — Issuance; payment of principal and interest from special fund; dating of bonds; determination of rate of interest; time of maturity; redemption before maturity, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-15.md - 52-2-16, Revenue bonds — Form of bonds; denominations; place of payment of principal and interest, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-16.md - 52-2-17, Revenue bonds — Signatures; seal, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-17.md - 52-2-18, Revenue bonds — Status of bonds as negotiable instruments; tax exemption for bonds and for income therefrom, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-18.md - 52-2-19, Revenue bonds — Issuance in coupon, registered, or book-entry form, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-19.md - 52-2-20, Revenue bonds — Determination of price; use and manner of disbursement of proceeds; procedure where proceeds are less than or greater than cost of projects, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-20.md - 52-2-21, Revenue bonds — Issuance of interim receipts, interim certificates, and temporary bonds; replacement of mutilated, destroyed, or lost bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-21.md - 52-2-22, Revenue bonds — Conditions precedent to issuance; application of bonds of a single issue to payment of one or more projects; effective date of resolutions providing for issuance; passage of resolutions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-22.md - 52-2-23, Revenue bonds — Aid by Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-23.md - 52-2-24, Revenue bonds — Status of bonds as a debt of state or a pledge of faith and credit of state; issuance as obligating state to levy tax or make appropriation; obligation to pay principal and interest on bonds; recitals on face of bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-24.md - 52-2-25, Revenue bonds — Securing of bonds by trust indenture, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-25.md - 52-2-26, Revenue bonds — Remedies of bondholders and trustee, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-26.md - 52-2-27, Revenue bonds — Protection of rights of bondholders, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-27.md - 52-2-28, Revenue bonds — Revenue refunding bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-28.md - 52-2-29, Revenue bonds — Status of bonds as legal investments and as securities for deposits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-29.md - 52-2-30, Revenue bonds — Confirmation and validation of bonds; venue of actions to confirm and validate bonds or to enforce rights under chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-30.md - 52-2-31, Power of authority to fix, revise, and collect charges; factors governing determination of amount of rentals and other charges; creation, use, and disposition of sinking fund; cancellation of purchased or redeemed bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-31.md - 52-2-32, Status of contracted-for rentals as obligations of state; payment of rentals; power of authority to enforce lessees’ duty to perform covenants and obligations; assignment of rentals due, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-32.md - 52-2-33, Duty of authority to prescribe rules and regulations for operation of projects; duty of authority to impose and collect rentals and other charges for use of facilities of projects, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-33.md - 52-2-34, Acceptance of grants from federal agencies and of contributions of money and property from other sources, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-34.md - 52-2-35, Requirement as to competitive bidding for contracts for new construction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-35.md - 52-2-36, Status of moneys received under chapter as trust funds; provision by authority for payment of moneys to designated trustee; investment of moneys; sale of investments and reinvestment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-36.md - 52-2-37, Creation of authority and carrying out of authority’s corporate purpose as constituting a public purpose; covenant with bondholders as to tax-exempt status of authority’s property, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-37.md - 52-2-38, Construction of chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-38.md - 52-2-39, Supplemental nature of chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-2-39.md