Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 6. AVIATION · Chapter 3. POWERS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AS TO AIR FACILITIES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

6-3-1. Construction and maintenance of air facilities by Department of Transportation.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
The Department of Transportation is authorized and empowered to construct and maintain airports, landing fields, air navigation facilities, and lighting and lighting fixtures and to contract with the counties and municipalities of the state for the construction and maintenance of such airports, landing fields, air navigation facilities, and lighting and lighting fixtures, all in accordance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s specifications, regulations of the federal government, and upon such terms and conditions as the Department of Transportation may determine.#
(b)
The State Transportation Board is given the right of eminent domain to acquire sites for such airports, landing fields, and air navigation facilities.#

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. 1941, p. 237, § 2; Ga. L. 1965, p. 449, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, § 2004.

Department of Transportation aid for airport development, § 32-9-7. Licensing of airports by Department of Transportation, § 32-9-8.

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Text read from t4-6-(v4)-2013-pdf.pdf, Volume V4, 2013 edition, page 792; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 290d3a1d6843.