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title: O.C.G.A. § 6-4-4. Corporate existence; status as political subdivision.
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# O.C.G.A. § 6-4-4. Corporate existence; status as political subdivision.

The Georgia Airport Development Authority shall continue to be a body corporate and politic and an instrumentality and public corporation of the state known as the ‘‘Georgia Airport Development Authority.’’ It shall have perpetual existence. In said name it may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and complain and defend in all courts of this state, subject to the limitations of Code Section 6-4-15. The authority shall constitute a political subdivision within the meaning of Code Section 6-3-22 as enacted by the Georgia General Assembly in its 1992 regular session in Senate Bill 173.

## History

Code 1981, § 6-4-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1615, § 1.