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title: Title 52, Chapter 4. Canal Companies
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date: 2025
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heading: CANAL COMPANIES
title_heading: WATERS OF THE STATE, PORTS, AND WATERCRAFT
section_count: 16
full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4.md?full=1
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# Title 52, Chapter 4. Canal Companies

Title 52. Waters of the State, Ports, and Watercraft

16 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 52-4-1, Filing of petition for incorporation; contents of petition; filing fee, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-1.md
- 52-4-2, Issuance of certificate of incorporation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-2.md
- 52-4-3, Maintenance by Secretary of State of files and books regarding canal companies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-3.md
- 52-4-4, Time of commencement of corporate existence; duration of corporate existence, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-4.md
- 52-4-5, Petitioners as constituting first board of directors; election of officers; prescription of rules and bylaws; opening books of subscription for capital stock, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-5.md
- 52-4-6, Publication of notice upon subscription for all of capital stock and payment of 10 percent thereof; authorization for commencing transaction of business; personal liability of directors and stockholders, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-6.md
- 52-4-7, Location of principal office, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-7.md
- 52-4-8, Powers and duties of companies generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-8.md
- 52-4-9, Right of corporation to increase or decrease capital stock, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-9.md
- 52-4-10, Power of companies to enlarge works and appliances of canals and branch canals and to deepen and widen canals, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-10.md
- 52-4-11, Furnishing of canal water by canal companies; charges for use of water, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-11.md
- 52-4-12, Toll rates for use of canals, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-12.md
- 52-4-13, Encroachment of canals upon public roads; construction and maintenance of bridges, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-13.md
- 52-4-14, Mortgage, sale, or lease of canal, other properties, corporate rights, and franchises, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-14.md
- 52-4-15, Disagreements as to compensation for taking of lands, tenements, or riparian rights pursuant to chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-15.md
- 52-4-16, Taxes applicable to canal companies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/52-4-16.md