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Article IX. COUNTIES AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS · Article IX. COUNTIES AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS · Section IV. TAXATION POWER OF COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS
Art. IX, Sec. IV, Para. III. Purposes of taxation; allocation of taxes.
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No levy need state the particular purposes for which the same was made nor shall any taxes collected be allocated for any particular purpose, unless otherwise provided by this Constitution or by law.
Other notes
- 1976 Constitution.
- Art. IX, Sec. V, Paras. I, II.
- General Assembly must have ex-Allocation of county revenue for ex-Additional charge for building permits prohibited.
- This provision does not give a county authority to impose a tax or charge in addition to all charges currently imposed for building permits where those funds are allocated directly to the board of education. DeKalb County v. Brown Bldrs. Co., 227 Ga. 777, 183 S.E.2d 367 (1971) (see Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. IV, Para. III). Using tax funds to improve private
- corporate property prohibited.
- Expenditure of tax funds to build or improve facilities upon the property of a private corporation is not among the enumerated powers of this paragraph. Nelson v. Wainwright, 224 Ga. 693, 164 S.E.2d 147 (1968) (see Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. IV, Para. III).
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Text read from 2ga-const-(v2)-2016-pdf.pdf, Volume V2, 2016 edition, pages 1413 to 1414; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1b27199d8655.