---
title: Ga. Const. Art. IX, Sec. V, Para. IV. Exceptions to debt limitations.
collection: code
id: ga-const:art-ix-sec-v-para-iv
cite_as: Ga. Const. Art. IX, Sec. V, Para. IV
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/ga/art-ix-sec-v-para-iv
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/ga/art-ix-sec-v-para-iv.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/ga/art-ix-sec-v-para-iv/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/2ga-const-(v2)-2016-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=f5de823e_0#page=1434
date: 2016
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/constitution/ga/index.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/ga/art-ix-sec-v-para-iii.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/constitution/ga/art-ix-sec-v-para-v.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: CONSTITUTION OF THE / COUNTIES AND MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS / LIMITATION ON LOCAL DEBT
---

# Ga. Const. Art. IX, Sec. V, Para. IV. Exceptions to debt limitations.

A constitution provision shown as in force is in force as printed in the volume. A court decision can make a printed provision unenforceable without changing the volume, and the volume does not record that.

Notwithstanding the debt limitations provided in Paragraph I of this section and without the necessity for a referendum being held therefor, the governing authority of any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state may, subject to the conditions and limitations as may be provided by general law:

(1) Accept and use funds granted by and obtain loans from the federal government or any agency thereof pursuant to conditions imposed by federal law.

(2) Incur debt, by way of borrowing from any person, corporation, or association as well as from the state, to pay in whole or in part the cost of property valuation and equalization programs for ad valorem tax purposes.

## 1976 Constitution.

Art. IX, Sec. VII, Paras. I, V.

## Municipality Not Liable for Indebtedness Contracted Pursuant to Ga.

Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. VI, Para. I and Art. 3, Ch. 82, T. 36. — Liability against a municipality arising out of and by virtue of any contract made by such municipality with an engineering company, entered into pursuant to Ga. Const. 1976, Art. IX, Sec. VIII, Para. I (see Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. VI, Para. I) and the Revenue Bond Law, Ga. L. 1937, p. 761 (see now O.C.G.A. Art. 3, Ch. 82, T. 36), is not an indebtedness of the municipality which can be paid and satisfied out of the general tax fund or other general funds of said municipality. City of Royston v. Littrell Eng’g Co., 87 Ga. App. 903, 75 S.E.2d 678 (1953).

## Am. Jur. 2d.

56 Am. Jur. 2d, Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions, §§ 534 et seq., 565 et seq.

## Alr.

Exception regarding ‘‘emergency,’’ ‘‘urgency,’’ etc., within statute or charter forbidding municipal corporation to expend money or incur indebtedness in absence, or in excess, of appropriation, 111 ALR 703.