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Article VIII. EDUCATION · Article VIII. EDUCATION · Section V. LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS

Art. VIII, Sec. V, Para. VI. Power of boards to accept bequests, donations, grants, and transfers.

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  1. The board of education of each school system may accept bequests, donations, grants, and transfers of land, buildings, and other property for the use of such system.

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.

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1976 Constitution.
Art. VIII, Sec. VI, Para. II.
not authorized.
When the applicable revenue statutes, former Civil Code 1910, §§ 339, 400, 504, 506, and 513 (see O.C.G.A. §§ 36-9-5, 48-5-220, and former 48-5-223, 48-5-225, and 48-5-227 (see § 48-5-220)), were construed together with Ga. Const. 1976, Art. IX, Sec. VII, Para. I (see Ga. Const., 1983, Art. IX, Sec. V, Para. I) and this paragraph, it was held that they did not confer power or authority on a county board of commissioners to donate county funds derived from taxation or from other sources to a chamber of commerce, freight, bureau or convention and tourist bureau even if such donations were intended to accomplish a lawful purpose. Atlanta Chamber of Commerce v. McRae, 174 Ga. 590, 163 S.E. 701 (1932) (see Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VIII, Sec. V, Para. VI). Cited in Parker v. Board of Educ., 209 Ga. 5, 70 S.E.2d 369 (1952); Ken Stanton Music, Inc. v. Board of Educ., 227 Ga. 393, 181 S.E.2d 67 (1971).
ALR.
Constitutionality, construction, and application of statute or ordinance imposing license fee or tax upon automobiles or trailers used for habitation, 150 ALR 853.

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