Title 50 — Title 50

(a) The tribunal shall consist of at least one full-time administrative law judge. If the tribunal has more than one judge, each shall exercise the powers of the tribunal in all matters, causes, or proceedings assigned to him or her. (b) Initial tribunal judges shall be appointed…

(a) Each judge of the tribunal shall be a citizen of the United States and, during the period of service, a resident of this state. No person shall be appointed as a tribunal judge unless at the time of appointment 96 50-13A-7 the individual is an attorney licensed to practice in…

(a) The tribunal’s principal location shall be located in Fulton County, Georgia, and in a building that is separate and apart from any building in which the commissioner has an office. (b) The tribunal may, but shall not be required to, conduct hearings at its principal location…

(a) The chief tribunal judge shall appoint a clerk of the tribunal, a court reporter, and such other employees, including staff attorneys and clerical assistants, and make such other expenditures, including expenditures for library, publications, and equipment, as are reasonably …

(a) On and after January 1, 2013, any person may petition the tribunal for relief as set forth in Code Sections 48-2-18, 48-2-35, 48-2-59, 48-3-1, 48-5-519, 48-6-7, and 48-6-76 and subparagraph (d)(2)(C) of Code Section 48-7-31. The tribunal shall have jurisdiction over actions f…

Administrative procedure. Action to contest rule, §50-13-4. Tort actions. Tort claims act, §50-21-27. SUDAN. Purchasing. Scrutinized companies prohibited from contracting with state agencies for goods or services, §50-5-84. SUMMONS AND PROCESS. Failure to obey, §50-6-31. State au…

Superior courts. Jurisdiction to enforce provisions, §50-14-5. Telecommunications conferences, §§50-1-5, 50-14-1. Violations of provisions. Penalties, §50-14-6. OPEN RECORDS. Inspection of public records generally, §§50-18-70 to 50-18-77. OPERA HOUSES. Springer opera house. Offic…

(a) This chapter shall not apply to the following: (1) Staff meetings held for investigative purposes under duties or responsibilities imposed by law; (2) The deliberations and voting of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles; and in addition such board may close a meeting held f…

(a) When any meeting of an agency is closed to the public pursuant to any provision of this chapter, the specific reasons for such closure shall be entered upon the official minutes, the meeting shall not be closed to the public except by a majority vote of a quorum present for th…

(a) The superior courts of this state shall have jurisdiction to enforce compliance with the provisions of this chapter, including the power to grant injunctions or other equitable relief. In addition to any action that may be brought by any person, firm, corporation, or other ent…

Any person knowingly and willfully conducting or participating in a meeting in violation of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000.00. Alternatively, a civil penalty may be imposed by the court in any civi…

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) ‘‘Political subdivision’’ means the state or any local subdivision of the state or public instrumentality or public corporate body created by or under authority of state law, including, but not limited to, municipalities, counties, school di…

Franklin County, 316 Ga. App. 181, 728 S.E.2d 813 (2012). Validation upheld. — After a trial court required two intervenors to post a bond of $625,000 with regard to the intervenors’ challenge to the public improvement bond approved by a city’s building authority for a sewer proj…

— For article discussing developments in Georgia criminal law in 1976 to 1977, see 29 Mercer L. Rev. 55 (1977).

After a public lawsuit is commenced, no other action relating to the same subject matter shall be commenced, and no trial court shall have jurisdiction of any such subsequent action. This provision, however, shall not diminish any right of intervention of any person or the right …

The lands heretofore specially reserved to the state are: the lands known as the McIntosh Reserve, on which is situated the Indian spring; a quantity of land on Flint River, opposite the old Indian agency; one square mile on the Chattahoochee River at McIntosh Ferry; five square m…

The railroad from Atlanta to Chattanooga is the property of this state exclusively and shall be known as the Western and Atlantic Railroad. History. — Orig. Code 1863, § 888; Code 1868, § 96; Code 1873, § 963; Code 1882, § 963; Ga. L. 1889, p. 362, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 1020; C…

The state occupies the same relation to the railroad, as owner, that any company or corporation does to its railroad; and the obligations of the state to the public concerning the railroad, and of the public to the railroad, are the same as govern the other railroads of this stat…

All the public road laws and penal laws touching the railroads of this state, whether to obligate or protect, apply to the state railroad unless specially excepted or some other provision is prescribed in lieu of some one or more thereof. History. — Orig. Code 1863, § 890; Code 1…

All persons in this state owning land through which the Western and Atlantic Railroad passes may build stock gaps on the railroad when the line of their fences may cross the same and may join their fences to such stock gaps, provided the landowners shall not improperly interfere …

The Western and Atlantic Railroad (the corporation existing by virtue of the lease of the Western and Atlantic Railroad property from the State of Georgia by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, made March 4, 1968) is authorized and empowered to acquire by condemnation …

The land which may be acquired by condemnation under and by virtue of this Code section and Code Sections 50-16-104, 50-16-106, and 50-16-107 for the construction of a track or tracks shall not exceed 200 feet in width. History. — Ga. L. 1918, p. 253, § 2; Code 1933, § 91-302. 50…

ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Official state language, §50-3-100. EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF GEORGIA. Budgets. Membership of officers and employees, §50-17-22. Involuntary separation from employment. Employment position to remain open upon granting of involuntary separation benefits, §50…

Relationship of state as owner of railroad. All railroad laws to apply. Landowners authorized to build stock gaps. Power of condemnation authorized. Width of land taken by condemnation. Manner for determining rights and compensation in condemnation proceeding. Rights acquired by …

State owned stock. Property of state boards and departments. State authorities prohibited from selling real property; exceptions. Use and keeper of capitol buildings and grounds. Defacing or injuring capitol building or grounds. Commission on the Preservation of the State Capitol…

Tort claims act. Liability insurance or self-insurance programs, §50-21-33. INCOME TAXES. Credit card payment, §50-1-6. Payment of taxes. Credit cards, §50-1-6. INCONVENIENT FORUM. Authority to decline jurisdiction, §50-2-21. INDEPENDENCE DAY.

As used in this part, the term: (1) ‘‘Entities’’ or ‘‘entity’’ means any and all constitutional offices, as well as all authorities, departments, divisions, boards, bureaus, commissions, agencies, instrumentalities, or institutions of the state. 202 50-16-120 (2) ‘‘Real property’…

Atlanta-region transit link “ATL” authority. Powers of authority, §50-39-11. Use of funding resources, §50-39-30. Clean energy property, §50-23-21. Metropolitan area planning and development commissions, §§50-8-96, 50-8-99. OneGeorgia authority. Border region retail tourism devel…

Form, §50-16-121. Required, §50-16-121. Rules and regulations. State properties commission, §50-16-125. State properties commission.

Duties as to, §50-16-121. Rules and regulations, §50-16-125. Leases. Amendments to existing leases. Powers and duties of commission, §50-16-34. Bids and bidding, §50-16-39.

Bids and bidding, §50-16-39. Execution of deeds, §50-16-39. Powers regarding conveyance of state property, §50-16-39. State property officer, §50-16-35. Submission of conveyances to general assembly for approval, §50-16-40. Technical assistance. State agencies directed to provide…

Inventory of real property, §50-16-121. State properties commission. Lease of state owned lands for exploration and extraction of mineral resources. Execution by commission, §50-16-43. Georgia railroad and banking company. Stock in, §50-16-2. Governor, §§50-16-60 to 50-16-68. Act…

Energy efficiency and sustainable construction act of 2008. Major state funded facility project, §50-8-18. Green building standards for public construction contracts, §50-5-63. Honor and Remember flag. Display, §50-3-14. Major state funded facility project. Energy efficiency and s…

State and county officers. Actions against officers for violations, §50-16-145. Inventory required of, §50-16-141. Predecessor in office. Examination of predecessor’s inventories, §50-16-143. Receipt for property received from, §50-16-142. Art.

Every officer, within three months after taking charge of his office, shall examine the inventories of his predecessor and make a report upon the same to the proper authority, especially reporting each article and its value not turned over or satisfactorily accounted for. History…

Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2005, p. 117, § 24/HB 312, effective July 1, 2005. Editor’s notes. — This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1882-83, p. 126, § 4; Civil Code 1895, § 278; Civil Code 1910, § 313; Code 1933, § 91-804. 50-16-145. Actions against public officers for violat…

Any public officer who violates any one or more of the provisions of this part shall be liable to be ruled by the proper authority in the superior court in the same manner as the sheriffs and be subject to an action on his bond for the value of all public property not turned over…

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1986, a comma was inserted following “bureaus” in subsections (a) and (b) and a comma was deleted following “other ways” in subsection (b).

The state accounting officer is authorized and directed to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations establishing those items of personal property required to be kept on the inventory records of all offices, agencies, departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, institutions,…

Duty of department of administrative services, §50-16-160. PUBLIC PROPERTY —Cont’d Inventory of personal property —Cont’d Central inventory of personal property —Cont’d Examination of books and records to ensure compliance, §50-16-163. Information necessary to keep. Duty of agenc…

(a) It is the intent of this Code section to implement the provisions of Article III, Section VI, Paragraph VI of the Constitution of the State of Georgia which generally prohibit gratuities by devising an administrative mechanism which will ensure that any obligation due the sta…

As used in this article, the term: (1) ‘‘Commission’’ means the State Commission on the Condemnation of Public Property created by Code Section 50-16-181. 213 50-16-181 (2) ‘‘Public property’’ means any real property located within the State of Georgia in which a legal or equitab…

Appointment of members, §50-16-32. LIFE CYCLE COSTS. Purchase of materials and fixtures based on, §§50-9-100, 50-9-101. LIMITATION OF ACTIONS. Administrative procedure. Rules. Contesting rule, §50-13-4. Open and public meetings. Action to contest agency action, §50-14-1. Rules and…

The commission, in addition to other powers and duties set forth in this article, shall have the power and duty to approve the acquisition of public property by condemnation and the power of eminent domain by the Department of Transportation; the Board of Regents of the Universit…

(a) If the Department of Transportation; the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia; or a state agency, acting by and through 215 50-16-183 the State Properties Commission, needs to acquire public property or any interest in public property in carrying out its dutie…

(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘development activity’’ means the construction of a structure having an area occupied and defined by the exterior of such structure of at least 1,000 square feet or of a parking lot, other than roadway, street, or bridge construction. (b…

The state owns 3,636 shares of stock in the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. 140 History. — Orig. Code 1863, § 936; Code 1868, § 1017; Code 1873, § 1013; Code 1882, § 1013; Civil Code 1895, 50-16-3 § 1019; Civil Code 1910, § 1286; Code 1933, § 91-103.

The state holds the legal title to or is the beneficial owner of: (1) The several institutions operated by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, including all real and personal property belonging to the several institutions or used in connection therewith, and …

(a) As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘state authority’’ means: (1) The Jekyll Island—State Park Authority provided for in Part 1 of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 12; or (2) The Stone Mountain Memorial Association provided for in Part 4 of Article 6 of Chapter 3 of Title …

This article shall be known and may be cited as the ‘‘State Properties Code.’’ History. — Code 1933, § 91-101A, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 146, § 1; Code 1933, § 91-101a, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 857, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1092, § 1. 50-16-31. Definitions.