Georgia Code
Part 3 - Georgia Education Authority (Schools)
§ 20-2-553. Powers of Authority

The authority shall have the power:
History. Ga. L. 1951, p. 241, § 4; Ga. L. 1956, p. 11, § 1; Ga. L. 1974, p. 1215, § 6; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 53; Ga. L. 2005, p. 319, § 1/HB 372; Ga. L. 2010, p. 1001, § 3/HB 936; Ga. L. 2015, p. 385, § 2-5/HB 252.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, deleted subsection (a) designation and deleted former subsection (b), which read: “The validity of any bonds issued by the authority for projects certified as eligible for state development assistance under Code Section 45-12-170 and issued prior to the time the first general obligation debt was incurred under Article VII, Section III, Paragraph I of the Constitution of 1945 shall not be impaired; but no future such bonds shall be issued.”
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2005, a period was deleted at the end of paragraph (a)(5) (now paragraph 5).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2015, p. 385, § 1-1/HB 252, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘J. Calvin Hill, Jr., Act.’

Structure Georgia Code

Georgia Code

Title 20 - Education

Chapter 2 - Elementary and Secondary Education

Article 11 - Public School Property and Facilities

Part 3 - Georgia Education Authority (Schools)

§ 20-2-550. Short Title

§ 20-2-551. Definitions; When Project Deemed Self-Liquidating

§ 20-2-552. Creation; Members, Officers, and Staff; Quorum; Procedural Rules and Regulations; Assignment to Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission

§ 20-2-553. Powers of Authority

§ 20-2-554. Functions and Powers of Vocational Trade School Building Authority and School Building Authority for the Deaf and Blind Transferred to Authority

§ 20-2-555. Authority to Issue Revenue Bonds; Terms

§ 20-2-556. Form of Bonds; Denominations; Place of Payment; Registration

§ 20-2-557. Signing, Sealing, and Attesting Bonds

§ 20-2-558. Bonds Negotiable

§ 20-2-559. Manner of Sale and Price of Bonds

§ 20-2-560. Use of Bond Proceeds; Additional Bonds

§ 20-2-561. Issuance of Interim Receipts or Certificates or Temporary Bonds

§ 20-2-562. Replacement of Mutilated, Destroyed, or Lost Bonds

§ 20-2-563. Compliance With Part Sufficient for Issuance of Bonds; Single Issue for One or More Projects; Adoption of Bond Resolution

§ 20-2-564. Bonds Not State Debt; Use of Appropriations and Other Funds for Leases From Authority; Collection of Rentals; Assignment of Payments

§ 20-2-565. Trust Indentures to Secure Bonds; Contents of Indentures or Bond Resolutions; Expenses of Carrying Out Indentures

§ 20-2-566. Trustee for Bond Proceeds

§ 20-2-567. Sinking Fund

§ 20-2-568. Remedies of Bondholders, Receivers, or Indenture Trustees

§ 20-2-569. Refunding Bonds

§ 20-2-570. Bonds Legal Investments; Depositing Bonds

§ 20-2-571. Tax Exemption of Authority’s Property, Activities, Charges, and Bonds

§ 20-2-572. Procedure for Validating Bonds

§ 20-2-573. Venue and Jurisdiction of Actions to Enforce Rights or Validate Bonds

§ 20-2-574. Interests of Bondholders Protected

§ 20-2-575. Acceptance of Grants and Contributions From Federal and Other Sources

§ 20-2-576. Moneys Received Deemed Trust Funds

§ 20-2-577. Fixing Rentals, Installment Payments, and Charges for Use of Projects

§ 20-2-578. Authority of State and Other Boards of Education to Bargain, Sell, Transfer, Convey, Rent, and Lease Property to Authority

§ 20-2-579. Rules and Regulations for Operation of Projects

§ 20-2-580. Power to Issue Revenue Bonds Not Affected

§ 20-2-581. Part Supplemental and Additional to Other Laws

§ 20-2-582. Part to Be Liberally Construed