When certified by a public officer, clerk, or keeper of county or municipal records in this state in a manner as specified for county records in Code Section 24-9-920 or in a manner as specified for municipal records in paragraph (1) or (2) of Code Section 24-9-902 and in the absence of contrary evidence, judicial notice may be taken of a certified copy of any ordinance or resolution included within a general codification required by paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of Code Section 36-80-19 as representing an ordinance or resolution duly approved by the governing authority and currently in force as presented. Any such certified copy shall be self-authenticating and shall be admissible as prima-facie proof of any such ordinance or resolution before any court or administrative body.
History. Code 1981, § 24-2-221 , enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.
Law reviews.
For article, “Local Government Law,” see 53 Mercer L. Rev. 389 (2001).
For article on the 2011 enactment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2011).