Georgia § 36-73-3 - Proposed facility located outside county or municipality; feasibility study.
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§ 36-73-3. Proposed facility located outside county or municipality; feasibility study.
Where a county or municipality proposes to enter into a contract for a regional facility which will be located outside of such county or municipality and such contract will require the expenditure of public funds of the county or municipality, the county or municipality shall, prior to entering into the contract, conduct a financial feasibility study of the contract. Such study may be conducted by the county or municipality or the county or municipality may contract with another party for the conducting of the study. Two or more parties proposing to enter into a contract may conduct or contract for a joint financial feasibility study, but in this case the financial feasibility study shall separately address the fiscal concerns of each party to the proposed contract. A financial feasibility study shall at a minimum include a statement of the expected useful life of the regional project and a statement or projection of the costs and benefits to the county or municipality over the entire expected useful life of the project. (Code 1981, § 36-73-3 , enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 699, § 1.) Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1998, "study" was inserted near the end of the first sentence.
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