Georgia § 50-16-3 - Property of state boards and departments.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 50-16-3 — Property of state boards and departments., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 50-16-3. Property of state boards and departments.
The state holds the legal title to or is the beneficial owner of: 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 all other property conveyed to the board for the use of any of the institutions or for educational purposes or conveyed to any of the boards of trustees of which the board of regents is the successor or to any of the institutions under its control; The several institutions operated by the Department of Human Services, the Department of Public Health, or the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, including all real and personal property belonging to the several institutions or used in connection therewith, and all other property conveyed to any such department for the use of any of the institutions or conveyed to any of the boards of trustees of which such department is the successor or to any of the institutions under its control; The rights of way of the state highway system and all buildings, lands, quarries, equipment, and other property of the Department of Transportation; and All lands and other property conveyed to or held by the Department of Natural Resources and the State Forestry Commission, or their predecessors, for forestry or park purposes. (Orig. Code 1863, § 886; Code 1868, § 965; Code 1873, § 961; Code 1882, § 961; Civil Code 1895, § 1015; Civil Code 1910, § 1282; Ga. L. 1919, p. 242, § 1; Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, §§ 26-89; Code 1933, § 91-104; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-58/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-3/HB 214.) Law reviews. - For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).
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