Bill Text: GA HB1203 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Service strategy development; fees collected offset certain costs; provisions
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-18 - House Second Readers [HB1203 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HB1203-Introduced.html
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House
Bill 1203
By:
Representative Stephens of the
164th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 36-70-24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to criteria for service delivery strategy development, so as to provide that
utility franchise fees or taxes collected by municipalities from unincorporated
residents, individuals, or property owners shall offset the cost of certain
services provided by a county in the unincorporated areas of the county; to
provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 36-70-24 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to criteria
for service delivery strategy development, is amended by revising subparagraph
(A) of paragraph (3) as follows:
"(3)(A)
The strategy shall ensure that the cost of any service which a county provides
primarily for the benefit of the unincorporated area of the county shall be
borne by the unincorporated area residents, individuals, and property owners who
receive the service. Further, when the county and one or more municipalities
jointly fund a county-wide service, the county share of such funding shall be
borne by the unincorporated residents, individuals, and property owners that
receive the service.
Such strategy
shall further ensure that any utility franchise fees or charges imposed by a
municipality pursuant to paragraph (7) of Code Section 36-34-2 collected from
residents, individuals, or property owners located within the unincorporated
area of the county in which the municipality is located but not located in the
municipality shall offset any obligation identified in a strategy that a county
may have to municipal residents regarding the cost of any service which the
county provides primarily for the benefit of the unincorporated area of the
county or jointly with a municipality. The amount of such offset shall be
determined in accordance with service records of each utility company. Where
such records are not available, the offset shall be calculated by dividing the
amount of the utility franchise fees or taxes collected by each municipality by
the total population of the county, according to the most recent United States
decennial census, and multiplying the resulting number by the population of the
unincorporated area of the
county."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its
becoming law without such approval.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.