Bill Text: GA SB529 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Cherokee County Development Authority; provide for expanded powers and duties

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-13 - Effective Date [SB529 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-SB529-Introduced.html

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12 LC 21 1770

Senate Bill 529

By: Senator Rogers of the 21st

AS PASSED

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT

To provide for expanded powers and duties of the Cherokee County Development Authority; to provide a statement of authority; to provide that such authority may acquire structures for use as an office, a warehouse, a regional commercial development, or a research and development facility; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.

This Act is enacted pursuant to the authority contained in that amendment to the Constitution of Georgia creating the Cherokee County Development Authority (Ga. L. 1966, p. 938), granting the General Assembly the power to enlarge or restrict the powers and duties of such authority.

SECTION 2.

The powers and duties of the Cherokee County Development Authority found in paragraph (5) of subsection (D) of Section 1 of the amendment to the Constitution referred to in Section 1 of this Act are expanded as follows:

"(5) To encourage and promote the expansion and development of industrial and commercial facilities in Cherokee County so as to relieve insofar as possible unemployment within its boundaries, and to that end to acquire by purchase or gift any building or structure within the limits of Cherokee County, suitable for and intended for use as a factory, mill, shop, processing plant, assembly plant, fabricating plant, office, warehouse, regional commercial development, or research and development facility, including all necessary and appurtenant lands and appurtenances thereto, and all necessary or useful furnishings, machinery, and equipment. Such acquisition may be through the acquisition of land and the construction thereon of a building, including the demolition of existing structures, or through the acquisition of an existing building and the remodeling, reconstructing, furnishing, and equipping of such building;"

SECTION 3.

All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.