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2006 Georgia Code - 46-8-331
46-8-331. All of the provisions of this title regarding
the incorporation, control, and management of railroad companies in
general shall also apply to interurban, suburban, and street
railroad companies, insofar as such provisions are applicable and
appropriate thereto. Any group of at least ten persons who desire
to be incorporated as an interurban, suburban, or street railroad
company may form a corporation in the same manner as provided for
the formation of other railroad companies, with the additional
requirement that they shall in their petition specify in what
cities, and in what streets thereof, they propose to construct and
build the railroad, provided that no street railroad or interurban
railroad incorporated under this chapter shall be constructed
within the limits of any incorporated city without the consent of
the corporate authorities; provided, further, that all railroad
companies incorporated under this chapter shall be subject to all
just and reasonable rules and regulations by the corporate
authorities and shall be liable for all assessments and other
lawful burdens that may be imposed upon them with reference to the
railroad or the portion thereof located within the limits of the
municipal corporation; provided, further, that only such powers and
franchises as are conferred on other railroad companies by this
title shall belong to interurban, suburban, or street railroad
companies, as shall be necessary and appropriate thereto, and such
other provisions of this title as apply to other railroads located
outside of urban or suburban areas shall apply to interurban,
suburban, and street railroad companies insofar as that portion of
their roads is concerned; provided, further, that nothing in Code
Section 46-8-127, which provides that the general direction and
location of railroads sought to be constructed in this state shall
be ten miles from a railroad constructed or laid out and selected
to be constructed, shall be applicable to street, suburban, or
interurban railways, or the selection of the route or the
construction of the same.
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