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2022 Georgia Code
Title 32 - Highways, Bridges, and Ferries
Chapter 9 - Mass Transportation
Article 2 - Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (Marta)
§ 32-9-13. Definitions

Universal Citation:
GA Code § 32-9-13 (2022)
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As used in this article, the term:

  1. “Authority” means the authority created by the MARTA Act and pursuant to a local constitutional amendment for purposes of establishing a metropolitan area system of public transportation set out at Ga. L. 1964, p. 1008.
  2. “Board” means the board of directors of the authority.
  3. “City” means the City of Atlanta.
  4. “MARTA Act” means an Act known as the “Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Act of 1965,” approved March 10, 1965 (Ga. L. 1965, p. 2243), as amended.
  5. “Metropolitan area” means the Counties of Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett and the city.
  6. “Qualified municipality” shall have the same meaning as provided in paragraph (4) of Code Section 48-8-110.
  7. “Regional transit plan” means the official multiyear plan for transit services and facilities adopted pursuant to Code Section 50-39-12.

History. Code 1981, § 32-9-13 , enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 105, § 1-1/SB 369; Ga. L. 2018, p. 377, § 3-1/HB 930; Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 32/SB 52.

The 2018 amendment, effective May 3, 2018, deleted the subsection (a) designation; substituted “article” for “Code section” in the introductory paragraph; added “and pursuant to a local constitutional amendment for purposes of establishing a metropolitan area system of public transportation set out at Ga. L. 1964, p. 1008” at the end of paragraph (1); added present paragraph (2); redesignated former paragraphs (2) and (3) as present paragraphs (3) and (4), respectively; added paragraphs (5) through (7); and redesignated former subsections (b) through (g) as present Code Section 32-9-14.

The 2019 amendment, effective May 12, 2019, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, in paragraph (5), substituted “Counties” for “counties” and substituted “city” for “City”.

Code Commission notes.

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2016, Code Section 32-9-13, as enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 864, § 32/HB 737, was redesignated as Code Section 32-9-14.

Editor’s notes.

Former Code Section 32-9-13, pertaining to suspension of restrictions on use of annual proceeds from local sales and use taxes by public transit authorities, was repealed by Ga. L. 2014, p. 649, § 1/HB 265, effective June 1, 2014. The former Code section was based on Ga. L. 2010, p. 778, § 3/HB 277.

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