2025 Code of Georgia
Title 20 - Education (Chs. 1 — 18)
Chapter 3 - Postsecondary Education (Arts. 1 — 13)
Article 6 - Private Colleges and Universities Authority (§§ 20-3-200 — 20-3-214)
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Effective date.This article became effective June 30, 2024. for details on the restoration of these provisions.
Editor's notes.On July 8, 2019, in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, docketed at Civil Action File No. 2019CV322341, in the matter of Private Colleges and Universities Authority, the Corporation of Mercer University and Emory University v. Brian Kemp, in His Individual Capacity, Christopher M. Carr, in His Individual Capacity, an order was issued ruling on the constitutionality of Ga. L. 2019, p. 919 (HB 553).
Ga. L. 2024, p. 120, § 3-1/HB 985, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “An Act repealing provisions creating inactive boards, panels, authorities, centers, commissions, committees, councils, task forces, and other such bodies, approved May 7, 2019 (Ga L. 2019, p. 919), is amended by repealing Part VII, relating to the Private Colleges and Universities Authority, pursuant to Private Colleges and Universities Authority, et al., v. Kemp (July 8, 2019) (docketed at Civil Action File No. 2019CV322341).” As a result, these formerly repealed provisions are now restored.
Research References & Practice Aids
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 20
O. C. G. A. Title 20, Ch. 3
- § 20-3-200. Short title
- § 20-3-201. Definitions
- § 20-3-202. Creation; membership; officers; compensation of members; expenses of members; organization; duration; quorum
- § 20-3-203. Purpose; powers and duties
- § 20-3-204. Issuance of revenue bonds; source of payment; negotiability; terms; validation; sale; interim and replacement bonds; execution; duration of liability
- § 20-3-205. Immunity from liability of authority members and persons executing bonds or notes
- § 20-3-206. Credit of state or subdivisions not pledged; no taxation or appropriation for authority
- § 20-3-207. Remedies of bondholders
- § 20-3-208. Pledge of and lien on revenues to secure bonds
- § 20-3-209. Exemption of authority and bonds from taxation
- § 20-3-210. Interest of bondholders protected
- § 20-3-211. Disposition of moneys received by authority
- § 20-3-212. Title to projects
- § 20-3-213. Venue and jurisdiction of actions under this article
- § 20-3-214. Liberal construction of article