§ 6-3-20. Acquisition, Construction, Maintenance, and Control of Airports and Landing Fields by Local Governments Authorized

1. Counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions are authorized, separately or jointly, to acquire, establish, construct, expand, own, lease, control, equip, improve, maintain, operate, regulate, and police airports and landing fields for the use of aircraft, either within or without the geographical limits of such counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions, and may use for such purpose or purposes any available property that is owned or controlled by such counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions. Counties and municipalities may enter into cooperative agreements with community improvement districts for the improvement of airports and landing fields within such community improvement districts, and community improvement districts may enter into such cooperative agreements with counties and municipalities for such purposes, in accordance with Article IX, Section VII of the Constitution.
2. All counties in the State of Georgia which are located on the boundary line between the State of Georgia and any other state, as well as all municipalities and other political subdivisions which are located in such boundary counties, are authorized, separately, jointly with each other, or jointly with any county, municipality, or political subdivision of any such border state, to acquire, establish, construct, expand, own, lease, control, equip, improve, maintain, operate, regulate, and police airports and landing fields for the use of aircraft, either within or without the geographical limits of such border counties and the municipalities and other political subdivisions therein contained in the State of Georgia or within the geographical limits of any county, municipality, or political subdivision of any such border state other than the State of Georgia.

History. Ga. L. 1933, p. 102, § 1; Code 1933, § 11-201; Ga. L. 1941, p. 380, § 1; Ga. L. 2012, p. 1342, § 1/SB 371.

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, added the last sentence in subsection (a).

Cross references.

Regulation and taxation of sale and storage of alcoholic beverages at county and municipal airports, § 3-8-1 .

Sale of distilled spirits, malt beverages, and wine by airline passenger carriers, §§ 3-9-1 , 3-9-2 .

Law reviews.

For comment on Howard v. City of Atlanta, 190 Ga. 730 , 10 S.E.2d 190 (1940), see 3 Ga. B.J. 57 (1940).

For article discussing extraterritorial condemnation of property by municipalities, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 1 (1977).