This chapter shall be known as “The Georgia Relocation Assistance and Land Acquisition Policy Act.” As used in this chapter, the term “Uniform Act” means the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended by the Uniform Relocation Act Amendments of 1987, Title IV of Public Law 100-17. History. Ga. […]
In acquiring property for any federal-aid project, the costs of which are financed in whole or in part from federal funds allocated to an acquiring public entity, the acquiring public entity shall be guided by the land acquisition policies relating to buildings, structures, and other improvements specified by Section (302) of the Uniform Act to […]
The several public entities are authorized to make such rules as may be necessary to provide for the administration of the financial assistance authorized by this chapter. The determination by the several public entities of the amount of any payment and to whom it shall be paid may be appealed and judicially reviewed in the […]
In addition and supplementary to other powers provided by this chapter for the several public entities, any municipal corporation having a population of 350,000 or more according to the United States decennial census of 1970 or any future such census may exercise the powers provided by this chapter for public works projects which are not […]
The providing of all of the relocation assistances and payments described in this chapter and, in connection with the acquisition of real property for public works projects or programs, the establishing of all of the policies and practices described in this chapter, and the paying or reimbursing of all of the expenses described in this […]
No payment received by a displaced person under this chapter shall be considered as income or resources for the purpose of determining the eligibility or extent of eligibility of any person for assistance under any state law or for the purposes of the state’s personal income tax law, corporation tax law, or other tax laws. […]
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as creating in any condemnation proceeding brought under the power of eminent domain any element of value or of damage. History. Ga. L. 1973, p. 512, § 10.
The several public entities shall have the authority, as a last resort, to provide replacement housing when a federal-aid project financed in whole or in part with federal aid cannot proceed to actual construction because no comparable replacement sale or rental housing is available. In carrying out the relocation assistance activities, the several public entities […]
The General Assembly finds and declares that the prompt and equitable relocation and reestablishment of persons, businesses, farmers, and nonprofit organizations displaced when the state, any of its agencies or institutions (other than the Department of Transportation), or any county, municipal corporation, school district, political subdivision, public authority, public agency, public corporation, or public instrumentality, […]
The definitions contained in paragraphs (6) and (8) of Code Section 22-1-1 shall not apply to this chapter. History. Code 1981, § 22-4-3 ; Ga. L. 2006, p. 39, § 17/HB 1313. Editor’s notes. This Code section was created as part of the Code revision and was thus enacted by Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., […]
The several public entities are authorized to and shall make or approve the payments required by Section 210 of the Uniform Act for the relocation expenses and replacement housing expenses of any person, family, business, farm operation, or nonprofit organization displaced by federal-aid projects in the state, the costs of which are now or hereafter […]
The several public entities are authorized to and shall provide the relocation assistance advisory services required by Section 205 of the Uniform Act for any person, family, business, farm operation, or nonprofit organization displaced by federal-aid projects in the state, the costs of which are now or hereafter financed in whole or in part from […]
The several public entities are authorized to and shall make or approve the payments required by Section 305(2) of the Uniform Act for expenses incidental to the transfer of real property acquired by any of the several public entities, for prepayment of mortgage penalties, and for a pro rata portion of real property taxes on […]
The several public entities are authorized to and shall make or approve the payments required by Section 305(2) of the Uniform Act for litigation expenses actually incurred by any person, family, business, farm operation, or nonprofit organization which is a condemnee in any condemnation proceeding brought by an acquiring public entity to acquire real property […]
The several public entities are authorized to and shall make or approve the payments required by Section 305(2) of the Uniform Act for litigation expenses actually incurred by any person, family, business, farm operation, or nonprofit organization which is the plaintiff in any inverse condemnation proceeding brought against an acquiring public entity in which judgment […]
In acquiring real property for any federal-aid project, the costs of which are financed in whole or in part from federal funds allocated to an acquiring public entity, such public entity shall be guided by the land acquisition policies required by Section 301 of the Uniform Act to the greatest extent practicable. History. Ga. L. […]
