This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Urban Redevelopment Law."
(Ga. L. 1955, p. 354, § 1.)
Editor's notes.- Ga. 1976, p. 946, § 4, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that all powers, privileges, duties, or immunities now or heretofore granted to municipalities by the Urban Redevelopment Law (this chapter), and all Acts amendatory thereof, are granted and conferred upon every county of this state.
Law reviews.- For survey article on zoning and land use law, see 59 Mercer L. Rev. 493 (2007) and 60 Mercer L. Rev. 457 (2008).
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Housing Authority could sell acquired property to private party.
- Georgia's Urban Redevelopment Law, O.C.G.A. § 36-61-1 et seq., authorized a housing authority to exercise eminent domain to acquire and redevelop urban property found to be a "slum area;" the housing authority's disposition of condemned property was authorized, and the housing authority was entitled to summary judgment on a former owner's claim that property had been acquired and then sold to a private party. Talley v. Housing Auth., 279 Ga. App. 94, 630 S.E.2d 550 (2006).
Cited in City of Stockbridge v. Meeks, 283 Ga. App. 343, 641 S.E.2d 584 (2007).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR.
- Application of Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469, 125 S. Ct. 2655, 162 L. Ed. 2d 439 (2005), to "Public Use" restrictions in federal and state constitutions takings clauses and eminent domain statutes, 21 A.L.R.6th 261.