§ 1-117. Enumeration of matters over which commissioners have exclusive jurisdiction and control.

Said commissioners shall have exclusive jurisdiction and control over the following matters, to-wit: In directing and controlling all the property of the county, as they may deem expedient, according to law; in levying taxes according to law; in establishing, altering or abolishing roads, bridges and ferries, in conformity to law; in establishing and changing election precincts, and militia districts; in supervising the tax collector and receiver's books, and allowing the insolvent list for said county, settling all claims against the county, examining and auditing all claims or accounts of officers, having the care, management, keeping, collecting, or disbursement, of money belonging to the county, or appropriated for its use and benefit, and bring them to a settlement; and making such rules and regulations for the support of the poor of the county, and for the promotion of health, as are not inconsistent with law; in regulating peddling, and fixing the license for selling liquors; and to exercise such other powers as are granted by law, or are indispensable to their jurisdiction over county matters and county finances.

(1880-81 Ga. Laws (Act No. 3), page 508, § II)

State law reference

Matters over which governing authority has jurisdiction, O.C.G.A. § 36-5-22.1; home rule for counties, Ga. Const. art. IX, § II, ¶ I.

Cross reference

Roads and bridges, ch. 42.