§ 26-31. Authority of general assembly to provide for creation and funding of countywide library system.

Any other provisions of this Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding, the general assembly is authorized to provide by law for any or all matters necessary or convenient for the creation of a countywide public library service or system in any county of this state having a population of 550,000 or more according to the United States decennial census of 1980 or any future such census. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the general assembly may provide by such law for the transfer of public library systems and services of any such county and of any municipality located wholly or partially within any such county to the countywide library service or system created by such law and may provide for the transfer of any or all physical facilities, obligations, debts, assets, records, employees, other personnel, causes of actions, and rights of public libraries or public library systems of such county or any such municipality to such countywide public library service or system. The general assembly may further provide by any such law for the funding of the countywide public library system or service from the funds of any such county and for the managing or governing body of such countywide public library system or service. Any law adopted pursuant to the authority of this paragraph shall control the subject matter thereof, notwithstanding the provisions of any general or local law to the contrary, whether presently existing or hereafter enacted. The provisions of this paragraph shall be liberally construed to enable the general assembly to fully implement and carry out the provisions of this paragraph.

(1982 Ga. Laws (Act No. 132), page 2547, § 1)

Editor's note

The above amendment to Ga. Const. (1976) art. IX, § IV, ¶ II was continued in full force and effect by 1986 Ga. Laws (Act No. 1239), page 4832. See Ga. Const. art. XI, § I, ¶ IV.