§ 50-36. Authority of county to establish sewerage in territory annexed to East Point.  


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  • Fulton County and the authorities thereof shall have power and authority to lay, extend, construct, enlarge, improve and repair sewers and other facilities heretofore commenced or planned by said county to be in or through territory heretofore unincorporated but being annexed to the City of East Point in 1949, any provisions of an act approved March 4, 1939 (1939 Ga. Laws, page 579 et seq. [ch. 66, art. II, div. 3 hereof]) authorizing Fulton County and the governing authorities thereof to establish and administer a sewerage system in only the unincorporated area of said county to the contrary notwithstanding, and in spite of any provisions of an act approved August 9, 1929 (1929 Ga. Laws, page 621 et seq. [ch. 66, art. II, div. 2 hereof]) authorizing the Board of Commissioners of Fulton County to establish, conduct, maintain, control, reopen, repair, improve, use, protect and discontinue sewers and sewerage systems only outside incorporated municipalities and restricting such improvements to unincorporated areas of said county, and notwithstanding the provisions of any other acts or legislation by the terms or provisions of which said Fulton County is prevented from using sewer bonds to lay, construct, extend, improve, repair and enlarge sewers in or through territory annexed to the City of East Point in 1949 where such improvements have heretofore been commenced or planned by Fulton County.

    Fulton County and the county authorities thereof are hereby authorized and empowered to open such streets or roads and lay such pipe and do such work as may have heretofore been commenced or planned to be done in or through unincorporated territory being or about to be annexed to the City of East Point in 1949.

(1949 Ga. Laws (Act No. 334), page 1423, § 3A)