• § 12-3-230 - Short Title
  This part may be cited as the "Jekyll Island--State Park Authority Act."
• § 12-3-231 - Definitions
  As used in this part, the term: (1) "Authority" means the Jekyll Island-State Park Authority created by this part. (2) "Bonds" or "revenue bonds"...
• § 12-3-232 - Creation of Authority As Instrumentality of State and Public Corporation; Delegation of Powers and Duties; Duration of Existence
  (a) There is created a body corporate and politic to be known as the Jekyll Island--State Park Authority, which shall be deemed to be...
• § 12-3-233 - Appointment of Members; Terms; Vacancies; Officers; Quorum; Reimbursement for Expenses; Members As Constituting Policy-Making Body of Authority; Executive Director
  (a) The authority shall be composed of the commissioner of natural resources or his or her designee and eight residents of this state, two...
• § 12-3-233.1 - Jekyll Island Citizens Resource Council; Purpose; Members; Meetings; Reimbursement for Expenses
  (a) The Governor shall appoint a body to be known as the Jekyll Island Citizens Resource Council. The purpose of the Citizens Resource Council...
• § 12-3-234 - Accountability of Authority Members As Trustees; Maintenance of Financial Records and Books; Creation of Jekyll Island--state Park Authority Oversight Committee
  (a) The members of the authority shall be accountable in all respects as trustees. The authority shall keep suitable and proper books and records...
• § 12-3-235 - Powers of Authority Generally
  The authority shall have power: (1) To have a seal and alter it at pleasure; (2) To acquire, hold, and dispose of personal property...
• § 12-3-236 - Exercise of Police Power of Authority; Delegation of Power to State or County
  The authority is empowered to exercise such of the police powers of the state as may be necessary to maintain peace and order and...
• § 12-3-236.1 - Adoption and Enforcement of Ordinances and Resolutions
  (a) The authority shall have legislative power to adopt reasonable ordinances and resolutions relating to the property, affairs, and government of Jekyll Island, including,...
• § 12-3-236.2 - Continuation of Ordinances and Resolutions of Authority in Force As of April 13, 1981
  All of the provisions of any ordinances and resolutions adopted by the authority and which, as of April 13, 1981, are in force and...
• § 12-3-237 - Rules and Regulations for Operation of Projects Authorized
  It shall be the duty of the authority to prescribe rules and regulations for the operation of each project or combination of projects constructed...
• § 12-3-238 - Easements and Rights of Way for Intracoastal Waterway
  The authority shall be authorized to execute to the United States of America such spoilage easements and rights of way in the property leased...
• § 12-3-239 - Establishment of Museum
  The authority shall retain all books, china, furnishings, materials, and other personal property which are intrinsically associated with the history of Jekyll Island and...
• § 12-3-240 - Transfer of Funds to Authority; Cooperation Between Authority and Department
  The Office of Planning and Budget is authorized to transfer sufficient funds in the manner provided in Code Section 45-12-72 to provide for the...
• § 12-3-241 - Lease to Authority of Jekyll Island, Adjacent Marshes and Marsh Islands, Rights of Way, and Rights and Privileges of Every Kind
  (a) To the authority is granted, for and on the part of the State of Georgia, a lease for a term of 99 years,...
• § 12-3-242 - Lease Payments by Authority As Constituting Good, Valuable, and Sufficient Consideration
  It is found, determined, and declared that the consideration paid and given and to be paid and given to the State of Georgia by...
• § 12-3-243 - Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority -- Limitations on Developed Area; Beaches to Remain Free and Open; Protected Areas; Disposition of Proceeds of Sale; Creation of Reserve Fund; Signing Conveyances
  (a) (1) (A) The authority is empowered to convert no more than 1,675 acres of the total land area of Jekyll Island into developed...
• § 12-3-243.1 - Master Plan As to Jekyll Island; Maintenance; Contents; Adherence to Plan; Amendments
  (a) The authority shall maintain a master plan for the management, preservation, protection, and development of Jekyll Island. The master plan shall delineate, based...
• § 12-3-244 - Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority -- Sale and Lease Restrictions
  The leasing and sale of subdivided lots shall be under restrictive limitations as to the use, style, and character of the structures allowable thereon...
• § 12-3-245 - Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority -- Term of Leases; Assignment; Preservation, Continuance, and Survival of Rights and Privileges
  The leasing of the subdivided lots shall be for not more than 99 years. Such leases as the authority shall designate may be made...
• § 12-3-246 - Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority -- Limitation As to Number of Lots to Be Leased or Sold to One Party
  (a) Subject to the exceptions provided in subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) of this Code section, no person, partnership, or corporation except the...
• § 12-3-247 - Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority -- Conditions on Sale of Residential Lots; Sale of Commercial Property; Sale Price; Payment of State's Share Into State Treasury
  (a) The authority shall not sell any residential lot unless obligated to do so under the terms of a valid lease agreement entered into...
• § 12-3-248 - Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority -- Sales of Property for Which Approval by General Assembly is Required
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the authority shall under no circumstances sell any real property on Jekyll Island on which a building...
• § 12-3-249 - Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority -- Publication of Schedule of Lease Rentals; Applications Exceeding Available Lots; Leasing by Negotiation; Leases As Constituting Contracts
  (a) The lots in the various subdivisions created on Jekyll Island by the authority may be leased either singly or in groups deemed appropriate...
• § 12-3-250 - Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority -- Conversion Prices of Lots
  Immediately upon the approval of this part, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the authority shall prepare and publish a conversion price for each...
• § 12-3-251 - Subdivision, Improvement, Lease, or Sale of Island by Authority -- Leases to Counties for Charitable Purposes
  (a) The authority is directed, as soon as it deems it feasible to do so, to set aside sufficient land on Jekyll Island to...
• § 12-3-252 - Revenue Bonds -- Issuance by Authority; Payment of Principal and Interest From Special Fund; Dating of Bonds; Determination of Rate of Interest; Medium of Payment; Redemption Before Maturity
  The authority, or any authority or body which has succeeded or which may succeed to the powers, duties, and liabilities vested in the authority...
• § 12-3-253 - Revenue Bonds -- Form of Bonds; Denominations; Place of Payment of Principal and Interest; Issuance in Coupon or Registered Form; Registration of Coupon Bonds
  The authority shall determine the form of the bonds, including any interest coupons to be attached thereto, and shall fix the denomination or denominations...
• § 12-3-254 - Revenue Bonds -- Signatures; Seal
  In case any officer whose signature shall appear on any bonds or whose facsimile signature shall appear on any coupon shall cease to be...
• § 12-3-255 - Revenue Bonds -- Status As Negotiable Instruments
  All revenue bonds issued under this part shall have and are declared to have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the...
• § 12-3-256 - Revenue Bonds -- Manner of Sale; Determination of Price
  The authority may sell such bonds in such manner and for such price as it may determine to be for the best interests of...
• § 12-3-257 - Revenue Bonds -- Use and Manner of Disbursement of Proceeds; Procedure Where Proceeds are Less Than or Greater Than Cost of Projects
  The proceeds of such bonds shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of the project or combined project and shall be...
• § 12-3-258 - Revenue Bonds -- Issuance of Interim Receipts, Interim Certificates, and Temporary Bonds
  Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the authority may, under the restrictions expressed in Code Section 12-3-257, issue interim receipts, interim certificates, or...
• § 12-3-259 - Revenue Bonds -- Replacement of Mutilated, Destroyed, or Lost Bonds
  The authority may provide for the replacement of any bond which becomes mutilated or is destroyed or lost.
• § 12-3-260 - Revenue Bonds -- Bonds of a Single Issue As Payment for One or More Projects; Immediate Effectiveness of Resolutions Providing for Issuance of Bonds; Time and Manner of Passage of Resolutions
  Revenue bonds may be issued without the conducting of any proceedings, or the satisfaction of any conditions, or the happening of any events other...
• § 12-3-261 - Revenue Bonds -- Status As Constituting Debt or Pledge of Faith and Credit of State; Effect of Issuance on Obligation of State to Tax or Make Appropriation; Recitals on Face of Bonds
  Revenue bonds issued under this part shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the State of Georgia or a pledge of the...
• § 12-3-262 - Revenue Bonds -- Securing by Trust Indenture
  (a) In the discretion of the authority, any issue of such revenue bonds may be secured by a trust indenture by and between the...
• § 12-3-263 - Revenue Bonds -- Payment of Proceeds to Trustee
  The authority shall, in the resolution providing for issuance of revenue bonds or in the trust indenture, provide for the payment of the proceeds...
• § 12-3-264 - Revenue Bonds -- Pledging and Allocating Funds to Payment of Bonds; Establishment of Sinking Fund for Payment of Principal, Interest, and Other Costs
  (a) The revenues, rents, and earnings derived from any particular project or combined projects; any and all funds from any source received by any...
• § 12-3-265 - Revenue Bonds -- Remedies of Bondholders, Coupon Holders, and Trustees
  (a) Any holder of revenue bonds or interest coupons issued under this part, any receiver for such holders, or any indenture trustee, if there...
• § 12-3-266 - Revenue Bonds -- Revenue Refunding Bonds
  The authority is authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of revenue refunding bonds of the authority for the purpose of refunding any...
• § 12-3-267 - Revenue Bonds -- Status As Legal Investment and As Securities for Deposits
  The bonds authorized by this part are made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state; all municipalities and all municipal...
• § 12-3-268 - Revenue Bonds -- Protection of Bondholders; Part As Constituting a Contract With Bondholders
  While any of the bonds issued by the authority remain outstanding, the powers, duties, or existence of the authority, or of its officers, employees,...
• § 12-3-269 - Revenue Bonds -- Validation
  Bonds of the authority shall be confirmed and validated in accordance with the procedure provided by Article 3 of Chapter 82 of Title 36....
• § 12-3-270 - Use of Rentals and Other Charges Collected From Leases and Contracts for Projects; Obligations Under Lease Contracts With Authority; Failure or Refusal of Lessee to Perform; Assignment of Rentals Due
  (a) The authority is authorized to fix rentals and other charges which any department, board, commission, authority, or agency of the State of Georgia...
• § 12-3-271 - Utilization of Income and Revenues
  All income and revenues arising out of the operation of Jekyll Island State Park, and all gifts, grants, appropriations, or bond or loan proceeds...
• § 12-3-272 - Acceptance by Authority of Grants and Contributions
  The authority, in addition to the moneys which may be received from the sale of revenue bonds and from the collection of revenues, rents,...
• § 12-3-273 - Moneys Received by Authority As Constituting Trust Funds
  All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this part, whether as proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds, as grants or other contributions,...
• § 12-3-274 - Authority Property, Activities, Income, and Bonds Exempt From Taxation and Assessment
  It is found, determined, and declared that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purpose are in all respects...
• § 12-3-275 - Venue and Jurisdiction for Actions Under Part
  Any action to protect or enforce any rights under this part shall be brought in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, and any...
• § 12-3-276 - Supplemental Nature of Part
  This part shall be deemed to provide an additional and alternative method for the doing of the things authorized thereby and shall be regarded...
• § 12-3-277 - Construction of Part
  This part, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof.

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