Georgia Code, Title 32, Chapter 3, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 32-3-1 - Authority to Acquire Property for Present or Future Public Road or Other Transportation Purposes
  (a) Any property may be acquired in fee simple or in any lesser interest, including scenic easements, airspace, and rights of access, by a...
• § 32-3-2 - Acquisition Procedure Generally; Recording Order and Judgment or Instrument of Conveyance; Filing Order and Judgment or Instrument in Records of Department
  All acquisition of property or interests for public road and other transportation purposes shall proceed under the methods set out in this article and...
• § 32-3-3 - Acquisition of Property by Devise, Exchange, Prescription, or Dedication; Acquisition by County or Municipality on Behalf of Department
  (a) The department or any county or municipality is authorized to accept donations, transfers, or devises of land from private persons, from the federal...
• § 32-3-3.1 - Relocation or Reconstruction of Outdoor Advertising Sign; Requirements
  (a) When rights of way or real property or interests therein are acquired by a state agency, county, or municipality for public road purposes...
• § 32-3-4 - Authority to Bring Condemnation Proceedings
  (a) Whenever any state agency, county, or municipality desires to take or damage private property, including scenic easements, air rights, rights of access, and...
• § 32-3-5 - Contents of Condemnation Petition; Notice
  (a) The petition referred to in Code Section 32-3-4 shall set forth: (1) The facts showing the right to condemn; (2) The property or...
• § 32-3-6 - Filing Declaration of Taking; Contents of and Attachments to Declaration; Conclusive Nature of Order of Condemnation by Condemning Authority
  (a) In addition to the petition filed pursuant to Code Section 32-3-4, the petitioner shall also file with the court a declaration of taking...
• § 32-3-7 - Deposit of Estimated Compensation; Vesting of Title in Condemning Authority; Protection of Due Process Rights
  (a) Upon the filing of the declaration of taking and the deposit into court, which deposit shall be made at the time the declaration...
• § 32-3-8 - Service of Process in Condemnation Proceedings Generally
  (a) Upon the filing of the petition and declaration, where the owner or owners of the property sought to be condemned or any person...
• § 32-3-9 - Service of Nonresidents in Condemnation Proceedings
  (a) If a nonresident of this state owns the property condemned or any interest therein, whether such interest is as the owner of the...
• § 32-3-10 - Substantial Compliance With Code Sections 32-3-8 and 32-3-9
  (a) The proceeding described in this article being in rem, no provision in Code Sections 32-3-8 and 32-3-9 as to service shall be so...
• § 32-3-11 - Power of Judge to Set Aside, Vacate, and Annul Declaration of Taking; Issuance and Service on Condemnor of Rule Nisi; Hearing
  (a) Upon proper pleadings and evidence, under the applicable rules of law, the judge of the superior court shall have the authority to set...
• § 32-3-12 - Orders of Court for Payment of Award in Condemnation Proceedings, for Surrender of Property, and As to Other Charges
  (a) Upon the application of the parties in interest, and not earlier than 15 days subsequent to the date of the last advertisement in...
• § 32-3-13 - Self-Executing Nature of Declaration of Taking; Court Costs; Entry of Judgment; Transfer of Case to Closed Docket; Effect of Code Section on Condemnor's Title
  (a) No judgment of any court and no order or ruling of the judge thereof shall be necessary to give effect to the declaration...
• § 32-3-14 - Filing Notice of Appeal
  If the owner, or any of the owners, or any person having a claim against or interest in the property is dissatisfied with the...
• § 32-3-15 - Interlocutory Hearing on Amount of Compensation
  (a) An appeal having been filed as provided in Code Section 32-3-14, the appellant or appellants, at any time before the beginning of the...
• § 32-3-16 - Appeal to Jury; Evidence to Be Heard on Appeal; Subsequent Review of Issues Not Brought Before Jury
  (a) After the notice of appeal has been filed as provided in Code Section 32-3-14, it shall be the duty of the court at...
• § 32-3-17 - Right to Intervene in Proceedings; Effect of Subsequent Proceedings on Rights of Condemnor
  (a) No provision of this article in reference to any rule or order, or time for responding thereto, shall be held or construed to...
• § 32-3-17.1 - Decisions Upon Questions of Law; Power of Judge to Give Necessary Orders and Directions; Jury Trial in Open Court Only
  All questions of law arising upon the pleadings or in any other way arising from the cause, subsequent to the filing of the declaration...
• § 32-3-18 - Prevention or Delay of Vesting of Title in Condemnor
  No appeal in any cause under this article and no bond or undertaking given shall operate to prevent or delay the vesting of title...
• § 32-3-19 - Jury Verdict; Entry of Judgment; Interest on Award; Commissions and Poundage; Transfer of Case to Closed Docket; Effect of Code Section on Condemnor's Title
  (a) The verdict of the jury shall have respect to the lands described in the declaration of taking as set forth in Code Section...
• § 32-3-20 - Effect of Article on Other Methods of Condemnation
  In cases involving condemnation of private property for public road purposes or any other public transportation purpose, this article shall be supplementary to and...

Last modified: October 14, 2016