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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
To create the City of Johns Creek Parks and Recreation Authority; to authorize such
authority to acquire, construct, equip, maintain, and operate or contract for services
to provide athletic and recreational centers, facilities, and areas, including, but
not limited to, playgrounds, parks, hiking, camping, and picnicking areas and facilities,
swimming and wading pools, lakes, tennis courts, athletic fields and courts, clubhouses,
gymnasiums, auditoriums, youth centers, senior citizen centers, stadiums, performing
arts centers, cultural centers, related buildings, golf courses, and the usual and
convenient facilities appertaining to such undertakings and extensions and improvements
of such facilities; to acquire parking facilities and parking areas in connection
therewith; to acquire the necessary property therefor, both real and personal, and
to lease or sell any or all of such facilities, including real property; to confer
powers and to impose duties on the authority, the determination of which shall be
in the sole discretion of the mayor and city council; to provide for the membership
and for the appointment of members of the authority; to authorize the authority to
contract with others pertaining to such recreational facilities, including the authority
to contract for services to operate any facility or portion thereof, to execute leases
of such facilities, to convey title to real property of the authority in fee simple,
and to do all things deemed necessary or convenient for the operation of such undertakings;
to authorize the authority and other political subdivisions to enter into contracts
pertaining to uses of such facilities for the term thereof and to pledge to that purpose
revenues derived from taxation; to provide that no debt of Fulton County or the City
of Johns Creek or other political subdivisions, within the meaning of Article IX,
Section III, Paragraph I of the Constitution of the State of Georgia [Georgia Constitution
article IX, § III, ¶ I], shall be incurred by exercise of the powers granted; to authorize
the issuance of revenue bonds or obligations of the authority; to authorize the collection
and pledging of the revenues and earnings of the authority for the payment of such
bonds or obligations and to secure the payment thereof; to define the rights of the
holders of such bonds or obligations; to make the property of the authority exempt
from taxation and assessment; to grant the authority and its members certain immunities;
to authorize the issuance of refunding bonds or obligations; to fix the venue or jurisdiction
of actions; to provide that bonds be validated as authorized by Article 3 of Chapter
82 of Title 36 of the O.C.G.A., the "Revenue Bond Law" [O.C.G.A. § 36-82-60 et seq.];
to provide for construction; to provide for personnel; to provide for conveyance of
property upon dissolution; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
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