Georgia Code|§ 36-36-30. "Municipal Corporation" Defined

                                                
 As used in this article, the term "municipal corporation" means a municipal corporation which has a population of 200 or more persons according to the United States decennial census of 1960 or any future such census. 
 
 (Ga. L. 1966, p. 409, § 7; Code 1981, §36-36-20; Code 1981, §36-36-30, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2592, § 3.) 
  Editor's notes.  
 - Ga. L. 1992, p. 2592, § 3, effective July 1, 1992, renumbered former Code Section 36-36-20 as present Code Section 36-36-30. 
 
 JUDICIAL DECISIONS 
 
 City failed to comply with publishing requirements. 
 
 - Trial court properly granted summary judgment in favor of a county because the city failed to publish a notice as required by O.C.G.A. § 36-36-36(a) that accurately described the property to be annexed; thus, the city failed to comply, or to substantially comply, with the requirements of that statute. City of Lovejoy v. Clayton County, 335 Ga. App. 881, 783 S.E.2d 395 (2016). 
 
 Cited in City of Brookhaven v. City of Chamblee, 329 Ga. App. 346, 765 S.E.2d 33 (2014); City of Atlanta v. Mays, 301 Ga. 367, 801 S.E.2d 1 (2017). 
 
 RESEARCH REFERENCES 
 
 C.J.S. 
 
 - 62 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, §§ 24, 25.