Chapter 99 CHARTER

Section 99-00 TABLE OF CONTENTS AND ACT

CHARTER*

Art.    I.    Incorporation and Powers,    1.10--1.13

Art.    II.    Government Structure,   2.10--2.35

Art.    III.    Administrative Affairs,    3.10--3.19

Art.    IV.    Judicial Branch,    4.10--4.17

Art.    V.    Elections,   5.10--5.22

Art.    VI.    Finance,    6.10--6.26

Art.    VII.    Airport,   7.10--7.12

Art.    VIII.    Pensions,   8.10--8.21

Art.    IX.    Utilities System,   9.10--9.17

Art.    X.    Gas System,    10.1, 10.2

Art.    XI.    Schools and Board of Education,     11.1--11.13

Art.    XII.    Street Improvements,   12.1--12.4

Art.    XIII.    Thomasville Payroll Development Authority,    13.1, 13.2

Art.    XIV.    General Provisions,    14.10--14.16

 AN ACT

     To provide a new charter for the City of Thomasville, Georgia; to provide for  name, reincorporation, boundaries, and powers of the city; to provide for a governing authority of such city and the powers, duties, authority, election, terms, method of filling vacancies, compensation, qualifications, oaths, prohibitions, and removal from office relative to members of such governing  authority; to provide for inquiries and investigations; to provide for council districts; to provide for  organization, meetings, and procedures; to provide for ordinances and codes; to provide for the  office of mayor and the office of vice chairman and certain duties and powers relative to such offices; to provide for administrative responsibilities; to provide for boards, commissions, and authorities; to provide for a city manager, a city attorney, a city clerk, a city treasurer, and other  personnel and their powers and duties; to provide for personnel administration; to provide for rules and regulations; to provide for a municipal court and the judge or judges thereof and their  qualifications, compensation, removal, and oath; to provide for practices and procedures and jurisdiction and powers of the court; to provide for elections; to provide for finances, taxation, fees,  and licenses; to provide for franchises, service charges, assessments, and collection thereof; to provide for bonded and other indebtedness; to provide for accounting and budgeting; to provide for purchases; to provide for a municipal airport; to provide for municipal pensions and taxes and  conditions and procedures relating thereto; to provide for social security; to provide for a municipal  utilities system and commission; to provide for a municipal gas system; to provide for an independent school system; to provide for a board of education and its composition, election, terms,  vacancies, qualifications, and districts; to provide for its organization, meetings, power, and authority; to provide for taxation for education; to provide for street and other public improvements and assessments and liens therefor and collection thereof; to provide a text of the  constitutional amendment relating to the Thomasville Payroll Development Authority and for the  statutory construction of certain terms; to provide for the acquisition and disposition of property; to provide for bonds for officials; to provide for eminent domain; to provide for prior ordinances and  pending matters; to provide for penalties; to provide for definitions and construction; to provide for  other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide for severability; to repeal specific acts; to provide  an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: