Georgia Legislative Watch

HB161 – Right of way acquisition; additional method; definitions; provisions
Sponsored by: Lunsford,John 110th

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 32 and 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating, respectively, to highways, bridges, and ferries and revenue and taxation, so as to provide for an additional method of right of way acquisition by the Department of Transportation; to provide for income tax credits with respect to qualified right of way acquisition; to provide for definitions; to provide for conditions, limitations, and exclusions; to provide for authority of the state revenue commissioner and the Department of Transportation with respect to the foregoing; to provide for reassessment of property with respect to which a right of way has been acquired; to provide an effective date; to provide for applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.