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LUELLA

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ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 1912
PART III.--CORPORATIONS
TITLE I. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.

1912 Vol. 1 -- Page: 1082

Sequential Number: 246

Short Title: LUELLA, TOWN OF, INCORPORATED.
Law Number: No. 600.

Full Title: An Act to incorporate the town of Luella, in the County of Henry, State of Georgia, to define the corporate limits thereof, to provide for officers thereof, define their duties, powers, and privileges, and for other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of same, That the town of Luella, in the County of Henry, be and is hereby incorporated under the name of Luella, by which name it may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of said town shall extend one-half mile from a point in the center of the road where the Griffin and McDonough road intersects the Hampton and Locust Grove road at Luella.

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SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That said town shall be officered and its corporate affairs directed and controlled by a Mayor and four Councilmen, whose term of office shall be one year, and who shall be elected by the qualified voters of said town. Any person residing within said town thirty days prior to the time of an election and otherwise qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall be eligible as a town elector. The first election under this Act for Mayor and Councilmen shall be held on the second Saturday in December, 1912. The Mayor and four Councilmen, herein, named below, shall serve from the approval, of this Act until their successors are elected and qualified. The term of the Mayor and Councilmen shall be for a term of one year from the first Monday in January of each year and until their successors are elected and qualified.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall elect one member of said Council as clerk, and may also elect a marshal and pay him such compensation as they may fix prior to his election.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That all the powers and duties contained in Section 696, 697, 698, 699, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, of the Code of Georgia of 1895, Volume 1, are hereby adopted and made a part of this Act.

SEC. 6. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the following named persons shall from the passage of this Act serve as Mayor and Councilmen: until the first Monday in January, 1913, to-wit: R. F. Nutt, Mayor; B. F. Thompson, W. H. Bailey, Van Turner and Grover Standard, Councilmen.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have authority to cause the roads, streets,

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and lanes of said town to be worked in said town by the residents therein subject to road duty, and to levy such a road tax as they may deem for the best interest of the town. Said Mayor and Council shall have authority to make any and all by-laws, rules and regulations or ordinances, necessary for the government of said town and the peace and good order thereof, and to fix license fees for the transaction of business in said town, which are not inconsistent with the laws and the Constitution of this State; to punish by fine and imprisonment or both, in the discretion of the Mayor, said Mayor hereby being specifically clothed with authority to try offenders against the ordinances of said town, and is empowered to punish such offenders by a fine of not more than $50.00 or by work on the public streets of said town not exceeding thirty days, either or both of such penalties. The Mayor and Council shall have authority to fix the costs in the violation of the ordinances of said town, and upon conviction, said costs shall be taxed against the offender so convicted.
SEC. 8. The Mayor and Council shall be empowered to levy and collect taxes for the support of the government of said town not to exceed one mill on the assessed value of the property of said corporation, with which shall be paid the compensation allowed the Mayor and Councilmen and all other employees of the said town of Luella.

SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

Approval Date: Approved August 19, 1912.

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