{"id":1264,"date":"2011-11-16T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/57-year-overdue-house-cleaning-barbara-stratton.html"},"modified":"2011-11-16T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T21:08:25","slug":"57-year-overdue-house-cleaning-barbara-stratton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/57-year-overdue-house-cleaning-barbara-stratton.html","title":{"rendered":"57 year overdue house cleaning —Barbara Stratton"},"content":{"rendered":"Received today on\n\nRepealing the 1928 GA School Consolidation Law<\/a>. -jsq\n
\nThe 1926 statute that needs to be removed is\n\nOCGA 20-2-370.<\/a> The\n<\/a>\n\n1983 constitutional law<\/a>\nhad priority of law precedence over the older statute &\nCUEE was advised before they asked for signatures it could be protested\non those grounds before or after the vote. Thankfully we did not have to\ngo that route. I remember in high school I did a project on outdated laws\nstill in the GA Constitution including mandatory hanging for horse theft\n(which I liked). There was also a law if you hit & killed a cow or pig\non the road you were required to get out & slit the throat so the owner\ncould salvage the meat & many others that were outdated & no longer\nenforced. I trust these have now been removed. The general assembly\nshould be thankful that we are addressing this 57 year overdue need for\nhouse cleaning & remedy this in January. Rule of Law should never remain\nquestionable when it is the duty of our lawmakers to provide clarity.\n

\n-Barbara Stratton\n<\/blockquote>\nAccording to Justia.com:<\/a>\n

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\n2010 Georgia Code\n
\nTITLE 20 – EDUCATION\n
\nCHAPTER 2 – ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION\n
\nARTICLE 8 – CONSOLIDATION OF INDEPENDENT AND COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEMS\n
\n\u00a7 20-2-370 – Referendum on repeal of special school law and consolidation of systems<\/H3>\n
\nO.C.G.A. 20-2-370 (2010)\n
\n20-2-370. Referendum on repeal of special school law and consolidation of systems\n

\nWhenever the citizens of a municipality or independent school district\nauthorized by law to establish and maintain a system of schools by local\ntaxation in whole or in part are operating a system of public schools\nindependent of the county school system and wish to annul their special\nschool law and become a part of the county school system, they shall\npresent and file with the governing authority of the city a petition\nsigned by one-fourth of the qualified voters of their territory; and the\ngoverning authority shall then submit the question at an election to\nbe held in accordance with Chapter 2 of Title 21. A majority of those\nvoting shall be necessary to carry the election. Only qualified voters\nresiding within the municipality or district for six months prior to\nthe election shall vote. An election shall not be held for the same\npurpose more often than every 12 months.\n

\nDisclaimer: These codes may not be the most recent version. Georgia\nmay have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties\nor guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the\ninformation contained on this site or the information linked to on the\nstate site. Please check official sources.\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received today on Repealing the 1928 GA School Consolidation Law. -jsq The 1926 statute that needs to be removed is OCGA 20-2-370. The 1983 constitutional law had priority of law precedence over the older statute & CUEE was advised before they asked for signatures it could be protested on those grounds before or after the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,48,40,1376,14,15,49,3305,8,19,20,21,22],"tags":[1636,3404,8829,8705,1484,8869,8701,8710,753,7,1486,3411,3410,1635,6],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-code-enforcement","category-community","category-cuee","category-economy","category-education","category-elections","category-fvcs","category-georgia","category-history","category-law","category-planning","category-politics","tag-consolidation","tag-constitution","tag-cuee","tag-education","tag-election","tag-fvcs","tag-georgia","tag-law","tag-legislature","tag-lowndes-county","tag-referendum","tag-repeal","tag-schools","tag-unification","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-ko","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}