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Introduced Session

AN ACT To create and establish the Richmond Hill-Bryan County Airport Authority, a new airport authority in and for the County of Bryan and the City of Richmond Hill; to authorize such authority to acquire, construct, equip, maintain, operate, own, and improve airports and landing fields for the use of aircraft which shall include related buildings, equipment, and the usual and convenient facilities appertaining to such undertaking; to authorize the authority to acquire, lease, own, and hold a fee simple title, or any interest therein, to all necessary property therefor, both real and personal, within and outside the confines of Bryan County and to convey, lease, and sell any and all such facilities including real property; to confer powers and to impose duties on the authority; to provide for the membership and for the appointment of members of the authority and their term of tenure and their compensation; to authorize the authority to contract with others, both within and outside the confines of Bryan County, pertaining to airports and landing fields for the use of aircraft and to execute leases of such facilities and to do all things deemed necessary or convenient for the operation of such undertaking; to authorize the issuance of revenue bonds or obligations of the authority payable from the revenues, tolls, fees, charges, and earnings of the authority, including, but not limited to, earnings derived from leases and the use of the facilities, to pay the costs of such undertakings and to authorize the collection and pledging of the revenues and earnings of the authority for the payment of such bonds or obligations or to secure the LC 62 0171/AP payment thereof by contract, mortgage, deed to secure debt, security deed note, or trust deed and to define the rights of the holders of such bonds and securities; to provide that no liability or debt against the aforementioned city or county shall be incurred in the exercise of any powers granted by this Act; to make the bonds, securities, or obligations of the authority exempt from taxation; to authorize the issuance of refunding bonds, securities, or other obligations; to provide that such bonds, securities, or other obligations be validated as authorized by the "Revenue Bond Law"; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

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Lehman Franklin (R)*,  Jesse Petrea (R)*,  Ron Stephens (R)*, 

Effective Date 2025-05-01 (on 05/01/2025)

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