Abstract
The initial question in evaluating the ability of a municipal corporation to control the affairs of its citizens is the existence of an allocation of power from the state sovereign. Once such power is found, Georgia courts traditionally view any activity within the scope of that power as a privilege of citizenship in a municipal corporation, controlled at the generally unrestricted discretion of the local government. But when and how do such privileges become rights? With an overview of the typical positions taken by Georgia courts on the power of local governments to control the affairs of their citizens, Professor Sentell illustrates how local ordinances often turn discretionary privileges into obligatory rights.
Repository Citation
R. Perry Sentell Jr.,
Discretion in Georgia Local Government Law
(1974),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/64
Georgia Law Review, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Spring 1974), pp. 614-648