Publication Date
1967
Abstract
The time has come to think seriously and in detail about municipal annexation. Probably no other subject in local government law is receiving attention equal to that currently being directed to the expansion of municipal boundary lines. This is not to suggest that other considerations are unimportant; but necessarily much of the thinking on -this subject must be legal in nature. As with many other matters, the law is expected to solve where not even devils would think to trod.
The continuation of the great American exodus from rural to urban areas, and the consequent swing of the political spotlight, increases the demands for fresh insights into old problems. Evidencing the point, however, that no single satisfactory legal approach to municipal annexation has yet emerged is the amount of experimentation now ram- pant across the country. Surveyors delight in pointing up the different entities in which annexation control is finally vested in the various states, and in describing the consequences which appear to emanate -from each arrangement. In some jurisdictions the state legislatures remain all powerful," in others control has been directly vested in the people involved in the annexation. Some states have taken the step of delegating annexation power to the municipalities themselves; and still others have felt the need for requiring some type of outside approval-either judicial or administrative.
Recommended Citation
Sentell,, R. Perry Jr.
(1967)
"The Law of Municipal Annexation in Georgia: Evolution of a Concept?,"
Georgia Law Review: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/glr/vol2/iss1/6