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The last instance of such a default took place during the Great Depression, in 1933, when the state of Arkansas defaulted on its highway bonds, which had long-lasting consequences for the state. [1] Current U.S. bankruptcy law, an area governed by federal law, does not allow a state to file for bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy Code. [2]
According to the 2010 United States census, Georgia was the 8th most populous state with 9,688,681 inhabitants and the 21st largest by land area spanning 57,513.49 square miles (148,959.3 km 2) of land. [1] Georgia is divided into 159 counties and contains 535 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, consolidated city-counties, and ...
Strip annexation was widely used by the municipalities of the Phoenix metropolitan area during the 1970s to preemptively gain control of large areas of land before other municipalities, without having to annex more than a thin strip surrounding a large so-called county island. The strip protected the county island from being annexed by other ...
Atlanta city seal. The city government of Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States is composed of a mayor and a body of one councilman from each of 12 districts, a City Council President, and 3 other at-large councilmen: Post 1 representing districts 1-4; Post 2 representing districts 5-8; Post 3 representing districts 9-12
The Georgian Law on Self Government defines a municipality as a settlement (town or city; ქალაქი, k'alak'i) or a unity of settlement (community; თემი, t'emi) with defined boundaries, administrative center, as well as representative and executive bodies of government, and possesses their own assets, budget, and income.
15 Reasons You Should Drive To, Not Through, This Georgia City. July 8, 2019 at 1:45 PM. It’s on the way to cool places, but you should stop right here sometime. Show comments.
The municipalities were first established in 2006. Most of them were successors to the earlier subdivisions, known as raioni (რაიონი), "districts". In addition, new municipalities were formed to govern those settlements in the disputed entities of Abkhazia and South Ossetia that at the time remained under Georgia's control.
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