§ 8-201. Municipal stadium.  


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  • The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah are authorized and empowered to appropriate from the City treasury such sum or sums as may be necessary to construct an athletic stadium or park upon such location within or without the corporate limits of the City of Savannah as shall be selected by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah. The said Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah shall have power to purchase or otherwise acquire such location; to operate and maintain said stadium or park after construction; to establish and enforce rules and regulations governing the use of such stadium or park; [and] to charge admission into said stadium or park upon such occasions as may be determined by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah or any committee of council appointed for such purpose. The Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah are hereby authorized by the authority aforesaid to enter into an agreement with the Park and Tree Commission of the City of Savannah, created under the Act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, approved November 30, 1895, for the use of any portion of any park or public place now or hereafter under the control or management of said Park and Tree Commission, for the construction of such stadium thereon and for the maintenance, control and operation of said stadium, and for the return of the money appropriated by the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah for the construction of such stadium from the income to be derived from its operation. The authority is expressly conferred upon said Park and Tree Commission to enter into such agreement with the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah.

(1924 Ga. Laws, page 683, § 4)