Collection and distribution of revenues.

(b) The governing authority of each county shall take into consideration any increase or decrease in the duties and responsibilities of the offices of the tax commissioner and the clerk of the superior court required by this article in establishing the annual budget for each such office and, where applicable, the affected officers shall cooperate fully in any transferring of responsibilities required under this Code section.

(c) The collecting officer, on the basis of the tax commissioner’s or tax collector’s records and of certificates which shall be supplied by each school district, municipality, and other tax district in the county, shall distribute at least monthly the revenue collected under this article. Each year the millage rates used in the distributions of revenue under this Code section shall be based upon the immediately preceding year’s millage rate of each participating tax authority as provided in this article.

(d) Revenue derived from taxes under this article shall be divided among the state and all other tax jurisdictions and districts including, but not limited to, county and municipal districts, which levy or cause to be levied for their benefit a property tax on real and tangible personal property having the same taxable situs as the real property which is the subject of the intangible tax. The distribution shall be made according to the proportion that the millage rate levied for the state and each other tax jurisdiction or district respectively bears to the total millage rate levied for all purposes applicable to real and tangible personal property having the same taxable situs as the subject of the intangible tax. The revenue distributed to municipalities having independent school systems supported by taxes levied by the municipality shall be divided between the municipality and the independent school system according to the proportion that the millage rate levied by the municipality for nonschool purposes and the millage rate levied for school purposes bear to the total millage rate levied by the municipality for all purposes. The tax levied by this article shall be deemed to be levied by the participating tax authorities in the proportion that the millage rate of each participating tax authority bears to the aggregate millage rate of all the participating tax authorities.

(e) In the event any distribution or part of a distribution as provided in this article is adjudged to be invalid for any reason, such distribution or part of a distribution shall be paid into the general fund of the state in the same manner and for the same purposes as provided in this article for the state’s share of the revenues derived from the tax imposed by this article. History. Ga. L. 1955, p. 730, § 1; Code 1933, § 91A-3217, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1843, § 4; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1767, § 5; Ga. L. 1996, p. 117, § 6; Ga. L. 1996, p. 130, § 6; Ga. L. 1997, p. 523, § 2. Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 1996, p. 117, § 9, provides that the Act shall not repeal any provision of Ga. L. 1996, p. 130 if Ga. L. 1996, p. 130 is passed at the 1996 regular session of the General Assembly, becomes law, and becomes effective. Ga. L. 1996, p. 130, § 9, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that the provisions of the Act shall not repeal but shall supersede and control over any conflicting provisions of any other Act enacted at the 1996 regular session, including, but not limited to, Ga. L. 1996, p. 117. Ga. L. 1996, p. 130, § 9, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the 1996 amendment enacted by that Act becomes effective on January 1, 1997, and shall be applicable to all taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 1996, upon the ratification of House Resolution 734 (Ga. L. 1996, p. 1665) at the November 1996 general election; if such resolution is not ratified, the amendment shall not become effective and shall stand repealed on January 1, 1997. That resolution passed at the November 1996 general election, so the amendment took effect on January 1, 1997. RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. 85 C.J.S., Taxation, § 1823.