Section 48-8-245. Collection of tax; cessation of tax

   (a) If the imposition of the special district transportation sales and use tax is approved at the special election, the collection of such tax shall begin on the first day of the next succeeding calendar quarter beginning more than 80 days after the date of the election. With respect to services which are regularly billed on a monthly basis, however, the tax shall become effective with respect to and the tax shall apply to services billed on or after the effective date specified in the previous sentence.

(b) The tax shall cease to be imposed on the earliest of the following dates:

   (1) On the final day of the ten-year period of time specified for the imposition of the tax; or

   (2) As of the end of the calendar quarter during which the state revenue commissioner determines that the tax has raised revenues sufficient to provide to the special district net proceeds equal to or greater than the amount specified as the estimated amount of net proceeds to be raised by the special district transportation tax.

(c) (1) No more than a single 1 percent tax under this article may be collected at any time within a special district.

   (2) Upon the enactment by the General Assembly of a Special Regional Transportation Funding Election Act and the adoption of resolutions by the governing bodies of a majority of the counties within a special district in which a tax authorized by this article is in effect, an election may be held for the reimposition of the tax while the tax is in effect. Proceedings for the development of an investment list and for the reimposition of a tax shall be in the same manner as provided for in Code Section 48-8-243.

   (3) Following the expiration of the special district transportation sales and use tax under this article, or following a special election in which voters in a special district rejected the imposition of the tax, upon the passage by the General Assembly of a Special Regional Transportation Funding Election Act and the adoption of resolutions by the governing bodies of a majority of counties within a special district, an election may be held for the imposition of a tax under this article in the same manner as provided in this article for the initial imposition of such tax. Such subsequent election shall be held on the date of a state-wide general primary. The development of the investment list for such special district shall follow the dates established in Code Section 48-8-243 with the years adjusted appropriately, and such schedule shall be posted on a website developed by the state revenue commissioner to be used exclusively for matters related to the special district transportation sales and use tax within 30 days of the later of the state revenue commissioner's receipt of notice from the final county governing body required to adopt a resolution or of the passage of the Special Regional Transportation Funding Election Act by the General Assembly.

Code 1981, § 48-8-245, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 778, § 6/HB 277.