ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 1937 PART I.--GENERAL PUBLIC LAWS TITLE VIII. HIGHWAYS OF THE STATE. 1937 Vol. 1 -- Page: 991 Sequential Number: 226 Short Title: FULTON COUNTY ADDITION. Law Number: No. 211. Full Title: An Act to amend an Act popularly known as the Traylor-Neill Bill, approved August 20, 1929, and published in Georgia Laws 1929, beginning on Page 260 through and including page 268, and having attached thereto a map, which map is known as Traylor-Neill Map, and which map appears in said Act between pages 268 and 269, of the Georgia Laws of 1929, so as to add to said map and to the highway mileage of the State (at the option of the State Highway Department of Georgia) additional Page: 992 mileage in Fulton County, composing links in a belt route around the City of Atlanta, to be knows as the Miller Belt Route, and running west from State Routes 9, in Buckhead, Fulton County, Georgia, and continuing westerly along designated Fulton County roads and highways, connecting present State Routes Nos. 3, north and south, also 8, 14, 42, 10 and 12, and other routes and terminating in Route 13; to provide that the State Highway Board may, at its option, adopt any part or portion of said described routes as State-aid roads; to provide that the addition of said routes, or any portion thereof, shall not require payment of gasoline tax or maintenance by the State Highway Department until said routes, or any portion thereof, are formally designated as State-aid roads by the State Highway Board of Georgia; and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That that certain Act of the Georgia Legislature, popularly known as the Traylor-Neill Bill, together with the map attached thereto, as said Bill appears in the published Acts of the Georgia Legislature of 1929, pages 260 through 268, together with the map appearing between pages 268 and 269 of said published Acts, be and the same are hereby amended by adding to the State highway mileage and placing on said map, and amending said map accordingly, as fully and completely as though originally drawn on said map, the following additional road mileage, composing links in a belt highway connecting the various State routes leading into and out of the City of Atlanta, and to be known as the Miller Belt Route, to wit: [Sidenote: Act of 1929 amended.] [Sidenote: Links of Miller Belt [Illegible Text]] (1) A link in belt highway, leading north from Roosevelt Highway, leaving said highway just north of the bridge over the A. B. & C. Railroad, and following along or near the Welcomall Road, via Welcomall Church, to the end of pavement on Old Fairburn-Ben Hill Road, at former Page: 993 Fulton County line; thence following along or near the Old Fairburn-Ben Hill Road (connecting, and crossing the Byrum Highway at Ben Hill) to the Gordon Road, connecting same at Adamsville; thence following along Gordon Road to the Bolton Road; thence following along, or near the Bolton Road (connecting, and crossing State Route No. 8 at Mayson's Church) to the Marietta Road, State Route No. 3, intersecting same in Bolton. Approximate length of this link 17.0 miles. [Sidenote: Roosevelt Highway to Bolton.] (2) A link in belt highway, leading northeast from State Route No. 3 in Bolton, following along Chattahoochee Avenue to Moore's Mill Road; thence following along, or near Moore's Mill Road (connecting, and crossing new Atlanta-Marietta Road) to Paces Ferry Road; thence following along Paces Ferry Road to Buckhead, connecting State Routes Nos. 9 and 13. Approximate length of this link 4.5 miles. [Sidenote: Bolton to Buckhead.] (3) A link in belt highway, leading east from Roosevelt Highway south of College Park, following along East Main Street to Virginia Avenue; thence following along Virginia Avenue to North Central Avenue in Hapeville; thence following along North Central Avenue to Stewart Avenue or State Route No. 3, south. Approximate length of this link 2.3 miles. [Sidenote: Roosevelt Highway to Stewart Avenue.] (4) A link in belt highway, leading northeast from State Route No. 3, southeast of Hapeville, following along, or near Brown Mill Road to Gilbert Road; thence following along a new route (location to be determined) to Jonesboro Road, or old State Route No. 42; thence following along old Route No. 42 to a point just south of South River; thence following new location in a northeast direction to new State Route No. 42, intersecting same just south of Southern Railroad overpass. Approximate length of this link 3.2 miles. [Sidenote: Route 3 to new State Route 42.] Page: 994 (5) A link in belt highway, leading north from State Routes Nos. 8, 10 and 12 at Ponce de Leon Avenue, following Highland Avenue, and Highland Avenue Extension to Cheshire Bridge Road, same being new Atlanta-Buford Highway. Approximate length of this link 2.4 miles. [Sidenote: Atlanta to Buford] (6) A link in belt highway, leading northwest from new Atlanta-Buford Highway following along Lenox Avenue to Peachtree Road, same being old Route No. 13. Approximate length of this link 2.1 miles. [Sidenote: Lenox Avenue to Peachtree Road.] Section 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That by the addition of said mileage on said map and by the placing of said road on said map, and the authorization of said mileage to be included in the highway system, there arises no obligation, either express or implied, that the State of Georgia or the State Highway Department of Georgia shall be responsible for any maintenance of said road, nor shall the addition of said road to said map, or the addition of said mileage to the highway mileage, entitle the county or counties, in which the same is located, to receive its pro rata part of the 1-cent gasoline tax allocated to said county as to said road or mileage hereby added on said map and to said system, unless and until said road and said mileage is formally designated as a State-aid road by the State Highway Board of Georgia by appropriate action as is now, or may hereafter be, provided by law. [Sidenote: Designation before obligation.] Section 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it is the purpose of this Act to give the State Highway Department of Georgia the right and authority to legally designate said road and said road mileage, herein described, as a State-aid road, at its option, and if and when said road is so designated by said State Highway Department of Georgia, said additional mileage here described shall not be considered a part of the 500 additional mileage allowed, in addition to the mileage shown on said Page: 995 map, as provided by the said Traylor-Neill Bill, herein referred to. [Sidenote: State-aid road.] Section 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it is the purpose of this Act to provide a means of connecting various State highways leading into the City of Atlanta by a highway, which shall be a belt around said city, furnishing connection to the main highways leading into the city. Therefore, the State Highway Department may, in its discretion, designate all or any part or portion of the links above described in this Act, provided the general scheme of the additional mileage here described, in serving the general plan of connecting the highways leading into the city, is preserved. [Sidenote: Belt around Atlanta.] Section 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approval Date: Approved March 18, 1937. Bolton Road Legislation 1937
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