O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1 (2019)

Enactment of Code

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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The statutory portion of the codification of Georgia laws prepared by the Code Revision Commission and the Michie Company pursuant to a contract entered into on June 19, 1978, is enacted and shall have the effect of statutes enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia. The statutory portion of such codification shall be merged with annotations, captions, catchlines, history lines, editorial notes, cross-references, indices, title and chapter analyses, and other materials pursuant to the contract and shall be published by authority of the state pursuant to such contract and when so published shall be known and may be cited as the ‘‘Official Code of Georgia Annotated.’’ 1988, p. 13, § 54; Ga. L. 1989, p. 14, § 54; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 54; Ga. L. 1991, p. 94, § 54; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 5; Ga. L. 1993, p. 91, § 54; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 54; Ga. L. 1995, p. 10, § 54; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 54; Ga. L. 1997, p. 143, § 54; Ga. L. 1998, p. 128, § 54; Ga. L. 1999, p. 81, § 54; Ga. L. 2000, p. 136, § 54; Ga. L. 2001, p. 4, § 54; Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 54; Ga. L. 2003, p. 140, § 54; Ga. L. 2004, p. 631, § 54; Ga. L. 2005, p. 60, § 54; Ga. L. 2006, p. 72, § 54; Ga. L. 2007, p. 47, § 54; Ga. L. 2008, p. 324, § 54; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 54; Ga. L. 2010, p. 878, § 54; Ga. L. 2011, p. 752, § 54; Ga. L. 2012, p. 775, § 54, Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 54; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 54; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 54; Ga. L. 2016, p. 864, § 54/HB 737; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 54/HB

History

Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 1.

Annotations

Cross references. - Powers and duties of Code Revision Commission regarding publication of Code, §§ 28-9-3, 28-9-5. Effect of reenactment of the Code, § 28-9-5. Authorization to use state emblem on cover of official Code, § 50-3-8(b). Editor’s notes. - The Michie Company, referred to in this Code section, now operates under the trade name LexisNexist, a division of ReedElsevier. For the Acts reenacting the Official Code of Georgia Annotated as amended by the text and numbering contained in the 1982 through 2018 supplements, see Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 54; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 54; Ga. L. 1986, p. 10, § 54; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 54; Ga. L.

323, Ga. L. 2018, p. 1112, § 54/SB 365, and Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 54/SB52, respectively.

Law reviews. - For article, ‘‘Researching Georgia Law,’’ see 9 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 585 (1993). For article, ‘‘Research-

ing Georgia Law,’’ see 34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 741 (2015). For discussion of the work of the Code Revision Commission in making the Code, see 18 Ga. St. B. J. 102 (1982).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS LexisNexist), it is the Michie publication which is controlling. Georgia ex rel. Gen. Ass’y v. Harrison Co., 548 F. Supp. 110 (N.D. Ga. 1982), orders vacated, 559 F. Supp. 37 (N.D. Ga. 1983). Cited in Axson v. State, 174 Ga. App. 236, 329 S.E.2d 566 (1985).

Official Code publication controls over unofficial compilation. - Attorneys who cite unofficial publication of 1981 Code do so at their peril; in any situation wherein defendant’s compilation differs in any way from statutory provisions of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated as published by Michie (now

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 15 cases (5 in the last 5 years), 1982–2025 · leading case: Sons of Confederate Vets. v. Henry Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners (two Cases), 315 Ga. 39 (Ga. 2022).

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Sons of Confederate Vets. v. Henry Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners (two Cases), 315 Ga. 39 (Ga. 2022). · cites it 4× “See OCGA §§ 1-1-1; 1-1-2; 28-9-5. Early codification practices were very different.”

Code Revision Comm'n Ex Rel. Gen. Assembly of Ga. v. Pub..Resource.Org, Inc., 906 F.3d 1229 (11th Cir. 2018). · cites it 7× “" O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1. As the Code itself explains, the statutory text in the OCGA is the official published version of Georgia's laws, and when the Georgia General Assembly enacts a new law, the bill typically reads "An Act.”

Georgia v. Pub. Resource.Org, Inc., 590 U.S. 255 (2020). · cites it 2× “' " OCGA § 1-1-1 (2019); see Code Revision Comm'n v.”

Crider v. Zurich Ins., 474 S.E.2d 89 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 4× “OCGA §§ 1-1-1, 1-1-9 (effective November 1, 1982).”

Georgia Ex Rel. Gen. Assembly v. Harrison Co., 548 F. Supp. 110 (N.D. Ga. 1982). · cites it 4× “The court further notes that any confusion as to the status of the defendants’ publication as the “official” code is based upon the fact that section 1-1-1 of the 1981 code, as adopted by the General Assembly, specifically provides that the new code may be cited as the “Official…”

S. Guar. Ins. Co. of Georgia v. Ash, 383 S.E.2d 579 (Ga. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 2× “” Milich, 5 Ga. State Univ. Law Rev., supra at 74.”

Code Revision Comm'n v. Pub..Resource.Org, Inc., 244 F. Supp. 3d 1350 (N.D. Ga. 2017). · cites it 2× “O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1 distinguishes the statutory and non-statutory commentary portions of the O.”

Spencer v. State, 689 S.E.2d 823 (Ga. 2010). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 1-1-1 et seq. Moreover, the statute itself includes an enacting clause.”

Axson v. State, 329 S.E.2d 566 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985). · cites it 2× “It provided that: “The prosecution and the [state official] and their witnesses shall have the right to appear and to be heard before the grand jury.”

Schlampp v. Mcmahon, 699 S.E.2d 758 (Ga. Ct. App. 2010). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 1-1-1. In enacting the new Code, however, the legislature expressly provided that “[ejxcept as otherwise specifically provided by particular provisions of this Code, the enactment of this Code by the General Assembly is not intended to alter the substantive law in…”

Tuscany Condo. Ass'n, Inc. v. C.p., an Adult Female (Ga. Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 7× “21 Indeed, as the Supreme Court noted earlier this year, “[t]he majority of the cases in which we have considered claims for litigation expenses under OCGA § 13-6-11 or its predecessor have involved claims arising in tort.”

James T. Curry v. Allstate Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. (Ga. Ct. App. 2022). · cites it 4× “See OCGA § 1-1-1 (b) (2). 12 foreclose the possibility of recovering attorney fees incurred in the underlying tort action.”

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Miles v. City of Hazlehurst, Georgia (S.D. Ga. 2024).

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