O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 10-1-36.1 (2019)

Prohibition on class actions

✓ 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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(a) A claim of violation on any loan or contract secured by an interest in a motor vehicle may be asserted in an individual action only and may not be the subject of a class action under Code Section 9-11-23 or any other provisions of law. (b) Nothing contained in this Code section shall apply to class actions involving mobile homes or manufactured homes pending in any courts of this state, including any United States courts, on February 22, 1985, as to the parties to and subject matter then before such courts.

History

Code 1981, § 10-1-36.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 698, § 3.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Purpose of section. - Subsection (a) of O.C.G.A. § 10-1-36.1 is intended to prohibit class action certification for a claim that any loan or contract secured by an interest in a motor vehicle violates the Motor Vehicle Sales Finance Act, O.C.G.A.

§ 10-1-30 et seq. Taylor Auto Group, Inc. v. Jessie, 241 Ga. App. 602, 527 S.E.2d 256, 1999 Ga. App. LEXIS 1680 (1999), cert. denied, No. S00C0694, 2000 Ga. LEXIS 464 (Ga. May 26, 2000).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1987–1999 · leading case: Taylor Auto Grp., Inc. v. Jessie, 527 S.E.2d 256 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999).

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Taylor Auto Grp., Inc. v. Jessie, 527 S.E.2d 256 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 10× “Taylor contends (1) that OCGA § 10-1-36.1 (a) bars Jessie’s entire case from being brought as a class action; and (2) that Jessie is not an appropriate class representative.”

S. Guar. Corp. v. Doyle, 353 S.E.2d 510 (Ga. 1987). · cites it 6× “In addition to the foregoing, we conclude that OCGA § 10-1-36.1, added to GMVSFA in 1985, see Ga.”

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