O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 10-1-628 (2019)

Attorney’s fees

✓ 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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Whenever any person brings an action or complaint to enforce any provision of this article in any court of competent jurisdiction and prevails or substantially prevails in such action or complaint, the court may award the person bringing such action or complaint his reasonable attorney’s fees. Such attorney’s fees shall be taxed and collected as part of the costs and shall be in addition to any other costs or penalties imposed.

SELLING/OTHER TRADE PRACTICES

History

Code 1981, § 10-1-628, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1585, § 2.

PART 2 MOTOR VEHICLE DEALER’S DAY IN COURT

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS No retroactive effect. - Because Georgia Motor Vehicle Dealer’s Day in Court Act, O.C.G.A. § 10-1-630 et seq., and the Georgia Motor Vehicle Fair Practices Act, O.C.G.A. § 10-1-660 et seq., affect the substantive rights of the parties, the statutes cannot be given retroactive effect. Stamps v. Ford Motor Co., 650 F. Supp. 390, 1986 U.S. Dist.

LEXIS 18434 (N.D. Ga. 1986) (decided prior to 1993 reenactment). Georgia Motor Vehicle Dealer’s Day in Court Act, O.C.G.A. § 10-1-630 et seq., in Georgia applied only to acts after July 1, 1983. Ewers v. Ford Motor Co., 843 F.2d 1331, 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 5714 (11th Cir. 1988) (decided prior to 1993 reenactment).