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2018 Georgia Code 10-1-831 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 10 COMMERCE AND TRADE

Section 1. Selling and Other Trade Practices, 10-1-1 through 10-1-915.

ARTICLE 30 BEAUTY PAGEANTS

10-1-831. Required information from operators.

Before accepting any entrant's fee, all operators shall provide to each entrant a written document in at least ten-point type clearly containing only the following information:

  1. Name, address, and telephone number of the operator;
  2. Name, address, and telephone number of the individual or officer of the organization having full responsibility for the conducting of the pageant;
  3. Names of pageants customarily promoted by the operator;
  4. Name and address of individual authorized to accept service of process;
  5. Name, address, and telephone number of the financial institution in which the entrants' fees are held;
  6. Name, address, and telephone number of the surety company maintaining the bond required by Code Section 10-1-832; and
  7. A statement which reads as follows: "The State of Georgia requires bonding or escrow of pageants conducted for the profit of operators."

(Code 1981, §10-1-831, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 3256, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1165, § 2.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Attorney fees awarded.

- After the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the beauty pageant contestant, finding that the pageant promoters violated the statutory requirements regarding the providing of certain information to contestants, the posting of a bond, and the maintaining of an escrow account, in violation of O.C.G.A. §§ 10-1-831,10-1-832, and10-1-837, the trial court's award of attorney fees and litigation expenses to the contestant pursuant to O.C.G.A. §§ 10-1-399 and10-1-835 was proper. Galardi v. Steele-Inman, 266 Ga. App. 515, 597 S.E.2d 571 (2004).

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