O.C.G.A. § 10-1-831 (2019)
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.”
History
Code 1981, § 10-1-831, enacted by Ga.
L. 1992, p. 3256, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1165, § 2.
Annotations
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, and 10-1-837, the trial court’s award of attorney fees and litigation expenses to the contestant pursuant to O.C.G.A. §§ 10-1-399 and 10-1-835 was proper. Galardi v. Steele-Inman, 266 Ga. App. 515, 597 S.E.2d 571, 2004 Ga. App. LEXIS 420 (2004), cert. denied, No. S04C1331, 2004 Ga. LEXIS 757 (Ga. Sept. 7, 2004).