O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-12-21 (2019)

Sovereign immunity

✓ 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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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to constitute a waiver of the sovereign immunity of the state, the board, or the division. No action shall be brought against the state, the board, the division, or any member, officer, or employee thereof for damages sustained from the improper or unlawful removal or encapsulation of friable asbestos-containing materials from facilities or residential dwellings governed by this chapter. Nothing in this chapter and no order, action, license, or advice of the director, the division, or any representative thereof shall be construed to relieve a contractor, project monitor, or asbestos worker of the legal duties, obligations, or liabilities incident to removal or encapsulation of friable asbestos-containing materials from facilities or residential dwellings.

History

Code 1981, § 12-12-21, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 1157, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 12; Ga. L. 1996, p. 238, § 1.

Annotations

Law reviews. - For comment, ‘‘Keep-

ing the Arms in Touch: Taking Political Accountability Seriously in the Eleventh Amendment Arm of the State Doctrine,’’ see 64 Emory L.J. 819 (2015).

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