O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 13-8-45 (2019)

Applicability of article to existing contracts without expiration dates and to contracts entered or renewed after November 1, 1982

✓ 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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The provisions of this article shall apply to all contracts now in effect which have no expiration date and are a continuing contract and all other contracts entered into or renewed after November 1, 1982. Any contract in force and effect on November 1, 1982, which by its own terms will terminate on a date subsequent thereto shall be governed by the law as it existed prior to this article.

History

(Code 1981, § 13-8-45, enacted by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1585, § 4.)

Annotations

ARTICLE 4 RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS IN CONTRACTS Delayed effective date. - Ga. L. 2009, p. 231, § 4 provides that the 2009 enactment of this article becomes effective following the ratification at the time of the 2010 general election of an amendment to the Constitution of Georgia providing for the enforcement of covenants in commercial contracts

that limit competition and shall apply to contracts entered into on and after such date and shall not apply in actions determining the enforceability of restrictive covenants entered into before such date and that if such amendment is not so ratified, then this article shall stand automatically repealed.