O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-1091 (2019)

Payment of insurance premiums by school board or other bus owner

✓ 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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Where a bus is owned by the school board, the board shall pay the premium for insurance issued under Code Section 20-2-1090. Where the bus is not owned by the board, the premium shall be paid by the owner.

History

Ga. L. 1949, p. 1155, § 2.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Local board cannot pay insurance premiums except under stated statutory conditions. - It is clear that a local board of education cannot expend school money to pay the premiums on liability insurance except under the conditions and circumstances stated in Ga. L. 1949, p. 1155, §§ 1 and 2. 1957 Ga. Op. Att’y Gen. 116.

District liable for injuries to extent that required insurance procured. - School district is not liable in tort for injuries to students except to the extent that insurance has been procured therefor under Ga. L. 1949, p. 1155, §§ 1-5. 1960-61 Ga. Op. Att’y Gen. 166.