O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 22-3-47 (2019)

Effect of part on rights of action of property owners and public utilities

✓ 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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This part shall not be construed as taking away or in any way prejudicing any right of action possessed by a property owner or a public utility for damages to property caused by the closing of any public road or highway under this part.

History

Ga. L. 1925, p. 272, § 1; Code 1933, § 36-807.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Liability of water distributor for damage caused by water escaping from main, 20 A.L.R.3d 1294.

Liability for overflow of water confined or diverted for public power purposes, 91 A.L.R.3d 1065.

ARTICLE 3 CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF WATERWORKS AND SANITARY SEWAGE SYSTEMS RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 29A C.J.S., Eminent Domain, § 27 et seq. ALR. - Right to and measure of compensation to owner of fee when telegraph or telephone line is erected along railroad right of way or highway, 19 A.L.R. 383. Limitation applicable to action or proceeding by owner for compensation where property is taken in exercise of eminent domain without antecedent condemnation proceeding, 123 A.L.R. 676.

Condemnation of premises or part thereof as affecting rights of landlord and tenant inter se, 163 A.L.R. 679. Condemnor’s waiver, surrender, or limitation, after award, of rights or part of property acquired by condemnation, 5 A.L.R.2d 724. Power of eminent domain as between state and subdivision or agency thereof, or as between different subdivisions or agencies themselves, 35 A.L.R.3d 1293.