O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 25-9-10 (2019)

Effect of chapter upon rights, titles, powers, or interests of facility owners or operators

✓ 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 chapter does not affect and is not intended to affect any right, title, power, or interest that any facility owner or operator may have with relation to any underground facility or to any easement, right of way, license, permit, or other interest in or with respect to the land on which the underground facility is located.

History

Ga. L. 1969, p. 50, § 8; Code 1981, § 25-9-9; Ga. L. 1986, p. 1069, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 805, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 780, § 1; Ga. L. 2022, p. 325, § 1/HB 1372. The 2022 amendment, effective September 1, 2022, substituted “that” for

“which”, and “underground” for “utility” twice.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. This Code section formerly provided for the effect of this chapter on local and state government rights, duties, etc. as to facilities on public right of ways. Ga. L. 1986, p.

1069, § 1 in effect renumbered the former Code section as Code Section 25-9-11. Ga. L. 1986, p. 1069, § 1 in effect re-

numbered former Code Section 25-9-9 as this Code section.

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Liability of gas company for injury or

damage due to defects in service lines on consumer’s premises, 26 A.L.R.2d 136.