O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 25-9-2 (2019)

Purpose of chapter

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

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The purpose of this chapter is to protect the public from physical harm, prevent injury to persons and property, and prevent interruptions of service resulting from damage to underground facilities and sewer laterals caused by blasting or excavating operations by providing a method whereby the location of underground facilities and sewer laterals will be made known to persons planning to engage in blasting or excavating operations so that such persons may observe proper precautions with respect to such underground facilities and sewer laterals.

History

Ga. L. 1969, p. 50, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 1069, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 805, § 1; Code 1981, § 25-9-2, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2000, p. 780, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1142, § 1/SB 274; Ga. L. 2022, p. 325, § 1/HB 1372. The 2022 amendment, effective September 1, 2022, deleted “utility” preceding

“service” and substituted “underground facilities” for “utility facilities” three times.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2000, p. 780, § 1, effective July 1, 2000, renumbered former Code Section 25-9-2 as present Code Section 25-9-3.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Provisions of Ga. L. 1969, p. 50 (see now O.C.G.A. Title 25, Chapter 9) do not apply to the State Highway Depart-

ment (now Department of Transportation). 1969 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 69-390.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 61 Am. Jur. 2d, Pipelines, §§ 30, 31. C.J.S. 58 C.J.S., Mines and Minerals, § 533 et seq.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2006–2006 · leading case: Perry v. Georgia Power Co., 629 S.E.2d 588 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006).

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Perry v. Georgia Power Co., 629 S.E.2d 588 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006). · cites it 6× “In order to resolve this issue and to determine whether or not this act has any application to the present facts, we look first to the purpose of GUFPA, as provided in OCGA § 25-9-2. The clear purpose of GUFPA, as is relevant to the present case, is to prevent damages to…”

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