O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 28-5-105 (2019)

Scope of compensation

✓ 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 General Assembly may by resolution appropriate money for payment of a claim for compensation upon the recommendation of the board for:

(1) Expenses actually and reasonably incurred as a result of the personal injury or death of the victim; and

(2) Loss of earning power as a result of total or partial incapacity of such victim.

History

(Ga. L. 1967, p. 712, § 6.)

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Compensation to injured inmates. - Pursuant to the 1999 amendments, O.C.G.A. §§ 28-5-85 and 28-5-105 prohibit the Claims Advisory Board from rec-

ommending compensation to an inmate injured while in the custody of the Department of Corrections. 1999 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 99-11.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 72 Am. Jur. 2d, States, Territories, and Dependencies, § 80 et seq.

C.J.S. - 81A C.J.S., States, §§ 483, 484.