O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-11-7 (2019)

Satisfaction of judgment against county

✓ 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 private property of the citizens of a county shall not be bound by any judgment obtained against the county. Such judgment, if binding, shall be satisfied from money raised by lawful taxation.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 480; Code 1868, § 542; Code 1873, § 508; Code

1882, § 508; Civil Code 1895, § 363; Civil Code 1910, § 412; Code 1933, § 23-1603.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Appropriation of moneys for liability policy premiums and for damages exceeding policy limits. - Board of commissioners must appropriate moneys for insurance premiums on any policy which might pay a plaintiff if plaintiff ’s

suit is ultimately successful in plaintiff ’s claim against the county or must appropriate moneys to pay actual damages should plaintiff ’s recovery exceed the policy limits. Dodson v. Floyd, 529 F. Supp. 1056 (N.D. Ga. 1981).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 20 C.J.S., Counties, §§ 419, 420.

ALR. - County as subject to garnishment process, 60 A.L.R. 823.

CHAPTER 12 SUPERVISION AND SUPPORT OF PAUPERS Sec.

General supervision of paupers. Eligibility for benefits. Duty of relatives to support paupers generally; right of county to recover from relatives for provisions furnished.

Cross references. - Provision of hospital care for the indigent generally, § 31-8-1. Establishment of county depart-

Sec.

Liability of person sending pauper to county for support purposes. Interment or cremation of deceased indigents.

ments of family and children’s services, § 49-3-1.