Legislature only prohibited from regulating or fixing charges.

- The proviso to Ga. Const. 1976, Art. III, Sec. VIII, Para. IX (Ga. Const. 1983, Art. III, Sec. VI, Para. V), was intended only to prohibit the General Assembly from regulating or fixing the charges of municipally owned or operated electric systems and does not deal with every aspect of the General Assembly's broad, inherent powers over both public utilities and municipal corporations. City of Calhoun v. North Ga. Elec. Membership Corp., 233 Ga. 759, 213 S.E.2d 596 (1975).

Constitutionality.

- The High-Voltage Safety Act, O.C.G.A. § 46-3-30 et seq., does not deprive injured persons of due process by abolishing a common law claim, since the legislature has the authority to abolish such claims prior to their accrual; nor is the Act unconstitutionally vague. Santana v. Georgia Power Co., 269 Ga. 127, 498 S.E.2d 521 (1998).

This part directed towards businesses.

- The persons and activities toward which this part is directed are not those of the private individual who encounters the lines, but those of businesses, whether giant corporations or one man concerns, whose usual activities would foreseeably bring their employees within close proximity to high voltage lines. The duty is placed on them to notify a power company of the proposed activity and on the power company to take any necessary technical measures for assuring the safety of the workmen. Savannah Elec. & Power Co. v. Holton, 127 Ga. App. 447, 193 S.E.2d 866 (1972).

Intent of this part is to protect workmen by regulating the conduct of employers and owners of power lines. Savannah Elec. & Power Co. v. Holton, 127 Ga. App. 447, 193 S.E.2d 866 (1972).

Persons intended to be covered.

- Where plaintiff was installing cable television wire on defendant's property and made contact with a live electrical wire, the defendant was not a "person responsible for the work to be done" and was not, therefore, liable pursuant to O.C.G.A. Pt. 2, Ch. 3, T. 46. Johnson v. Richardson, 202 Ga. App. 470, 414 S.E.2d 698 (1992).

Activities intended to be covered.

- Kinds of activities intended to be covered are not random or casual exposures to lines. Savannah Elec. & Power Co. v. Holton, 127 Ga. App. 447, 193 S.E.2d 866 (1972).

Workers' compensation exclusive remedy provision.

- O.C.G.A. Pt. 2, Ch. 3, T. 46 is not an exception to the exclusive remedy provision of Workers' Compensation Act. Pappas v. Hill-Staton Eng'rs, Inc., 183 Ga. App. 258, 358 S.E.2d 625, cert. denied, 183 Ga. App. 906, 358 S.E.2d 625 (1987); City of Dalton v. Gene Rogers Constr. Co., 223 Ga. App. 819, 479 S.E.2d 171 (1996); Flint Elec. Membership Corp. v. Ed Smith Constr. Co., 229 Ga. App. 838, 495 S.E.2d 136 (1998).

ALR.

- Liability of electric light or power company for injuries to employee of patron, 9 A.L.R. 174.

Duty to guard against danger to children by electric wires, 17 A.L.R. 833; 41 A.L.R. 1337; 49 A.L.R. 1053; 100 A.L.R. 621.

Liability of one maintaining electric wire over or near highway for injury due to breaking of wire by fall of tree or limb, 19 A.L.R. 801.

Induction, conduction, and electrolysis, 23 A.L.R. 1257; 33 A.L.R. 380; 56 A.L.R. 421.

Duty and liability in respect of sagging of electric wire maintained over highway, 84 A.L.R. 690.

Liability of electric light or power company for injury or damage due to condition of service lines or electrical appliance maintained by one to whom it furnishes electric current, 134 A.L.R. 507.

Correlative rights of dominant and servient owners in right of way for electric line, 6 A.L.R.2d 205.

Liability for injury of child on electric transmission tower or pole, 6 A.L.R.2d 754.

Liability for injury or death of adult from electric wires passing through or near trees, 40 A.L.R.2d 1299.

Liability of electric power, telephone, or telegraph company for personal injury or death from fall of pole, 97 A.L.R.2d 664.

Status of injured adult as trespasser on land not owned by electricity supplier, as affecting its liability for injuries inflicted upon him by electric wires it maintains thereon, 30 A.L.R.3d 777.

Liability of power company for injury or death resulting from contact of radio or television antenna with electrical line, 82 A.L.R.3d 113.

Applicability of rule of strict liability to injury from electrical current escaping from powerline, 82 A.L.R.3d 218.

Liability for injury to or death of child from electric wire encountered while climbing tree, 91 A.L.R.3d 616.

Products liability: electricity, 60 A.L.R.4th 732.

Liability of electric company to one other than employee for injury or death arising from commencement or resumption of service, 46 A.L.R.5th 423.