O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-5-135 (2019)

Liability of service supplier in civil action

✓ 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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A service supplier, including any telephone company and its employees, directors, officers, and agents, is not liable for any damages in a civil action for injuries, death, or loss to persons or property incurred by any person as a result of any act or omission of a service supplier or any of its employees, directors, officers, or agents, except for willful or wanton misconduct, either in connection with developing, adopting, implementing, maintaining, or operating any emergency ‘‘911’’ system or in the identification of the telephone number, address, or name associated with any person accessing an emergency ‘‘911’’ system.

History

(Code 1981, § 46-5-135, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 179, § 5.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS No waiver of defense of sovereign and official immunity. - The General Assembly, in its enactment of the ‘‘Georgia Emergency

Telephone Number ‘911’ Service Act,’’ O.C.G.A. § 46-5-121 et. seq., has not waived defenses of sovereign and official immunity

which could otherwise be asserted by the county and its employees and officers in their implementation and operation of the ‘‘911’’ telephone system. Hendon v. DeKalb

County, 203 Ga. App. 750, 417 S.E.2d 705, cert. denied, 203 Ga. App. 906, 417 S.E.2d 705 (1992).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1992–1992 · leading case: Hendon v. DeKalb Cnty., 417 S.E.2d 705 (Ga. Ct. App. 1992).

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Hendon v. DeKalb Cnty., 417 S.E.2d 705 (Ga. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 2× “Compare OCGA § 46-5-131 (b), which provides that no local government shall be required to indemnify or defend any emergency “911” system provider from any liability arising from subsection (a) unless the local government has agreed to assume such obligation; OCGA § 46-5-135,…”

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