O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 48-7-160 (2019)

Purposes

✓ 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 purpose of this article is to establish a policy and to provide a system whereby all claimant agencies and courts of this state in conjunction with the department shall cooperate in identifying debtors who owe money to the state through its various claimant agencies or courts and who qualify for refunds from the department. It is also the purpose of this article to establish procedures for setting off against any such refund the sum of any debt owed to the claimant agencies or courts. It is the intent of the General Assembly that this article be liberally construed to effectuate these purposes.

History

Code 1933, § 91A-4101, enacted by Ga.

L. 1980, p. 1555, § 1; Ga. L. 2014, p. 56, § 1/HB 1000.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Statute of limitations for recovering overpayments of unemployment benefits pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 34-8-159, either by an independent action or by intercepting state income tax refunds

pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 48-7-160, is four years, and the statute begins to run from the date the money is due. 1989 Op. Att’y Gen. 89-36.