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2018 Georgia Code 50-27-4 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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O.C.G.A. 50-27-4 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 50-27-4

TITLE 50 STATE GOVERNMENT

Section 27. Lottery for Education, 50-27-1 through 50-27-104.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

50-27-4. Georgia Lottery Corporation created; venue.

There is created a body corporate and politic to be known as the Georgia Lottery Corporation which shall be deemed to be an instrumentality of the state, and not a state agency, and a public corporation.Venue for the corporation shall be in Fulton County.

(Code 1981, §50-27-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 3173, § 2.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Georgia Lottery Corporation is not a state "agency" entitled to the defense of sovereign immunity under the facts and law of an action brought to have certain lottery games declared illegal and unconstitutional. Jackson v. Georgia Lottery Corp., 228 Ga. App. 239, 491 S.E.2d 408 (1997).

Georgia Lottery Corporation entitled to assert sovereign immunity.

- Georgia Lottery Corporation (GLC) is entitled to assert sovereign immunity as a bar to a suit under Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. II, Para. IX, and the Georgia Tort Claims Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-21-20 et seq., because under the Georgia Lottery for Education Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-27-1 et seq., the purpose, function, and management of the GLC are indelibly intertwined with the state in a manner that qualifies the GLC for the protection of sovereign immunity as a state instrumentality; thus, the GLC must be classified as an instrumentality of the state to which sovereign immunity applies. Kyle v. Ga. Lottery Corp., 290 Ga. 87, 718 S.E.2d 801 (2011).

Cited in Kyle v. Ga. Lottery Corp., 304 Ga. App. 635, 698 S.E.2d 12 (2010); Ga. Lottery Corp. v. Tabletop Media, LLC, 346 Ga. App. 498, 816 S.E.2d 438 (2018).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 50-27-4

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Kyle v. Georgia Lottery Corp., 290 Ga. 87 (Ga. 2011).

Cited 19 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Nov 21, 2011 | 718 S.E.2d 801, 2011 Fulton County D. Rep. 3612

...(Footnote omitted.) Youngblood, supra, 273 Ga. at 716 (1). Under this construct, GLC must be classified as an instrumentality of the State to which sovereign immunity applies. A review of the law creating GLC establishes that it is an instrumentality of the state, OCGA § 50-27-4, and that its main purpose is to generate net proceeds to be “used to support improvements and enhancements for educational purposes and programs and that such net proceeds shall be used to supplement, not supplant, existing resources for educational purposes and programs.” OCGA § 50-27-2 (1)....

Ultra Grp. of Companies, Inc. v. Prince & Prince, LLC (Ga. 2025).

Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Sep 30, 2025 | 718 S.E.2d 801, 2011 Fulton County D. Rep. 3612

...reviewable if review of the final agency decision would not provide an adequate remedy”), it did not do so for GLC proceedings under OCGA § 50-27-102(c). The Lottery is “an instrumentality of the state, and not a state agency, and a public corporation.” OCGA § 50-27-4....