O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 51-1-39 (2019)

Liability for injuries of person committing crime on political subdivision property

✓ 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 person who engages in a criminal act on property owned or leased by a political subdivision of this state and who suffers an injury as a result of said criminal act which is not inflicted by an officer, employee, or agent of such political subdivision shall not have a cause of action against such political subdivision for any injury sustained. The provisions of this Code section shall not have the effect of waiving the sovereign immunity of any political subdivision.

History

(Code 1981, § 51-1-39, enacted by Ga. L. 1987, p. 433, § 1.)

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1987, Code Section 51-1-38, as enacted by Ga. L.

1987, p. 433, § 1, was redesignated as this Code section.