O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 52-2-1 (2019)

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✓ 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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This chapter may be cited as the ‘‘Georgia Ports Authority Act.’’

History

Ga. L. 1945, p. 464, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in State Ports Auth. v. Arnall, 201 Ga. 713, 41 S.E.2d 246 (1947).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1993–1995 · leading case: Georgia Ports Auth. v. Hutchinson, 434 S.E.2d 791 (Ga. Ct. App. 1993).

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Georgia Ports Auth. v. Hutchinson, 434 S.E.2d 791 (Ga. Ct. App. 1993). · cites it 4× “A punitive damage award against a governmental entity or arm of the State violates public policy because it burdens the very citizens for whose benefit the wrongdoer is being chastised. Such damages are assessed over and above the amount necessary to compensate the injured…”

Miller v. Georgia Ports Auth., 460 S.E.2d 100 (Ga. Ct. App. 1995). · cites it 4× “Thus, it appears that before 1991, GPA had a mantle of sovereign immunity.”

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