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2018 Georgia Code 8-3-222 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 8 BUILDINGS AND HOUSING

Section 3. Housing Generally, 8-3-1 through 8-3-332.

ARTICLE 4 FAIR HOUSING

8-3-222. Coercion, intimidation, threats, or interference.

It shall be unlawful to coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment of, or on account of such person's having exercised or enjoyed, or on account of such person's having aided or encouraged any other person in the exercise or enjoyment of, any right granted or protected by this article.

(Code 1981, §8-3-222, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1284, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

No violation.

- Trial court properly granted summary judgment to a former landlord in an action by a tenant, alleging that the landlord's late husband repeatedly made sexual advances towards the tenant, in violation of O.C.G.A. § 8-3-202(a)(2) of the Georgia Fair Housing Act, and that the husband violated O.C.G.A. § 8-3-222 by these actions as under principles of principal/agent liability, there was no evidence that the landlord authorized the husband to commit the sexual harassment, the landlord did not ratify the conduct, and it was outside the scope of the husband's employment as the property manager for the rental home. Stewart v. Storch, 274 Ga. App. 242, 617 S.E.2d 218 (2005).

Summary judgment on the claim under O.C.G.A. § 8-3-222 was appropriate as the evidence cited by the condominium owner did not show unequal treatment based on race and the owner pointed to no other evidence of the discriminatory animus. Grant v. Phoenix on Peachtree Condo. Ass'n, 331 Ga. App. 306, 771 S.E.2d 15 (2015).

Cited in Bailey v. Stonecrest Condo. Ass'n, 304 Ga. App. 484, 696 S.E.2d 462 (2010).

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