Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 1. SELLING AND OTHER TRADE PRACTICES · Article 15. DECEPTIVE OR UNFAIR PRACTICES · Part 2. FAIR BUSINESS PRACTICES ACT

10-1-391. Purpose and construction of part.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(a)
The purpose of this part shall be to protect consumers and legitimate business enterprises from unfair or deceptive practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce in part or wholly in the state. It is the intent of the General Assembly that such practices be swiftly stopped, and this part shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.#
(b)
It is the intent of the General Assembly that this part be interpreted and construed consistently with interpretations given by the Federal Trade Commission in the federal courts pursuant to Section 5(a)(1) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. Section 45(a)(1)), as from time to time amended.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1975, p. 376, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1088, § 2/SB 148.

Cross references

Certain security and other consumer transactions excluded from Commercial Code, § 11-2-102.

Law reviews

For comment, “The Georgia Fair Business Practices Act: Business As Usual,” see 9 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 453 (1993). For article, “The Federalization and Privatization of Public Consumer Protection Law in the United States: Their Effect on Litigation and Enforcement,” see 24 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 663 (2008). For note, “Cybersecurity on my Mind: Protecting Georgia Consumers from Data Breaches,” see 51 Ga. L. Rev. 265 (2016).

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