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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 6. AGENCY · Article 6. OVERSEERS

10-6-120. Overseer’s duties and powers.

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

  1. In the absence of the employer, the overseer stands in his place. It shall be his duty to see to the sustenance and protection of his employer’s property; and to discharge the duty, he shall be justified in repelling aggressors and trespassers to the same extent as the employer.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 2193; Code 1868, § 2189; Code 1873, § 2215; Code 1882, § 2215; Civil Code 1895, § 3043; Civil Code 1910, § 3615; Code 1933, § 4-501.

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