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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 12. ASBESTOS SAFETY

12-12-21. Sovereign immunity.

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

  1. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to constitute a waiver of the sovereign immunity of the state, the board, or the division. No action shall be brought against the state, the board, the division, or any member, officer, or employee thereof for damages sustained from the improper or unlawful removal or encapsulation of friable asbestos-containing materials from facilities or residential dwellings governed by this chapter. Nothing in this chapter and no order, action, license, or advice of the director, the division, or any representative thereof shall be construed to relieve a contractor, project monitor, or asbestos worker of the legal duties, obligations, or liabilities incident to removal or encapsulation of friable asbestos-containing materials from facilities or residential dwellings.

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

Code 1981, § 12-12-21, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 1157, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 12; Ga. L. 1996, p. 238, § 1.

Law reviews

For comment, ‘‘Keeping the Arms in Touch: Taking Political Accountability Seriously in the Eleventh Amendment Arm of the State Doctrine,’’ see 64 Emory L.J. 819 (2015).

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

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