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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 25. FIRE PROTECTION AND SAFETY · Chapter 15. OTHER SAFETY INSPECTIONS AND REGULATIONS · Article 3. AMUSEMENT RIDE SAFETY

25-15-62. Liability insurance, bond, cash, or security coverage.

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

  1. (a)

    No person shall operate an amusement ride unless at the time there is in existence:#

    1. (1)

      A policy of insurance in an appropriate amount determined by regulation insuring the owner and operator (if an independent contractor) against liability for injury to persons arising out of the operation of the amusement ride;#

    2. (2)

      A bond in a like amount; provided, however, that the aggregate liability of the surety under such bond shall not exceed the face amount thereof; or#

    3. (3)

      Cash or other security acceptable to the office.#

  2. (b)

    Regulations under this article shall permit appropriate deductibles or self-insured retention amounts to such policies of insurance. The policy or bond shall be procured from one or more insurers or sureties acceptable to the office.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 34-12-14, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1453, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 1632, § 1; Code 1981, § 25-15-62, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1144, § 3/SB 446.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t24-t26-(v21)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, pages 265 to 266; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8eab3bec6887.