Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 9. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION · Article 3. PROCEDURE · Part 1. CLAIMS AND NOTICE OF ACCIDENT

34-9-83. Priority of claims.

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All rights of compensation under this chapter shall have the same preference or priority for the whole thereof against the assets of the employer as is allowed by law for claims for unpaid wages for labor.

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.

Ga. L. 1920, p. 167, § 21; Code 1933, § 114-301.

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