36-85-20. Exercise of authority not provision of liability insurance; sovereign immunity.

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

The exercise by a municipality or county of the authority provided in this chapter shall not constitute the provision of liability insurance protection under Article I, Section II, Paragraph IX of the Constitution of the State of Georgia. The participation by a municipality or county as a member of an agency authorized by this chapter shall not constitute the obtaining of liability insurance and no sovereign immunity shall be waived on account of such participation.

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.

Code 1981, § 36-85-20, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 1496, § 1; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1454, § 5.

For article, “Local Government Tort Liability: The Summer of ’92,” see 9 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 405 (1993).

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

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