Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 91. PUBLIC WORKS BIDDING · Article 3. BONDS · Part 4. PAYMENT BONDS

36-91-95. Time limitation.

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

No action can be instituted on the payment bonds or security deposits after one year from the completion of the contract and the acceptance of the public works construction by the proper public authorities. Every action instituted under this article shall be brought in the name of the claimant, without the governmental entity for which the work was done or was to be done being made a party thereto.

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, § 36-91-75, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 498, § 1; Code 1981, § 36-91-95, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2001, p. 820, § 12.

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