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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 4. ANIMALS · Chapter 12. INJURIES FROM EQUINE, LIVESTOCK, OR LLAMA ACTIVITIES

4-12-4. Warning required; effect of failure to comply with notice requirement.

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

  1. (a)

    Every equine professional and every equine activity sponsor shall post and maintain signs which contain the warning notice specified in subsection (b) of this Code section. Such signs shall be placed in a clearly visible location on or near stables, corrals, or arenas where the equine professional or the equine activity sponsor conducts equine activities. The warning notice specified in subsection (b) of this Code section shall appear on the sign in black letters, with each letter to be a minimum of one inch in height. Every written contract entered into by an equine professional or by an equine activity sponsor for the providing of professional services, instruction, or the rental of equipment or tack or an equine to a participant, whether or not the contract involves equine activities on the business location or site of the equine professional or the equine activity sponsor, shall contain in clearly readable print the warning notice specified in subsection (b) of this Code section.#

  2. (b)

    The signs and contracts described in subsection (a) of this Code section shall contain language substantially similar to the following warning notice:#

    1. WARNING

    2. Under Georgia law, an equine activity sponsor or equine

    3. professional is not liable for an injury to or the death of a

    4. participant in equine activities resulting from the inherent

    5. risks of animal activities, pursuant to Chapter 12 of Title

    6. 4 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated.

  3. (c)

    Failure to comply with the requirements concerning warning signs and notices provided in this Code section shall prevent an equine activity sponsor or equine professional from invoking the privileges of immunity provided by this chapter.#

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, § 4-12-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 680, § 1; Ga. L. 2017, p. 134, § 1/HB 50.

Amendments

The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, substituted “on the business location or site of the equine professional or the equine activity sponsor” for “on or off the location or site of the equine professional’s or the equine activity sponsor’s business” in the last sentence of subsection (a); inserted “language substantially similar to” in the introductory paragraph of subsection (b); and substituted “animal activities” for “equine activities” near the end of the “Warning”. See Editor’s notes for applicability.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2017, p. 134, § 2/HB 50, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment of this Code section by that Act shall not apply to any cause of action arising prior to July 1, 2017.

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

Text read from t4-6-(v4)-pdf.pdf, Volume V4, 2013 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 45 to 46; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 9d1b53199f62.