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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 41. NUISANCES · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

41-1-5. Continuance of nuisance by an alienee; request to abate nuisance.

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

  1. (a)

    The alienee of a person owning property injured may maintain an action for continuance of the nuisance for which the alienee of the property causing the nuisance is responsible.#

  2. (b)

    Prior to commencement of an action by the alienee of the property injured against the alienee of the property causing the nuisance, there must be a request to abate the nuisance.#

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 1863, § 2943; Code 1868, § 2950; Code 1873, § 3001; Code 1882, § 3001; Civil Code 1895, § 3862; Civil Code 1910, § 4458; Code 1933, § 72-105; Ga. L. 1991, p. 94, § 41.

Cross references

Covenants and warranties relating to land transactions generally, § 44-5-60 et seq.

Law reviews

For article discussing nuisances as “Hidden Liens,” see 14 Ga. St. B.J. 32 (1977). For annual survey on real property, see 64 Mercer L. Rev. 255 (2012).

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

Text read from t41-t42-(v29a)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V29A, 2023 edition, page 46; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 1e701a9ff15b.