Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 21. OPERATORS OF HOTELS, INNS, AND ROADHOUSES · Article 1. RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND LIABILITIES OF INNKEEPERS

43-21-10. Deposit of valuables by guest with innkeeper.

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The innkeeper may provide a safe or other place of deposit for valuable articles and, by posting a notice thereof, may require guests of the innkeeper to place such valuable articles therein or the innkeeper shall be relieved from responsibility for such articles. For all valuable articles placed by a guest with an innkeeper for safekeeping, the innkeeper shall give a receipt therefor to evidence the fact of such deposit. No guest shall recover from the innkeeper more than $750.00 for loss of valuable articles deposited with the innkeeper for safekeeping unless such guest shall possess a receipt of the innkeeper for the valuable articles claimed to have been lost.

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 2098; Code 1868, § 2093; Code 1873, § 2119; Code 1882, § 2119; Civil Code 1895, § 2937; Civil Code 1910, § 3510; Ga. L. 1922, p. 52, § 1; Code 1933, § 52-110; Ga. L. 1984, p. 924, § 1.

Cross references

Deposits generally, § 44-12-90 et seq.

Law reviews

For annual survey on law of torts, see 43 Mercer L. Rev. 395 (1991).

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