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title: O.C.G.A. § 44-11-30. Manner of ejecting intruders; affidavit; ejection by sheriff and other peace officers; counteraffidavit.
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# O.C.G.A. § 44-11-30. Manner of ejecting intruders; affidavit; ejection by sheriff and other peace officers; counteraffidavit.

When any person, either by himself or herself, his or her agent, or his or her attorney in fact, shall take and subscribe an affidavit in writing before any officer authorized to administer an oath setting forth that he or she claims, in good faith, the right of possession to the described land or tenement and that such land or tenement is in the hands of another named person who does not in good faith claim a right to such possession and yet refuses to abandon the same, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, marshal, or other individual certified by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council of the county where the land or tenement is located, upon receiving such affidavit, to exhibit such affidavit to the person described as being in possession of such land or tenement at least three days prior to turning such person out of possession unless the person in possession tenders to such sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, marshal, or other individual certified by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council a counteraffidavit stating that he or she claims, in good faith, a legal right to the possession of the land or tenement. Such sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, marshal, or other individual certified by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council shall turn out such person once three days have elapsed from the day such affidavit was exhibited.

## History

Ga. L. 1853-54, p. 52, § 1; Code 1863, § 3979; Code 1868, § 4000; Code 1873, § 4072; Code 1882, § 4072; Civil Code 1895, § 4808; Civil Code 1910, § 5380; Code 1933, § 105-1501; Ga. L. 2024, p. 400, § 4/HB 1017, effective April 24, 2024; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 44(7)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2024, p. 400, § 1/HB 1017, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Squatter Reform Act.’”

## Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective April 24, 2024, rewrote this Code section.

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “deputy sheriff,” for “sheriff deputy,” twice in the first sentence and once in the last sentence.