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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 5. TELEPHONE SERVICE · Article 2. TELEPHONE SERVICE · Part 4. EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER 9-1-1 SYSTEM

46-5-135. Liability of service supplier in civil action.

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

  1. A service supplier, including any company providing telephone services and its employees, directors, officers, and agents, is not liable for any damages in a civil action for injuries, death, or loss to persons or property incurred by any person as a result of any act or omission of a service supplier or any of its employees, directors, officers, or agents, except for willful or wanton misconduct, either in connection with developing, adopting, implementing, maintaining, or operating any emergency 9-1-1 system or in the identification of the telephone number, address, or name associated with any person accessing an emergency 9-1-1 system.

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, § 46-5-135, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 179, § 5; Ga. L. 2005, p. 660, § 9/HB 470; Ga. L. 2007, p. 318, § 2/HB 394.

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

Text read from t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V34, 2025 edition, page 620; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.