Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 9. TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY · Article 3. TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE OF FREIGHT AND LIVESTOCK · Part 1. DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CARRIERS GENERALLY

46-9-42. Effect of strike by carrier’s employees on carrier’s duty to transport goods.

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A carrier who receives freight for shipment is bound to forward the freight within a reasonable time, even though his employees strike or otherwise refuse to work, provided that, if the strike is accompanied with violence and intimidation so as to render it unsafe to forward the freight, the carrier shall be relieved as to liability for delay in delivering the freight, if the violence and armed resistance are of such character as could not be overcome by the carrier or controlled by the civil authorities when called upon by him.

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

Civil Code 1895, § 2283; Civil Code 1910, § 2737; Code 1933, § 18-312; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 46(62)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, inserted a comma following “provided that”.

Other notes

History of Code section.: The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Haas v. Kansas City F.S. & G.R.R., 81 Ga. 792, 7 S.E. 629 (1888).

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