Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 9. TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

46-9-5. Limitation of actions by common carriers for recovery of charges.

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All actions at law by common carriers operating in this state for the recovery of their charges or any part thereof, where such charges have accrued in connection with intrastate shipments, shall be initiated within three years after the time the cause of action accrues, and not thereafter.

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

Ga. L. 1933, p. 191, § 1; Code 1933, § 18-601; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 46.

Law reviews

For article, “Statutes of Limitation: Counterproductive Complexities,” see 37 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (1985).

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