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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 51. TORTS · Chapter 16. COVID-19 PANDEMIC BUSINESS SAFETY

51-16-5. Construction with other law.

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

  1. This chapter shall not modify or supersede the terms or application of:

  2. (1)

    Title 16, relating to crimes and offenses;#

  3. (2)

    Title 31, relating to health or any state regulations related thereto;#

  4. (3)

    Chapter 9 of Title 34, relating to workers’ compensation; and#

  5. (4)

    Chapter 3 of Title 38, relating to emergency management.#

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, § 51-16-5, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 798, § 3/SB 359.

Law reviews

For comment, “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Mask, No Entry, and (hopefully) No Law-suits under the Georgia COVID-19 Business Safety Act!,” see 72 Mercer L. Rev. 915 (2021).

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