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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 13. EXECUTIONS AND JUDICIAL SALES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-13-13. Written notice of levy on land.

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

  1. (a)

    In all cases of levying on land, written notice of the levy must be given personally or delivered by certified mail or statutory overnight delivery to the tenant in possession and to the defendant if not in possession.#

  2. (b)

    The officer levying on land under an execution, within five days thereafter, shall leave a written notice of the levy with the tenant in possession of the land, if any; and, if the defendant is not in possession, the officer shall also leave a written notice with the defendant if he is in the county or shall transmit the notice by mail to the defendant within the time aforesaid.#

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

Laws 1808, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 509; Laws 1847, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 516; Code 1863, §§ 3572, 3573; Code 1868, §§ 3595, 3596; Code 1873, §§ 3643, 3644; Code 1882, §§ 3643, 3644; Civil Code 1895, §§ 5426, 5428; Civil Code 1910, §§ 6031, 6033; Code 1933, §§ 39-120, 39-122; Ga. L. 1990, p. 298, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 3.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 16, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment to this Code section is applicable with respect to notices delivered on or after July 1, 2000.

Law reviews

For note discussing procedures required to effect a levy of execution, see 12 Ga. L. Rev. 814 (1978).

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

Text read from T09 Ch12-16 (V7A) 2015.pdf, Volume V7A, 2015 edition, pages 195 to 196; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 c88496cf9e57.