Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 3. LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9-3-1. Limitations against the state.

Active

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

Except as otherwise provided by law, the state shall be barred from bringing an action if, under the same circumstances, a private person would be barred.

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.

Ga. L. 1855-56, p. 233, § 38; Code 1873, § 2925a; Code 1882, § 2925a; Civil Code 1895, § 3777; Civil Code 1910, § 4371; Code 1933, § 3-715.

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

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t9-ch1-10-(v6)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V6, 2023 edition, page 160; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 ea8a520ad52f.