Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 9. CIVIL PRACTICE · Chapter 3. LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS · Article 2. SPECIFIC PERIODS OF LIMITATION

9-3-22. Enforcement of rights under statutes, acts of incorporation; recovery of wages, overtime, and damages.

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All actions for the enforcement of rights accruing to individuals under statutes or acts of incorporation or by operation of law shall be brought within 20 years after the right of action has accrued; provided, however, that all actions for the recovery of wages, overtime, or damages and penalties accruing under laws respecting the payment of wages and overtime shall be brought within two years after the right of action has accrued.

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. 1855-56, p. 233, § 12; Code 1863, § 2857; Code 1868, § 2865; Code 1873, § 2916; Code 1882, § 2916; Civil Code 1895, § 3766; Civil Code 1910, § 4360; Code 1933, § 3-704; Ga. L. 1943, p. 333, § 1.

Cross references

Time limitation on bringing of action by employee to recover difference between wages actually paid and state minimum wage, § 34-4-6. Time limitation on action to recover wages not paid as result of sex discrimination, § 34-5-5.

Law reviews

For article, “Some Rescission Problems in Truth-In-Lending, as Viewed From Georgia,” see 7 Ga. St. B.J. 315 (1971). For article surveying local government law in 1984-85, see 37 Mercer L. Rev. 313 (1985). For survey article on trial practice and procedure for the period from June 1, 2002 to May 31, 2003, see 55 Mercer L. Rev. 439 (2003). For annual survey of labor and employment law, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 251 (2005).

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