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title: O.C.G.A. § 9-3-52. Limitation not available to owner or tenant.
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# O.C.G.A. § 9-3-52. Limitation not available to owner or tenant.

The limitation prescribed by this article shall not be asserted as a defense by any person who would otherwise be entitled to its benefits but who is in actual possession or control, as owner, tenant, or otherwise, of such an improvement at the time any deficiency of such an improvement constitutes the proximate cause of the injury or death for which it is proposed to bring an action.

## History

Ga. L. 1968, p. 127, § 4.