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Título 51. TORTS · Capítulo 2. IMPUTABLE NEGLIGENCE

51-2-5. Liability for negligence of contractor.

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

El texto siguiente es la ley tal como la imprime el estado, en inglés.

  1. An employer is liable for the negligence of a contractor:

  2. (1)

    When the work is wrongful in itself or, if done in the ordinary manner, would result in a nuisance;#

  3. (2)

    If, according to the employer’s previous knowledge and experience, the work to be done is in its nature dangerous to others however carefully performed;#

  4. (3)

    If the wrongful act is the violation of a duty imposed by express contract upon the employer;#

  5. (4)

    If the wrongful act is the violation of a duty imposed by statute;#

  6. (5)

    If the employer retains the right to direct or control the time and manner of executing the work or interferes and assumes control so as to create the relation of master and servant or so that an injury results which is traceable to his interference; or#

  7. (6)

    If the employer ratifies the unauthorized wrong of the independent contractor.#

Las notas siguientes se imprimen con la sección, pero no son ley promulgada (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). Se muestran aparte del texto.

History

Civil Code 1895, § 3819; Civil Code 1910, § 4415; Code 1933, § 105-502.

Cross references

Liability of principal contractor or subcontractor for injuries suffered by employees engaged in working upon subject matter of contract, § 34-9-8.

Law reviews

For article surveying torts law, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 271 (1982). For annual survey of administrative law, see 56 Mercer L. Rev. 31 (2004). For annual survey of real property law, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 331 (2005). For annual survey of law on labor and employment law, see 62 Mercer L. Rev. 181 (2010). For comment criticizing Dekle v. Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., 208 Ga. 254, 66 S.E.2d 218 (1951), holding defendant not liable for negligence of independent contractor since excavating public street is not inherently dangerous as a matter of law, see 14 Ga. B. J. 228 (1951). For comment on Ellenberg v. Pinkerton’s, Inc., 125 Ga. App. 648, 188 S.E.2d 911 (1972), holding employer defendant may not use independent contractor defense to invasion of privacy suit resulting from actions of investigator working in his behalf, see 9 Ga. St. B. J. 519 (1973). For comment on Aretz v. United States, 604 F.2d 417 (5th Cir. 1979), discussing federal government’s duty of care to employees of an independent contractor, see 31 Mercer L. Rev. 1095 (1980).

Otras notas

History of Code section.
The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Atlanta & F.R.R. v. Kimberly, 87 Ga. 161, 13 S.E. 277 (1891).

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Texto leído de t51-(v39)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volumen V39, edición 2017, páginas 303 a 304; acción de fusión: annotated; SHA-256 del archivo bc30a40687b2.