{"id":"DUT-GA-011","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of Georgia (Orig. Code 1863; Code 1933, section 105-401)","authority":"Title 51 (Torts), Chapter 3 (Liability of Owners and Occupiers of Land), Article 1","instrument":"O.C.G.A. section 51-3-1","title":"Duty of owner or occupier of land to invitee","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY"],"addressees":["owners or persons in control of premises open to invitees (every business open to customers, patients, guests or the public)"],"clause":"Where an owner or occupier of land, by express or implied invitation, induces or leads others to come upon his premises for any lawful purpose, he is liable in damages to such persons for injuries caused by his failure to exercise ordinary care in keeping the premises and approaches safe.","enforcement":"Civil liability in damages (subject, from August 5, 2020, to the gross-negligence condition and signage presumption of the Business Safety Act, Ex. DUT-GA-012)","functions":[],"notes":"Every business that invites the public onto its premises must exercise ordinary care to keep the premises and approaches safe for its invitees; \u0027ordinary diligence is that degree of care which is exercised by ordinarily prudent persons under the same or similar circumstances\u0027 (section 51-1-2), and gross negligence is the absence of slight diligence, \u0027that degree of care which every man of common sense, however inattentive he may be, exercises under the same or similar circumstances\u0027 (section 51-1-4), the standard the Business Safety Act adopted as its condition (Ex. DUT-GA-012).","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2024/T51%20(V39)%202017.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":4939383,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-GA","url":"/library/DUT-GA-011","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-GA-011","citation":"General Assembly of Georgia (Orig. Code 1863; Code 1933, section 105-401), O.C.G.A. section 51-3-1 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-011)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["DUT-GA-012"]}