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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Title 51 (Torts), Chapter 3 (Liability of Owners and Occupiers of Land), Article 1
- Effective
- standing
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Standing duty
- Addressees
- owners or persons in control of premises open to invitees (every business open to customers, patients, guests or the public)
- Character
- statutory duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Georgia DUT-GA
Operative words
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.
Penalty
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)
What it required
Every business that invites the public onto its premises must exercise ordinary care to keep the premises and approaches safe for its invitees; 'ordinary diligence is that degree of care which is exercised by ordinarily prudent persons under the same or similar circumstances' (section 51-1-2), and gross negligence is the absence of slight diligence, 'that degree of care which every man of common sense, however inattentive he may be, exercises under the same or similar circumstances' (section 51-1-4), the standard the Business Safety Act adopted as its condition (Ex. DUT-GA-012).
Retrieval noteOfficial Code of Georgia Annotated, Title 51 (Volume 39, 2017 replacement volume), Internet Archive item gov.ga.ocga.2024. Section 51-3-1 at PDF p. 341; section 51-1-2 at PDF p. 13; section 51-1-4 at PDF p. 31. Chapter 16 of Title 51 (the Business Safety Act, 2020) post-dates this volume and is saved as the enrolled Act (Ex. DUT-GA-012).