Georgia § 9-3-51 - Limitations on recovery for deficiency in planning, supervising, or constructing improvement to realty or for resulting injuries to property or person.

§ 9-3-51. Limitations on recovery for deficiency in planning, supervising, or constructing improvement to realty or for resulting injuries to property or person.

No action to recover damages: For any deficiency in the survey or plat, planning, design, specifications, supervision or observation of construction, or construction of an improvement to real property; For injury to property, real or personal, arising out of any such deficiency; or For injury to the person or for wrongful death arising out of any such deficiency shall be brought against any person performing or furnishing the survey or plat, design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or construction of such an improvement more than eight years after substantial completion of such an improvement. Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this Code section, in the case of such an injury to property or the person or such an injury causing wrongful death, which injury occurred during the seventh or eighth year after such substantial completion, an action in tort to recover damages for such an injury or wrongful death may be brought within two years after the date on which such injury occurred, irrespective of the date of death, but in no event may such an action be brought more than ten years after the substantial completion of construction of such an improvement. This Code section shall not apply to actions for breach of contract, including, but not limited to, actions for breach of express contractual warranties. (Ga. L. 1968, p. 127, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 2020, p. 37, § 1/SB 451.) The 2020 amendment, effective July 1, 2020, added subsection (c). See Editor's notes for applicability. Editor's notes. - Ga. L. 2020, p. 37, § 2/SB 451, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "This Act shall apply to causes of action which have accrued on or after January 1, 1968." Law reviews. - For article discussing architect liability for product design and supervision of construction, and the statute of limitations, see 14 Ga. St. B.J. 164 (1978). For survey article on torts, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 271 (1982). For annual survey of construction law, see 43 Mercer L. Rev. 141 (1991). For annual survey of construction law, see 62 Mercer L. Rev. 71 (2010). For article, "Construction Law," see 63 Mercer L. Rev. 107 (2011). For note, "The Effect of Georgia's Architectural Statutes of Limitations on Real and Personal Property Claims for Negligent Construction," see 7 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 137 (1990).