Title 50, Chapter 21, Section 24
( 50-21-24)
The state shall have no liability for losses resulting from: (1) An act or omission by a state officer or employee exercising
due care in the execution of a statute, regulation, rule, or
ordinance, whether or not such statute, regulation, rule, or
ordinance is valid; (2) The exercise or performance of or the failure to exercise or
perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a state
officer or employee, whether or not the discretion involved is
abused; (3) The assessment or collection of any tax or the detention of
any goods or merchandise by any law enforcement officer; (4) Legislative, judicial, quasi-judicial, or prosecutorial action
or inaction; (5) Administrative action or inaction of a legislative,
quasi-legislative, judicial, or quasi-judicial nature; (6) Civil disturbance, riot, insurrection, or rebellion or the
failure to provide, or the method of providing, law enforcement,
police, or fire protection; (7) Assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, malicious
prosecution, abuse of process, libel, slander, or interference
with contractual rights; (8) Inspection powers or functions, including failure to make an
inspection or making an inadequate or negligent inspection of any
property other than property owned by the state to determine
whether the property complies with or violates any law,
regulation, code, or ordinance or contains a hazard to health or
safety; (9) Licensing powers or functions, including, but not limited to,
the issuance, denial, suspension, or revocation of or the failure
or refusal to issue, deny, suspend, or revoke any permit, license,
certificate, approval, order, or similar authorization; (10) The plan or design for construction of or improvement to
highways, roads, streets, bridges, or other public works where
such plan or design is prepared in substantial compliance with
generally accepted engineering or design standards in effect at
the time of preparation of the plan or design; (11) Financing regulatory activities, including, but not limited
to, examinations, inspections, audits, or other financial
oversight activities; (12) Activities of the Georgia National Guard when engaged in
state or federal training or duty, but this exception does not
apply to vehicular accidents; or (13) Any failure or malfunction occurring before December 31,
2005, which is caused directly or indirectly by the failure of
computer software or any device containing a computer processor to
accurately or properly recognize, calculate, display, sort, or
otherwise process dates or times, if the failure or malfunction
causing the loss was unforeseeable or if the failure or
malfunction causing the loss was foreseeable but the plan or
design or both for identifying and preventing the failure or
malfunction was prepared in substantial compliance with generally
accepted computer and information system design standards in
effect at the time of the preparation of the plan or design. |