Georgia Code, Title 41, Chapter 3 - Places Used for Unlawful Sexual and Drug Activities

• § 41-3-1 - Establishment, Maintenance, or Use of Building, Structure, or Place for Unlawful Sexual Purposes; Evidence of Nuisance
  (a) Whosoever shall knowingly erect, establish, continue, maintain, use, own, or lease any building, structure, or place used for the purpose of lewdness, prostitution,...
• § 41-3-1.1 - Substantial Drug Related Activity Upon Real Property; Knowledge of Owner; Remedies Cumulative
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Drug related indictment" means an indictment by a grand jury for an offense involving...
• § 41-3-2 - Action to Enjoin Nuisance Perpetually; Temporary Restraining Order or Interlocutory Injunction Authorized
  Whenever a nuisance is kept, maintained, or exists, as defined in Code Section 41-3-1 or 41-3-1.1, the district attorney, the solicitor-general, city attorney, or...
• § 41-3-3 - Dismissal of Complaint Filed by Private Citizen; Substitution of District Attorney or Another Private Citizen for Original Complainant
  If the complaint is filed by a private citizen, it shall not be dismissed except upon filing of a sworn statement by the complainant...
• § 41-3-4 - Notice of Hearing Upon Application for Temporary Restraining Order or Interlocutory Injunction
  Notice shall be given to the defendant of the hearing of the application for a temporary restraining order or an interlocutory injunction as provided...
• § 41-3-5 - Procedure for Trial of Action Generally; Admissibility of Evidence of General Reputation of Building, Structure, or Place
  An action to enjoin a nuisance shall be triable as all other civil cases. In such action, evidence of the general reputation of the...
• § 41-3-6 - Taxation of Cost of Action Against Private Citizen Bringing Action Without Reasonable Ground or Cause
  If the action shall be brought by a private citizen and the court shall find that there was no reasonable ground or cause for...
• § 41-3-7 - Order of Abatement Generally; Breaking and Entering or Using Closed Building, Structure, or Place; Fees for Removal, Sale, or Closure of Property
  (a) If the existence of a nuisance shall be established in an action as provided in this chapter, an order of abatement shall be...
• § 41-3-8 - Disposition of Proceeds of Sale of Personal Property
  The proceeds of the sale of the personal property, as provided in Code Section 41-3-7, shall be applied in payment of the cost of...
• § 41-3-9 - Suspension of Abatement Order and Release of Property; Effect of Release of Property
  (a) If the owner of the building, structure, or place ordered abated shall appear and pay all costs of the proceedings and file a...
• § 41-3-10 - Issuance of Permanent Injunction; Entry and Enforcement of Judgment; Disposition of Sums Arising From Enforcement of Judgment
  (a) Whenever a permanent injunction is issued against any person for maintaining a nuisance as described in Code Section 41-3-1 or against any owner...
• § 41-3-11 - Injunction Binding Throughout Judicial Circuit in Which Issued; Violation of Provisions of Injunction Deemed Contempt
  When an injunction is granted, it shall be binding on the defendant throughout the judicial circuit in which it is issued; and any violation...
• § 41-3-12 - Contempt Proceedings; Punishment for Contempt of Court
  (a) In the event of the violation of any injunction granted under this chapter, the court may summarily try and punish the offender. The...
• § 41-3-13 - Abatement of Nuisance by State Courts and Municipal Courts of Municipalities Having Population of 15,000 or More
  In addition to the remedies provided for by Code Sections 41-3-2 through 41-3-12, state courts and the municipal courts of municipalities having a population...

Last modified: October 14, 2016