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Georgia · Snapshot Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17

O.C.G.A. § 16-9-105: Civil actions.

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  1. TITLE 16 Crimes and Offenses
  2. CHAPTER 9 Forgery and Fraudulent Practices
  3. Article 6 Computer Systems Protection
  4. PART 2 Spam E-mail

(a) The following persons shall have standing to assert a civil action under this part:

(1) Any e-mail service provider whose protected computer was used to send, receive, or transmit an e-mail that was sent in violation of this part; and

(2) A domain owner of any e-mail address to which a deceptive commercial e-mail is sent in violation of this part, provided that the domain owner also owns a protected computer at which the e-mail was received.

(b) Any person who has standing and who suffers personal, property, or economic damage by reason of a violation of any provision of this part may initiate a civil action for and recover the greater of:

(1) Five thousand dollars plus expenses of litigation and reasonable attorney’s fees;

(2) Liquidated damages of $1,000.00 for each offending commercial e-mail, up to a limit of $2 million per incident, plus expenses of litigation and reasonable attorney’s fees; or

(3) Actual damages, plus expenses of litigation and reasonable attorney’s fees.

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