{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-16-9-105","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 16-9-105","heading":"Civil actions.","body":"(a) The following persons shall have standing to assert a civil action under this part:\n(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\n(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.\n(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:\n(1) Five thousand dollars plus expenses of litigation and reasonable attorney’s fees;\n(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\n(3) Actual damages, plus expenses of litigation and reasonable attorney’s fees.","path":["TITLE 16 Crimes and Offenses","CHAPTER 9 Forgery and Fraudulent Practices","Article 6 Computer Systems Protection","PART 2 Spam E-mail"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.16.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"75883e2e77a88fabd189f63e361752f6e935a72574c94ff19b54a254955d3acd","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-16-9-104","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-16-9-106"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}