GA Code § 41-2-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 41 - Nuisances|Chapter 2 - Abatement of Nuisances Generally|§ 41-2-1. Authorization and Procedure for Abatement of Nuisances Generally

 Upon filing of a petition as provided in Code Section 41-2-2, any nuisance which tends to the immediate annoyance of the public in general, is manifestly injurious to the public health or safety, or tends greatly to corrupt the manners and morals of the public may be abated by order of a judge of the superior court of the county in which venue is proper.   (Laws 1833, Cobb's 1851 Digest, p. 817; Code 1863, § 3995; Code 1868, § 4023; Code 1873, § 4094; Code 1882, § 4094; Civil Code 1895, § 4760; Civil Code 1910, § 5329; Code 1933, § 72-201; Ga. L. 1980, p. 620, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 867, § 1.)   Cross references.   - Abatement of hazard resulting from abandoned well or hole, § 44-1-14.   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   ANALYSIS    General Consideration   Sufficiency of Allegations    RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 58 Am. Jur. 2d, Nuisances, § 50 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 66 C.J.S., Nuisances, §§ 107-115, 182-187.   ALR.    - Proximate cause as determining landlord's liability, where injury results to a third person from a nuisance that becomes such only upon tenant's using the premises, 4 A.L.R. 740.    Fire escape as an attractive nuisance, 9 A.L.R. 271.    Necessity of knowledge by owner of real estate of a nuisance maintained thereon by another to subject him to the operation of a statute providing for the abatement of nuisances, or prescribing pecuniary penalty therefor, 12 A.L.R. 431; 121 A.L.R. 642.    Liability of purchaser of premises for nuisance thereon created by predecessor, 14 A.L.R. 1094.    Tannery or curing of hides as a nuisance, or subject of municipal regulation, 32 A.L.R. 1358.    Injunction against games on neighboring property, 62 A.L.R. 782; 32 A.L.R.3d 1127.    Decree abating nuisance as affecting owner not served with process, 63 A.L.R. 698.    Dogs as nuisance, 79 A.L.R. 1060.    Aeroplanes and aeronautics, 99 A.L.R. 173.    Use of property for production of war goods as affecting question of nuisance, and injunction to abate same, 145 A.L.R. 611.    Validity of provision of statute or ordinance that requires vacation of premises which do not comply with building or sanitary regulations, upon notice to that effect, without judicial proceeding, 153 A.L.R. 849.   When statute of limitation commences to run against damage from overflow of land caused by artificial construction or obstruction, 5 A.L.R.2d 302.   Stockyard as a nuisance, 18 A.L.R.2d 1033.   Practice of exacting usury as a nuisance or ground for injunction, 83 A.L.R.2d 848.   Statutes, ordinances, or regulations relating to private residential swimming pools, 92 A.L.R.2d 1283.   Saloons or taverns as nuisance, 5 A.L.R.3d 989.   Buyer's acceptance of delayed or defective instalment of goods as waiver of similar default as to later installments, 32 A.L.R.3d 1127.   Modern status of rules as to balance of convenience or social utility as affecting relief from nuisance, 40 A.L.R.3d 601.   Validity and construction of statute or ordinance providing for repair or destruction of residential building by public authorities at owner's expense, 43 A.L.R.3d 916.   Gasoline or other fuel storage tanks as nuisance, 50 A.L.R.3d 209.   Exhibition of obscene motion pictures as nuisance, 50 A.L.R.3d 969.   Nuisance: right of one compelled to discontinue business or activity constituting nuisance to indemnity from successful plaintiff, 53 A.L.R.3d 873.   Existence of, and relief from, nuisance created by operation of air conditioning or ventilating equipment, 79 A.L.R.3d 320.   Bells, carillons, and the like, as nuisance, 95 A.L.R.3d 1268.   Encroachment of trees, shrubbery, or other vegetation across boundary line, 65 A.L.R.4th 603.   Nuisance as entitling owner or occupant of real estate to recover damages for personal inconvenience, discomfort, annoyance, anguish, or sickness, distinct from, or in addition to, damages for depreciation in value of property or its use, 25 A.L.R.5th 568.