§ 2-4. Self insurance and waiver of governmental immunity.

Pursuant to the authority of 1970 Ga. Laws, pages 3207, 3208, the city elects to become a self insurer under O.C.G.A. § 33-24-51 and waives governmental immunity to the extent and in accordance with the following:

(1)

Payments for damages because of bodily injury or death resulting therefrom to any one person or for damage to property to any one person or for both shall not exceed the total amount of $25,000.00 in any one incident or collision arising because of the ownership, maintenance, operation or use of any motor vehicle by the city under its management, control or supervision in a governmental undertaking.

(2)

There shall be no additional or excess insurance coverage or self insurance, other than the total payment of $25,000.00 to any one person arising out of any one incident or collision, as set forth in subsection (1) of this section.

(3)

The waiver of governmental immunity as to the use of motor vehicles, as set forth in subsection (1) of this section, shall not constitute in any way whatsoever the waiver of any other governmental immunity which the city may possess under the law of the state.

(Code 1977, § 7-3017(a); Ord. No. 2000-37, § 1, 6-27-00; Ord. No. 2002-6, § 1, 3-5-02)

State law reference

Sovereign immunity of municipalities, O.C.G.A. § 36-33-1 et seq.

Cross reference

City-owned or city-leased motorized equipment, § 2-1701 et seq.

Editor's note

Section 2 of Ord. No. 2002-6, approved March 5, 2002 states that the provisions of subsections 2-4(1) and (2) shall not become effective until January 1, 2003.