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Mark Frantz is a unit owner within Piccadilly Place Condominium Association. The parties have had a litigious relationship. Piccadilly Place Condominium Assn. v. Frantz , 210 Ga. App. 676 436 SE2d 728 1993. The Association brought suit against Frantz for unpaid assessments and obtained a judgment and a writ of fieri facias in an amount exceeding $9,000. The Association amended its condominium declaration pursuant to OCGA § 44-3-76 so as to permit it to suspend utilities being provided to a unit after total final judgments exceed $750. Frantz filed an emergency motion for temporary restraining order TRO and a motion for interlocutory injunction to prevent the Association from turning off the water to his unit. The trial court denied the emergency motion, and Frantz filed a notice of appeal. This Court dismissed that appeal for failure to file an application. The Association then filed a motion for preliminary injunction to enjoin Frantz from removing water from the exterior water spigots in the condominium. After an evidentiary hearing, the trial court granted the motion, finding that such spigots are common elements and that the Association was entitled to suspend their use. The court ordered Frantz not to retrieve water from the outdoor spigots, and other unit owners not to allow him to do so. Acting pro se, Frantz appeals from both this order and a subsequent order modifying the interlocutory injunction. 1. The Association asserts that the earlier order denying the emergency motion for TRO and another order specially setting a bench trial on all issues are not properly before this Court, since neither order is subject to direct appeal pursuant to OCGA § 5-6-34 a, and Frantz did not obtain a certificate of immediate review and appeal the orders pursuant to OCGA § 5-6-34 b. To the contrary, however, those orders clearly may be raised in this appeal and reviewed by this Court because Frantz was authorized to bring an appeal from the grant of the interlocutory injunction under OCGA § 5-6-34 a 4. All judgments, rulings, or orders rendered in the case which are raised on appeal and which may affect the proceedings below shall be reviewed and determined by the appellate court, without regard to the appealability of the judgment, ruling, or order standing alone and without regard to whether the judgment, ruling, or order appealed from was final . . . . OCGA § 5-6-34 c. See also Southeast Ceramics v. Klem , 246 Ga. 294, 295 1 271 SE2d 199 1980.

2. Frantz contends that the trial court erred in giving retroactive application to both OCGA § 44-3-76 and the amendment to the Association’s condominium declaration.

 
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