EXHIBIT 99.1

   STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL
   OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, Larry L. Prince, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive
Officer, state and attest that:

(1)      To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports
         of Genuine Parts Company, and, except as corrected or supplemented in a
         subsequent covered report:

         -        no covered report contained an untrue statement of material
                  fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in
                  the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy
                  materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

         -        no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary
                  to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
                  circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
                  the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case
                  of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of
                  the date on which it was filed).

(2)      I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company's audit
         committee.

(3)      In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
         before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

         -        Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
                  31, 2001 of Genuine Parts Company;

         -        all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K, and all
                  definitive proxy materials of Genuine Parts Company filed with
                  the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K
                  identified above; and

         -        any amendments to any of the foregoing.



     /s/ Larry L. Prince                 Subscribed and sworn to before me
-----------------------------------      this 9th day of August, 2002.
LARRY L. PRINCE
Chairman of the Board of Directors,
 Chief Executive Officer (Principal
 Executive Officer)
August 9, 2002
                                         /s/ Cleo D. Durham
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                                         Notary Public

                                         My Commission Expires: Nov. 8, 2004
                                         Notary Public Cherokee County, Georgia