Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 13. UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS

12-13-20. Emergency orders; hearing.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Whenever the director finds that an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect the public health, safety, or well-being, the director may issue an order declaring the existence of such an emergency and requiring that such action be taken to meet the emergency as the director specifies. Such order shall be effective immediately. Any person to whom such order is directed shall comply therewith immediately but on application to the director shall be afforded a hearing within 48 hours. On the basis of such hearing, the director may continue such order in effect, revoke it, or modify it.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 12-13-20, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 2072, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 804, § 13.

Ga. L. 1994, p. 804, § 14, not codified by the General Assembly, provides for severability.

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