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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 3. PARKS, HISTORIC AREAS, MEMORIALS, AND RECREATION · Article 3. HISTORIC AREAS · Part 3. SUBMERGED CULTURAL RESOURCES

12-3-81. Department named custodian of submerged cultural resources; rules and regulations; reporting findings; duties of state archeologist.

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

  1. (a)

    The custodian of all submerged cultural resources shall be the Department of Natural Resources. The Board of Natural Resources is empowered to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to preserve, survey, protect, and recover such underwater properties and are necessary for the effective administration of this part.#

  2. (b)

    All findings of submerged cultural resources shall be reported to the department within two days, Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays excluded, after being found.#

  3. (c)

    The state archeologist shall have such duties in conducting and supervising the surveillance, protection, preservation, survey, and recovery of submerged cultural resources as he is given by Code Section 12-3-53 for similar land resources.#

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.

History

Code 1981, § 12-3-81, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 906, § 4; Ga. L. 1988, p. 945, § 2.

Administrative rules and regulations

Submerged cultural resources, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, Subject 391-5-9.

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

Text read from t12-(v10)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V10, 2021 edition, pages 116 to 117; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 a1ca11f804f2.