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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 5. WATER RESOURCES · Article 2. CONTROL OF WATER POLLUTION AND SURFACE-WATER USE

12-5-20. Short title.

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

  1. This article shall be known and may be cited as the ‘‘Georgia Water Quality Control Act.’’

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

Ga. L. 1964, p. 416, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 12.

Law reviews

For article examining approach to water pollution control established by the Georgia Water Quality Control Act and other regulations in light of alternative approaches, see 23 Mercer L. Rev. 603 (1972). For article, ‘‘Sharing Water Through Interbasin Transfer and Basis of Origin Protection in Georgia: Issues for Evaluation in Comprehensive State Water Planning for Georgia’s Surface Water Rivers and Groundwater Aquifers,’’ see 21 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 339 (2004). For annual survey of zoning and land use law, see 58 Mercer L. Rev. 477 (2006). For annual survey on administrative law, see 70 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (2018). For article, ‘‘Integrated Water Resources Management and Effective Intergovernmental Cooperation on Watershed Issues,’’ see 70 Mercer L. Rev. 399 (2019). For comment, ‘‘Trading Water: Using Tradable Permits to Promote Conservation and Efficient Allocation of an Increasingly Scarce Resource,’’ see 59 Emory L.J. 1001 (2010).

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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, page 370; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 a1ca11f804f2.