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Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 5. WATER RESOURCES · Article 3. WELLS AND DRINKING WATER · Part 6. WATER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION, REDUNDANCY, AND RELIABILITY

12-5-201. Definitions.

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

  1. As used in this part, the term:

  2. (1)

    ‘‘Authority’’ means the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority created by Code Section 50-23-3.#

  3. (2)

    ‘‘District’’ means the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District created by Code Section 12-5-572.#

  4. (3)

    ‘‘Emergency plan’’ means the written emergency water supply plan developed as provided in Code Section 12-5-202.#

  5. (4)

    ‘‘Essential water needs’’ means the minimum amount of water needed for residential and commercial means for food processing, drinking, toilet flushing, fire fighting, hospital use, and critical asset use and a portion of the system’s unaccounted for water.#

  6. (5)

    ‘‘Qualified system’’ means any public water system owned and operated by a city, county, or water authority in the district.#

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, § 12-5-201, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 204, § 2/SB 380.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2010, ‘‘the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority’’ was substituted for ‘‘the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority’’ in paragraph (1).

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Text read from t12-(v10)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V10, 2021 edition, pages 519 to 520; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 a1ca11f804f2.