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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 5. WATER RESOURCES · Article 5. RIVERS AND RIVER BASINS · Part 6. PROTECTION OF METROPOLITAN RIVERS

12-5-447. Minimum standards for certificates and recommendations.

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

  1. Every certificate issued by a governing authority and every recommendation of the commission, unless the proposed use is not harmful to the water and land resources of the stream corridor, will not significantly impede the natural flow of flood waters, and will not result in significant land erosion, stream bank erosion, siltation, or water pollution, shall comply with the following minimum standards:

  2. (1)

    No land or water use shall be permitted in the flood plain; and#

  3. (2)

    No land or water use shall be permitted within 150 horizontal feet of the watercourse.#

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. 1973, p. 128, § 8; Code 1981, § 12-5-447, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 2107, § 4; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1059, § 7; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1317, § 6.9; Ga. L. 2008, p. 181, § 25/HB 1216.

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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 617 to 618; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 a1ca11f804f2.