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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 6. FOREST RESOURCES AND OTHER PLANT LIFE · Article 1. FOREST RESOURCES · Part 6. PRESCRIBED BURNING

12-6-147. 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)

    ‘‘Commission’’ means the State Forestry Commission.#

  3. (2)

    ‘‘Prescribed burning’’ means the controlled application of fire to existing vegetative fuels under specified environmental conditions and following appropriate precautionary measures, which causes the fire to be confined to a predetermined area and accomplishes one or more planned land management objectives or to mitigate catastrophic wildfires.#

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, § 12-6-147, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2405, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1285, § 5.

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