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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 6. FOREST RESOURCES AND OTHER PLANT LIFE · Article 4. HARVEST AND SALE OF PINE STRAW

12-6-201. Legislative findings.

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

  1. The General Assembly finds that:

  2. (1)

    The natural occurrence of pine straw constitutes a significant economic resource for owners of timbered property;#

  3. (2)

    Such owners have been victimized by continuous and repeated trespasses onto their lands by persons engaged in harvesting pine straw and have been deprived of the economic benefit of such resources; and#

  4. (3)

    The repeated trespasses onto private property by certain persons engaged in the harvesting and baling of pine straw constitute an organized and methodical deprivation of the rights of others, necessitating the enactment of this article.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 12-6-201, enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 386, § 1.

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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 750 to 751; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 a1ca11f804f2.