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Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 6. FOREST RESOURCES AND OTHER PLANT LIFE · Article 5. CARBON SEQUESTRATION REGISTRY

12-6-223. Purpose of registry.

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

  1. The purpose of the Georgia Carbon Sequestration Registry shall be to do all of the following:

  2. (1)

    Encourage voluntary actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including, but not limited to, the construction of buildings made out of materials that sequester carbon dioxide;#

  3. (2)

    Enable participants to voluntarily record carbon sequestrations made after January 1, 1990, or such other beginning date as may be established by rule or regulation of the commission, in a consistent format that is certified;#

  4. (3)

    Ensure that sources in the state receive appropriate consideration for certified carbon sequestration results under any future federal or international regulatory regime relating to greenhouse gas emissions;#

  5. (4)

    Recognize, publicize, and promote participants in the registry; and#

  6. (5)

    Recruit broad participation in the process from all economic sectors and regions of the state.#

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, § 12-6-223, enacted by Ga. L. 2004, p. 343, § 1; Ga. L. 2021, p. 589, § 1/HB 355. The 2021 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, inserted ‘‘, including, but not limited to, the construction of buildings made out of materials that sequester carbon dioxide’’ in paragraph (1).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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 756 to 757; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 a1ca11f804f2.