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Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 6. FOREST RESOURCES AND OTHER PLANT LIFE · Article 7. PALMETTO BERRIES

12-6-251. 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 saw palmetto berries constitutes a significant economic resource for landowners;#

  3. (2)

    Such landowners have been victimized by continuous and repeated trespasses onto their lands by persons engaged in harvesting saw palmetto berries and have thus 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 of saw palmetto berries constitute an organized and methodical deprivation of the rights of others, necessitating the addition 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, § 12-6-251, enacted by Ga. L. 2020, p. 680, § 1/HB 966.

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, page 769; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 a1ca11f804f2.