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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 3. FOREST FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL

12-6-83. Direction and supervision by State Forestry Commission of forest fire protection work; making and enforcing rules and regulations.

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

  1. All forest fire protection work shall be under the direction and supervision of the State Forestry Commission, through the director of the commission, subject to this part and the laws of this state relative to forestry and forest fire prevention and suppression. The commission shall have power to make and enforce all rules and regulations necessary for the administration of forest fire protection.

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. 1925, p. 199, § 3; Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, § 21; Code 1933, § 43-206; Ga. L. 1949, p. 937, § 4.

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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, page 730; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 a1ca11f804f2.