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

12-6-84. Entry upon land for fire-prevention purposes or investigations.

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The members of the State Forestry Commission and any of its authorized agents or anyone acting at their direction shall have the right at any or all times to go upon any land for the purpose of preventing, controlling, or suppressing forest fires, as defined in Code Section 12-6-82, or for the purpose of making investigations, without incurring liability for trespassing.

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. 1949, p. 937, § 13; Ga. L. 1955, p. 309, § 33.

Cross references

Right of organized fire suppression force to suppress nuisance as constituted by uncontrolled fire on forested or cut-over brush land or grassland, § 12-6-21. Authority of commission to enter upon lands to investigate, suppress, and control tree diseases or insect infestation, § 12-6-22.

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