Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 8. WASTE MANAGEMENT · Article 2. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

12-8-40. Exemption for livestock-feeding facility.

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This article shall not apply to any individual, corporation, partnership, or cooperative disposing of livestock-feeding facility waste from facilities with a maximum total capacity of 1,000 cattle or 5,000 swine, provided that if such individual, corporation, partnership, or cooperative shall provide an approved waste disposal system which is capable of properly disposing of the runoff from a ‘‘ten-year storm,’’ such individual shall be further exempt regardless of total per head capacity. Nothing in this part shall limit the right of any person to use poultry or other animal manure for fertilizer.

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.

Code 1981, § 12-8-40, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 412, § 1.

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1990, ‘‘part’’ was substituted for ‘‘article’’ in the second sentence.

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