Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES · Chapter 8. WASTE MANAGEMENT · Article 3. HAZARDOUS WASTE · Part 1. HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT

12-8-61. Legislative policy.

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

It is declared to be the public policy of the State of Georgia, in furtherance of its responsibility to protect the public health, safety, and well-being of its citizens and to protect and enhance the quality of its environment, to institute and maintain a comprehensive state-wide program for the management of hazardous wastes through the regulation of the generation, transportation, storage, treatment, and disposal of hazardous wastes.

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.

Ga. L. 1979, p. 1127, § 2; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2234, § 5.

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