Official Code of Georgia Annotated
Title 2. AGRICULTURE · Chapter 12. FERTILIZERS, LIMING MATERIALS, AND SOIL AMENDMENTS · Article 3. SOIL AMENDMENTS
2-12-79. Prohibited acts.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
It shall be a violation of this article for any person to:
- (1)
Distribute an unregistered soil amendment;#
- (2)
Distribute an unlabeled soil amendment;#
- (3)
Distribute a misbranded soil amendment;#
- (4)
Distribute an adulterated soil amendment;#
- (5)
Fail to comply with a stop sale, use, or removal order;#
- (6)
Fail to submit semiannual reports; or#
- (7)
- (A)
Apply or distribute a soil amendment on a site, or on a separate site that has close geographic proximity to and is operationally connected with the underlying site, when:#
- (i)
The owner of such site or the person who has applied or distributed a soil amendment on such site is subject to a consent order, enforcement action, or ongoing investigation by the department or the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources, including, but not limited to, actions regarding the contamination of surface water, ground water, or soil contamination, and such consent order, enforcement action or ongoing investigation has not been withdrawn or resolved to the satisfaction of the issuing agency with respect to such site;#
- (ii)
A notice of violation has been issued by the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources or the department; and#
- (iii)
The department has notified the owner of such site and the person who has applied or distributed a soil amendment on such site that application of soil amendments on such site must cease.#
- (B)
For purposes of this paragraph only, the term “site” means the site identified in the nutrient management plan submitted to the department or a portion thereof.#
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.
History
Ga. L. 1976, p. 359, § 8; Ga. L. 2024, p. 649, § 2/HB 1223, effective July 1, 2024.
Amendments
The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, deleted “or” from the end of paragraph (5); substituted “; or” for a period at the end of paragraph (6); and added paragraph (7).
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 t1-3-(v3)-pdf.pdf, Volume V3, 2019 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 69 to 70; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 19703c1bece5.