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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 2. AGRICULTURE · Chapter 7. PLANT DISEASE, PEST CONTROL, AND PESTICIDES · Article 3. USE AND APPLICATION OF PESTICIDES

2-7-106. Transportation, storage, and disposal of pesticides and pesticide containers.

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

  1. No person shall transport, store, or dispose of any pesticide or pesticide containers in such a manner as to cause injury to humans, vegetation, crops, livestock, wildlife, or beneficial insects or in such a manner as to pollute any waterway in a way harmful to any wildlife therein. The Commissioner may promulgate rules and regulations governing the storing and disposal of such pesticides or pesticide containers. In determining these standards, the Commissioner shall take into consideration any regulations issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and any regulations issued by the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources of this state.

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. 1972, p. 849, § 16; Ga. L. 1976, p. 369, § 18.

Cross references

Powers of Environmental Protection Division of Department of Natural Resources regarding management of hazardous waste, § 12-8-60 et seq.

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

Text read from t1-t2-t3-(v3)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V3, 2019 edition, page 308; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 206dab95f27a.