36-1-16. Dumping outside jurisdiction without permission prohibited; exemption.

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

(a)
No person, firm, corporation, or employee of any municipality shall transport, pursuant to a contract, whether oral or otherwise, garbage, trash, waste, or refuse across state or county boundaries for the purpose of dumping the same at a publicly or privately owned dump, unless permission is first obtained from the governing authority of the county in which the dump is located and from the governing authority of the county in which the garbage, trash, waste, or refuse is collected.#
(b)
Subsection (a) of this Code section shall not apply to the transportation of any material which is regulated pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 12, the “Georgia Water Quality Control Act,” or Article 1 of Chapter 9 of Title 12, “The Georgia Air Quality Act.”#

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. 1971, p. 445, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1911, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1345, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 918, § 3; Ga. L. 1993, p. 91, § 36.

Cross references

Individual sewage disposal permits, § 12-8-1 et seq.

Law reviews

For note on 1992 amendment of this Code section, see 9 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 186 (1992). For survey article on local government law, see 59 Mercer L. Rev. 285 (2007). For survey article on zoning and land use law, see 59 Mercer L. Rev. 493 (2007). For survey article on local government law, see 60 Mercer L. Rev. 262 (2008). For survey article on zoning and land use law, see 60 Mercer L. Rev. 457 (2008).

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

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