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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 36. LOCAL GOVERNMENT · Chapter 60. GENERAL PROVISIONS

36-60-30. Local regulation of leaf blowers.

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

  1. (a)

    This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the “Landscape Equipment and Agricultural Fairness (LEAF) Act.”#

  2. (b)

    The General Assembly finds that:#

    1. (1)

      Prudent regulation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers is crucial to the welfare of Georgia’s economy;#

    2. (2)

      Urban agriculture, homeowners, and landscape service professionals are sensitive to the costs and regulation of gasoline-powered leaf blowers; and#

    3. (3)

      If individual political subdivisions of the state regulate gasoline-powered leaf blowers, there exists the potential for confusing and varying regulations which could lead to unnecessary increased costs for urban agriculture, homeowners, and landscape service professionals to comply with such regulations.#

  3. (c)

    As used in this Code section, the term “gasoline-powered leaf blowers” means any machine that is powered by a two-stroke or four-stroke engine and uses as fuel gasoline or a blend of gasoline and oil, used to blow leaves, dirt, or other debris off of sidewalks, driveways, lawns, or other surfaces.#

  4. (d)

    Any local prohibition or regulation regarding the use, disposition, or sale or any imposition of any restriction, fee imposition, or taxation at the retail, manufacturer, or distributor setting shall not create differing standards for or distinguish gasoline-powered leaf blowers from any other gasoline-powered, electric, or similar such equipment or any other type of leaf blower. Nothing in this subsection shall apply to the use of gasoline-powered leaf blowers on property owned by a county or municipality.#

  5. (e)

    Nothing in this Code section shall be construed to prohibit or limit any county or municipal program to encourage the use of alternative leaf blower equipment, such as battery powered tools.#

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.

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

Code 1981, § 36-60-30, enacted by Ga. L. 2023, p. 411, § 1/HB 374, effective May 2, 2023.

Effective date

This Code section became effective July 1, 2023.

Code Commission notes

Both Ga. L. 2023, p. 411, § 1/HB 374 and Ga. L. 2023, p. 569, § 2/SB 62 enacted Code Section 36-60-30. Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2023, Code Section 36-60-30 as enacted by Ga. L. 2023, p. 569, § 2/SB 62 was redesignated as Code Section 36-60-31.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t36-ch60-92-(v27a)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V27A, 2025 edition, page 62; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 5150ee8c60f7.