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Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 4. DETERMINATION OF BOUNDARIES · Article 2. STATE PLANE COORDINATE SYSTEM

44-4-20. Designation of Georgia state plane coordinate system; East and West Zones.

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

  1. (a)

    The Georgia portion of the State Plane Coordinate System as defined by the National Geodetic Survey, based on the National Spatial Reference System, for defining and stating the geographic positions or locations of points on the surface of the earth within this state shall be known and designated as the “Georgia State Plane Coordinate System.”#

  2. (b)

    For the purpose of the use of this system, the state is divided into an “East Zone” and a “West Zone”:#

    1. (1)

      The area now included in the following counties shall constitute the East Zone: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baldwin, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Camden, Candler, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch, Coffee, Columbia, Dodge, Echols, Effingham, Elbert, Emanuel, Evans, Franklin, Glascock, Glynn, Greene, Hancock, Hart, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Laurens, Liberty, Lincoln, Long, McDuffie, McIntosh, Madison, Montgomery, Oglethorpe, Pierce, Richmond, Screven, Stephens, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Ware, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wheeler, Wilkes, and Wilkinson; and#

    2. (2)

      The area now included in the following counties shall constitute the West Zone: Baker, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brooks, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll, Catoosa, Chatta-hoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clark, Clay, Clayton, Cobb, Colquitt, Cook, Coweta, Crawford, Crisp, Dade, Dawson, Decatur, DeKalb, Dooly, Dougherty, Douglas, Early, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Fulton, Gilmer, Gordon, Grady, Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Haral-son, Harris, Heard, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jackson, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Lanier, Lee, Lowndes, Lumpkin, Macon, Marion, Meriwether, Miller, Mitchell, Monroe, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Newton, Oconee, Paulding, Peach, Pickens, Pike, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Quitman, Rabun, Randolph, Rockdale, Schley, Seminole, Spalding, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taylor, Terrell, Thomas, Tift, Towns, Troup, Turner, Twiggs, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, Webster, White, Whitfield, Wilcox, and Worth.#

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

Ga. L. 1945, p. 218, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 650, § 1; Ga. L. 2022, p. 674, § 1/SB 581.

Amendments

The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, rewrote subsection (a); and substituted “this system” for “these systems” in the beginning of subsection (b).

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

Text read from t44-ch1-7-(v31)-pdf.pdf, Volume V31, 2010 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 88 to 89; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 a165b4d6b81d.