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# O.C.G.A. § 44-4-20. Designation of Georgia state plane coordinate system; East and West Zones.

(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.”

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

(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) 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.

## 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).