Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 9. EASEMENTS · Article 4. RIGHTS OF WAY FOR MINING, QUARRYING, AND OTHER BUSINESSES

44-9-76. Amount of water allowed to be withdrawn from stream above mill or factory by mine owner or lessee.

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In no instance shall a greater amount of water, measured in cubic feet, than the surplus be withdrawn and carried away entirely from a stream above any mill or factory, surplus water being that full amount of water that would run to waste with a tight mill dam at such mill or factory. This Code section shall apply as fully to owners of mines as to lessees of mines.

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.

Ga. L. 1868, p. 139, § 6; Ga. L. 1897, p. 21, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 803; Code 1933, § 83-206.

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