GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
Title 12. CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES |
Chapter 6. FOREST RESOURCES AND OTHER PLANT LIFE |
Article 1. FOREST RESOURCES |
Part 1. STATE FORESTRY COMMISSION |
§ 12-6-1. Definitions |
§ 12-6-2. Creation of State Forestry Commission; members; terms of office; ineligibility of Governor for membership; vacancies; effect of appointment when Senate not in session |
§ 12-6-3. Chairman; reimbursement of members for expenses; meetings |
§ 12-6-4. Dismissal of members for failure to attend meetings |
§ 12-6-5. Powers and duties of commission generally; volunteer services |
§ 12-6-5.1. Legislative findings; reforestation incentives program authorized; powers of commission |
§ 12-6-6. Management, conservation, and protection of forest lands; sale of forest products from land managed by commission; production and sale of seedlings |
§ 12-6-7. Federal financial aid -- Participation in rural fire prevention and control program; contributions by counties and fire departments |
§ 12-6-8. Federal financial aid -- Expenditure of funds for forest farming and marketing of forest products |
§ 12-6-9. Acquisition of land; gifts of land for use as lookout tower sites; abandoned tower sites; improvements on land subject to reversionary clause |
§ 12-6-10. Reports to General Assembly |
§ 12-6-11. Director -- Appointment; qualifications; salary; reimbursement for expenses; term |
§ 12-6-12. Director -- Duty of director to devote full time to office; power and duty of director to act for commission when commission not in session |
§ 12-6-13. Director -- Oath; bond; location of office |
§ 12-6-14. Director -- Eligibility of commission members for directorship or for employment under commission or director |
§ 12-6-15. Director -- Adoption of rules, regulations, and methods of administration |
§ 12-6-16. Director -- Control of tree diseases and insect infestation |
§ 12-6-17. Director -- Regulation of controlled burning where drought or other conditions exist |
§ 12-6-18. Director -- Expenditure of funds for benefit of lands under commission's control; sale and disposal of products from controlled lands |
§ 12-6-19. Director -- Promulgation of rules and regulations as to lands under commission's control; sale, lease, or exchange of controlled lands |
§ 12-6-20. Forestry investigators |
§ 12-6-21. Uncontrolled fire as constituting a public nuisance; duties and liabilities of person or entity responsible |
§ 12-6-22. Investigation of tree diseases or insect infestation; notification of landowner; recommendations; effect of landowner's failure to act; disposition of proceeds derived from sale of trees |
§ 12-6-22.1. Control of aviation; power of commission |
REFS & ANNOS
TITLE 12 Chapter 6 Article 1 Part 1 NOTE
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
CITED in Georgia Forestry Comm'n v. Harrell, 98 Ga. App. 238, 105 S.E.2d 461 (1958).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR. --Constitutionality of reforestation or forest conservation legislation, 13 ALR2d 1095.
CITED in Georgia Forestry Comm'n v. Harrell, 98 Ga. App. 238, 105 S.E.2d 461 (1958).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR. --Constitutionality of reforestation or forest conservation legislation, 13 ALR2d 1095.