Section 12-9-21. Effect of article on powers of Board of Natural Resources, department, division, and director

   Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to grant to the Board of Natural Resources, department, division, or director any jurisdiction or authority to make any rule, regulation, recommendation, or determination or to enter any order:

   (1) With respect to air conditions existing solely within the property boundaries of commercial and industrial plants, works, or operations, if such locations are not subject to regulation under the federal act;

   (2) Affecting the relations between employers and employees with respect to or arising out of any air conditions if such relations are not subject to regulation under the federal act; except that a source which uses a supplemental or intermittent control system for purposes of complying with an order issued by the director under Code Section 12-9-13, or the administrator under 42 U.S.C. Section 7413(d) may not temporarily reduce the pay of any employee by reason of the use of supplemental or intermittent or other dispersion dependent control systems for control of emissions of air pollutants; or

   (3) Limiting or restricting the owners of any forest land from burning over their own land, provided that such burning is consistent with the requirements of the federal act.

Code 1933, § 88-910, enacted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 581, § 1; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, § 1529; Ga. L. 1978, p. 275, § 7; Ga. L. 1992, p. 918, § 2; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2886, § 1.