O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 10-1-359.4 (2019)

Authority of localities

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) The General Assembly finds that this article is a matter of state-wide concern. This article supersedes and preempts all rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, and other laws adopted by any county, municipality, consolidated government, or other local governmental agency regarding the sale or purchase of regulated metal property except as allowed in this Code section.

SELLING/OTHER TRADE PRACTICES

(b) Political subdivisions of this state may enact rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, and other laws: (1) Affecting the land use and zoning relating to secondary metals recyclers; and (2) Issuing occupational tax certificates to secondary metals recyclers, imposing occupational taxes, imposing regulatory fees as allowed in Code Section 48-13-9, or revoking their occupational tax certificates.

History

Code 1981, § 10-1-358, enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 650, § 3/SB 203; Code 1981, § 10-1-359.4, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2012, p. 112, § 1-1/HB 872.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2012, Code Section 10-1-363, as enacted

by Ga. L. 2012, p. 112, § 1-1/HB 872, was redesignated as Code Section 10-1-359.4. Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2012, p. 112, § 4-1(a)/HB 872, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment of this Code section shall apply to all offenses committed on or after July 1, 2012.