O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-4-103 (2019)

Penalty

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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Any person who is not engaged in the prosecution of lawfully authorized searches and who digs, mines, removes, or cleanses phosphate rock or phosphatic deposits from the beds of the navigable streams of this state or from any public lands on the banks and margins thereof without having first obtained a license as required by Code Section 12-4-100 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 125, § 4; Penal Code 1895, § 203; Penal Code 1910, § 201; Code 1933, § 43-9902.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 53A Am. Jur. 2d, Mines and Minerals, § 249.

C.J.S. - 58 C.J.S., Mines and Minerals, §§ 424 et seq., 452 et seq.

PART 2 GOLD

Cross references. - Persons engaged in business of dealing in gold, silver, or platinum, T. 43, C. 37.