O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-5-192 (2019)

Civil penalties; procedures for imposing penalty; hearing; review

✓ 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)(1) For any public water system serving 10,000 or more individuals, any person violating any provision of this part or any permit condition or limitation established pursuant to this part or negligently or intentionally failing or refusing to comply with any final order of the director issued as provided in this part shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000.00 per day per violation.

(2) For any public water system serving fewer than 10,000 individuals, any person violating any provision of this part or any permit condition or limitation established pursuant to this part or negligently or intentionally failing or refusing to comply with any final order of the director issued as provided in this part shall be liable for

CONSERVATION & NATURAL RES.

a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000.00 for the first day of each violation and a subsequent additional civil penalty not to exceed $500.00 per violation for each additional day during which the violation continues.

(3) Any person willfully violating any provision of this part or any permit condition or limitation established pursuant to this part or willfully failing or refusing to comply with any final order of the director issued as provided in this part shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000.00 per day per violation.

(b) Whenever the director has reason to believe that any person has violated any provision of this part or has negligently or willfully failed or refused to comply with any final order of the director, he or she may, upon written request, cause a hearing to be conducted before a hearing officer appointed by the Board of Natural Resources. Upon a finding that such person has violated any provision of this part or has negligently or willfully failed or refused to comply with a final order of the director, the hearing officer shall issue his or her initial decision imposing such civil penalties as are provided in this Code section. Such hearing and any administrative or judicial review thereof shall be conducted in accordance with subsection (c) of Code Section 12-2-2.

History

Ga. L. 1977, p. 351, § 19; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1667, § 1.

Annotations

Law reviews. - For review of 1998

legislation relating to conservation and natural resources, see 15 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 21 (1998).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 78 Am. Jur. 2d, Waterworks and Water Companies, §§ 2, 39. ALR. - Recovery of cumulative statutory penalties, 71 A.L.R.2d 986.

Liability of water supplier for damages resulting from furnishing impure water, 54 A.L.R.3d 936.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1994–1994 · leading case: Moore v. Dixon, 452 S.E.2d 484 (Ga. 1994).

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Moore v. Dixon, 452 S.E.2d 484 (Ga. 1994). · cites it 2× “As a violation of her permit, appellee’s agreement with appellants would render her operation of the water system “unlawful” under the Act. OCGA § 12-5-179 (a).”

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