O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-5-201 (2019)

Definitions

✓ 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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As used in this part, the term:

(1) ‘‘Authority’’ means the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority created by Code Section 50-23-3.

(2) ‘‘District’’ means the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District created by Code Section 12-5-572.

(3) ‘‘Emergency plan’’ means the written emergency water supply plan developed as provided in Code Section 12-5-202.

(4) ‘‘Essential water needs’’ means the minimum amount of water needed for residential and commercial means for food processing, drinking, toilet flushing, fire fighting, hospital use, and critical asset use and a portion of the system’s unaccounted for water.

(5) ‘‘Qualified system’’ means any public water system owned and operated by a city, county, or water authority in the district.

CONSERVATION & NATURAL RES.

History

Code 1981, § 12-5-201, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 204, § 2/SB 380.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2010, ‘‘the Geor-

gia Environmental Finance Authority’’ was substituted for ‘‘the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority’’ in paragraph (1).