TITLE 12 CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Section 5. Water Resources, 12-5-1 through 12-5-586.

ARTICLE 3 WELLS AND DRINKING WATER

12-5-201. Definitions.

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.

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