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

O.C.G.A. § 12-5-331 (2019)

Duties and powers of department as to development of state’s rivers

✓ 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 Department of Natural Resources shall negotiate with the proper authorities of the United States from time to time concerning the development of the rivers of Georgia with particular reference to flood control. The department shall be privileged to appear before committees of Congress concerning appropriations for river development, to gather and disseminate information, and to cooperate with the federal and state authorities toward the development of Georgia’s rivers.

(b) Such information pertinent to the development of Georgia’s rivers as may be obtained by the Department of Natural Resources may be filed from time to time with the Department of Economic Development and, subject to approval of the Governor and the Secretary of State, with the Division of Archives and History.

History

Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 67, §§ 5, 6; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1641, § 8; Ga. L. 2002, p. 532, § 1; Ga. L. 2004, p. 690, § 10.

Annotations

Cross references. - Powers and duties of department relating to projects for deepening, widening, and improving river channels for navigational and other purposes, § 52-9-1.

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 1989, p. 1641, § 18, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: ‘‘In the event of any substantive conflict between this Act and any other Act of the 1989 General Assembly, such other Act shall control over this Act.’’

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Lands, § 22.

C.J.S. - 73 C.J.S., Public Administrative Law and Procedure, § 184.

PART 2 GEORGIA SCENIC RIVER SYSTEM