O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-5-447 (2019)

Minimum standards for certificates and recommendations

✓ 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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Every certificate issued by a governing authority and every recommendation of the commission, unless the proposed use is not harmful to the water and land resources of the stream corridor, will not significantly impede the natural flow of flood waters, and will not result in significant land erosion, stream bank erosion, siltation, or water pollution, shall comply with the following minimum standards:

(1) No land or water use shall be permitted in the flood plain; and

(2) No land or water use shall be permitted within 150 horizontal feet of the watercourse.

CONSERVATION & NATURAL RES.

History

Ga. L. 1973, p. 128, § 8; Code 1981, § 12-5-447, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 2107, § 4; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1059,

§ 7; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1317, § 6.9; Ga. L. 2008, p. 181, § 25/HB 1216.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Pope v. City of Atlanta, 242 Ga. 331, 249 S.E.2d 16 (1978).