O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-6-149 (2019)

Fire manager program authorized; record-keeping requirements; public information campaign

✓ 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 commission may promulgate a certified prescribed fire manager program whereby practitioners may become qualified and registered under this part.

(b) The commission shall utilize the same or similar record-keeping requirements of Part 3 of this article, the ‘‘Georgia Forest Fire Protection Act,’’ to reflect the use of prescribed burning under this part.

(c) The commission shall, subject to sufficient funding, institute a public information campaign in an effort to reveal the benefits of prescribed burning to the general public.

History

Code 1981, § 12-6-149, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2405, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1285, § 7.

T.12, C.6, A.2 FOREST RESOURCES & OTHER PLANT LIFE

ARTICLE 2 GINSENG PROTECTION

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Fingerprinting of offenders not required. - Offenses under the Ginseng Protection Act, O.C.G.A. § 12-6-150 et

seq., are not ones for which those charged with a violation are to be fingerprinted. 1996 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 96-17.