O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-6-83 (2019)

Direction and supervision by State Forestry Commission of forest fire protection work; making and enforcing rules and regulations

✓ 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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All forest fire protection work shall be under the direction and supervision of the State Forestry Commission, through the director of the commission, subject to this part and the laws of this state relative to forestry and forest fire prevention and suppression. The commission shall have power to make and enforce all rules and regulations necessary for the administration of forest fire protection.

History

Ga. L. 1925, p. 199, § 3; Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, § 21; Code 1933, § 43-206; Ga. L. 1949, p. 937, § 4.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Volunteer firefighters are not entitled to workers’ compensation from

commission. 1954-56 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 351.

FOREST RESOURCES & OTHER PLANT LIFE

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Fires, §§ 1, 16. C.J.S. - 73 C.J.S., Public Administra-

tive Law and Procedure, §§ 207, 212 et seq.