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O.C.G.A. § 12-8-2 — Dumping sanitary sewer, kitchen, or toilet wastes in storm or sanitary sewers prohibited; forfeiture of involved vehicles | Georgia Code
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TITLE 12 CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Section 8. Waste Management, 12-8-1 through 12-8-210.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

12-8-2. Dumping sanitary sewer, kitchen, or toilet wastes in storm or sanitary sewers prohibited; forfeiture of involved vehicles.

  1. No person, firm, or corporation shall place, dump, dispose of, or cause to be placed, dumped, or disposed of in a public storm or sanitary sewer pipeline or through manholes thereof, or otherwise, any contents or matter of or from any septic tank, waste water holding tank, grease trap, or other container serving the purpose of a septic tank, waste water holding tank, or grease trap, which contents or matter is made up wholly or partly by the sanitary sewer, kitchen, or toilet waste from any residential source or commercial or industrial waste from business processes from any commercial or industrial facility, unless the express written permission of the owner of such public storm or sewer pipeline is first obtained.
  2. Any person, firm, or corporation violating subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
  3. Any motor vehicle, trailer, and all other property and instruments utilized in the hauling, transporting, dumping, placing, or disposition of any contents or matter in any public sewer in violation of subsection (a) of this Code section are declared to be contraband and shall be subject to forfeiture according to the terms, provisions, conditions, and procedures set out in Chapter 16 of Title 9.

(Code 1981, §12-8-2, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 780, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 4, § 12; Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 3-12/HB 233.)

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, in subsection (c), substituted "property and instruments" for "articles and contrivances" near the beginning, deleted "seizure, confiscation, and" following "shall be subject to", and substituted "Chapter 16 of Title 9" for "Code Section 3-10-11, as far as such terms and procedures can be made to apply" at the end. See Editor's notes for applicability.

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 4-1/HB 233, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2015, and shall apply to seizures of property for forfeiture that occur on or after that date. Any such seizure that occurs before July 1, 2015, shall be governed by the statute in effect at the time of such seizure."

Law reviews.

- For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2015).

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