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2018 Georgia Code 12-8-30.6 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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O.C.G.A. 12-8-30.6 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 12-8-30.6

TITLE 12 CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES

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

ARTICLE 2 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

12-8-30.6. Civil penalties for violations; procedures.

  1. Any person, provided that person is a public authority or a city or county government located within the boundaries of Georgia, violating any provision of this part or rules or regulations adopted pursuant to this part or intentionally or negligently failing or refusing to comply with any final or emergency order of the director issued as provided in this part shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000.00 for such violation and for an additional civil penalty not to exceed $500.00 for each day during which such violation continues.Any person other than a public authority or a city or county government located within the boundaries of Georgia violating any provision of this part or intentionally or negligently failing or refusing to comply with any final or emergency order of the director issued as provided in this part shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $25,000.00 per day for each day during which such violation continues.
  2. Whenever the director has reason to believe that any person has violated any provision of this part or any rule or regulation effective under this part or has failed or refused to comply with any final order or emergency order of the director, he may upon written request cause a hearing to be conducted before an administrative law judge appointed by the board.Upon finding that said person has violated any provision of this part or any rule or regulation effective under this part or has failed or refused to comply with any final order or emergency order of the director, the administrative law judge shall issue his decision imposing civil penalties as provided in this Code section.Such hearing and any administrative or judicial review thereof shall be conducted in accordance with subsection (c) of Code Section 12-2-2.
  3. In rendering a decision under this Code section imposing civil penalties, the administrative law judge shall consider all factors which are relevant, including, but not limited to, the following:
    1. The amount of civil penalty necessary to ensure immediate and continued compliance and the extent to which the violator may have profited by failing or delaying to comply;
    2. The character and degree of impact of the violation or failure to comply on the natural resources of the state, especially any rare or unique natural phenomena;
    3. The conduct of the person incurring the civil penalty in promptly taking all feasible steps or procedures necessary or appropriate to comply or to correct the violation or failure to comply;
    4. Any prior violations or failures to comply by such person with regard to statutes, rules, regulations, or orders administered, adopted, or issued by the director;
    5. The character and degree of injuryto or interference with public health or safety which is caused or threatened to be caused by such violation or failure to comply;
    6. The character and degree of injury to or interference with reasonable use of property which is caused or threatened to be caused by such violation or failure; and
    7. The character and degree of intent with which the conduct of the person incurring the civil penalty was carried out.
  4. All civil penalties recovered by the director as provided in this Code section shall be paid into the solid waste trust fund established pursuant to the provisions of Code Section 12-8-27.1.

(Code 1981, §12-8-30.6, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 412, § 1.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 21 Am. Jur. 2d, Criminal Law, § 20.

C.J.S.

- 22 C.J.S., Criminal Law, § 26.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Prior consent order did not amount to criminal punishment to which double jeopardy prohibitions applied.

- Trial court properly denied a solid waste facility operator's double jeopardy plea in bar of prosecution because even though the parties stipulated that the consent order and the criminal action alleged the same nuisance conduct and each proceeding had the same goals of restraint, deterrence, and abatement, the criminal action was not barred by the sanctions imposed in the consent order since the consent order did not amount to criminal punishment to which double jeopardy prohibitions applied. Wilbros, LLC v. State, 294 Ga. 514, 755 S.E.2d 145 (2014).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 12-8-30.6

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Wilbros, LLC v. State, 294 Ga. 514 (Ga. 2014).

Cited 3 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Feb 24, 2014 | 755 S.E.2d 145, 2014 Fulton County D. Rep. 379

...242, 249 (100 SCt 2636, 65 LE2d 742) (1980). 6 In this case, it is evident that the money penalties and remedial actions imposed by the Consent Order are authorized by statute as civil sanctions. See OCGA § 12-8-30.6 (authorizing, among other things, a fine not to exceed $25,000 per day for each day during which a violation of the Act or failure to comply with an order issued by the director of the EPD continues)....
...§ 12-8-30.8), the provision authorizing civil penalties only requires a violation of the statute without regard to the violator’s state of mind, or requires intentional or negligent failure to comply with any final order issued pursuant to the Act (see OCGA § 12-8-30.6)....
...jeopardy 5 Since the violations appear to have been ongoing, the one-time penalty of $25,000 was significantly below the maximum civil penalty of $25,000 per day for each day during which the violation continues permitted by OCGA § 12-8-30.6....