O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-8-40 (2019)

Exemption for livestock-feeding facility

✓ 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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This article shall not apply to any individual, corporation, partnership, or cooperative disposing of livestock-feeding facility waste from facilities with a maximum total capacity of 1,000 cattle or 5,000 swine, provided that if such individual, corporation, partnership, or cooperative shall provide an approved waste disposal system which is capable of properly disposing of the runoff from a ‘‘ten-year storm,’’ such individual shall be further exempt regardless of total per head capacity. Nothing in this part shall limit the right of any person to use poultry or other animal manure for fertilizer.

History

Code 1981, § 12-8-40, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 412, § 1.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant

to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1990, ‘‘part’’ was substituted for ‘‘article’’ in the second sentence.