O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 2-12-21 (2019)

Local regulation prohibited

✓ 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) No county, municipal corporation, consolidated government, or other political subdivision of this state shall adopt or continue in effect any ordinance, rule, regulation, or resolution regulating the registration, labeling, packaging, sale, storage, transportation, distribution, use, or application of fertilizer. (b) This Code section shall in no way prohibit or impair the legal right of any county, municipal corporation, consolidated government, or other political subdivision of this state to issue business licenses or to make zoning decisions.

History

Code 1981, § 2-12-21, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 1030, § 1/SB 88.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2005, Code Section 2-12-22, as enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 1030, § 1, was redesignated as Code Section 2-12-21. Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 1997, p. 1271,

§ 1, repealed former Code Section 2-12-21, relating to notice of violations and administrative hearings. The former Code section was based on Ga. L. 1960, p. 916, §§ 19, 26; Ga. L. 1970, p. 609, § 16; Code 1981, § 2-12-22; Code 1981, § 2-12-21, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1989, p. 473, § 1.

ARTICLE 2 LIMING MATERIALS Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 1996, p. 1183, § 1, effective July 1, 1996, repealed the Code sections formerly codified at this article and enacted the current article. The former article consisted of Code Sections 2-12-40 through 2-12-54 and was based on Ga. L. 1959, p. 306, §§ 1-9; Ga. L. 1963, p. 499, §§ 1-12; Ga. L. 1967, p. 287,

§ 1; Ga. L. 1976, p. 1595, §§ 1-13; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1506, §§ 1-4. Administrative rules and regulations. - Liming materials, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Georgia Department of Agriculture, Chapter 40-27.