O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 22-3-121 (2019)

Acquisition of right to enter lands and clear or cut timber for purposes of carrying out survey of coasts - Generally

✓ 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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Any person employed under the act of the Congress of the United States providing for a survey of the coasts may enter upon lands within this state and clear or cut timber upon the same for any purpose legitimately connected with and necessary to carry out the survey, provided that no unnecessary injury be done thereby and all damages to the owner of the land be promptly paid.

History

Laws 1847, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 155; Code 1863, § 25; Code 1868, § 23; Code 1873, § 23; Code 1882, § 23; Civil Code 1895, § 27; Civil Code 1910, § 28; Code 1933, § 36-1102.

U.S. Code. - The federal Act referred to in this section is codified at 33 U.S.C. § 883a, which provides for the activities which the director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey is authorized to conduct.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 52 Am. Jur. 2d, Logs and Timber, § 1 et seq. C.J.S. - 54 C.J.S., Logs and Logging, § 1 et seq. ALR. - Eminent domain: possibility of

overcoming specific obstacles to contemplated use as element in determining existence of necessary public use, 22 A.L.R.4th 840.