O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 27-1-22 (2019)

Taking, possessing, and releasing of wildlife 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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For purposes of wildlife management and in accordance with sound principles of wildlife research and management, authorized personnel of the department and persons authorized by contract with the department are authorized to take, transport, possess, purchase, sell, band, and release wildlife at such times, by such methods, and in such quantities as are otherwise made unlawful by this title.

History

(Code 1933, § 45-214, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 396, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 678, § 16.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Hunt to thin deer population authorized. - A safely conducted controlled hunt to thin an excessive deer population

would be authorized by O.C.G.A. Title 27. Robinson v. Landings Ass’n, 264 Ga. 24, 440 S.E.2d 198 (1994).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1994–2011 · leading case: Landings Ass'n, Inc. v. Williams, 711 S.E.2d 294 (Ga. Ct. App. 2011).
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Landings Ass'n, Inc. v. Williams, 711 S.E.2d 294 (Ga. Ct. App. 2011). · cites it 4× “Pursuant to OCGA § 27-1-22, only the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR), and persons authorized by contract with the DNR, have the authority to take, capture, or transport the indigenous wild alligators at The Landings.”
Robinson v. Landings Ass'n, 440 S.E.2d 198 (Ga. 1994). · cites it 4× “While DNR’s statutory authority for regulating deer is broad, see OCGA § 27-1-22, the agency must, nevertheless, act in accordance with that authority.”
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