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

O.C.G.A. § 52-8-4 (2019)

Power of municipalities to prohibit throwing or depositing of substances which might lessen depth of navigable waters

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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The corporate authorities of any municipality in this state are authorized, within their respective jurisdictions, to prohibit, under proper penalties, the throwing or depositing in navigable waters of any substance of any nature or kind which might in any degree lessen the depth of navigable water within the jurisdictional limits of such municipalities.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 1489; Code 1868, § 1546; Code 1873, § 1540; Code 1882, § 1540; Civil Code 1895,

§ 1688; Civil Code 1910, § 1934; Code 1933, § 98-105; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 52.