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

O.C.G.A. § 52-8-5 (2019)

Power of municipalities to prohibit throwing or depositing of substances dangerous to navigation or injurious to vessels

✓ 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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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 which they might consider dangerous to navigation or injurious to vessels or to property abutting upon such navigable waters; and the master of any vessel from which any forbidden substance is thrown or deposited in violation of any ordinance promulgated under this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Ga. L. 1945, p. 279, § 26.

WATERS OF STATE, PORTS & WATERCRAFT

CHAPTER 9 RIVER AND HARBOR DEVELOPMENT Sec.

originating from water navigation related projects.

Projects for improving navigation channels. Disposal of sand and sediment

Annotations

Cross references. - Powers of State Properties Commission regarding leases authorizing dredging of bottom or bank of state-owned waterway, § 50-16-43(j).

Law reviews. - For note on the 2002 amendment of this chapter, see 19 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 343 (2002).