Georgia Code
Part 2 - Deep Drilling for Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals
§ 12-4-42. Definitions

As used in this part, the term:
(1.1) “Director” means the director of the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources.
(5.1) “Hydraulic fracturing” means those operations conducted in an individual well bore designed to increase the flow of hydrocarbons from the rock formation to such well bore through modification of the permeability of reservoir rock by fracturing it through application of fluids under pressure.
History. Ga. L. 1945, p. 366, § 8; Ga. L. 1975, p. 966, § 3; Ga. L. 1976, p. 544, §§ 1-3; Ga. L. 1984, p. 398, § 1; Ga. L. 2018, p. 953, § 1/HB 205.