Georgia Code
Part 3 - Surface Mining
§ 12-4-70. Short Title

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Georgia Surface Mining Act of 1968.”
History. Ga. L. 1968, p. 9, § 1.

Structure Georgia Code

Title 12 - Conservation and Natural Resources

Chapter 4 - Mineral Resources and Caves

Article 2 - Mining and Drilling

Part 3 - Surface Mining

§ 12-4-70. Short Title

§ 12-4-71. Legislative Purpose; Duty of Environmental Protection Division to Administer Part

§ 12-4-72. Definitions

§ 12-4-73. Powers and Duties of Division as to Surface Mining Generally; Division May Decline to Assert Jurisdiction

§ 12-4-74. Promulgation of Rules and Regulations by Board of Natural Resources

§ 12-4-75. Permits for Surface Mining Operations; Submission of Mining Land Use Plan and Amendment to Plan; Bonding of Applicants

§ 12-4-76. Substitution of Mined Areas

§ 12-4-77. Renewal or Replacement of Revoked Permit; Mining on Unauthorized Site

§ 12-4-78. Appeal to Superior Court

§ 12-4-79. Injunctive Relief

§ 12-4-80. Removal of Minerals, Ores, and Other Solid Matter as Prima-Facie Evidence of Surface Mining

§ 12-4-81. Judgment Pursuant to Order

§ 12-4-82. Applicability of Part

§ 12-4-83. Civil Penalty; Procedure for Imposing Penalties; Hearing; Judicial Review; Disposition of Recovered Penalties

§ 12-4-84. Criminal Penalty