Georgia Code
Chapter 7 - Control of Soil Erosion and Sedimentation
§ 12-7-8. Certification of Locality as Local Issuing Authority; Periodic Review; Procedure for Revoking Certification; Enforcement Actions

History. Ga. L. 1975, p. 994, § 12; Ga. L. 1980, p. 942, § 8; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1224, § 1; Ga. L. 1988, p. 269, § 27; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1295, § 5; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1650, § 5; Ga. L. 1995, p. 150, § 3; Ga. L. 2003, p. 224, § 5; Ga. L. 2007, p. 127, § 2/HB 463; Ga. L. 2019, p. 606, § 3/HB 493; Ga. L. 2020, p. 488, § 3/SB 445; Ga. L. 2021, p. 922, § 12/HB 497.
The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, in paragraph (a)(1), inserted “or contracts with” and substituted “shall certify” for “may certify” near the end; and deleted “any agreement entered into pursuant to” preceding “subsection (e) of Code Section 12-7-7” near the end of the fourth sentence of subsection (c).
The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, substituted “jurisdiction or entity” for “county or municipality” throughout this Code section; added paragraph (a)(4); in subsection (b), substituted “jurisdictions and entities” for “counties and municipalities” in the first sentence and substituted “jurisdiction’s or entity’s” for “county’s or municipality’s” in the second sentence; in subsection (c) substituted “jurisdictions and entities” for “counties and municipalities”, substituted “the applicable” for “a governing authority’s”, inserted “and regulations”, and substituted “the local issuing authority” for “the governing local issuing authority” in the third sentence; substituted “jurisdiction or entity” for “governing authority of any county or municipality”, inserted “or regulations”, and substituted “that jurisdiction or entity in” for “the governing authority of the county or municipality” in the fourth sentence; and substituted “jurisdiction or entity” for “governing authority of the county or municipality” in the fifth sentence.
The 2021 amendment, effective May 10, 2021, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, in subsection (a), redesignated former paragraph (a)(4) as present subparagraph (a)(4)(A), and redesignated former divisions (a)(4)(i) and (a)(4)(ii) as present subparagraphs (a)(4)(B) and (a)(4)(C), respectively.
Cross references.
Powers of the commission generally, § 2-6-27 .
Powers of districts generally, § 2-6-33 .
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2019, p. 606, § 1/HB 493, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Private Permitting Review and Inspection Act.’ ”
Law reviews.
For survey article on environment, natural resources, and land use, see 34 Mercer L. Rev. 145 (1982).

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