Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 48-5-7.5. Assessment of Standing Timber; Penalty for Failure to Timely Report; Effect of Reduction of Property Tax Digest; Supplemental Assessment

History. Code 1981, § 48-5-7.5 , enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1903, § 6; Ga. L. 1995, p. 792, §§ 1-6; Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 96; Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 48/HB 323.
The 2017 amendment, effective May 9, 2017, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “State Forestry Commission” for “Georgia Forestry Commission” near the beginning of the first sentence of subsection (g).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1991, p. 1903, § 14, effective April 24, 1991, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “To assist counties and boards of education in planning, volumes of standing timber harvested in each county through the last business day of the second and third quarters of 1991 shall be reported by the purchaser, or by the harvester if there is no purchaser, to the tax assessors of the county or counties in which the timber was harvested by November 15, 1991. Such reports shall show the number of pounds, if available, or measured volume of softwood and hardwood pulpwood, chip and saw logs, saw timber, poles, posts, and fuel wood so harvested. The commissioner, after consultation with the Georgia Forestry Commission, shall provide the tax assessor of each county with the weighted average unit price in pounds and measured volume paid through the last business day of such period for each such product class, no later than November 15, 1991.”
Ga. L. 1991, p. 1903, § 15, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that this Code section shall be applicable beginning January 1, 1992, with respect to ad valorem taxation of timber and shall be applicable beginning January 1, 1992, for all other purposes. Taxation for prior periods shall continue to be governed by prior law.
Ga. L. 2000, p. 618, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘A Plus Education Reform Act of 2000.’

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