- § 12-6-1 - Definitions
As used in this part, the term: (1) "Commission" means the State Forestry Commission. (2) "Director" means the director of the State Forestry Commission.Title...
- § 12-6-2 - Creation of State Forestry Commission; Members; Terms of Office; Ineligibility of Governor for Membership; Vacancies; Effect of Appointment When Senate Not in Session
(a) There is created and established a State Forestry Commission.(b) The commission shall be composed of seven members. Four of the members shall be...
- § 12-6-3 - Chairman; Reimbursement of Members for Expenses; Meetings
(a) The commission shall elect a chairman annually.(b) The members of the commission, including the chairman, shall receive such per diem subsistence allowances for...
- § 12-6-4 - Dismissal of Members for Failure to Attend Meetings
If any member of the commission, for any cause, fails to attend three successive meetings of the commission without good and valid cause or...
- § 12-6-5 - Powers and Duties of Commission Generally; Volunteer Services
(a) The commission shall have power and authority: (1) To take all action appropriate to foster, improve, and encourage reforestation; (2) To engage in...
- § 12-6-5.1 - Legislative Findings; Reforestation Incentives Program Authorized; Powers of Commission
(a) The General Assembly finds that 433,000 acres of trees were planted in Georgia in 1984, while 640,000 acres were harvested during that year...
- § 12-6-6 - Management, Conservation, and Protection of Forest Lands; Sale of Forest Products From Land Managed by Commission; Production and Sale of Seedlings
(a) Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the State Forestry Commission is authorized to manage, conserve, and protect any forest lands...
- § 12-6-7 - Federal Financial Aid -- Participation in Rural Fire Prevention and Control Program; Contributions by Counties and Fire Departments
(a) The commission may enter into agreements with the secretary of agriculture of the United States in order to participate in the rural fire...
- § 12-6-8 - Federal Financial Aid -- Expenditure of Funds for Forest Farming and Marketing of Forest Products
The commission shall be the designated agency to expend through the department all federal-aid funds available under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978,...
- § 12-6-9 - Acquisition of Land; Gifts of Land for Use As Lookout Tower Sites; Abandoned Tower Sites; Improvements on Land Subject to Reversionary Clause
(a) The commission shall have the right to acquire, in the name of the state, by purchase, lease, agreement, or condemnation, such land within...
- § 12-6-10 - Reports to General Assembly
It shall be the duty of the commission, in cooperation with the director provided for in Code Section 12-6-11, to: (1) Annually submit reports...
- § 12-6-11 - Director -- Appointment; Qualifications; Salary; Reimbursement for Expenses; Term
The commission shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Governor, a director, who shall be the executive secretary and administrative...
- § 12-6-12 - Director -- Duty of Director to Devote Full Time to Office; Power and Duty of Director to Act for Commission When Commission Not in Session
The director shall devote his full time to the duties of his office; and when the commission is not in session, the director shall...
- § 12-6-13 - Director -- Oath; Bond; Location of Office
The director shall take oath of office and give bond in the sum of $10,000.00 in the usual form required of state officials. The...
- § 12-6-14 - Director -- Eligibility of Commission Members for Directorship or for Employment Under Commission or Director
No member of the commission during his tenure of office or within two years thereafter shall be eligible for appointment as director or for...
- § 12-6-15 - Director -- Adoption of Rules, Regulations, and Methods of Administration
The director, with the approval of the commission, shall have the power to adopt all rules, regulations, and methods of administration necessary for the...
- § 12-6-16 - Director -- Control of Tree Diseases and Insect Infestation
(a) Whenever the director or his agents determine that there exists an infestation of forest insect pests or an infection of forest tree diseases,...
- § 12-6-17 - Director -- Regulation of Controlled Burning Where Drought or Other Conditions Exist
(a) Whenever in the judgment of the director, because of drought or other conditions, controlled burning of woods, lands, marshes, refuse, or other combustible...
- § 12-6-18 - Director -- Expenditure of Funds for Benefit of Lands Under Commission's Control; Sale and Disposal of Products From Controlled Lands
When lands are acquired or leased under this part, the director, with the approval of the commission, is authorized to make expenditures of funds,...
- § 12-6-19 - Director -- Promulgation of Rules and Regulations As to Lands Under Commission's Control; Sale, Lease, or Exchange of Controlled Lands
The director, with the approval of the commission, is authorized to establish and from time to time alter rules and regulations governing the use,...
- § 12-6-20 - Investigation and Enforcement of Forestry Laws; Powers of Forestry Investigators
(a) As used in this Code section, the term "forestry laws" means laws relating to forestry or timber resources and the protection, security, conservation,...
- § 12-6-21 - Uncontrolled Fire As Constituting a Public Nuisance; Duties and Liabilities of Person or Entity Responsible
Any fire burning uncontrolled on any forested or cut-over brush land or grassland is declared to be a public nuisance by reason of its...
- § 12-6-22 - Investigation of Tree Diseases or Insect Infestation; Notification of Landowner; Recommendations; Effect of Landowner's Failure to Act; Disposition of Proceeds Derived From Sale of Trees
(a) The commission shall have the authority to enter upon any land on which the commission believes the trees are suffering from an infestation...
- § 12-6-22.1 - Control of Aviation; Power of Commission
(a) (1) The commission shall be authorized to acquire, operate, maintain, house, and dispose of all state aviation assets assigned to the commission, to...
Last modified: October 14, 2016