ARTICLE 2 - MINING AND DRILLING
- PART 1 - OIL WELL REWARD
- PART 2 - DEEP DRILLING FOR OIL, GAS, AND OTHER MINERALS
- § 12-4-40 - Short title
- § 12-4-41 - Legislative findings and declaration of policy
- § 12-4-42 - Definitions
- § 12-4-43 - Powers of board as to deep drilling
- § 12-4-44 - Authority to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations
- § 12-4-45 - Powers of board as to establishment of drilling and operation units; applicability of state antitrust laws to private agreements approved by board
- § 12-4-46 - Drilling permits
- § 12-4-47 - Bonds or undertaking by persons conducting drilling operations
- § 12-4-48 - Actions by director to enforce part; civil penalties; effect of Code section on cause of action by royalty owners, lienholders, or other claimants
- § 12-4-49 - Applicability of Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act."
- § 12-4-50 - Obedience to subpoena required; self-incrimination not a defense; use of evidence in criminal prosecutions
- § 12-4-51 - Effect of part on other laws
- § 12-4-52 - Effect of part on authority and functions of other state officers and agencies
- § 12-4-53 - Prohibited acts
- 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