Authority of Localities

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Commerce and Trade
  4. Selling and Other Trade Practices
  5. Secondary Metals Recyclers
  6. Authority of Localities

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  1. The General Assembly finds that this article is a matter of state-wide concern. This article supersedes and preempts all rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, and other laws adopted by any county, municipality, consolidated government, or other local governmental agency regarding the sale or purchase of regulated metal property except as allowed in this Code section.
  2. Political subdivisions of this state may enact rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, and other laws:
    1. Affecting the land use and zoning relating to secondary metals recyclers; and
    2. Issuing occupational tax certificates to secondary metals recyclers, imposing occupational taxes, imposing regulatory fees as allowed in Code Section 48-13-9, or revoking their occupational tax certificates.

(Code 1981, §10-1-358, enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 650, § 3/SB 203; Code 1981, §10-1-359.4, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2012, p. 112, § 1-1/HB 872.)

Code Commission notes.

- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2012, Code Section 10-1-363, as enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 112, § 1-1/HB 872, was redesignated as Code Section 10-1-359.4.

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2012, p. 112, § 4-1(a)/HB 872, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment of this Code section shall apply to all offenses committed on or after July 1, 2012.

Law reviews.

- For article on the 2012 amendment of this Code section, see 29 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 238 (2012).


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