Environmental Law

The Georgia Legislature makes the full-text of the Official Code of Georgia, unannotated, available for free online through an agreement with LexisNexis. State environmental statutes are primarily located in Title 12.

A project of the Digital Library of Georgia, Georgia Legislative Documents provides free access to the full text of Georgia session laws from 1799 to 1999. The database is searchable by keyword or by year and page number.

HeinOnline's Session Laws Library contains the full-text of Georgia statutes from 1735 to the present.

The online version of the Official Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, available for free from the Georgia Secretary of State.

The Georgia Government Register, published monthly, is the official source for news on regulations and rules promulgated by state agencies.

Georgia Government Publications is a free database available from the Digital Library of Georgia containing a wide variety of state agency documents made available to the public.

The primary state agency coordinating environmental resource management.

Administers programs such as the conservation tax credit and the promotion of conservation easements.

Administers programs designed to provide financial assistance and incentives to promote recycling and conservation.

Administers programs designed to maintain soil and water quality in the state, including the state system of Soil and Water Conservation Districts.

The division of the Department of Natural Resources primarily tasked with enforcement of state and federal environmental laws.

This is the most comprehensive source for surveys of state laws. Beginning in 1960, it indexes and links to surveys in law review articles, books, treatises, Lexis and Westlaw, and free websites. If you're looking for a survey of the laws of various states, this is the place to start.

The Issues and Research section contains many surveys of state laws; how much information about each law is given varies widely. The NCSL website also contains a bill tracking information and reports for a number of areas.

From the National Association of Secretaries of State, this guide contains links to every state's administrative code, administrative register, and manual, if they have been posted online.

The Law Library has a print research guide for every state in the country. These print guides often include information not available in other sources, such as sources for historical information.