{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-12-5-201","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 12-5-201","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this part, the term:\n(1) “Authority” means the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority created by Code Section 50-23-3.\n(2) “District” means the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District created by Code Section 12-5-572.\n(3) “Emergency plan” means the written emergency water supply plan developed as provided in Code Section 12-5-202.\n(4) “Essential water needs” means the minimum amount of water needed for residential and commercial means for food processing, drinking, toilet flushing, fire fighting, hospital use, and critical asset use and a portion of the system’s unaccounted for water.\n(5) “Qualified system” means any public water system owned and operated by a city, county, or water authority in the district.","path":["TITLE 12 Conservation And Natural Resources","CHAPTER 5 Water Resources","Article 3 Wells and Drinking Water","PART 6 Water System Interconnection, Redundancy, and Reliability"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.12.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"0e096e5a7263466449a9ef862f539ea559f2d5a687e8b40f6e17430e4c2ae7be","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-12-5-200","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-12-5-202"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}