Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 391 - RULES OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 391-4 - WILDLIFE RESOURCES DIVISION
Subject 391-4-6 - SAPELO ISLAND GENERAL OPERATING AND ACCESS PROCEDURES
Rule 391-4-6-.03 - Definitions

Universal Citation: GA Rules and Regs r 391-4-6-.03

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through September 23, 2024

Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms as used in this Chapter shall have the following meanings:

(a) "All-terrain vehicle" or "ATV" means a small motorized three or four wheeled vehicle capable of carrying one or two passengers astride the vehicle and designed primarily for off-road travel such as in fields and forests.

(b) "Department" and "DNR" mean the Department of Natural Resources of the State of Georgia.

(c) "Dependent family members" mean family members residing in a single household and the children of that household who receive their financial support from that household while temporarily residing away from that household to attend school or college.

(d) "Essential services" means those services enumerated in sub-paragraph 2. of the definition of "state official business" set out in this Chapter.

(e) "Family, family members or families" mean persons related by blood or marriage, including adoption, regardless of age or degree of kinship.

(f) "General public" means persons who are not included in any of the other classes of persons designated by these rules.

(g) "House" means a structure built for residential use, including a preconstructed home.

(h) "Household" means the house located on Sapelo Island of a permanent resident.

(i) "Guest for pay" means a person who is hosted while visiting Sapelo Island by a permanent resident and who pays his or her host for food, lodging or transportation.

(j) "Invited guest" means a person invited by a permanent resident to visit Sapelo Island without charge by the inviting party for food, lodging or transportation.

(k) "Institute" or "Marine Institute" means the Marine Institute operated on the south end of Sapelo Island by the University of Georgia, a unit of the University System of Georgia, pursuant to a 50 year lease by and between the Department of Natural Resources and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

(l) "Island landowner" means a person or other legal entity, other than the State of Georgia or an agency, authority or instrumentality thereof, which has a claim to title to real property on Sapelo Island; provided, however, that no undivided interest in a lot or parcel of land less than a one-fifth interest will be recognized unless a majority of the total number of persons holding an undivided interest in that lot or parcel of land, regardless of the total sum of their undivided interests, are related by blood or marriage.

(m) "Island manager" means the DNR employee who has responsibility for managing Sapelo Island on a daily basis or his or her designee. The Island Manager may be reached at the following address:

Island Manager

DNR Wildlife Resources Division

Post Office Box 15

Sapelo Island, GA 31327

Phone: (912) 485-2251

(n) "Permanent residents" mean Island landowners and persons domiciled on Sapelo Island and the dependent family members of all such persons.

(o) "Pets" mean those animals which have traditionally lived in a state of dependence on and under the domination and control of humans and have been kept as tame pets, including cats and dogs.

(p) "Preconstructed homes" means a manufactured home, a modular home, or a mobile home as those terms are Zoning Ordinance of McIntosh County adopted July 11, 1995.

(q) "Regents" means the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

(r) "State official business" when used in this chapter, means any or all of the activities described in this sub-paragraph.

1. Regents operates the Marine Institute (hereinafter sometimes referred to as "UGAMI"), which is located on the south end of Sapelo Island, under the terms of a 50-year lease with DNR.

2. DNR operates the Reynolds WMA, the SINERR and the Natural Area. DNR also may provide for permanent residents both water transportation to Sapelo Island and essential services on the Island. These essential services include:
(i) Transporting mail for DNR and for permanent residents;

(ii) Transporting school children between the Island and the mainland, under contract with the Mcintosh County Board of Education;

(iii) Providing volunteer fire protection and waste disposal services on the Island;

(iv) Maintaining the State-owned roads on the Island;

(v) To the extent that the well and pump in place on the effective date of this Rule are adequate to do so, providing the permanent residents of the Hog Hammock Subdivision with a drinking-water system;

(vi) When permitted by budgetary resources and when the proper equipment necessary to do the job is present on the Island, mowing rights of way in the Hog Hammock Subdivision;

(vii) Providing law enforcement services as authorized by the Game and Fish Code (O.C.G.A., Title 27). These services include enforcing:
(I) all State laws on property owned or controlled by DNR; and

(II) any State laws pertaining to functions assigned to DNR; and

(III) any State law when the violation of that law is committed in conjunction with a violation of State law pertaining to functions assigned to DNR; and

(IV) any State law on orders from the Governor or to protect any life or property when the circumstances demand action; and

(V) removing willing persons from Sapelo Island in the event of a life-threatening emergency such as an individual health crisis, uncontrollable wildlife or a major storm.

3. State official business includes business conducted by federal and local governmental officials in performance of their official duties.

(s) "Temporary official visitor" means a person who is not a permanent resident but who temporarily visits the Island at the invitation of DNR or the University of Georgia Marine Institute (UGAMI) for State official business or for federal or local governmental business.

O.C.G.A. Title 27, Secs. 12-2-5, 12-2-24, 12-3-9.

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