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

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27,
				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.