Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 391-2-4-.03 - Sound/Beach Boundaries
(1)
Purpose. The purpose of
these rules is to implement the authority of the Board of Natural Resources to
promulgate rules and regulations to regulate the places wildlife can be taken.
(O.C.G.A. 27-4-12).
(2)
Designations of Sound/Beach
Boundaries. Sound/Beach boundaries consist of an imaginary line running
through coordinates generally located on the southern tip of a barrier island
to the northern tip of the next barrier island immediately south.
(a) Estelle Sound (Savannah River). The
boundary is from the point located at 32° 02' 04.5" N. Lat./ 80° 51'
03.8" W. Long. at the easternmost end of the south jetty of the Savannah River
Entrance to the point located at 32° 01' 48" N. Lat./ 80° 51' 09" W.
Long. at the northern tip of Tybee Island.
(b) Wassaw Sound. The boundary is from the
point located at 31° 56' 38" N. Lat./80° 55' 45" W. Long. on the
southern tip of Little Tybee Island to the point located at 31° 54' 37.5"
N. Lat./ 80° 56' 09.5" W. Long., directly in front of the large concrete
bunker on the northern tip of Wassaw Island.
(c) Ossabaw Sound. The boundary is from the
point located at 31° 51' 27" N. Lat./81° 00' 00" W. Long. on the
southern tip of Wassaw Island to the point located at 31° 49' 02" N.
Lat./81° 02' 17" W. Long. on the northern tip of Ossabaw Island.
(d) St. Catherines Sound. The boundary is
from the point located at 31° 43' 17" N. Lat./81° 8' 13" W. Long. on
the southern tip of Ossabaw Island to the point located at 31° 41' 55" N.
Lat./81° 8' 23" W. Long. on the northern tip of St. Catherines
Island.
(e) Sapelo Sound. The
boundary is from the point located at 31° 33' 20" N. Lat./81°10' 35" W.
Long on the southern tip of St. Catherines Island to the point located
31°31' 50" N. Lat./81° 11' 13" W. Long. on the northern tip of Black
Beard Island.
(f) Doboy Sound and
Altamaha Sound. The boundary is from the point located at 31° 22' 55" N.
Lat./81° 16' 25" W. Long. on the southern tip of Sapelo Is land to the
point located at 31° 21' 50.48" N. Lat./81° 17' 36.63" W. Long. on the
northern tip of Wolf Is land then turning south to a point located at 31°
19' 34.12" N. Lat./81° 17' 18.20" W. Long. on the southern tip of Wolf Is
land, finally turning southwest to a point located at 31° 17' 21" N.
Lat./81° 17' 57"near the northeastern tip of Little St. Simons
Island.
(g) Reserved.
(h) Hampton River. The boundary is from the
point located at 31° 13' 5" N. Lat./81° 18' 7" W. Long. on the southern
tip of Little St. Simons Island to the point located at 31° 12' 48" N.
Lat./81° 18' 38" W. Long. on the northeastern tip of Sea Island.
(i) St.03 Simons Sound. The boundary is from
the point located at 31° 08' 01" N. Lat./ 81° 23' 37" W. Long. at the
base of the lighthouse on the southern tip of St. Simons Island to the point
located at 31° 7' 12" N. Lat./81° 24' 35" W. Long. on the northern tip
of Jekyll Island.
(j) St. Andrew
Sound. The boundary is from the point located at 31° 0' 55" N. Lat./81°
25' 48" W. Long. on the southern tip of Jekyll Island to the point located at
30° 58' 38" N. Lat./81° 24' 49" W. Long. on the northern tip of Little
Cumber land Is land.
(k) Cumber
land Sound. The boundary is from the point located at 30° 42' 52" N.
Lat./81° 27' 10" W. Long. on the southern tip of Cumberland Island to the
point located at 30° 42' 21" N. Lat./ 81° 27' 15" W. Long. at the
northern most point of Fort Clinch.
(3) All ocean facing inlets and creeks on the
eastern side of barrier islands such as, but not limited to Tybee and Little
Tybee Creek, McQueen's Inlet on St. Catherine's Island, Cabretta
Inlet/Blackbeard Creek on Sapelo Island, Beacon Creek on Wolf Island, Gould's
Inlet on St. Simons Island, and Christmas Creek on Cumberland Island, shall be
considered sounds for the purposes of delineating sound/beach
boundaries.
Notes
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