Lanier County Tax Commissioner (Rebecca S. Rampey): the route through the assessors and the board’s 5-0 House Bill 581 opt-out

The exemptions are Georgia's: O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 for the qualifying disabled veteran and 48-5-52.1 for the unremarried surviving spouse of a service member killed in a war or armed conflict - the State entries carry the statutes, the qualification list and the yearly indexed amount. What Lanier's offices add is the route. Where and who. Tax Commissioner Rebecca S. Rampey, 56 W Main St Suite 1, Lakeland, GA 31635, (229) 482-3795 - "Our office hours are M-F 8:00 -12:00 & 1:00 - 5:00". The county's own Tax Assessor page seats "Jason Webrand, Chief Appraiser, 56 W Main Street, Suite 2, Lakeland, GA 31635, Phone: 229-482-2090, Fax: 229-482-2105", open "from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday", and routes property-record searches to qPublic. The county's own pages print no veteran exemption amounts, and the qPublic record-search site answers a Cloudflare-style block (403) to plain fetch and was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md). The floating homestead the board kept. The board's January 13, 2025 minutes record "Commissioner Benny Ryan made a motion to postpone HB 581 until the next scheduled board meeting"; the February 10, 2025 minutes record the opt-out: "Commissioner Hank Smith made a motion to OPT out of HB 581, Susan Bowling seconded; all were in favor." Lanier's own homestead regime therefore continued, and the veteran rows above are separate from it. The July 14, 2025 minutes record the agenda addition of "NB # 4B Temporary Property Tax Relief for Eligible Standing Timber Located in a Disaster Area in Lanier County", carried on Commissioner Smith's motion. A veteran files with the Tax Assessor's Office before the return deadline and reads the amounts on the State entries.