What Article 78 actually penalises
Gas and dust capture equipment is the technical stage that traps dust and harmful gases before they are released into the ambient air. Article 78 of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia attaches liability to three distinct states of that equipment: a breach of the rules for operating it and/or the equipment being out of order, the equipment not being used at all, and the equipment not being there in the first place. Each of the three sits in its own part of the article and carries its own fine range. That is why the financial outcome of your case depends above all on which of the three parts the authority applies to the fact recorded during the inspection.
The article does not split the fine between natural and legal persons — the same range applies to every offender who is required to have this equipment and to keep it running properly. In practice liability lands on whoever operates the facility and to whom the emission source is attached. Because the law sets ranges rather than one fixed sum, the specific amount is always fixed separately between those limits, and the article does not regulate that choice any further.

