TITLE 10 COMMERCE AND TRADE

Section 4. Warehousemen, 10-4-1 through 10-4-215.

ARTICLE 3 TOBACCO WAREHOUSING

10-4-173. Local and state-wide membership fees.

1. The tobacco boards of trade in the several municipalities in Georgia are authorized to require as a condition to membership therein the payment of a reasonable fee which shall not exceed:
   1. $50.00 in those municipalities in which less than 3 million pounds of tobacco was sold at auction during the year 1960;
   2. $100.00 in those municipalities in which not less than 3 million pounds but less than 10 million pounds of tobacco was sold at auction during the year 1960;
   3. $150.00 in those municipalities in which not less than 10 million pounds but less than 25 million pounds of tobacco was sold at auction during the year 1960;
   4. $300.00 in those municipalities in which 25 million pounds or more of tobacco was sold at auction during the year 1960.
2. A state-wide corporation or association, as provided in this part, may require as a condition to membership therein the payment of a reasonable fee which shall not exceed $100.00 per 1 million pounds of producers' tobacco sold at auction during the year preceding the year in which the fee is assessed.

(Ga. L. 1962, p. 102, § 4; Ga. L. 1972, p. 918, § 3.)