O.C.G.A. § 2-10-56 (2019)
Promulgation of rules and regulations by Commissioner
The Commissioner is authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as in his judgment may be necessary to conduct and operate farmers’ markets properly and to implement this article. Such rules and regulations may include, but are not limited to, rules and regulations to: (1) Establish procedures for the operation of farmers’ markets; (2) Provide for the maintenance of safety and order; (3) Provide for health and sanitation; (4) Establish grades and classes of agricultural products; (5) Designate places on any market where agricultural products may be sold; (6) Regulate or prohibit the sale of produce which is below specified grades or produce unfit for human consumption; and (7) Regulate or prohibit the sale of any agricultural product which is below specified grades or unfit for human consumption.
History
Ga. L. 1917, p. 77, § 4; Code 1933, § 5-205; Ga. L. 1935, p. 369, § 6; Ga. L. 1959, p. 242, § 3; Ga. L. 1976, p. 678, § 3; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1354, § 8.
Annotations
Cross references. - Procedures for adoption of rules and regulations, T. 50, C. 13.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Wilder v. Irvin, 423 F. Supp. 639 (N.D. Ga. 1976).
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Municipal regulation. - Business operated upon property of state farmers’ market is exempted from municipal taxation and regulations of any kind except certain regulations as to police, fire, and health. 1954-56 Op. Att’y Gen. p. 494. Commissioner not obliged to provide formal means of administrative
appeal. - The Commissioner has neither a statutory nor a constitutional obligation to provide a formal means of administratively appealing a decision to bar a party from a state-owned and regulated farmers’ market. 1965-66 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 66-217.
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 3 Am. Jur. 2d, Agriculture, § 35 et seq.
C.J.S. - 3 C.J.S., Agriculture, §§ 2 et seq., 165.