TITLE 2 AGRICULTURE

Section 13. Commercial Feeds, 2-13-1 through 2-13-23.

ARTICLE 4 HORTICULTURAL GROWING MEDIA

2-13-5. Disclosure of protected information.

Any person who uses to his own advantage or reveals to anyone other than the Commissioner, officers of the department, or the courts, when relevant in any judicial proceeding, any information acquired under the authority of this chapter concerning any method, records, formulations, or processes which as trade secrets are entitled to protection, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, provided that this prohibition shall not be deemed to prohibit the Commissioner or his duly authorized agent from exchanging information of a regulatory nature with duly appointed officials of the United States government or the governments of other states, when such officials are similarly prohibited by law from revealing this information.

(Code 1933, § 42-211, enacted by Ga. L. 1972, p. 10, § 1.)