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O.C.G.A. § 26-2-130 — Buying, selling, transporting, or receiving of dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals | Georgia Code

O.C.G.A. § 26-2-130 (2018) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Scholar Amendments

TITLE 26 FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS

Section 2. Standards, Labeling, and Adulteration of Food, 26-2-1 through 26-2-441.

ARTICLE 3 MEAT INSPECTION

26-2-130. Buying, selling, transporting, or receiving of dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals.

No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in commerce dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any such animals, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, nontraditional livestock, rabbits, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals, unless such transaction or transportation is made in accordance with such regulations as the Commissioner may promulgate, to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.

(Ga. L. 1969, p. 1028, § 19; Ga. L. 1974, p. 453, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 244, § 26; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1219, § 15; Ga. L. 2008, p. 458, § 22/SB 364.)

Cross references.

- Disposal of carcasses of animals which die on premises of public livestock sales markets, livestock slaughter establishments, and garbage feeding operations, § 4-5-7.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 4 Am. Jur. 2d, Animals, § 36. 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Food, §§ 7, 10, 31.

C.J.S.

- 3B C.J.S., Animals, §§ 123 et seq., 142. 36A C.J.S., Food, § 23.

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