O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 26-2-201 (2019)

Supervision and control of sanitary conditions in dairies and meat, poultry, and dairy processing plants; designation of inspectors

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) The Commissioner shall have supervision and control over the sanitary conditions of all dairies and meat, poultry, or dairy processing plants in this state.

(b) The Commissioner shall maintain an adequate system of inspection and shall employ or designate qualified personnel to assist in the administration of this article. He shall fix the compensation of all personnel employed by him.

(c) The Commissioner is also vested with the authority to designate licensed veterinarians and city or county health authorities as inspectors as he deems advisable.

History

Ga. L. 1914, p. 148, § 1; Code 1933,

§§ 42-401, 42-402; Ga. L. 1956, p. 748, §§ 2, 10.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, annotations decided under former Code 1910, § 2119 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Slaughter houses are subject to sanitary regulations. Schoen Bros. v. Pylant, 162 Ga. 565, 134 S.E. 304, 1926 Ga. LEXIS 239 (1926) (decided under former Code 1910, § 2119, subdivision (3)).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Milk processor who sells only to military installation still subject to state sanitary regulations. - Person operating a milk processing plant in this state which is not a part of or in conjunction with a military installation of the United States in this state is subject to the sanitary regulations and jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture, even if the person processes only for sales to military

installations. 1960-61 Ga. Op. Att’y Gen. 4. Penalty. - Whether violation of provisions of former Code 1933, § 42-406 (see now O.C.G.A. § 26-2-212) could be punished as for misdemeanor as provided for in former Code 1933, § 42-9908 (see now O.C.G.A. § 26-2-215) was questionable. 1960-61 Ga. Op. Att’y Gen. 396.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Food, §§ 6, 12, 31, 37. C.J.S. 36A C.J.S., Food, §§ 4, 14, 19, 28 et seq. ALR. Constitutionality of regulations as to milk, 42 A.L.R. 556; 58 A.L.R. 672; 80 A.L.R. 1225; 101 A.L.R. 64; 110 A.L.R. 644; 119 A.L.R. 243; 155 A.L.R. 1383.

Power to prescribe the manner or conditions under which a slaughterhouse shall serve the public, 46 A.L.R. 1486. Validity of municipal ordinance imposing requirements on outside producers of milk to be sold in city, 14 A.L.R.2d 103.