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O.C.G.A. § 26-2-212 — County and municipal ordinances dealing with meats, poultry, and dairy products | Georgia Code

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TITLE 26 FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS

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

ARTICLE 6 MEAT, POULTRY, AND DAIRY PROCESSING PLANTS

26-2-212. County and municipal ordinances dealing with meats, poultry, and dairy products.

Nothing in this article shall prevent the governing authority of any county or municipal corporation from adopting ordinances or resolutions providing for the inspection of meats, poultry, meat or poultry food products, and dairy products sold within its limits and to provide penalties for violation thereof; but no such ordinance or resolution shall conflict with any power or authority of the Commissioner or his representatives; provided, however, that no county or municipal corporation shall adopt sanitary standards or specifications that are less than those adopted by the Commissioner.

(Ga. L. 1914, p. 148, § 5; Code 1933, § 42-406; Ga. L. 1956, p. 748, § 10.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Violation of section might not be punishable as misdemeanor.

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

RESEARCH REFERENCES

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.

Validity of municipal ordinance imposing requirements on outside producers of milk to be sold in city, 14 A.L.R.2d 103.

Dairy, creamery, or milk distributing plant, as nuisance, 92 A.L.R.2d 974.

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