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

O.C.G.A. § 26-2-64 (2019)

Concurrent enforcement jurisdiction

✓ 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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Consistent with the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. Section 601, et seq., the Commissioner may exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the secretary of agriculture of the United States and may enforce this article and any regulations promulgated pursuant thereto without regard to licensing agency.

History

Ga. L. 1969, p. 1028, § 28; Ga. L. 2007,

p. 620, § 1/HB 433; Ga. L. 2016, p. 426, § 2/HB 815.

PART 2 ENFORCEMENT OF ARTICLE

Annotations

The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, substituted "Consistent with the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. Section 601, et seq.," for "The requirements of this article shall apply to persons, firms, corporations, establishments, animals, and articles regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. Section 601, et seq., only to the extent provided for in said federal act. Consistent with said federal act" in this Code section.

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