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2018 Georgia Code 27-4-197 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 27 GAME AND FISH

Section 4. Fish, 27-4-1 through 27-4-283.

ARTICLE 4 SEAFOOD

27-4-197. Shellfish sanitation program; requirements as to shipment of shellfish.

  1. The department and the Department of Agriculture shall conduct a shellfish program sufficient to be certified by the United States Food and Drug Administration for interstate shipment of shellfish produced in this state.
  2. It shall be unlawful for any person handling shellfish for purposes of sale or shipment to fail to keep such shellfish in clean barrels, bags, crates, baskets, or other containers as prescribed by the Department of Agriculture.It shall be unlawful to fail to attach to each such container a tag obtained from the Department of Agriculture or to mark containers of shucked shellfish with mandatory information as described by the Department of Agriculture.It shall be unlawful to possess shellfish which are not properly tagged or labeled according to this Code section. Such tags or labels shall indicate the information as required by the Department of Agriculture.
  3. It shall be unlawful to affix tags issued to a certified dealer onto containers of another or to fail to surrender unused tags to the Department of Agriculture upon termination of certification or master collecting permit.
  4. It shall be unlawful to ship or possess commercial quantities of shellfish unless certified by the Department of Agriculture.It shall be unlawful to possess shellfish from out-of-state sources unless those shellfish were purchased from certified dealers.It shall be unlawful to ship shellfish through Georgia unless certified.Certified dealers are those permitted to handle shellfish according to the guidelines of the National Shellfish Sanitation Program.The department may issue permission to uncertified firms to take and possess shellfish for mariculture purposes.Such permission may be issued upon such conditions as the department determines are in accordance with current, sound principles of wildlife research and management.

(Code 1981, §27-4-197, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 693, § 6.)

Cross references.

- Sanitary handling of fish and seafood, § 26-2-315 et seq.

Code Commission notes.

- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1991, "out-of-state" was substituted for "out of state" in the second sentence of subsection (d).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

For an update of crimes and offenses for which the Georgia Crime Information Center is authorized to collect and file identifying data, see 1991 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 91-35.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 35A Am. Jur. 2d, Fish, Game, and Wildlife Conservation, § 59 et seq.

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