O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 3-4-2 (2019)

Applicability of chapter to ethyl alcohol used for certain purposes

✓ 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) This chapter shall not apply to ethyl alcohol intended for use or used for the following purposes:

(1) For scientific, chemical, mechanical, industrial, medicinal, and culinary purposes;

(2) For use by those authorized to procure ethyl alcohol tax free, as provided by federal law;

(3) In the manufacture of denatured alcohol or denatured distilled spirits produced and used as provided by federal law;

(4) In the manufacture of patented, patent, proprietary, medicinal, pharmaceutical, antiseptic, toilet, scientific, chemical, mechanical, and industrial preparations or products unfit for beverage purposes; or

(5) In the manufacture of flavoring extracts and syrups unfit for beverage purposes.

(b) Nothing contained in subsection (a) of this Code section shall prohibit the commissioner from promulgating reasonable rules and regulations with regard to ethyl alcohol intended for use or used for any of the above-mentioned purposes in order to ensure proper enforcement of this title.

History

Ga. L. 1937-38, Ex. Sess., p. 103, § 13; Code 1933, § 5A-2102, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1573, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 3. Administrative rules and regulations. - Ethyl alcohol and license re-

quirement, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Revenue, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit, Non-Beverage Alcohol, § 560-2-14.01.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 45 Am. Jur. 2d, Intoxicating Liquors, § 3 et seq. C.J.S. - 48 C.J.S., Intoxicating Liquors, § 1 et seq.

ALR. - Forbidding prescription, or restricting the amount, of intoxicating liquor for medicinal purposes, 49 A.L.R. 588.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 2003–2006 · leading case: Pless v. State, 633 S.E.2d 340 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006).

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Pless v. State, 633 S.E.2d 340 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006). · cites it 6× “He was further *344 charged with violating Henry County Ordinance § 3-4-7(5), in that he allowed his dogs to become a public nuisance (as defined in Henry County Ordinance § 3-4-2). At trial, he claimed that his dogs were always kept under restraint (specifically on July 14 and…”

Savage v. State, 587 S.E.2d 294 (Ga. Ct. App. 2003). · cites it 6× “Savage complains that the two charges did not specify in which way her dogs were not restrained. She points to the ordinance, which defines “Animal under restraint” as “(a) any animal secured by a leash or lead with a collar, or enclosed by way of a fence or other enclosure, or…”

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