O.C.G.A. § 31-12-9 (2019)
Importation, sale, and breeding of animals and birds to be kept as pets
In addition to its other powers in the control of preventable diseases, the department may by rule, regulation, and order provide for the licensing, registration, supervision, and investigation of all firms or persons importing, purchasing, breeding, or selling any birds or animals as pets, or any birds or animals which are customarily kept as pets, and may require all such firms or persons to comply with reporting and record-keeping requirements and marking, banding, or other identification requirements. The department is further empowered to prescribe rules and regulations governing the shipment, transportation, or carriage of such birds or animals and require such other control measures deemed necessary to prevent infectious matter present in birds, arthropods, and animals from being conveyed to persons unless the responsibility of such control is by law delegated to some other agency.
History
Code 1933, § 88-1205, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.
Annotations
Cross references. - Authority of Department of Agriculture to quarantine, seize, and destroy birds carrying exotic or untreatable disease, § 4-10-7.
Administrative rules and regulations. - Animal protection, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of
the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Agriculture, Animal Health Division, Subject 40-13-13. Bird dealers licensing, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Agriculture, Animal Health Division, Subject 40-13-12.
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 4 Am. Jur. 2d, Animals, §§ 17, 21, 23, 24, 26, 43, 44, 59 et seq. 21A Am. Jur. 2d, Customs Duties and Import Regulations, §§ 24, 37. 67 Am. Jur. 2d, Sales, §§ 236, 237. 67A Am. Jur. 2d, Sales, § 610.
C.J.S. - 3B C.J.S., Animals, § 62 et seq. 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 65.