O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 4-3-11 (2019)

County livestock pounds

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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(a) The county commissioners of the several counties of Georgia shall establish and maintain pounds or suitable places for the keeping of any livestock taken up and impounded under this chapter until the same is sold, redeemed, or otherwise disposed of. In any case, the county commissioners shall provide truck transportation for the impounded animals. (b) In those counties having no county commissioners, the judge of the probate court or other governing authority shall perform any functions or duties required of county commissioners under this chapter.

History

(Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 380, § 9; Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 395, § 3.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 4 Am. Jur. 2d, Animals, §§ 37, 38.

C.J.S. - 3B C.J.S., Animals, § 499 et seq.