TITLE 4 ANIMALS

Section 3. Livestock Running at Large or Straying, 4-3-1 through 4-3-12.

4-3-7. Disposition of livestock not sold at auction.

If there is no bidder for the livestock at the sale provided for in Code Section 4-3-5, the sheriff shall have the livestock killed and shall dispose of the carcass thereof; and, if there is any money received by him from the disposal, the same shall be disbursed in the manner provided for in Code Section 4-3-8. If there is no ready sale for the carcass, the sheriff shall deliver the carcass to a public institution of the county, state, or municipality within the county or to any private charitable institution, in this order, according to their needs.

(Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 380, § 7.)