O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 4-4-21 (2019)

Feeding garbage to animals generally

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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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Except as otherwise provided in this part, it shall be unlawful for any person to feed garbage to animals; provided, however, that an individual may feed garbage to his own animals if he feeds them only with garbage from his own household.

History

(Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 480, § 2.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S. - 3B C.J.S., Animals, §§ 127, 128. 66 C.J.S., Nuisances, §§ 60, 87.