O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 4-4-68 (2019)

Employment of veterinary surgeon or expert

✓ 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) When the Commissioner receives a request to investigate, treat, or otherwise prevent the spread of an infectious or contagious disease affecting the livestock of a county, he shall employ a competent veterinary surgeon or expert to investigate the causes of the disease, to treat the same, and otherwise prevent its spread.

(b) The Commissioner is authorized to fix the compensation of the veterinary surgeon or expert.

History

(Ga. L. 1905, p. 121, § 1; Civil Code 1910, § 2069; Code 1933, § 62-1011; Ga. L. 1956, p. 332, § 1.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Talmadge v. Sutton, 175 Ga. 811, 166 S.E. 240 (1932). RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 3B C.J.S., Animals, §§ 128, 134 et seq.