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2018 Georgia Code 4-4-70 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 4 ANIMALS

Section 4. Prevention and Control of Disease in Livestock, 4-4-1 through 4-4-181.

ARTICLE 1 CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS OR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN LIVESTOCK

4-4-70. Conduct of programs to eradicate contagious or infectious diseases generally.

Whenever it is determined by the Commissioner, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture, that a contagious or infectious disease should be eradicated, the Commissioner is authorized to take whatever steps are necessary to eradicate the disease. Owners, renters, or persons in possession of livestock or premises infected with such a disease shall be required to disinfect the premises and to destroy the cause or causes of the contagious or infectious disease, including the destruction of those livestock on the premises, under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner or his duly authorized representative. The cost of destroying the cause or causes or sources of infection of a contagious or infectious disease which is sought to be eradicated shall be borne by the owner, renter, or person in possession of the infected or quarantined premises. However, when budget conditions permit or when federal matching funds are available, the Commissioner may participate in the cost of eradication and is authorized to expend such funds as are available.

(Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 480, § 21.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Authority of Commissioner to issue and withdraw payment for destruction of livestock.

- If the Commissioner of Agriculture has authority to issue an order making payment for herds of swine destroyed by cholera but is allowed by statute to destroy swine infected with cholera, without making payment therefor, then an order notifying all owners of garbage-fed swine that hereafter no further payments would be made because of the continued outbreak of cholera, was perfectly legal and one of the rights conferred upon the Commissioner by statute. Irvin v. Woodliff, 125 Ga. App. 214, 186 S.E.2d 792 (1971).

The Commissioner of Agriculture is empowered to destroy livestock under certain conditions, such as when herds of swine are infected with cholera, and the Commissioner is authorized (but not required) to make payment to those whose herds are destroyed. Irvin v. Woodliff, 125 Ga. App. 214, 186 S.E.2d 792 (1971).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Contract with university for veterinary services.

- Georgia Department of Agriculture may contract with Department of Veterinary Medicine at University of Georgia to provide certain veterinary services to livestock owners in conjunction with the brucellosis and tuberculosis testing and eradication programs. 1980 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 80-62.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 4 Am. Jur. 2d, Animals, § 27 et seq.

C.J.S.

- 3B C.J.S., Animals, § 128 et seq.

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