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

O.C.G.A. § 4-8-3 (2019)

Abandonment of dogs

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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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No person shall release a dog on any property, public or private, with the intention of abandoning the dog.

History

(Ga. L. 1969, p. 831, § 3.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d. - 4 Am. Jur. 2d, Animals, § 40.

C.J.S. - 3B C.J.S., Animals, § 441.