Georgia Code — 2
Browse 594 sections in division 2 of the Georgia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 2-1-1. Definitions.
- § 2-1-1. 1. Policy of state to promote sustainable agriculture.
- § 2-1-2. Verification of certain licenses by inspectors.
- § 2-1-3. Sales of farm products, plants, and seed on Sunday.
- § 2-1-4. Anti-siphon devices for irrigation systems; rules and regulations as to such devices; hearings on violations; administrative and judicial review; filing of final order; payment of penalty.
- § 2-1-5. Annual license fee for grain dealers, commercial feed dealers, grain warehousemen, and qualified agricultural producers; retention of funds.
- § 2-1-6. Preemption of local ordinances relating to production of agricultural or farm products.
- § 2-2-1. Department of Agriculture established.
- § 2-2-2. Commissioner of Agriculture - Qualifications; election; location of office.
- § 2-2-3. Commissioner of Agriculture - Term of office; removal.
- § 2-2-4. Commissioner of Agriculture - Salary and expenses; compensation of employees.
- § 2-2-5. Commissioner of Agriculture - Bond.
- § 2-2-6. Commissioner of Agriculture - Acceptance of cash, government bonds, treasury notes, or equivalency in lieu of bond.
- § 2-2-7. Commissioner of Agriculture - Powers and duties.
- § 2-2-8. Educational exhibits promoting state resources at agricultural fairs authorized.
- § 2-2-8. 1. Contributions for Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin and Poultry Market News.
- § 2-2-9. Rules and regulations.
- § 2-2-9. 1. "Aggrieved or adversely affected" defined; administrative authority of Commissioner; hearing for individuals adversely affected; penalties; final decisions; judicial review of final decisions.
- § 2-2-10. Imposition of penalty authorized in lieu of other action; funding to general treasury.
- § 2-2-11. Inspection warrants.
- § 2-2-12. Assistance to United States Department of Agriculture in inspection, certification, and identification of agricultural products and collection of fees.
- § 2-2-13. Enforcement of laws and rules within jurisdiction of Commissioner; employment of investigators.
- § 2-3-1. Short title.
- § 2-3-2. Definitions.
- § 2-3-3. Creation of authority; membership; vacancies; compensation and reimbursement; record keeping.
- § 2-3-4. Purpose and general business of authority.
- § 2-3-5. Powers of authority generally.
- § 2-3-6. Public purpose of authority; tax and assessment exemptions.
- § 2-3-7. Exercise of police powers by authority.
- § 2-3-8. Authorization for security force.
- § 2-3-9. Receipts deemed trust funds.
- § 2-3-10. Setting rentals and other charges.
- § 2-3-11. Legal services of Attorney General.
- § 2-3-12. Venue and jurisdiction for actions under chapter or against authority.
- § 2-3-13. Conflict of interest; full disclosure.
- § 2-3-14. Power of authority to issue revenue bonds.
- § 2-3-15. Authorization for department construction and acquisition of projects.
- § 2-4-1. Short title.
- § 2-4-2. Seed Development Commission - Creation; corporate powers.
- § 2-4-3. Seed Development Commission - Composition; officers; bylaws; quorum; compensation; records; audit; bonds.
- § 2-4-4. Seed Development Commission - Powers and duties generally.
- § 2-4-5. Seed Development Commission - Purchase contracts.
- § 2-4-6. Seed Development Commission - Operation on nonprofit basis.
- § 2-4-7. Advisory board created; members; function.
- § 2-4-8. Terms of office of appointed members of commission and board.
- § 2-4-9. Conveyance of state property to commission; consideration; reversion for nonuse.
- § 2-4-10. Debt or pledge of credit of state not authorized.
- § 2-5-1. Short title.
- § 2-5-2. Applicability of chapter.
- § 2-5-3. Applications - Designation of address or agent for service of process; forwarding to Secretary of State.
- § 2-5-4. Applications - Admission that applicant is doing business in state.
- § 2-5-4. 1. Applications - Form of submission; payment of fees.
- § 2-5-5. Grounds for denial of registration, license, or permit; hearing.
- § 2-5-6. Grounds for revocation; hearing.
- § 2-5-7. Registration, license, or permit certificates as evidence thereof; republication and reissuance unnecessary.
- § 2-5-8. Rules and regulations.
- § 2-6-1. Short title.
- § 2-6-2. Purpose of article; legislative findings; acceptance of federal Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.
- § 2-6-3. Definitions.
- § 2-6-4. Designation of state agency.
- § 2-6-5. Formulation and administration of state plans; investigations.
- § 2-6-6. Receipt and disbursement of funds; accounts; auditing; bonds.
- § 2-6-7. Assistance of other agencies and associations; rules and regulations; lease or purchase of equipment, facilities, and supplies; employment of personnel.
- § 2-6-8. Reports; investigations.
- § 2-6-9. Community associations; community and county committees.
- § 2-6-10. State advisory board.
- § 2-6-20. Short title.
- § 2-6-21. Legislative determinations and declarations of policy.
- § 2-6-22. Definitions.
- § 2-6-23. State Soil and Water Conservation Commission - Established; composition; terms of office; ex officio advisers; seal; rules and regulations.
- § 2-6-24. State Soil and Water Conservation Commission - Chairperson; quorum; compensation; surety bonds; records; audits.
- § 2-6-25. State Soil and Water Conservation Commission - Employment of administrative officer, experts, agents, and employees; legal services; delegation of powers and duties; furnishing of information; agency cooperation.
- § 2-6-26. State Soil and Water Conservation Commission - Merit and retirement systems for employees.
- § 2-6-27. State Soil and Water Conservation Commission - Additional duties and powers.
- § 2-6-28. Number and boundaries of soil and water conservation districts; alteration of existing districts or formation of new districts.
- § 2-6-29. District supervisors - Number; appointment, qualifications, and terms of appointive supervisors; county basis of election of elected supervisors.
- § 2-6-30. District supervisors - Election procedure for elected supervisors.
- § 2-6-31. District supervisors - Chairman; terms of office of elected supervisors; filling vacancies; quorum; compensation and expenses.
- § 2-6-32. District supervisors - Services of county agricultural agents; employees and agents; copies of rules, orders, and other documents; surety bonds; removal of supervisor; consultation.
- § 2-6-33. Powers of districts and supervisors; prerequisites to exercise.
- § 2-6-34. Conditions to extending benefits or performing work.
- § 2-6-35. Land use regulations - Adoption authorized; public hearings.
- § 2-6-36. Land use regulations - Referendum.
- § 2-6-37. Land use regulations - Provisions authorized; uniformity required; availability of copies.
- § 2-6-38. Land use regulations - Binding effect.
- § 2-6-39. Land use regulations - Inspections to determine observance; petition; judicial proceedings; costs and expenses.
- § 2-6-40. Land use regulations - Amendment or repeal.
- § 2-6-41. Right of eminent domain for small watershed project; conditions precedent; procedure.
- § 2-6-42. Cooperation between districts.
- § 2-6-43. State agencies to cooperate with districts and observe land use regulations.
- § 2-6-44. Exemption from taxation.
- § 2-6-45. Discontinuance of district - Petition of landowners; hearings.
- § 2-6-46. Discontinuance of district - Referendum.
- § 2-6-47. Discontinuance of district - Publication of referendum results; determination of feasibility of continuance.
- § 2-6-48. Discontinuance of district - Certification from committee; termination of affairs; application for dissolution; certificate of dissolution.
- § 2-6-49. Discontinuance of district - Effect of dissolution.
- § 2-6-50. Discontinuance of district - Frequency of discontinuance attempts.
- § 2-6-51. District not liable for loss, damage, injury, or death.
- § 2-6-52. Creation of Agricultural Water Conservation Incentive Program; purpose; participation; funding.
- § 2-7-1. Short title.
- § 2-7-2. Definitions.
- § 2-7-3. Division of Entomology established.
- § 2-7-4. Commissioner of Agriculture as ex officio state entomologist; designation of chief entomologist authorized.
- § 2-7-5. Duty of Commissioner generally.
- § 2-7-6. Publication of information and advice.
- § 2-7-7. Cooperative agreements.
- § 2-7-8. Purchases and expenditures.
- § 2-7-9. Investigations authorized; employment of experts; rental, lease, or purchase of land.
- § 2-7-10. Inspection of plants and other things capable of disseminating or carrying plant pests.
- § 2-7-11. Nursery inspections; rules governing nursery stock and plants in transit.
- § 2-7-12. Treatment, cutting, or destruction of infested trees, plants, or other things or substances.
- § 2-7-13. Interception and inspection of plants, plant products, or other things or substances in transit; disposition.
- § 2-7-14. Demand for information; penalty.
- § 2-7-15. Declaration of public nuisance authorized.
- § 2-7-16. Notice of declaration of nuisance; prescription of treatment; right of appeal.
- § 2-7-17. Treatment of nuisance by department where owner fails to act; lien for expenses; compensation not allowed.
- § 2-7-18. Judicial proceeding where owner refuses to act or to permit Commissioner to act; expenses and court costs.
- § 2-7-19. Investigation on citizens' complaint; notice to owner; treatment or destruction of affected plants or other things or substances; costs.
- § 2-7-20. Declaration of quarantine; violation unlawful.
- § 2-7-21. Registration of certain growers.
- § 2-7-22. Assessment of costs.
- § 2-7-23. Promulgation of rules and regulations; publication thereof.
- § 2-7-24. Administrative review of rules and notices.
- § 2-7-25. Required compliance with article and rules.
- § 2-7-26. Importation of injurious insect or plant disease without permit prohibited.
- § 2-7-27. Report of violations; investigation and disposition.
- § 2-7-28. Act of agent imputed to principal.
- § 2-7-29. Enforcement of article generally; criminal proceedings; subpoena powers.
- § 2-7-30. Injunctions; violations declared public nuisances.
- § 2-7-31. Penalty.
- § 2-7-50. Short title.
- § 2-7-51. Purpose of article; legislative findings.
- § 2-7-52. Definitions.
- § 2-7-53. Meaning of "misbranded."
- § 2-7-54. Commissioner to administer article.
- § 2-7-55. Registration required; exceptions; contents of application; fees; renewal; special local needs.
- § 2-7-56. Issuance of experimental use permits; terms; revocation or modification.
- § 2-7-57. Licensing of restricted use pesticide dealers required; application; fees; responsibility of dealer.
- § 2-7-58. Denial, suspension, or revocation of license, registration, or permit.
- § 2-7-59. Grounds for denial, suspension, or cancellation of registration of pesticides formulated to meet local needs or for seeking legal recourse against them; notice and hearing; judicial review.
- § 2-7-60. Subpoena powers.
- § 2-7-61. Records to be kept; access by Commissioner; confidentiality.
- § 2-7-62. Prohibited acts; exemptions.
- § 2-7-63. Powers of Commissioner generally; rules and regulations.
- § 2-7-64. Delegation of duties.
- § 2-7-65. Cooperation with federal and state agencies; grants-in-aid.
- § 2-7-66. Disposition of funds.
- § 2-7-67. Publication of information.
- § 2-7-68. Designation of trade secrets by applicant; protection from public disclosure; notification of proposed release; declaratory judgment.
- § 2-7-69. Sampling and inspections authorized; notice of contemplated proceedings; search warrants; duty of enforcement; injunctions; written warnings authorized for minor violations.
- § 2-7-70. Stop sale, use, or removal order.
- § 2-7-71. Judicial actions after stop sale, use, or removal order generally; injunctions; condemnation; disposition of condemned pesticide or device; costs and expenses.
- § 2-7-72. Effect of article on certain other laws.
- § 2-7-73. Penalties.
- § 2-7-90. Short title.
- § 2-7-91. Purpose of article; legislative findings.
- § 2-7-92. Definitions.
- § 2-7-93. Commissioner to administer article; appointment of Pesticide Advisory Board.
- § 2-7-94. Delegation of duties.
- § 2-7-95. Publication of information; instruction.
- § 2-7-96. Cooperative agreements; grants-in-aid.
- § 2-7-97. Promulgation of rules and regulations authorized; notice and hearing; restricted use pesticide classifications and state restricted pesticide uses; declaration of pests; reports to Environmental Protection Agency.
- § 2-7-98. Classification of certifications and licenses; standards for certification of applicators.
- § 2-7-99. Licensing requirements; applications; issuance; fees; renewal.
- § 2-7-100. Reciprocal examination waiver.
- § 2-7-101. Renewals of licenses, permits, or certifications; penalty for late renewals.
- § 2-7-102. Grounds for denial, suspension, revocation, or modification of license, permit, or certification.
- § 2-7-103. Evidence of financial responsibility required; amount of bond, insurance, or cash deposit; notice of reduction or cancellation.
- § 2-7-104. Records to be kept; inspection thereof.
- § 2-7-105. Equipment inspection; requirement of repairs or other changes.
- § 2-7-106. Transportation, storage, and disposal of pesticides and pesticide containers.
- § 2-7-107. Inspections; search warrants; injunctions.
- § 2-7-108. Subpoena powers.
- § 2-7-109. Judicial review of Commissioner's actions.
- § 2-7-110. Reports of pesticide accidents; claim of damage; notification; inspection; effect of failure to file; failure to permit observation as bar to claim.
- § 2-7-111. Applicability of article to governmental entities; liability of such entities.
- § 2-7-112. Exemptions from article.
- § 2-7-113. Effect of article on certain other laws.
- § 2-7-113. 1. Local regulation of pesticides prohibited; variances from rule or regulation of Commissioner of Agriculture.
- § 2-7-114. Penalties.
- § 2-7-130. Enactment; text of compact.
- § 2-7-131. Cooperation with insurance fund.
- § 2-7-132. Filing of compact bylaws and amendments.
- § 2-7-133. Compact administrator.
- § 2-7-134. Request or application for assistance from insurance fund.
- § 2-7-135. Appropriation of funds; receipt and expenditure of payments.
- § 2-7-136. "Executive head" defined.
- § 2-7-150. Short title.
- § 2-7-151. Declaration of purpose.
- § 2-7-152. Definitions.
- § 2-7-153. Administration and enforcement by Commissioner.
- § 2-7-154. Powers of Commissioner.
- § 2-7-155. Certification of cotton growers' organization by Commissioner; effect of certification; powers of organization; liability.
- § 2-7-156. Assessment for suppression and eradication programs; conditions.
- § 2-7-156. 1. Assessment Advisory Committee created; composition; eligibility of members; duties.
- § 2-7-157. Prohibited activities.
- § 2-7-158. Penalties.
- § 2-7-170. Liability resulting from use or application of fertilizer, plant growth regulator, or pesticide; previous orders issued by Department of Agriculture and Department of Natural Resources; strict tort liability against product manufacturers.
- § 2-7-200. "Feral hog" defined.
- § 2-7-201. Transport of live feral hogs; permit required.
- § 2-7-202. Commingling feral hogs with domestic swine prohibited.
- § 2-7-203. Penalty for violation.
- § 2-7-204. Promulgation of rules and regulations.
- § 2-8-1. Short title.
- § 2-8-2. Intent and purpose of chapter.
- § 2-8-5. Definitions.
- § 2-8-10. Nonapplicability of article to Agricultural Commodity Commission for Peanuts, Agricultural Commodity Commission for Equines, Agricultural Commodity Commission for Georgia Grown Products; or Agricultural Commodity Commission for Propane.
- § 2-8-11. Definitions.
- § 2-8-12. Commissioner to administer and enforce article.
- § 2-8-13. Ratification of previously established commissions and establishment of additional commissions; contributions deemed voluntary; balloting to determine continued existence.
- § 2-8-14. Composition; appointments, terms of office, and compensation; certification; advisory boards, special committees, and personnel; legal representation; acceptance of donations; voting; termination.
- § 2-8-15. Public corporations; corporate powers; chairman; quorum; oath of office; certification of appointments to Secretary of State.
- § 2-8-16. Funds of commissions - Receipt, collection, and disbursement.
- § 2-8-17. Funds of commissions - Treatment as trust funds.
- § 2-8-18. Bonds of persons handling funds.
- § 2-8-19. Liability of commission members and employees.
- § 2-8-20. Cooperation with state and federal governmental authorities.
- § 2-8-21. Issuance of marketing orders authorized; notice; public hearing; record; reports from handlers; compilation of lists of producers and handlers; use of information in reports.
- § 2-8-22. Recommendation of marketing orders or amendments by commission; authorized provisions.
- § 2-8-23. Approval by producers prerequisite to issuance of marketing order or major amendment; notice; rules and regulations; expiration; extensions; referendum.
- § 2-8-23. 1. Limitations on assessments.
- § 2-8-24. Area marketing orders authorized.
- § 2-8-25. Seasonal marketing regulations authorized; notice of issuance; liberal interpretation of Code section.
- § 2-8-26. Applicability of marketing orders.
- § 2-8-27. Assessments to defray expenses; borrowing in anticipation of collections; use and repayment of contributions in lieu of advance deposits; collection and enforcement of assessments generally; disposition and investment of proceeds; audit.
- § 2-8-28. Collection of assessments by civil action; penalty for delinquent payment.
- § 2-8-29. Maintenance and inspection of books and records and provision of information; confidentiality of information; hearings, testimony, and subpoenas.
- § 2-8-30. Use of grade or quality designations by persons not complying with order or regulations prohibited.
- § 2-8-31. Inspections; holding of commodity; warning notice; notice of noncompliance; time for correction of deficiencies; petition to divert or destroy; show cause order; disposition of noncomplying commodity; penalty provisions not waived by disposal.
- § 2-8-32. Civil penalties; notice and hearing; recovery procedure; disposition of proceeds.
- § 2-8-33. Action for civil penalty or injunctive relief; costs.
- § 2-8-34. Referral for institution of legal proceedings; administrative hearing; cease and desist order.
- § 2-8-35. Furnishing of false report, statement, record, or marketing order; refusal to furnish certain information.
- § 2-8-36. Criminal penalty.
- § 2-8-37. Penalties and remedies concurrent, alternative, and cumulative.
- § 2-8-38. Applicability of article to retailers.
- § 2-8-50. Applicability of article.
- § 2-8-51. Definitions.
- § 2-8-52. Commission continued in existence; powers and duties; continuation of certain rules, regulations, and orders; periodic determination as to continuation of commission.
- § 2-8-53. Membership of commission; division of peanut-producing counties into districts; election of members; compensation and expenses; certification of members to Secretary of State.
- § 2-8-54. Authority; legal representation; acceptance and use of donations, gifts, and other property; exercise of powers of corporations; continuation of existence of commission; authority to lease or purchase property.
- § 2-8-55. Commission as public corporation; name used in contracts and legal proceedings; chairman; quorum; oath of office; certification of election.
- § 2-8-56. Receipt, collection, and disbursal of funds.
- § 2-8-57. Funds held in trust; deposit, accounting, and disbursal of funds; exemption from requirements applicable to state funds.
- § 2-8-58. Bond of persons handling funds under article; signing of checks, drafts, and negotiable instruments; election, powers, and duties of treasurer.
- § 2-8-59. Liability of commission members.
- § 2-8-60. Authority to confer with and make information available to governmental authorities of this state, other states, and the United States.
- § 2-8-61. Issuance, administration, and enforcement of marketing orders; notice and hearing as to proposed order; information from persons who may be affected by order.
- § 2-8-62. Recommendation of promulgation of marketing order; permissible provisions of orders; effectiveness of orders heretofore adopted and in effect on July 1, 1989.
- § 2-8-63. Finding of assent or approval of producers required for marketing order to become effective; commission authorized to issue orders regulating peanuts; amendments; notice; rules and regulations; expiration and extension of orders.
- § 2-8-64. Limiting of application of marketing order to certain marketing areas or portions of state.
- § 2-8-65. Seasonal marketing regulations; legislative findings; interpretation of Code section.
- § 2-8-66. Applicability of orders regulating minimum quality, condition, size, or maturity.
- § 2-8-67. Assessments to defray expenses of marketing orders; budgets for administration; authority to borrow money; contributions in lieu of advance deposits; collection of assessments; rules; enforcement of payment; deposit and disbursement of moneys; investment of moneys.
- § 2-8-68. Assessment constitutes personal debt; action for collection; fee for late payment; remedies cumulative.
- § 2-8-69. Books and records of processors and distributors; furnishing information to commission; inspection of books and records; confidentiality; enforcement.
- § 2-8-70. Use of designations of grade, quality, or condition without complying with regulations or marketing order.
- § 2-8-71. Entry and inspection of premises to check compliance with marketing order; holding of lot of peanuts to ascertain compliance; affixing of notice of noncompliance; service of notice of noncompliance; correction of deficiencies; disposal of lot; applicability.
- § 2-8-72. Civil penalty; fixing amount of penalty; civil action; disposition of moneys.
- § 2-8-73. Action by Attorney General for civil penalties or injunctive relief; remedies court may impose; payment of costs.
- § 2-8-74. Referral of complaints to Attorney General or prosecuting attorney; hearing to consider charges; cease and desist order.
- § 2-8-75. False or fraudulent reports, statements, and records; failure or refusal to give name and address of person from whom peanuts received.
- § 2-8-76. Criminal penalty.
- § 2-8-77. Construction of penalty and remedy provisions.
- § 2-8-78. Applicability to retailers of peanuts.
- § 2-8-79. Applicability of "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act."
- § 2-8-90. Definitions.
- § 2-8-91. Authority of Commissioner.
- § 2-8-92. Creation.
- § 2-8-93. Composition; membership.
- § 2-8-94. Public corporation and instrumentality of the State of Georgia.
- § 2-8-95. Powers, duties, and authority of commission.
- § 2-8-96. Immunity from liability.
- § 2-8-97. Authority of Commissioner to issue, administer, and enforce provisions of marketing orders; hearings.
- § 2-8-98. Recommendation of promulgation of a marketing order.
- § 2-8-99. Amendments to marketing orders; notice; rules and regulations; termination of orders.
- § 2-8-100. Levying and collection of assessments.
- § 2-8-101. Limitations on application of marketing orders.
- § 2-8-102. Deposit and disbursement of funds; investment.
- § 2-8-103. Duties of Attorney General.
- § 2-8-104. Violations.
- § 2-8-105. Rules and regulations.
- § 2-8-120. Applicability.
- § 2-8-121. Definitions.
- § 2-8-122. Commissioner's authority.
- § 2-8-123. Commission created.
- § 2-8-124. Commission membership; nomination and election of commission members.
- § 2-8-125. Commission to be a public corporation and instrumentality of the state; powers; transaction of commission business.
- § 2-8-126. Receipt, collection, and disbursement of funds.
- § 2-8-127. Funds received under this article to be held in trust for the commission.
- § 2-8-128. Persons handling funds to be bonded.
- § 2-8-129. Committee members and employees not responsible individually for errors in judgment, mistakes or other acts.
- § 2-8-130. Commission authorized to share information with state and federal government agencies.
- § 2-8-131. Issuance, administration, and enforcement of marketing orders; hearing.
- § 2-8-132. Provisions for establishment of advertising, research, and education programs.
- § 2-8-133. Amendments to, rules and regulations governing, and expiration and termination of marketing orders.
- § 2-8-134. Limited application of marketing orders.
- § 2-8-135. Commission authorized to borrow funds for certain purposes; disposition of funds collected pursuant to this article.
- § 2-8-200. Definitions.
- § 2-8-201. Creation.