Georgia § 4-3-10 - Fees for impounding, serving notice, care and feeding, advertising, and disposing of impounded animals.
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§ 4-3-10. Fees for impounding, serving notice, care and feeding, advertising, and disposing of impounded animals.
The fees allowed for impounding, serving notice, care and feeding, advertising, and disposing of impounded animals shall be as follows: For impounding each animal, the actual cost of impounding each animal and mileage as provided by law for the arrest and commitment of prisoners; For serving any notice and making return thereon, the actual cost and mileage provided by law for executing writs in actions at law and making return upon the same; For feed and care of impounded animals, the actual cost per day per animal not to exceed $25.00 per day per animal; For advertising or posting notices of sale of impounded animals, the same as provided by law for advertising property for sale under process; For sale or other disposition of impounded animals, the actual cost associated with such sale or other disposition; and For report of sale of impounded animals, the actual cost associated with such report of sale. (Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 380, § 6; Ga. L. 1988, p. 325, § 1; Ga. L. 2020, p. 484, § 1/SB 362.) The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, substituted "the actual cost of impounding each animal" for "the sum of $10.00" in paragraph (1); substituted "the actual cost" for "the sum of $7.50" in paragraph (2); in paragraph (3), substituted "the actual cost" for "the sum of $5.00" and added "not to exceed $25.00 per day per animal" following "animal"; substituted "the actual cost associated with such sale or other disposition" for "the sum of $5.00" in paragraph (5); and substituted "the actual cost associated with such report of sale" for "the sum of $2.50" in paragraph (6).
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Section 4-3-10 ("Fees for impounding, serving notice, care and feeding, advertising, and disposing of impounded animals.") is part of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the codified statutory law of Georgia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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