--- title: O.C.G.A. § 10-4-104. Allocating sales opportunities among licensed warehouses. collection: code id: 10-4-104 cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 10-4-104 (2025) canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-104 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-104.md text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-104/text source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t10-(v8)-2024-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=1992b47e_0#page=685 date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-103.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-105.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md version: the only printed version in_force: true current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly heading_path: COMMERCE AND TRADE / WAREHOUSEMEN / TOBACCO WAREHOUSING / LEAF TOBACCO SALES AND STORAGE --- # O.C.G.A. § 10-4-104. Allocating sales opportunities among licensed warehouses. In the event sales opportunity shall be designated or allocated to this state by any regulatory group or committee, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be authorized to allocate such sales opportunity among the warehouses operating under license issued under this part in such manner as to effectuate the expressed intent and purpose of this part. The Commissioner may consider, among other factors, the history factor used by the regulatory group or committee for assigning sales opportunity for cross-belt tobacco, the previous five-year sales history of such licensees, and the previous five-year sales history of such licensees of selling Georgia grown tobacco in order to effectuate an allocation which will eliminate or reduce discrimination against producers in this state in the entry and sale of their tobacco in commerce. In recognition of the unique characteristics of the marketing of tobacco by auction, and the necessity of immediate response to marketing conditions, such allocation of sales time need not be effected by the promulgation of regulations but may be issued and published in such manner as the Commissioner deems necessary and expedient, provided that no such allocation shall be effective upon less than 24 hours’ actual notice to the affected licensee. ## History Ga. L. 1974, p. 518, § 3.