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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 10. COMMERCE AND TRADE · Chapter 4. WAREHOUSEMEN · Article 3. TOBACCO WAREHOUSING · Part 3. TOBACCO WAREHOUSEMEN’S ASSOCIATIONS

10-4-173. Local and state-wide membership fees.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    The tobacco boards of trade in the several municipalities in Georgia are authorized to require as a condition to membership therein the payment of a reasonable fee which shall not exceed:#

    1. (1)

      $50.00 in those municipalities in which less than 3 million pounds of tobacco was sold at auction during the year 1960;#

    2. (2)

      $100.00 in those municipalities in which not less than 3 million pounds but less than 10 million pounds of tobacco was sold at auction during the year 1960;#

    3. (3)

      $150.00 in those municipalities in which not less than 10 million pounds but less than 25 million pounds of tobacco was sold at auction during the year 1960;#

    4. (4)

      $300.00 in those municipalities in which 25 million pounds or more of tobacco was sold at auction during the year 1960.#

  2. (b)

    A state-wide corporation or association, as provided in this part, may require as a condition to membership therein the payment of a reasonable fee which shall not exceed $100.00 per 1 million pounds of producers’ tobacco sold at auction during the year preceding the year in which the fee is assessed.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1962, p. 102, § 4; Ga. L. 1972, p. 918, § 3.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t10-(v8)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V8, 2024 edition, pages 704 to 705; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 7afbade16da7.