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title: Title 10, Chapter 4. Warehousemen
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heading: WAREHOUSEMEN
title_heading: COMMERCE AND TRADE
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# Title 10, Chapter 4. Warehousemen

Title 10. Commerce and Trade

120 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 10-4-1, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-1.md
- 10-4-2, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-2.md
- 10-4-3, State warehouse section established; supervisor of section, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-3.md
- 10-4-4, Exemptions from article; warehousemen electing to be covered, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-4.md
- 10-4-5, Powers and duties of Commissioner; annual reports; adoption of rules and regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-5.md
- 10-4-6, Procedure for adopting or changing rules and regulations; administrative review of objections, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-6.md
- 10-4-7, Uniform application of orders, fees, rules, and regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-7.md
- 10-4-8, Existing interstate commerce regulations not affected, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-8.md
- 10-4-9, Judicial review of administrative decision, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-9.md
- 10-4-10, Annual license required; issuance by Commissioner; application for license or renewal, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-10.md
- 10-4-11, License for person electing to comply with article and regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-11.md
- 10-4-12, Bond required; additional bond, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-12.md
- 10-4-13, Bonded and licensed warehouse may be designated as state bonded, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-13.md
- 10-4-14, Actions on bonds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-14.md
- 10-4-15, Inspections of warehouses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-15.md
- 10-4-16, Inspectors and examiners to be bonded, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-16.md
- 10-4-17, License fees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-17.md
- 10-4-18, Delivery to warehouse presumably for storage, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-18.md
- 10-4-19, Warehouse receipts required; obtaining printed forms; use of electronic receipts authorized, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-19.md
- 10-4-20, Essential terms of warehouse receipts; liability for omission, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-20.md
- 10-4-21, Obligation of warehouseman to deliver; effect of loss or damage, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-21.md
- 10-4-22, Surrender and cancellation of warehouse receipts on delivery, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-22.md
- 10-4-23, Records of warehousemen, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-23.md
- 10-4-24, Inspection of records; preservation of records when license terminated, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-24.md
- 10-4-25, When insurance on stored products required, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-25.md
- 10-4-26, Schedules of charges to be filed; changes in charges; special rates for United States; duplication of charges prohibited, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-26.md
- 10-4-27, Certified public weighers to be provided, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-27.md
- 10-4-28, Scales to be provided; examination; disapproved scales not to be used, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-28.md
- 10-4-29, Suspension of license pending investigation or correction of violation; impoundment of records and commodities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-29.md
- 10-4-30, Suspension or revocation of license for violation; liquidation proceedings; impoundment of unused receipts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-30.md
- 10-4-31, Publishing lists of licensed and bonded warehouses, license terminations, and findings as to violations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-31.md
- 10-4-32, Criminal penalties for violations; immunity of sureties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-32.md
- 10-4-33, Duty of persons accepting warehouse receipts to take adequate measures regarding goods, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-33.md
- 10-4-50, Designation of commissioner, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-50.md
- 10-4-51, Bond of commissioner, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-51.md
- 10-4-52, Appointment and bonding of necessary employees; promulgation of rules and regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-52.md
- 10-4-53, Actions by and against commissioner; limitations on liability; “linters” not to be stored, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-53.md
- 10-4-54, Duties of commissioner generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-54.md
- 10-4-55, Acquisition of property; encouraging erection of warehouses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-55.md
- 10-4-56, Purchase or lease of, or contracting for, compress plant by commissioner, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-56.md
- 10-4-57, Fire insurance on property owned by or in possession of commissioner, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-57.md
- 10-4-58, Annual report, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-58.md
- 10-4-59, Cooperation with other states, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-59.md
- 10-4-60, State debt not to be created, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-60.md
- 10-4-70, Standards and classifications of cotton, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-70.md
- 10-4-71, Storing lint cotton; inspection tags; issuance, contents, transfer, and cancellation of receipts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-71.md
- 10-4-72, Fixing terms and rate of storage, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-72.md
- 10-4-73, Commissioner may negotiate loans on receipts and sale of stored cotton, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-73.md
- 10-4-74, Commissioner’s charges and commissions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-74.md
- 10-4-75, Warehouse receipt books; execution and sealing of receipts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-75.md
- 10-4-76, Investigation of liens and titles by warehouseman; priority of claim of receipt holder, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-76.md
- 10-4-77, Penalty for failure to give notice of lien on cotton, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-77.md
- 10-4-78, Penalty for false affidavit as to lien on cotton, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-78.md
- 10-4-79, Penalties for delivering cotton without production of receipt or failing to cancel receipt, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-79.md
- 10-4-80, Penalties for issuing receipt for cotton not in warehouse, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-80.md
- 10-4-81, Penalty for issuing duplicate or additional receipt; lost or destroyed receipts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-81.md
- 10-4-100, Legislative intent and findings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-100.md
- 10-4-101, Licenses for flue-cured leaf tobacco auction sales; “clean-up” sale licenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-101.md
- 10-4-102, Physical standards for leaf tobacco warehouses; compliance as prerequisite for license, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-102.md
- 10-4-103, Insurance as prerequisite for license, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-103.md
- 10-4-104, Allocating sales opportunities among licensed warehouses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-104.md
- 10-4-105, Denial of issuance or suspension or revocation of license, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-105.md
- 10-4-106, Georgia Tobacco Marketing Act of 1995, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-106.md
- 10-4-107, Warehousemen to render itemized statements, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-107.md
- 10-4-107.1, Requirements of tobacco contracts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-107.1.md
- 10-4-108, Records and reports by warehousemen, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-108.md
- 10-4-109, Commissioner of Agriculture to keep sales records; publication, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-109.md
- 10-4-110, Advisory board; creation; membership; compensation; expenses, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-110.md
- 10-4-111, Meetings of advisory board; duties; fixing opening date of marketing season; revocation of license for early sale, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-111.md
- 10-4-112, Limitations on sales hours and days of warehouses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-112.md
- 10-4-113, Maximum rate of sales, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-113.md
- 10-4-114, Auction tobacco dealers; licenses; regulations as to reports and records; refusal, suspension, or revocation of license, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-114.md
- 10-4-114.1, Grading by the Agriculture Marketing Service; alternatives if graders unavailable, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-114.1.md
- 10-4-115, Nonauction tobacco dealers to be licensed; bond or trust fund agreement; records and reports; certified public weighers provided; penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-115.md
- 10-4-116, Inspection of premises and records, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-116.md
- 10-4-117, Certified public weighers to be provided by licensees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-117.md
- 10-4-117.1, Detention of tobacco; notice; condemnation; cost of testing, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-117.1.md
- 10-4-118, Enforcement of part; notice and hearing in revocation or suspension proceedings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-118.md
- 10-4-119, Suspension or revocation of license or registration pending investigation and correction of violation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-119.md
- 10-4-120, Enjoining violations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-120.md
- 10-4-121, Procedure for adopting or changing rules and regulations; administrative review of objections, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-121.md
- 10-4-122, Judicial review of administrative decision, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-122.md
- 10-4-123, General penalty for violation of part, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-123.md
- 10-4-140, Legislative intent and findings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-140.md
- 10-4-141, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-141.md
- 10-4-142, Licenses for carry-over tobacco services, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-142.md
- 10-4-143, Fire and extended coverage insurance on stored tobacco, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-143.md
- 10-4-144, Each licensee to be bonded, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-144.md
- 10-4-145, Maximum charges and expenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-145.md
- 10-4-146, Licensees to render statements upon receipt of tobacco, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-146.md
- 10-4-147, Division of money received above contract sales price plus charges and expenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-147.md
- 10-4-148, Licensees’ records and reports, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-148.md
- 10-4-149, Commissioner of Agriculture to keep storage and sale records; publication, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-149.md
- 10-4-150, Tender for storage not deemed sale; sale not consummated before next season, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-150.md
- 10-4-151, Certified public weighers to be provided by licensees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-151.md
- 10-4-152, Regulations and physical standards for premises; inspection of premises, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-152.md
- 10-4-153, Enforcement of part; revocation or suspension of licenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-153.md
- 10-4-154, Enjoining violations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-154.md
- 10-4-155, Penalty for violating part or rules or regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-155.md
- 10-4-170, Local boards of trade and state-wide organization of warehousemen authorized, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-170.md
- 10-4-171, Arbitrating organization of board of trade, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-171.md
- 10-4-172, Rules and regulations of boards of trade and state-wide organization, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-172.md
- 10-4-173, Local and state-wide membership fees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-173.md
- 10-4-174, Membership in board of trade and state-wide organization as conditions for operating warehouse, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-174.md
- 10-4-175, Categories of membership; participation in allocating sale time; liability for board’s acts, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-175.md
- 10-4-176, Appealing suspension or expulsion from board of trade or state-wide organization, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-176.md
- 10-4-177, Price fixing or restraint of trade not authorized; regulation of leaf tobacco selling unaffected, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-177.md
- 10-4-190, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-190.md
- 10-4-191, Definitions; exemption of state licensed or bonded warehouses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-191.md
- 10-4-192, Information required for storage rental or lease; property ownership statement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-192.md
- 10-4-193, Penalties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-193.md
- 10-4-210, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-210.md
- 10-4-211, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-211.md
- 10-4-212, Lien of owner of self-service storage facility upon property located at facility; priority; attachment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-212.md
- 10-4-213, Enforcement of lien without judicial intervention; execution of rental agreement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-213.md
- 10-4-214, Compliance with Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; additional rights, duties, and obligations not impaired; rights under article additional, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-214.md
- 10-4-215, Rental agreements entered into before July 1, 2013, not affected, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-215.md
- 10-4-216, Self-service storage facility not residence; no application of public bonded warehouseman provisions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-216.md
- 10-4-217, Late penalty; calculations; application, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-217.md
- 10-4-218, Deemed acceptance of rental agreement; notice of termination or nonrenewal; removal of personal property, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/10-4-218.md