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title: O.C.G.A. § 2-11-2. Fraudulent sale of nursery stock or seedlings; misrepresenting fruit or nut trees.
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# O.C.G.A. § 2-11-2. Fraudulent sale of nursery stock or seedlings; misrepresenting fruit or nut trees.

(a) Any person who deceives or defrauds any person in the sale of nursery stock by substituting stock other than that contracted for or different varieties of seedlings than those represented or contracted for or who falsely represents the name, class, description, or condition of any nursery stock or who makes any false statement or promise for the purpose of making a sale of nursery stock shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) Any person, acting either as principal or agent, who sells any fruit or nut trees representing the same to be of a certain kind, variety, or description and thereafter delivers to the purchaser, in filling such order and completing such sale, any fruit or nut trees of a different kind, variety, or description shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

## History

Ga. L. 1960, p. 255, §§ 2, 3.