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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 2. AGRICULTURE · Chapter 11. SEEDS AND PLANTS · Article 3. CERTIFICATION OF SEEDS AND PLANTS

2-11-51. Definitions.

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

  1. For the purposes of this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    ‘‘Certified seed’’ means the progeny of foundation, registered, or in special cases certified seed which meets the standards of the official seed certifying agency.#

  3. (2)

    ‘‘Foundation seed’’ means the progeny of breeder’s seed or in special cases the progeny of foundation seed which meets the standards of the official seed certifying agency.#

  4. (3)

    ‘‘Plant’’ means seedlings, nursery stock, roots, tubers, bulbs, cuttings, and other parts used in the propagation of field crops, vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees, or other plants.#

  5. (4)

    ‘‘Registered seed’’ means the progeny of foundation seed and meets the standards of the official seed certifying agency.#

  6. (5)

    ‘‘Seed’’ means the true seeds of all field crops, vegetables, flowers, trees, or other plants.#

  7. (6)

    ‘‘Variety’’ carries its original meaning and includes ‘‘strains’’ of varieties which are sufficiently different from the parent variety to justify special designation.#

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. 1956, p. 16, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1151, § 2.

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