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title: O.C.G.A. § 2-12-11. Distribution of adulterated fertilizer prohibited; when adulterated.
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# O.C.G.A. § 2-12-11. Distribution of adulterated fertilizer prohibited; when adulterated.

No person shall distribute an adulterated fertilizer product. A fertilizer shall be deemed to be adulterated if:

(1) It contains any deleterious or harmful ingredient in sufficient amount to render it injurious to beneficial plant, animal, human, or aquatic life or to soil or water when applied in accordance with directions for use on the label or if adequate warning statements or directions for use which may be necessary to protect plant, animal, human, or aquatic life or soil or water are not shown upon the label;

(2) Its composition falls below or differs from that which it is purported to possess by its labeling;

(3) It contains unwanted crop seed or weed seed; or

(4) It contains domestic septage as such term is defined in 40 C.F.R. 503.9.

## History

Code 1981, § 2-12-11, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1271, § 1; Ga. L. 2020, p. 364, § 1/HB 1057; Ga. L. 2021, p. 922, § 2/HB 497.

## Code Commission Notes

Pursuant to Code section 28-9-5, in 2020, an extra period at the end of paragraph (4) was deleted.

## Amendments

The 2020 amendment, effective January 1, 2021, deleted “or” at the end of paragraph (2), substituted “; or” for a period at the end of paragraph (3), and added paragraph (4).

The 2021 amendment, effective May 10, 2021, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “40 C.F.R. 503.9” for “40 CFR 503.9” in paragraph (4).