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title: O.C.G.A. § 2-8-24. Area marketing orders authorized.
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# O.C.G.A. § 2-8-24. Area marketing orders authorized.

Marketing orders issued by any commission under this article may be limited in their application by prescribing the marketing areas or portions of the state in which a particular order shall be effective, provided that no marketing order shall be issued by the commission unless it embraces all persons of a like class who are engaged in a specific and distinctive agricultural industry or trade within this state.

## History

Ga. L. 1961, p. 301, § 17; Ga. L. 1968, p. 398, § 11; Ga. L. 1969, p. 763, § 18; Code 1981, § 2-8-16; Code 1981, § 2-8-24, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1989, p. 1420, § 1.