Official Code of Georgia Annotated
Title 26. FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS · Chapter 2. STANDARDS, LABELING, AND ADULTERATION OF FOOD · Article 3. MEAT INSPECTION · Part 4. MEAT PROCESSORS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES
26-2-130. Buying, selling, transporting, or receiving of dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in commerce dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any such animals, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, nontraditional livestock, rabbits, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals, unless such transaction or transportation is made in accordance with such regulations as the Commissioner may promulgate, to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.
History
Ga. L. 1969, p. 1028, § 19; Ga. L. 1974, p. 453, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 244, § 26; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1219, § 15; Ga. L. 2008, p. 458, § 22/SB 364.
Cross references
Disposal of dead animals and accessory waste material, § 4-5-7.
Administrative rules and regulations
Dead Animal Disposal, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Agriculture, Animal Health Division, Rule 40-13-5-.01 et seq.
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from t24-t26-(v21)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, page 357; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8eab3bec6887.