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title: O.C.G.A. § 26-2-130. Buying, selling, transporting, or receiving of dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals.
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# O.C.G.A. § 26-2-130. Buying, selling, transporting, or receiving of dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals.

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.