---
title: O.C.G.A. § 26-2-153. Sale of partial or whole carcasses.
collection: code
id: 26-2-153
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 26-2-153 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/26-2-153
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/26-2-153.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/26-2-153/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t24-t26-(v21)-2023-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=5423edd_0#page=362
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/26-2.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/26-2-152.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/26-2-154.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS / STANDARDS, LABELING, AND ADULTERATION OF FOOD / ADVERTISEMENT AND SALE OF MEAT GENERALLY
---

# O.C.G.A. § 26-2-153. Sale of partial or whole carcasses.

It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, firm, company, or corporation to advertise, sell, or offer for sale any quarter, half, three-quarters, or whole animal carcass for use as food for human consumption without disclosing in such advertisement and to the purchaser at the time of sale the minimum number of pounds of retail cuts contained in such quarter, half, three-quarters, or whole animal carcass. In determining the minimum number of pounds of red meat from such carcass, the person, partnership, firm, company, or corporation shall refer to currently effective United States Department of Agriculture charts and tables of yield grades.

## History

Ga. L. 1974, p. 1030, § 3.