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title: O.C.G.A. § 26-2-266. Inspectors and assistants; confiscation and destruction of eggs found unfit for human consumption.
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# O.C.G.A. § 26-2-266. Inspectors and assistants; confiscation and destruction of eggs found unfit for human consumption.

(a) The Commissioner of Agriculture shall instruct the agricultural sanitarians and agricultural inspectors of the Department of Agriculture to carry out this article. The Commissioner is authorized in his discretion to select and appoint such other additional assistants as in his judgment he deems necessary to enforce this article.

(b) All such employees of the Department of Agriculture are authorized to confiscate and destroy all eggs found to be unfit for human consumption.

## History

Ga. L. 1935, p. 364, § 10; Code 1981, § 26-2-267; Code 1981, § 26-2-266, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1115, § 1.