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title: O.C.G.A. § 26-2-267. Promulgation of rules, regulations, grades, and standards; powers of inspectors.
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# O.C.G.A. § 26-2-267. Promulgation of rules, regulations, grades, and standards; powers of inspectors.

The Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to promulgate, issue, and set up such additional rules, regulations, grades, standards, or otherwise as in his judgment are necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of this article. The sanitarians and inspectors authorized in Code Section 26-2-266 are authorized to exercise all the authority, powers, and privileges now delegated to the duly authorized food inspectors of the Department of Agriculture by existing law.

## History

Ga. L. 1935, p. 364, § 11; Code 1981, § 26-2-268; Code 1981, § 26-2-267, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1115, § 1.