Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 27. GAME AND FISH · Chapter 4. FISH · Article 3. COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH DEALING GENERALLY · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

27-4-73. Confiscation and disposition of illegally used commercial fishing gear.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Should any law enforcement officer of this state or employee of the department discover any commercial fishing gear or any trap, net, seine, basket, or similar device for taking fish, which gear or device is being used in violation of this title, such officer or employee shall seize and hold the same. In the event no one within a reasonable time claims the seized commercial fishing gear and the owner thereof is unknown to such officer or employee, the gear shall be confiscated and shall become the property of the department and disposed of as ordered by the commissioner.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Ga. L. 1955, p. 483, § 91; Code 1933, § 45-807, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 396, § 1.

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Text read from t27-t30-(v22)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V22, 2018 edition, page 205; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 62359f240c92.