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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 4. ANIMALS · Chapter 3. LIVESTOCK RUNNING AT LARGE OR STRAYING

4-3-10. Fees for impounding, serving notice, care and feeding, advertising, and disposing of impounded animals.

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

  1. The fees allowed for impounding, serving notice, care and feeding, advertising, and disposing of impounded animals shall be as follows:

  2. (1)

    For impounding each animal, the actual cost of impounding each animal and mileage as provided by law for the arrest and commitment of prisoners;#

  3. (2)

    For serving any notice and making return thereon, the actual cost and mileage provided by law for executing writs in actions at law and making return upon the same;#

  4. (3)

    For feed and care of impounded animals, the actual cost per day per animal not to exceed $25.00 per day per animal;#

  5. (4)

    For advertising or posting notices of sale of impounded animals, the same as provided by law for advertising property for sale under process;#

  6. (5)

    For sale or other disposition of impounded animals, the actual cost associated with such sale or other disposition; and#

  7. (6)

    For report of sale of impounded animals, the actual cost associated with such report of sale.#

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.

History

Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 380, § 6; Ga. L. 1988, p. 325, § 1; Ga. L. 2020, p. 484, § 1/SB 362.

Amendments

The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, substituted “the actual cost of impounding each animal” for “the sum of $10.00” in paragraph (1); substituted “the actual cost” for “the sum of $7.50” in paragraph (2); in paragraph (3), substituted “the actual cost” for “the sum of $5.00” and added “not to exceed $25.00 per day per animal” following “animal”; substituted “the actual cost associated with such sale or other disposition” for “the sum of $5.00” in paragraph (5); and substituted “the actual cost associated with such report of sale” for “the sum of $2.50” in paragraph (6).

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

Text read from t4-6-(v4)-pdf.pdf, Volume V4, 2013 edition, 2025 supplement, page 7; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 9d1b53199f62.