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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

4-3-7. Disposition of livestock not sold at auction.

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

  1. If there is no bidder for the livestock at the sale provided for in Code Section 4-3-5, the sheriff shall have the livestock killed and shall dispose of the carcass thereof; and, if there is any money received by him from the disposal, the same shall be disbursed in the manner provided for in Code Section 4-3-8. If there is no ready sale for the carcass, the sheriff shall deliver the carcass to a public institution of the county, state, or municipality within the county or to any private charitable institution, in this order, according to their needs.

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, § 7.

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Text read from t4-6-(v4)-2013-pdf.pdf, Volume V4, 2013 edition, page 15; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 290d3a1d6843.