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§ 4-4-67. Establishment of quarantines in areas in which livestock affected with or exposed to contagious or infectious disease; transportation of livestock within and from quarantined areas

GA Code § 4-4-67 (2018) (N/A)
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(a) The Commissioner or any duly authorized livestock inspector is authorized and required to quarantine any stall, lot, yard, pasture, field, farm, premises, packing house, rendering plant, town, city, militia district, county, or any part thereof or the whole of the state when he shall determine that livestock in such place or places are affected with, exposed to, or suspected of being exposed to a contagious or infectious disease or with anything which might cause such disease. The Commissioner or any livestock inspector shall provide written or printed notice of the establishment of such quarantine to the owners or keepers of such livestock and to the proper officers of railroad, steamboat, motor vehicle, or other transportation companies doing business in or through the quarantined territory.

(b) No such transportation company shall receive for transportation or shall transport livestock from any quarantined area to any nonquarantined area, except as provided for in this part. No person, company, corporation, or other entity shall drive or cause to be driven or permit to go astray any livestock from any quarantined area to any nonquarantined area, except as provided for in this part.

(c) Livestock may be moved within a quarantined area or removed from a quarantined area only under and in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Commissioner. It shall be unlawful to move livestock within or from a quarantined area in any other manner or under any conditions other than those prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Commissioner.

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§ 4-4-67. Establishment of quarantines in areas in which livestock affected with or exposed to contagious or infectious disease; transportation of livestock within and from quarantined areas