Georgia StatutesCHAPTER 8 - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES PROMOTION
- ARTICLE 1 - PURPOSE OF CHAPTER
- ARTICLE 1A - PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
- ARTICLE 2 - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY COMMISSIONS GENERALLY
- § 2-8-10 - Nonapplicability of article to Agricultural Commodity Commission for Peanuts or Agricultural Commodity Commission for Equine
- § 2-8-11 - Definitions
- § 2-8-12 - Commissioner to administer and enforce article
- § 2-8-13 - Commissions previously established are ratified and governed by chapter; contributions deemed voluntary; balloting to determine continued existence
- § 2-8-14 - Composition; appointments, terms of office, and compensation; certification of membership to Secretary of State; advisory boards, special committees, and personnel; legal representation;
- § 2-8-15 - Public corporations; corporate powers; chairman; quorum; oath of office; certification of appointments to Secretary of State
- § 2-8-16 - Funds of commissions -- Receipt, collection, and disbursement
- § 2-8-17 - Funds of commissions -- Treatment as trust funds
- § 2-8-18 - Bonds of persons handling funds
- § 2-8-19 - Liability of commission members and employees
- § 2-8-20 - Cooperation with state and federal governmental authorities
- § 2-8-21 - Issuance of marketing orders authorized; notice; public hearing; record; reports from handlers; compilation of lists of producers and handlers; use of information in reports
- § 2-8-22 - Recommendation of marketing orders or amendments by commission; authorized provisions
- § 2-8-23 - Approval by producers prerequisite to issuance of marketing order or major amendment; notice; rules and regulations; expiration; extensions; referendum
- § 2-8-24 - Area marketing orders authorized
- § 2-8-25 - Seasonal marketing regulations authorized; notice of issuance; liberal interpretation of Code section
- § 2-8-26 - Applicability of marketing orders
- § 2-8-27 - Assessments to defray expenses; borrowing in anticipation of collections; use and repayment of contributions in lieu of advance deposits; collection and enforcement of assessments general
- § 2-8-28 - Collection of assessments by civil action; penalty for delinquent payment
- § 2-8-29 - Maintenance and inspection of books and records and provision of information; confidentiality of information; hearings, testimony, and subpoenas
- § 2-8-30 - Use of grade or quality designations by persons not complying with order or regulations prohibited
- § 2-8-31 - Inspections; holding of commodity; warning notice; notice of noncompliance; time for correction of deficiencies; petition to divert or destroy; show cause order; disposition of noncomplyi
- § 2-8-32 - Civil penalties; notice and hearing; recovery procedure; disposition of proceeds
- § 2-8-33 - Action for civil penalty or injunctive relief; costs
- § 2-8-34 - Referral for institution of legal proceedings; administrative hearing; cease and desist order
- § 2-8-35 - Furnishing of false report, statement, record, or marketing order; refusal to furnish certain information
- § 2-8-36 - Criminal penalty
- § 2-8-37 - Penalties and remedies concurrent, alternative, and cumulative
- § 2-8-38 - Applicability of article to retailers
- ARTICLE 3 - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY COMMISSION FOR PEANUTS
- § 2-8-50 - Applicability of article
- § 2-8-51 - Definitions
- § 2-8-52 - Commission continued in existence; powers and duties; continuation of certain rules, regulations, and orders; periodic determination as to continuation of commission
- § 2-8-53 - Membership of commission; division of peanut-producing counties into districts; election of members; compensation and expenses; certification of members to Secretary of State
- § 2-8-54 - Authority; legal representation; acceptance and use of donations, gifts, and other property; exercise of powers of corporations; continuation of existence of commission; authority to lea
- § 2-8-55 - Commission as public corporation; name used in contracts and legal proceedings; chairman; quorum; oath of office; certification of election
- § 2-8-56 - Receipt, collection, and disbursal of funds
- § 2-8-57 - Funds held in trust; deposit, accounting, and disbursal of funds; exemption from requirements applicable to state funds
- § 2-8-58 - Bond of persons handling funds under article; signing of checks, drafts, and negotiable instruments; election, powers, and duties of treasurer
- § 2-8-59 - Liability of commission members
- § 2-8-60 - Authority to confer with and make information available to governmental authorities of this state, other states, and the United States
- § 2-8-61 - Issuance, administration, and enforcement of marketing orders; notice and hearing as to proposed order; information from persons who may be affected by order
- § 2-8-62 - Recommendation of promulgation of marketing order; permissible provisions of orders; effectiveness of orders heretofore adopted and in effect on July 1, 1989
- § 2-8-63 - Finding of assent or approval of producers required for marketing order to become effective; commission authorized to issue orders regulating peanuts; amendments; notice; rules and regula
- § 2-8-64 - Limiting of application of marketing order to certain marketing areas or portions of state
- § 2-8-65 - Seasonal marketing regulations; legislative findings; interpretation of Code section
- § 2-8-66 - Applicability of orders regulating minimum quality, condition, size, or maturity
- § 2-8-67 - Assessments to defray expenses of marketing orders; budgets for administration; authority to borrow money; contributions in lieu of advance deposits; collection of assessments; rules; enf
- § 2-8-68 - Assessment constitutes personal debt; action for collection; fee for late payment; remedies cumulative
- § 2-8-69 - Books and records of processors and distributors; furnishing information to commission; inspection of books and records; confidentiality; enforcement
- § 2-8-70 - Use of designations of grade, quality, or condition without complying with regulations or marketing order
- § 2-8-71 - Entry and inspection of premises to check compliance with marketing order; holding of lot of peanuts to ascertain compliance; affixing of notice of noncompliance; service of notice of non
- § 2-8-72 - Civil penalty; fixing amount of penalty; civil action; disposition of moneys
- § 2-8-73 - Action by Attorney General for civil penalties or injunctive relief; remedies court may impose; payment of costs
- § 2-8-74 - Referral of complaints to Attorney General or prosecuting attorney; hearing to consider charges; cease and desist order
- § 2-8-75 - False or fraudulent reports, statements, and records; failure or refusal to give name and address of person from whom peanuts received
- § 2-8-76 - Criminal penalty
- § 2-8-77 - Construction of penalty and remedy provisions
- § 2-8-78 - Applicability to retailers of peanuts
- § 2-8-79 - Applicability of "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act."
- ARTICLE 4 - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY COMMISSION FOR BEEF
- ARTICLE 5 - AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY COMMISSION FOR EQUINES