Georgia Code, Title 10, Chapter 4, Article 1 - State Licensed and Bonded Warehouses

• § 10-4-1 - Short Title
  This article shall be cited as the "Georgia State Warehouse Act."
• § 10-4-2 - Definitions
  As used in this article, the term: (1) "Agricultural product" means individually and collectively all grains, cotton, meat, fruits, vegetables, and other farm products...
• § 10-4-3 - State Warehouse Section Established; Supervisor of Section
  Within the police powers of the state and for the general welfare, there is established as provided in this article a warehouse system for...
• § 10-4-4 - Exemptions From Article; Warehousemen Electing to Be Covered
  (a) The provisions of this article shall not be construed to apply to: (1) Any warehouse licensed under the United States Warehouse Act, as...
• § 10-4-5 - Powers and Duties of Commissioner; Annual Reports; Adoption of Rules and Regulations
  (a) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to foster and promote in every possible way good warehousing practices so as to afford...
• § 10-4-6 - Procedure for Adopting or Changing Rules and Regulations; Administrative Review of Objections
  (a) Prior to the adoption or change of any rule or regulation, the Commissioner shall promulgate the proposed rule or regulation or change and...
• § 10-4-7 - Uniform Application of Orders, Fees, Rules, and Regulations
  All rules and regulations, orders, schedules of charges, and fees approved or promulgated or issued by the Commissioner under the terms of this article...
• § 10-4-8 - Existing Interstate Commerce Regulations Not Affected
  Nothing contained in this article shall be interpreted so as to conflict with any existing regulations of the federal government, or of the federal...
• § 10-4-9 - Judicial Review of Administrative Decision
  Any person aggrieved by a final determination or decision of the Commissioner in any matter in which a hearing is required or authorized by...
• § 10-4-10 - Annual License Required; Issuance by Commissioner; Application for License or Renewal
  (a) No person shall operate a warehouse as defined under this article in this state unless he or she has a valid, effective license...
• § 10-4-11 - License for Person Electing to Comply With Article and Regulations
  If not otherwise required by this article, any person operating a warehouse for the storage of agricultural products may elect to come within this...
• § 10-4-12 - Bond Required; Additional Bond
  (a) Every person intending to engage in business as a warehouseman under this article shall, prior to commencing such business and periodically thereafter as...
• § 10-4-13 - Bonded and Licensed Warehouse May Be Designated As State Bonded
  Upon the filing with and approval by the Commissioner of a bond, in compliance with this article, for the conduct of a warehouse under...
• § 10-4-14 - Actions on Bonds
  (a) Any person claiming that he or she has been damaged by a breach of the conditions of a bond given by a licensee...
• § 10-4-15 - Inspections of Warehouses
  In addition to the general powers conferred by Code Section 10-4-5, the Commissioner and his or her duly authorized agents or employees shall have...
• § 10-4-16 - Inspectors and Examiners to Be Bonded
  Each inspector and examiner employed by the Commissioner for the inspection and examination of warehouses licensed under this article shall be bonded in an...
• § 10-4-17 - License Fees
  Warehousemen coming under this article shall pay an annual license fee which includes all inspections in an amount based on storage capacity in an...
• § 10-4-18 - Delivery to Warehouse Presumably for Storage
  Any agricultural product delivered to a warehouse under this article shall be presumed to be delivered for storage.
• § 10-4-19 - Warehouse Receipts Required; Obtaining Printed Forms; Use of Electronic Receipts Authorized
  (a) Unless otherwise required by law or by rule or regulation, an original receipt shall be issued for cotton and, at the option of...
• § 10-4-20 - Essential Terms of Warehouse Receipts; Liability for Omission
  (a) Warehouse receipts need not be in any particular form, but every such receipt must embody within its written or printed terms: (1) The...
• § 10-4-21 - Obligation of Warehouseman to Deliver; Effect of Loss or Damage
  Every warehouseman conducting a warehouse under this article shall, without unnecessary delay, deliver the agricultural product as described on each warehouse receipt issued by...
• § 10-4-22 - Surrender and Cancellation of Warehouse Receipts on Delivery
  Except as provided in Code Section 11-7-601, no warehouseman conducting a warehouse under this article shall deliver any agricultural product for which a warehouse...
• § 10-4-23 - Records of Warehousemen
  Every warehouseman conducting a warehouse under this article shall keep for inspection for such period as the Commissioner may prescribe, in a place of...
• § 10-4-24 - Inspection of Records; Preservation of Records When License Terminated
  The Commissioner is authorized through officials, employees, or agents designated by him to inspect all receipt records and inventory records of warehouses under this...
• § 10-4-25 - When Insurance on Stored Products Required
  All agricultural products stored for the producer in their raw or natural state, and cotton in any form stored for the producer, in storage...
• § 10-4-26 - Schedules of Charges to Be Filed; Changes in Charges; Special Rates for United States; Duplication of Charges Prohibited
  (a) Prior to transaction of any warehouse business at any warehouse under this article and annually thereafter, the warehouseman shall file with the Commissioner...
• § 10-4-27 - Certified Public Weighers to Be Provided
  All warehouses licensed under this article shall provide not less than one certified public weigher for each warehouse in accordance with Code Sections 10-2-40...
• § 10-4-28 - Scales to Be Provided; Examination; Disapproved Scales Not to Be Used
  Each warehouse under this article must be equipped with suitable scales in good order and so arranged that all agricultural products for storage can...
• § 10-4-29 - Suspension of License Pending Investigation or Correction of Violation; Impoundment of Records and Commodities
  At such time as the Commissioner or supervisor deems there has been a violation of the law and the rules and regulations, he shall...
• § 10-4-30 - Suspension or Revocation of License for Violation; Liquidation Proceedings; Impoundment of Unused Receipts
  (a) The Commissioner, in accordance with Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act," may suspend or revoke any license issued to...
• § 10-4-31 - Publishing Lists of Licensed and Bonded Warehouses, License Terminations, and Findings As to Violations
  The Commissioner may publish in print or electronically the names and locations of warehouses licensed and bonded, the names and addresses of persons licensed...
• § 10-4-32 - Criminal Penalties for Violations; Immunity of Sureties
  (a) Every person who, without lawful authority, shall convert to his own use, or use for purposes of securing a loan, or remove from...
• § 10-4-33 - Duty of Persons Accepting Warehouse Receipts to Take Adequate Measures Regarding Goods
  This article shall not relieve any person, including, but not limited to, any bank, savings and loan, or other financial lending institution, that requires,...

Last modified: October 14, 2016