- § 10-4-100 - Legislative Intent and Findings
It is the intent and purpose of this part to enable producers to have sufficient time to cure, prepare, and market their flue-cured leaf...
- § 10-4-101 - Licenses for Flue-Cured Leaf Tobacco Auction Sales; "Clean-Up" Sale Licenses
No person, real or corporate, shall operate, hold, or conduct an auction sale for the sale of flue-cured leaf tobacco within this state without...
- § 10-4-102 - Physical Standards for Leaf Tobacco Warehouses; Compliance As Prerequisite for License
In addition to other authority granted him by this part, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be authorized to promulgate regulations prescribing physical standards for...
- § 10-4-103 - Insurance As Prerequisite for License
As a prerequisite to the issuance of a license under this part, each applicant shall furnish evidence to the Commissioner of Agriculture that he...
- § 10-4-104 - Allocating Sales Opportunities Among Licensed Warehouses
In the event sales opportunity shall be designated or allocated to this state by any regulatory group or committee, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall...
- § 10-4-105 - Denial of Issuance or Suspension or Revocation of License
In addition to other authority granted him by this part, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be authorized to deny issuance of, or to suspend...
- § 10-4-106 - Georgia Tobacco Marketing Act of 1995
(a) This Code section shall be known and may be cited as "The Georgia Tobacco Marketing Act of 1995."(b) The maximum charges and expenses...
- § 10-4-107 - Warehousemen to Render Itemized Statements
The licensee of each and every warehouse shall render to each seller of tobacco of his warehouse an itemized statement plainly stating the amount...
- § 10-4-107.1 - Tobacco Contract
(a) As used in this Code section, the term "tobacco contract" means any contract between a tobacco company and a tobacco grower under which...
- § 10-4-108 - Records and Reports by Warehousemen
Each licensee shall keep a correct daily account of the number of pounds of leaf tobacco sold upon the floor of his warehouse. On...
- § 10-4-109 - Commissioner of Agriculture to Keep Sales Records; Publication
The Commissioner of Agriculture shall cause to be kept and compiled the information submitted to him as to the sales of tobacco in this...
- § 10-4-110 - Advisory Board; Creation; Membership; Compensation; Expenses
Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1015, § 2, effective May 14, 2008.
- § 10-4-111 - Meetings of Advisory Board; Duties; Fixing Opening Date of Marketing Season; Revocation of License for Early Sale
(a) The board shall meet in June of each year, or upon the call of the chairman, to survey the condition of the tobacco...
- § 10-4-112 - Limitations on Sales Hours and Days of Warehouses
(a) The operating day of each flue-cured leaf tobacco warehouse shall not exceed the number of hours required to handle and sell adequately and...
- § 10-4-113 - Maximum Rate of Sales
The maximum rate of sales at any flue-cured leaf tobacco warehouse shall not exceed 500 baskets during any one hour, nor shall the rate...
- § 10-4-114 - Auction Tobacco Dealers; Licenses; Regulations As to Reports and Records; Refusal, Suspension, or Revocation of License
(a) Any person, firm, or corporation purchasing tobacco at auction at any flue-cured leaf tobacco auction sales establishment licensed under this Code section shall...
- § 10-4-114.1 - Grading by the Agriculture Marketing Service; Alternatives If Graders Unavailable
Repealed by Ga. L. 2005, p. 622, § 1, effective July 1, 2005.
- § 10-4-115 - Nonauction Tobacco Dealers Licensed; Bond or Trust Fund Agreement; Records and Reports; Certified Public Weighers Provided; Penalty
(a) Any person, firm, or corporation purchasing flue-cured leaf tobacco from producers other than at auction sales shall be required to apply to and...
- § 10-4-116 - Inspection of Premises and Records
The Commissioner of Agriculture, himself or through his agent, is authorized to inspect the premises of each licensee as often as he shall deem...
- § 10-4-117 - Certified Public Weighers to Be Provided by Licensees
It shall be the duty of each licensee to provide a certified public weigher for the weighing of tobacco upon his premises; and it...
- § 10-4-117.1 - Detention of Tobacco; Notice; Condemnation; Cost of Testing
(a) Whenever a duly authorized agent of the Commissioner finds or has probable cause to believe that any tobacco has been treated with any...
- § 10-4-118 - Enforcement of Part; Notice and Hearing in Revocation or Suspension Proceedings
It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to enforce this part and to utilize any employee of the Department of Agriculture...
- § 10-4-119 - Suspension or Revocation of License or Registration Pending Investigation and Correction of Violation
At such time as the Commissioner of Agriculture deems there has been a violation of this part and the rules and regulations promulgated under...
- § 10-4-120 - Enjoining Violations
In addition to the remedies provided in this part and notwithstanding the existence of any other remedy of law and notwithstanding the pendency of...
- § 10-4-121 - Procedure for Adopting or Changing Rules and Regulations; Administrative Review of Objections
(a) Prior to adoption or change of any rules and regulations, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall promulgate the proposed rule or regulation or change...
- § 10-4-122 - Judicial Review of Administrative Decision
Any person aggrieved by a final decision or determination in any matter in which a hearing is required or authorized by this part or...
- § 10-4-123 - General Penalty for Violation of Part
Any person who shall violate any provision of this part for which no specific punishment is provided in this part shall be guilty of...
Last modified: October 14, 2016