Georgia Code, Title 2, Chapter 7, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 2-7-1 - Short Title
  This article shall be known as "The Entomology Act of 1937."
• § 2-7-2 - Definitions
  As used in this article, the term: (1) "Agent" means any person soliciting orders for or selling or distributing nursery stock under the partial...
• § 2-7-3 - Division of Entomology Established
  There is established as a division of the Department of Agriculture the Division of Entomology, which shall be under the supervision of the chief...
• § 2-7-4 - Commissioner of Agriculture As Ex Officio State Entomologist; Designation of Chief Entomologist Authorized
  (a) The Commissioner shall be ex officio state entomologist.(b) The Commissioner is authorized to designate a chief entomologist, who must be a graduate of...
• § 2-7-5 - Duty of Commissioner Generally
  It shall be the duty of the Commissioner to protect the agricultural, horticultural, and other interests of the state from plant pests.
• § 2-7-6 - Publication of Information and Advice
  The Commissioner may disseminate information and advice to the public on the prevention, control, or eradication of plant pests, by the publication and distribution...
• § 2-7-7 - Cooperative Agreements
  The Commissioner may enter into cooperative arrangements with any person, municipality, county, or other department of this state and with boards, officers, and authorities...
• § 2-7-8 - Purchases and Expenditures
  The Commissioner may purchase all necessary materials, supplies, office and field equipment, and other things and may make such other expenditures as may be...
• § 2-7-9 - Investigations Authorized; Employment of Experts; Rental, Lease, or Purchase of Land
  The Commissioner may carry on investigations of methods of control, eradication, and prevention of dissemination of plant pests and for that purpose may employ...
• § 2-7-10 - Inspection of Plants and Other Things Capable of Disseminating or Carrying Plant Pests
  The Commissioner may inspect or cause to be inspected by duly authorized employees or agents any plants, plant products, or other articles, things, or...
• § 2-7-11 - Nursery Inspections; Rules Governing Nursery Stock and Plants in Transit
  (a) The Commissioner may inspect or cause to be inspected all nurseries in this state at such intervals as the Commissioner may deem best....
• § 2-7-12 - Treatment, Cutting, or Destruction of Infested Trees, Plants, or Other Things or Substances
  The Commissioner may visit any section of this state in which any dangerous pest is supposed to exist and determine whether any infested trees,...
• § 2-7-13 - Interception and Inspection of Plants, Plant Products, or Other Things or Substances in Transit; Disposition
  The Commissioner may intercept and inspect, while in transit or after arrival at destination, all plants, plant products, or other things or substances likely...
• § 2-7-14 - Demand for Information; Penalty
  (a) The Commissioner may demand of any person who has plants or plant products or other things likely to carry plant pests in his...
• § 2-7-15 - Declaration of Public Nuisance Authorized
  The Commissioner may declare a dangerous plant pest, as well as any plant or other thing which has been infested or infected therewith or...
• § 2-7-16 - Notice of Declaration of Nuisance; Prescription of Treatment; Right of Appeal
  Whenever inspection discloses that any places, plants or plant products, or other things or substances are infested or infected with any dangerous plant pest...
• § 2-7-17 - Treatment of Nuisance by Department Where Owner Fails to Act; Lien for Expenses; Compensation Not Allowed
  Whenever an owner or other person cannot be found or fails, neglects, or refuses to obey the requirements of the notice given under Code...
• § 2-7-18 - Judicial Proceeding Where Owner Refuses to Act or to Permit Commissioner to Act; Expenses and Court Costs
  In case any person or persons refuse to execute the directions of the Commissioner or refuse to allow the Commissioner or his agents to...
• § 2-7-19 - Investigation on Citizens' Complaint; Notice to Owner; Treatment or Destruction of Affected Plants or Other Things or Substances; Costs
  When two reputable citizens of any county in this state notify the Commissioner, from belief, that noxious insects or plant diseases exist in their...
• § 2-7-20 - Declaration of Quarantine; Violation Unlawful
  (a) The Commissioner may declare a quarantine against any area, place, nursery, grove, orchard, county, or counties within this state, other states, or territories...
• § 2-7-21 - Registration of Certain Growers
  The Commissioner may provide for the registration of all growers of plant or nursery stock intended for sale or distribution, when such plants or...
• § 2-7-22 - Assessment of Costs
  For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the registration of nurserymen, dealers, agents, and plant growers and the certification and inspection of plants...
• § 2-7-23 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations; Publication Thereof
  (a) The Commissioner may make such rules and regulations governing the conditions under which plants or other products may be produced as will permit...
• § 2-7-24 - Administrative Review of Rules and Notices
  Any person affected by any rule or regulation made or notice given pursuant to this article may have a review thereof as provided in...
• § 2-7-25 - Required Compliance With Article and Rules
  It shall be unlawful for any nurseryman, dealer, or agent to sell, give away, carry, ship, or deliver for carriage or shipment any nursery...
• § 2-7-26 - Importation of Injurious Insect or Plant Disease Without Permit Prohibited
  The introduction into this state of any insect injurious to plants in any stage of development or of any specimen of any disease injurious...
• § 2-7-27 - Report of Violations; Investigation and Disposition
  Any person, including a common carrier, who receives plants, plant products, or other things or substances sold, given away, carried, shipped, or delivered for...
• § 2-7-28 - Act of Agent Imputed to Principal
  In construing and enforcing this article, the act, omission, or failure of any official, agent, or other person acting for or employed by any...
• § 2-7-29 - Enforcement of Article Generally; Criminal Proceedings; Subpoena Powers
  The Commissioner may enforce this article and the rules and regulations made pursuant hereto by injunction in the proper court as well as by...
• § 2-7-30 - Injunctions; Violations Declared Public Nuisances
  The Commissioner may institute action to enjoin any violation of this article or any rule or regulation or quarantine promulgated under this article. A...
• § 2-7-31 - Penalty
  Any person who violates any provision or requirement of this article or of the rules and regulations made thereunder or of any notice given...

Last modified: October 14, 2016