§ 10-4-150. Tender for Storage Not Deemed Sale; Sale Not Consummated Before Next Season
The tendering of carry-over tobacco by producers to operators to be stored until the next selling season shall not be deemed a sale as of the time of the tender. The sale of carry-over tobacco may not be consummated until after the beginning of the subsequent selling season. History. Ga. L. 1975, p. 1263, § […]
§ 10-4-151. 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 carry-over tobacco at the time and place of receipt of the tobacco by operators for storage until the subsequent selling season, and it shall be unlawful for any person who is not a certified public weigher to […]
§ 10-4-152. Regulations and Physical Standards for Premises; Inspection of Premises
The Commissioner of Agriculture shall be authorized to promulgate regulations to implement this part, to accomplish its purposes, and to prescribe physical standards for buildings and premises used for the receipt or storage, or both, of carry-over tobacco. Such standards shall be reasonably designed to ensure the protection of producers and others from loss or […]
§ 10-4-153. Enforcement of Part; Revocation or Suspension of Licenses
It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture to enforce this part and to utilize any employee of the Department of Agriculture in the performance of his duties under this part. The Commissioner is authorized to revoke or suspend, for violation of this part, any license issued under this part after notice and […]
§ 10-4-154. Enjoining Violations
In addition to the remedies provided in this part and notwithstanding the existence of any other remedy at law and notwithstanding the pendency of any criminal prosecution, the Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to apply to the superior court and the court shall have jurisdiction upon hearing and for cause shown to grant a temporary […]
§ 10-4-155. Penalty for Violating Part or Rules or Regulations
Any person who violates any provision of this part or the rules and regulations issued under this part shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History. Ga. L. 1975, p. 1263, § 14.
§ 10-4-170. Local Boards of Trade and State-Wide Organization of Warehousemen Authorized
Tobacco warehousemen licensed and bonded under the laws of this state to operate warehouses for the sale of leaf tobacco at auction are authorized to organize, either as nonstock corporations or as voluntary associations, tobacco boards of trade in the several municipalities of this state in which leaf tobacco is sold on warehouse floors at […]
§ 10-4-171. Arbitrating Organization of Board of Trade
In the event there are two such warehousemen in a municipality and in the event the two cannot agree as to the organization of any such board, or cannot agree as to any matter authorized under this part, it shall be the duty of each, upon notice or request by the other, to appoint one […]
§ 10-4-172. Rules and Regulations of Boards of Trade and State-Wide Organization
Each such tobacco board of trade is authorized to make reasonable rules and regulations not in conflict with the laws of this state and the rules and regulations promulgated under the laws of this state for the economical and efficient handling and sale of leaf tobacco at auction on the warehouse floors in the municipality […]
§ 10-4-173. Local and State-Wide Membership Fees
The tobacco boards of trade in the several municipalities in Georgia are authorized to require as a condition to membership therein the payment of a reasonable fee which shall not exceed: $50.00 in those municipalities in which less than 3 million pounds of tobacco was sold at auction during the year 1960; $100.00 in those […]