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2006 Georgia Code - 4-4-72
4-4-72. (a) The Commissioner is authorized, in
cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture, to
indemnify the owner of livestock destroyed in eradicating any
infectious or contagious disease, upon such basis and appraisal as
the federal government prescribes; but in no event shall the state
pay more than one-half of the indemnity and cost incident to the
eradication. (b) In the case
of public stockyards, meat packing establishments, slaughterhouses,
community sales, and licensed garbage feeders, the state shall not
pay in participation with the United States Department of
Agriculture more than one-third of the indemnity and cost incident
to the eradication. However, the Commissioner may make indemnity
payments inapplicable to garbage feeders if in any case he finds
the feeding of garbage to be a source of such disease.
(c) Any person, firm, partnership,
or corporation which shall violate any quarantine law or rule and
regulation thereunder shall be ineligible for indemnity.
(d) The Commissioner is authorized,
in the eradication of any infectious or contagious disease, to
indemnify the owner of livestock destroyed in eradicating the
disease in those instances in which the United States Department of
Agriculture cannot participate in the payment of the
indemnity. (e) The limits on
the amount of payment to be made by the state as set out in this
Code section shall have no application to payments in excess of
such limits authorized by law for the purpose of elimination of
swine mycobacteriosis.
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