2022 Georgia Code
Title 4 - Animals
Chapter 8 - Dogs
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 4-8-1.1. Abandonment of Dead Dogs — Upon Private Property

Universal Citation:
GA Code § 4-8-1.1 (2022)
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No person shall intentionally abandon a dead dog on any private property belonging to another unless the person so doing shall have first obtained permission from the owner of the property on which the dog is being left and the provisions of Code Section 4-5-3 are complied with in full.

History. Ga. L. 1969, p. 831, § 1; Code 1981, § 4-8-1 ; Code 1981, § 4-8-1 .1, redesignated by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1290, § 1/HB 685.

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, redesignated former Code Section 4-8-1 as present Code Section 4-8-1.1.

Cross references.

Solid waste management, § 12-8-20 et seq.

Editor’s notes.

Ga. L. 2012, p. 1290, § 6/HB 685, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that this Code section shall apply to proceedings for the classification and registration of dogs which are pending on July 1, 2012, as well as to such proceedings which arise on or after July 1, 2012.

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