2025 Code of Georgia
Title 2 - Agriculture (Chs. 1 — 24)
Chapter 7 - Plant Disease, Pest Control, and Pesticides (Arts. 1 — 7)
Article 1 - General Provisions (§§ 2-7-1 — 2-7-31)
Annotations
Notes
Code Commission notes.Ga. L. 1937, p. 659 § 19, which forms the basis for this article, reads as follows: “It is hereby declared to be the purpose of this Act to repeal and supersede all previous legislation upon the subject of the State Entomologist, his powers, duties and functions with respect to injurious insects, plant diseases and other kindred subjects formerly placed under his control, and supervision, (with the exception of the Act approved March 28, 1935 (Ga. Laws 1935, page 461) relating to the fraudulent sale of plants), to repeal and supplant all chapters and sections referred to and to be considered as exhaustive of the subject of the powers, duties and functions of the State Entomologist with respect to the aforesaid subjects.”
Opinion Notes
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Commissioner empowered to delegate authority to sign checks. —The director of entomology (now Commissioner) has the power to delegate to an assistant the authority to sign checks. 1954-56 Ga. Op. Att'y Gen. 4.
Research References & Practice Aids
Administrative rules and regulations.Entomology and plant industry, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of the Georgia Department of Agriculture, Chapter 40-4.
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR.Exterminator’s tort liability for personal injury or death directly resulting from operations, 29 A. L. R.4th 987.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 2
O. C. G. A. Title 2, Ch. 7
- § 2-7-1. Short title
- § 2-7-2. Definitions
- § 2-7-3. Division of Entomology established
- § 2-7-4. Commissioner of Agriculture as ex officio state entomologist; designation of chief entomologist authorized
- § 2-7-5. Duty of Commissioner generally
- § 2-7-6. Publication of information and advice
- § 2-7-7. Cooperative agreements
- § 2-7-8. Purchases and expenditures
- § 2-7-9. Investigations authorized; employment of experts; rental, lease, or purchase of land
- § 2-7-10. Inspection of plants and other things capable of disseminating or carrying plant pests
- § 2-7-11. Nursery inspections; rules governing nursery stock and plants in transit
- § 2-7-12. Treatment, cutting, or destruction of infested trees, plants, or other things or substances
- § 2-7-13. Interception and inspection of plants, plant products, or other things or substances in transit; disposition
- § 2-7-14. Demand for information; penalty
- § 2-7-15. Declaration of public nuisance authorized
- § 2-7-16. Notice of declaration of nuisance; prescription of treatment; right of appeal
- § 2-7-17. Treatment of nuisance by department where owner fails to act; lien for expenses; compensation not allowed
- § 2-7-18. Judicial proceeding where owner refuses to act or to permit Commissioner to act; expenses and court costs
- § 2-7-19. Investigation on citizens’ complaint; notice to owner; treatment or destruction of affected plants or other things or substances; costs
- § 2-7-20. Declaration of quarantine; violation unlawful
- § 2-7-21. Registration of certain growers
- § 2-7-22. Assessment of costs
- § 2-7-23. Promulgation of rules and regulations; publication thereof
- § 2-7-24. Administrative review of rules and notices
- § 2-7-25. Required compliance with article and rules
- § 2-7-26. Importation of injurious insect or plant disease without permit prohibited
- § 2-7-27. Report of violations; investigation and disposition
- § 2-7-28. Act of agent imputed to principal
- § 2-7-29. Enforcement of article generally; criminal proceedings; subpoena powers
- § 2-7-30. Injunctions; violations declared public nuisances
- § 2-7-31. Penalty
