2025 Code of Georgia
Title 4 - Animals (Chs. 1 — 15)
Chapter 3 - Livestock Running at Large or Straying (§§ 4-3-1 — 4-3-12)
§ 4-3-2. Definitions
- As used in this chapter, the term:
(1) “Livestock” means all animals of the equine, bovine, or swine class, including goats, sheep, mules, horses, hogs, cattle, and other grazing animals.
(2) “Owner” means any person, association, firm, or corporation, natural or artificial, owning, having custody of, or in charge of livestock.
(3) “Public roads” means any street, road, highway, or way, including the full width of the right of way, which is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel.
(4) “Running at large” or “straying” means any livestock which is not under manual control of a person and which is on any public roads of this state or on any property not belonging to the owner of the livestock, unless by permission of the owner of such property.
History
Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 380, § 2; Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 395, § 2; Ga. L. 1995, p. 244, § 4; Ga. L. 2008, p. 458, § 3/SB 364.
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
“Owner” construed. —Landowner who allowed her cousin to keep his cattle on her property, provided he maintained the fence around the property, did not come within the statutory definition of an “owner.” Evancho v. Baker, 196 Ga. App. 903, 397 S.E.2d 166, 1990 Ga. App. LEXIS 1099 (1990), cert. denied, No. S91C0022, 1990 Ga. LEXIS 554 (Ga. Oct. 17, 1990).
Owner of a pasture who allowed her son to keep his horse in the pasture was not an “owner” of the horse as that term is defined in this Code section. Supchak v. Pruitt, 232 Ga. App. 680, 503 S.E.2d 581.
Research References & Practice Aids
Hierarchy Notes:O.C.G.A. Title 4
O.C.G.A. Title 4, Ch. 3
