It is the intent and purpose of this part to enable producers to have sufficient time to cure, prepare, and market their flue-cured leaf tobacco in a proper and orderly manner. It is found by the General Assembly that the provisions of this part are necessary to the proper marketing of flue-cured leaf tobacco.
It is further found that external disruptive forces and influences upon buyers and sales opportunity have operated to effect discrimination and disadvantage upon flue-cured leaf tobacco producers in this state in the free entry and sale of their tobacco in interstate commerce. It is the intent and purpose of this part to eliminate discrimination in the entry and sale of tobacco in commerce by providing for equitable allocation of sales opportunity and by providing for licensing of flue-cured leaf tobacco auction sales which will optimize the movement and sale in commerce of tobacco produced in this state and eliminate discrimination against such movement and sale.
History. Ga. L. 1960, p. 214, § 1; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1242, § 1; Ga. L. 1974, p. 518, § 1.
Structure Georgia Code
Article 3 - Tobacco Warehousing
Part 1 - Leaf Tobacco Sales and Storage
§ 10-4-100. Legislative Intent and Findings
§ 10-4-101. Licenses for Flue-Cured Leaf Tobacco Auction Sales; “Clean-Up” Sale Licenses
§ 10-4-102. Physical Standards for Leaf Tobacco Warehouses; Compliance as Prerequisite for License
§ 10-4-103. Insurance as Prerequisite for License
§ 10-4-104. Allocating Sales Opportunities Among Licensed Warehouses
§ 10-4-105. Denial of Issuance or Suspension or Revocation of License
§ 10-4-106. Georgia Tobacco Marketing Act of 1995
§ 10-4-107. Warehousemen to Render Itemized Statements
§ 10-4-107.1. Tobacco Contract
§ 10-4-108. Records and Reports by Warehousemen
§ 10-4-109. Commissioner of Agriculture to Keep Sales Records; Publication
§ 10-4-112. Limitations on Sales Hours and Days of Warehouses
§ 10-4-113. Maximum Rate of Sales
§ 10-4-116. Inspection of Premises and Records
§ 10-4-117. Certified Public Weighers to Be Provided by Licensees
§ 10-4-117.1. Detention of Tobacco; Notice; Condemnation; Cost of Testing
§ 10-4-118. Enforcement of Part; Notice and Hearing in Revocation or Suspension Proceedings
§ 10-4-120. Enjoining Violations