In addition to other authority granted him by this part, the Commissioner of Agriculture shall be authorized to promulgate regulations prescribing physical standards for buildings used as warehouses for the storage or sale of leaf tobacco. Such standards shall be reasonably designed to ensure the protection of producers and others from loss or damage to tobacco while held or stored in such warehouses and to provide for the safety and welfare of such persons while upon the warehouse premises. It shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of a license under this part that the applicant has complied with all standards promulgated pursuant to this Code section.
History. Ga. L. 1972, p. 351, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 10.
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