The Commissioner may declare a dangerous plant pest, as well as any plant or other thing which has been infested or infected therewith or exposed to infestation or infection and is therefore likely to communicate the same, to be a public nuisance.
History. Ga. L. 1937, p. 659, § 4; Ga. L. 1996, p. 329, § 11.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 7 - Plant Disease, Pest Control, and Pesticides
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 2-7-3. Division of Entomology Established
§ 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
§ 2-7-14. 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
§ 2-7-20. Declaration of Quarantine; Violation Unlawful
§ 2-7-21. Registration of Certain Growers
§ 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