Georgia Code
Chapter 12 - Injuries From Equine, Livestock, or Llama Activities
§ 4-12-2. Definitions

As used in this chapter, the term:
(7.1) “Livestock” means swine, cattle, sheep, and goats.
(7.2) “Livestock activity” means any event in which participants are engaged in the grazing, herding, feeding, branding, boarding, milking, inspecting, or evaluating of livestock, or taking part in any other activity that involves the care or maintenance of livestock wherein such participants are not charged a fee for their participation, unless such fees charged are used exclusively for educational, scholarship, or training purposes for participants who are 23 years of age or younger; the care and maintenance of the equipment, tack, or livestock in use during such participation; or for facility overhead costs.
(7.3) “Livestock activity sponsor” means an entity sponsoring, organizing, or providing facilities for a livestock activity, and includes all employees of such entity.
(7.4) “Livestock facility” means a property or facility at which a livestock activity is held.
(7.5) “Livestock professional” means an entity owning livestock that is involved in a livestock activity.
History. Code 1981, § 4-12-2 , enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 680, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 335, § 2; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 4/HB 79; Ga. L. 2017, p. 134, § 1/HB 50.
The 2013 amendment, effective April 24, 2013, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation in paragraph (10).
The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, in paragraphs (5) and (10), near the beginning, substituted “entity” for “individual, group, club, partnership, or corporation, whether or not the sponsor is operating for profit or nonprofit,”; in introductory paragraphs (6) and (11), substituted “an entity” for “a person”; in introductory paragraph (7), substituted “ ‘Inherent risks of animal activities’ ” for “ ‘Inherent risks of equine activities’ or ‘inherent risks of llama activities’ ”, near the beginning, and inserted “, livestock activities,” near the end; added paragraphs (7.1) through (7.5); in paragraph (10), twice inserted a comma following “but not limited to” and removed the hyphen from “college-sponsored”; and, in paragraph (12), substituted “activity, a livestock activity, or” for “activity or who engages in”. See Editor’s notes for applicability.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2017, p. 134, § 2/HB 50, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment of this Code section by that Act shall not apply to any cause of action arising prior to July 1, 2017.

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