Georgia Tobacco Marketing Act of 1995

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Commerce and Trade
4. Warehousemen
5. Tobacco Warehousing
6. Leaf Tobacco Sales and Storage
7. Georgia Tobacco Marketing Act of 1995

1. This Code section shall be known and may be cited as "The Georgia Tobacco Marketing Act of 1995."
2. The maximum charges and expenses of handling and selling leaf tobacco by warehousemen licensed under this part shall not exceed the following schedule, to wit:
   1. Reserved;
   2. Reserved;
   3. For commissions on the gross sales of leaf tobacco in said warehouses, not to exceed 3.5 percent of said gross sales.

(Ga. L. 1960, p. 214, § 4; Ga. L. 1990, p. 137, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 104, § 1.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Tobacco sheet program fees.

- When the Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation intends to establish a program involving the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to purchase, collect, manage, handle, and make necessary repairs to tobacco sheets (burlap sheets used to wrap the bales of tobacco) used in the tobacco industry, a warehouseman may collect a twenty-five cent fee from the seller and the buyer, and, along with the warehouseman's fees for the program, submit such funds to the corporation as such participation would not be in violation of O.C.G.A. § 10-4-106. 1989 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 89-17.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 78 Am. Jur. 2d, Warehouses, § 66.

C.J.S.

- 93 C.J.S., Warehousemen and Safe Depositaries, § 135 et seq.

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