Every nonresident licensee, at the time of licensing and before distributing his or her fertilizer product or products in this state, shall comply with Chapter 5 of this title, the "Department of Agriculture Registration, License, and Permit Act."
(Code 1981, §2-12-5, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1271, § 1.)
Editor's notes.- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, annotations decided under former Code 1910, § 1772 and former Ga. L. 1929, p. 228 are included in the annotations for this Code section.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Purpose of section is to inform a purchaser of the percentage of components in each sack of fertilizer. Terry v. Swift & Co., 21 Ga. App. 431, 94 S.E. 658 (1917) (decided under former Code 1910, § 1772).
Sale of fertilizer not void for noncompliance.
- Where a vendor of fertilizer in this state sells certain sacks of fertilizer which were not tagged or branded, the failure to comply with the former provisions did not render the sale void and did not render a mortgage note given by the purchaser to the vendor for the purchase price of the fertilizer void and unenforceable. Blackshear Mfg. Co. v. Perry, 48 Ga. App. 355, 172 S.E. 585 (1934) (decided under former Ga. L. 1929, p. 228).