Collection Center Requirements
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Law
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Georgia Code
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Animals
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Prevention and Control of Disease in Livestock
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Control of Infectious or Contagious Diseases in Livestock
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Rendering and Disposal Plants
- Collection Center Requirements
- It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, or corporation to operate a collection center until it has applied for and obtained a written permit from the Commissioner to carry on such an operation.
- A collection center shall be located on a site in compliance with local zoning ordinances and shall have a sewage facility approved by the governmental authority having proper jurisdiction.
- A collection center shall be covered by a metal roof or other permanent type covering with sufficient screened ventilators to allow air flow yet prevent the entry of rodents, birds, and insects.
- A collection center shall have adequate drains in an impervious floor with adequate hot water (140 degrees Fahrenheit) to clean thoroughly the collection center premises.
- A collection center shall be cleaned and sanitized daily.
- The management of a collection center shall agree to hold inedible materials no longer than 24 hours.
- With respect to any requirements of subsections (a) through (d) of this Code section which relate solely to the physical construction or alteration of a collection center, the collection center operator shall have until July 1, 1990, to comply with such requirements.
(Code 1981, §4-4-44, enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 1414, § 1.)
Editor's notes. - Former Code Section 4-4-44 has been redesignated as Code Section 4-4-45 by Ga. L. 1989, p. 1414, § 1.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Cited in Bagwell & Steward, Inc. v. Bennett, 214 Ga. 780, 107 S.E.2d 824 (1959).
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 3B C.J.S., Animals, §§ 127, 128.
ALR. - Liability of owner or occupant of premises to building or construction inspector coming upon premises in discharge of duty, 28 A.L.R.3d 891.
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