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shipping requirements 
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GEORGIA 
Su mmary of General Nurs ery-St ock Shipp in,? Re quirement s 
(The Ent. 'Act of 1937, as amended Mar. 1^3; Nursery Reg., Apr. I9U6) 
Definition of Nursery S tock. — All trees or plants or parts thereof grown 
or kept for or capable of propagation, distribution, or sale; excluding 
all flower bulbs, corms, tubers, roots, and soft-bodied plants (such as 
ferns, cacti, flowering annuals, etc.). 
General Shipping Requiremen ts. — An out-of-State nurseryman or dealer de- 
siring to do business in Georgia must file with the Georgia Director of 
Entomology a duplicate certificate of inspection issued by the official 
certifying agency of the State of origin. He must file with the Director 
an executed nursery affidavit (furnished' by the Director) stating that he 
will handle only inspected and certified stock, that he will attach a 
valid nursery-inspection certificate to each shipment or container of 
nursery stock that he moves into the State, and that he will otherwise 
comply with Georgia nursery regulation's. Ee must also obtain Georgia nur- 
sery certificates, at cost, one of which must be attached to each shipment 
or container of nursery stock moved into the State, and pay an annual 
registration fee of $5. The Director may enter into reciprocal agreements 
with other States whereby no registration fee will be charged and only 
valid nursery certificates of the State of origin required, upon condi- 
tion that inspection standards of the reciprocating State are satisfactory 
to the Director. 
Carriers are required to report to the Director any uncertified ship- 
ments of nursery stock and hold them for inspection and disposal. 
Inspection of individual or gift shipments of nursery stock will be 
made at Atlanta. The consignor is held responsible for transportation 
costs from the point of origin to the inspection point at Atlanta and 
thence to destination. 
