{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-4-3-7","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 4-3-7","heading":"Disposition of livestock not sold at auction.","body":"If there is no bidder for the livestock at the sale provided for in Code Section 4-3-5, the sheriff shall have the livestock killed and shall dispose of the carcass thereof; and, if there is any money received by him from the disposal, the same shall be disbursed in the manner provided for in Code Section 4-3-8. If there is no ready sale for the carcass, the sheriff shall deliver the carcass to a public institution of the county, state, or municipality within the county or to any private charitable institution, in this order, according to their needs.","path":["TITLE 4 Animals","CHAPTER 3 Livestock Running at Large or Straying"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.04.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"2ddfd1512b7df09b251e1846eac9faaded177c652166479958196baa170c51cf","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-4-3-6","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-4-3-8"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}