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Commissioners start process to align county livestock definition with state statute OCGA 4-4-1.1, including poultry

5527880 · August 5, 2025
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The board voted to initiate a text amendment to the county zoning ordinance to align the local definition of "livestock" with OCGA 4-4-1.1; planning staff said that would clarify whether poultry and similar operations are addressed as livestock under county rules and speed permit processing for auction barns and livestock sales.

Madison County commissioners voted on Aug. 4 to initiate a zoning-text amendment to align the countydefinition of "livestock" with state law (OCGA 4-4-1.1). Staff explained the change is intended to bring poultry explicitly into the livestock definition and to make county ordinance…

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