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2-3-20
Section 2-3-20 Acquisition of sites and erection of facilities; storage; charges for space;
services and facilities; disposition of funds collected. The Board of Agriculture and Industries
is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, donation, lease or condemnation, for and in the
name of the State of Alabama a suitable site or sites accessible to highways and railroad
and air terminal facilities and to erect and install thereon such structures, facilities and
equipment as may be necessary for the inspection, grading, standardization, classification,
refrigeration, dehydration (for both food and feed), canning, packing, processing, cold storage
and marketing of agricultural products, including all staple food crops, fruits, vegetables,
poultry, dairy products, fish and kindred products and to let or lease space and facilities
in such markets for the storage of such products pending inspection, grading, packing, canning,
processing, classification, refrigeration, dehydration (for both...
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2-22-2
Section 2-22-2 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER.
Any substance containing one or more recognized plant nutrients which is used for its plant
nutrient content and which is designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant
growth, except unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, marl, lime, limestone, basic
slag, gypsum and other materials or products regulated under Chapter 23 of this title. Such
term shall include fertilizer material as defined in subdivision (2) of this section, and
the provisions and requirements of this chapter applicable to commercial fertilizer shall
also apply to fertilizer material. (2) FERTILIZER MATERIAL. A commercial fertilizer containing
one or more of the recognized plant nutrients, which is used primarily for its plant nutrient
content and which either: a. Contains important quantities of no more...
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22-20-5
for sale for human consumption are made, prepared, processed, displayed for sale in an unpackaged
state or served and for the construction, maintenance and operation of hotels, inns, taverns,
motels, tourist courts, tourist homes, trailer courts or any place where sleeping accommodations
for transients, tourists or vacationists are advertised for sale, as well as regulations for
the construction, maintenance and operation of exhibition-ground food concessions, poultry
slaughterhouses and animal slaughterhouses, and their surroundings; except, that the
authority hereby vested shall not include the authority to conduct meat and poultry slaughter
and processing inspections and other inspections conducted by the Department of Agriculture
and Industries pursuant to Sections 2-17-1 through 2-17-38. Copies of the said regulations
shall be furnished to county health officers, who, as authorized representatives of the State
Health Officer, shall enforce such regulations within their...
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2-11-73
Section 2-11-73 Labeling requirements. If fresh fruits and vegetables are sold, offered for
sale, transported for sale, shipped, moved or transported in containers and an official grade
is marked on such container or on the label thereof or tag attached thereto, the grade so
marked thereon shall conform to the grade of fresh fruits and vegetables packed in such containers.
Any container of fresh fruits or vegetables not labeled to comply with the requirements of
this section is declared to be misbranded, and such fresh fruits and vegetables shall be subject
to suspension from sale, seizure and condemnation as now provided by law under the provisions
of Article 2, Chapter 2 of this title. (Acts 1953, No. 887, p. 1192, §4.)...
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2-11-91
Section 2-11-91 State Board of Agriculture and Industries' powers. The State Board of Agriculture
and Industries shall have the power to establish standards and uniform grades for grain, which
are hereby defined as including corn (maize), wheat, rye, oats, barley, grain, sorghum and
beans. In establishing grades for grain that is sold on a dockage basis, dockage shall be
considered and such dockage that is of value and retained shall be paid for. Dockage as used
therein shall be understood to mean dockage as defined in the official grain standards of
the United States. Said board shall have the power to make, amend or repeal rules and regulations
for the grading and inspection of grain, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
this article. All such rules shall be published in such manner as to give proper publicity
thereto. Such board shall also have the power to fix and determine all charges for sampling,
grading and inspecting grain. (Ag. Code 1927, §322; Code 1940, T. 2,...
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2-27-30
Section 2-27-30 Establishment and operation; policy committee and executive committee therefor.
The commissioner and state Department of Agriculture and Industries shall have authority to
provide for the establishment and operation of a laboratory to obtain reliable analysis of
raw and processed agricultural products, the materials used in production of agricultural
products for harmful pesticide residues for the protection of public health and interest,
to aid in developing and expanding markets for agricultural products, the protection and production
of fish and wildlife, and the use of recreational areas as related to pesticide residues.
In connection therewith, there shall be established a policy committee to be composed of the
following: (1) The Director, Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, who shall be chairman
of the committee; (2) The Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries; (3)
The Director, Alabama Experiment Station System; (4) The State Health...
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2-5A-1
Section 2-5A-1 Establishment; powers and duties. (a) The Farmers' Market Authority is established
in the Department of Agriculture and Industries. The authority shall have the powers and duties
to establish agricultural markets to prevent waste and to provide marketing facilities where
farm products, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, truck crops, and other agricultural commodities,
and fish products, including, but not limited to, farm-raised fish, shellfish, and wild fish,
may be processed, graded, packaged, displayed, or exhibited in order to encourage the buying
and selling of the commodities, and to encourage the public interest, thus promoting good
will between the rural and urban sectors of the State of Alabama. The Commissioner of the
Department of Agriculture and Industries, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries,
may procure by purchase, lease, rent, gift, or otherwise, necessary market sites in this state
on which to conduct farmers' markets. (b)...
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16-1-46
Section 16-1-46 Farm-to-school procurement processes and procedures. (a) This section shall
be known and may be cited as the Farm-To-School Procurement Act. (b) For the purposes of this
section, unprocessed agricultural products means only those agricultural products that retain
their inherent character. The effects of any of the following handling and preservation techniques
shall not be considered as changing an agricultural product into a product of a different
inherent character: Cooling, refrigerating, freezing; size adjustment through size reduction
made by peeling, slicing, dicing, cutting, chopping, shucking, and grinding; drying or dehydration,
or both; washing; the application of high water pressure or cold pasteurization; packaging,
such as placing eggs in cartons, and vacuum packing and bagging, such as placing vegetables
in bags; butchering livestock, fish, and poultry; and the pasteurization of milk. (c)(1) The
Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries and the...
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2-12-2
Section 2-12-2 Sale requirements. It shall be unlawful: (1) For any dealer to offer for sale
or sell any case of eggs or partial case of eggs without clearly imprinting thereon or securely
attaching thereto a label on which there shall be plainly and legibly printed the name and
the address of the packer of said eggs, the grade and weight class to which the eggs contained
therein conform and the date on which the eggs were graded. The label and the printed matter
required to appear thereon shall be of a size to be prescribed by regulations adopted by the
State Board of Agriculture and Industries; (2) For any dealer to offer for sale or sell eggs
in any carton or other type of package without clearly designating thereon the name and address
of the packer of said eggs or person responsible for such packing, the grade and weight class
to which the eggs contained therein conform and the date on which the eggs were graded. Grade
and weight class designations required on cartons or other...
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8-16-101
Section 8-16-101 Fruit, nuts, vegetables and grain to be sold by avoirdupois weight or numerical
count. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this article or when sold in the original standard
container, all fruit, nuts, vegetables and grain shall be sold at retail by avoirdupois weight
or numerical count. (b) The words "original standard container," as used in this
section, shall mean and include only barrels, boxes, baskets, hampers or similar containers,
the dimensions or capacity of which are established by regulations of the State Board of Agriculture
and Industries, the contents of which have not been removed or repacked by the retailer and
upon which is plainly and conspicuously marked the net quantity of the contents thereof in
terms of weight, measure or numerical count. (c) This section shall not apply to the sale
by the bunch of fresh beets, onions, turnips, carrots and other similar vegetables usually
and customarily sold by the bunch. (Ag. Code 1927, §257; Code 1940, T. 2,...
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