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2-11-3
Section 2-11-3 Powers of commissioner and board. (a) The commissioner shall have the power
to: (1) Inspect and determine the grade and condition of agricultural products both at shipping
points and receiving centers within this state and provide for the issuance of certificates
as to grade or condition of such products; (2) Inspect, test and examine the containers for
agricultural products; (3) Investigate, collect and disseminate data and statistics as to
the location, quantities and time when available of agricultural products produced, stored
or held within this state, information as to the cost and facilities for the transportation,
storage and distribution of such products and information as to market prices of such products
in the markets of the state and other markets; (4) Acquire and use such information and data
as may be necessary and useful in making recommendations to the Public Service Commission
to avoid and prevent discrimination in the transportation of such products of...
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2-25-11
Section 2-25-11 Common carriers, etc., not to accept for shipment or deliver nursery stock,
etc., without official tags, etc. No transportation company or common carrier shall accept
from any shipper or person or deliver to any consignee nursery stock or other plants or plant
products named in the regulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries which do
not bear the official tag issued by the commissioner or the inspection tag of the federal
Plant Quarantine and Control Administration. (Ag. Code 1927, §302; Code 1940, T. 2, §462.)...
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2-25-9
Section 2-25-9 Affixation of official tags to boxes, packages, etc., in which nursery stock
shipped; furnishing of official tags; confiscation of boxes, packages, etc., shipped into
state without official tags. Each box, bundle or package of nursery stock moved into or within
the State of Alabama shall have a valid official tag bearing a copy of the certificate of
inspection and seal of the Department of Agriculture and Industries conspicuously attached.
Official tags will be furnished at cost through the commissioner. Certificate tags are not
required on local retail sales where such sales are made directly to the ultimate user of
such nursery stock. Each box, bundle or package of nursery stock shipped into or within Alabama
by any person shall bear a valid certificate tag, and shipments of stock not thus tagged shall
be liable to confiscation by the commissioner. (Ag. Code 1927, §295; Code 1940, T. 2, §;455;
Acts 1943, No. 495, p. 466; Acts 1969, No. 1147, p. 2150, §4; Acts 1991,...
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2-9-20
Section 2-9-20 Fund created; moneys to be paid into fund. There is hereby created in the State
Treasury a fund to be known and designated as the Shipping Point Inspection Fund. All funds,
fees, charges, costs and collections accruing to or collected by the Department of Agriculture
and Industries in connection with the administration and enforcement of, or providing inspection,
classification or grading services pursuant to Articles 1, 4 and 5 of Chapter 11 of this Title,
and any other laws or parts of laws whereby agricultural shipping point and terminal market
inspection services are furnished by the Department of Agriculture and Industries, including
services furnished for weighing and issuing weight certificates to be used for the sale of
agricultural commodities, shall be deposited into the State Treasury, to the credit of the
Shipping Point Inspection Fund. (Acts 1956, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 26, p. 296, §1.)...
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2-11-97
Section 2-11-97 Appeal from grading. (a) Any person aggrieved by the grading by any employee
of the commissioner of any grain for which federal standards have been adopted by the state
may appeal such grading in accordance with the provisions of the United States Grain Standards
Act and regulations promulgated thereunder. (b) Any person aggrieved by the grading by any
employee of the commissioner of any grain for which federal standards have not been fixed
but for which state grades have been established under the provisions of this article may
appeal the question to the commissioner. The commissioner shall make such tests as shall be
deemed necessary to determine the correct grade of the grain in question and, after making
such tests, shall issue or cause to be issued an appeal grade certificate to all interested
parties. Said certificate shall take such form as is prescribed by the commissioner in the
rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries....
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2-5A-5
Section 2-5A-5 Regulating conduct of markets; grades and classes for produce; sale of cull
produce. The commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may make
such rules as in his or her judgment may be necessary to conduct properly such farmers' market
or markets, both wholesale and retail. The commissioner may provide experienced and competent
persons to act as graders and classifiers on such markets. The commissioner may prescribe
and designate reasonable grades and classes for farm products, truck crops, fruits, vegetables,
and fish products and to enforce the same in all markets in the state. The commissioner may
designate separate places on any market where fruits, vegetables, truck crops, and fish products
of the different classes and grades shall be handled and kept separate. The commissioner may
promulgate rules regulating or prohibiting the sale of cull produce or produce unfit for human
consumption at any state farmers' market. Ripe peaches,...
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8-16-7
Section 8-16-7 Powers of commissioner and local sealers in supervising weights and measures.
(a) When not otherwise provided by law, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries within
the state, the county sealer within the county and the city sealer within the city shall have
the power and it shall be their duty to inspect, test, try, and ascertain if they are correct
all weights, measures, and weighing or measuring devices kept, offered, or exposed for sale,
sold, used, or employed in proving the size, quantity, extent, area, or measurement of quantities,
things, produce, or articles for distribution or consumption purchased or offered or submitted
for sale, hire, or reward, in computing any charge for services rendered on the basis of weight
or measure or in determining weight or measure when a charge is made for such determination.
(b) They shall have the power to, and shall from time to time, weigh or measure and inspect
packages or amounts of commodities of whatsoever kind...
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11-47-137
Section 11-47-137 Regulation, etc., of markets and marketing of food products, etc. All cities
and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, regulate and control markets and
market houses and to require and provide for the proper inspection of food products and articles
offered for sale or barter within the police jurisdiction of the city or town and for the
punishment of persons or corporations offering for sale unsound or unwholesome articles in
markets or other places in the city or town or within the police jurisdiction thereof. Such
cities and towns shall have the power to inspect all dairies and the products of the same
in the county in which the city or town or any part thereof is located and the owner of which
sells or disposes of milk or butter in such city or town and to regulate the same, and the
council or other governing body of such city or town may fix and prescribe the payment of
a reasonable fee for such inspection. Such council or other governing body...
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2-14-4
Section 2-14-4 Movement or shipment of honeybees into state. (a) All honeybees shipped or moved
into the State of Alabama shall be accompanied by a certificate of inspection, signed by the
apiary inspector or other official performing similar duties of the state or country from
which shipment is made, certifying that the bees and the combs and hives from which the bees
were taken have been inspected by such official and that the bees, their combs, and hives
are apparently free from contagious and infectious diseases. The inspection provided for in
this section shall be based upon an actual examination of the bees and their combs, and hives,
such examination or inspection to be made during brood-rearing and within a period of 60 days
preceding the date of shipment. The inspection certificate required under this section shall
be attached to each parcel or package of each shipment or movement in a conspicuous place,
plainly written. All shipments or movements of honeybees into the State...
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2-17-1
on commission or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his
own account or as an employee of another person, firm or corporation. (4) POULTRY. Any live
or slaughtered domesticated bird. (5) RENDERER. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in
the business of rendering carcasses or parts or products of the carcasses of cattle, sheep,
swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines or poultry, except rendering conducted under
inspection under this chapter. (6) ANIMAL FOOD MANUFACTURER. Any person, firm or corporation
engaged in the business of manufacturing or processing animal food derived wholly or
in part from carcasses or other parts or products of the carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine,
goats, horses, mules or other equines or poultry. (7) INTRASTATE COMMERCE. Commerce within
this state. (8) MEAT FOOD PRODUCT. Any product capable of use as human food which is made
wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep,...
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