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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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20-1-78
Section 20-1-78 Powers and duties of State Board of Agriculture and Industries; rules and regulations.
(a) The State Board of Agriculture and Industries, as the administrative agency, shall perform
all of the following duties: (1) To make, amend, and rescind such rules and regulations as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article, including, but without being
limited to, such orders, rules, and regulations as it is hereinafter specifically authorized
and directed to make and to establish fees for reimbursement of expenses. (2) To adopt from
time to time such regulations changing or adding to the required ingredients for flour, cornmeal,
grits, or bread specified in Sections 20-1-73 through 20-1-75 as shall be necessary to conform
to the definitions and standards of identity of enriched flour and other products from time
to time promulgated by the appropriate federal agency pursuant to the federal Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act. (3) To issue an order, to be effective...
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8-17-81
Section 8-17-81 Determination and adoption of standards and methods of tests; promulgation
of rules; effect of prior standards. (a) The Board of Agriculture and Industries shall have
the power and duty to: (1) Determine and adopt standards of minimum specifications for petroleum
products, and the various classifications and kinds thereof, as to safety, purity, freedom
from objectionable substances, distillation tests, heat-producing qualities, fire tests, and
efficiency which are not inconsistent with the specifications for the same products that are
published from time to time by the United States Department of Commerce; and (2) Make changes
from time to time in such standards, all as the board may deem necessary to provide for the
public safety and to provide that such petroleum products are satisfactory and efficient for
the purposes for which they may be sold, offered for sale, stored, or used in the state; provided,
that such standards shall not be adopted or altered by the board...
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2-11-56
Section 2-11-56 Inspection of farm products and fish; certificate. The commissioner or his
duly authorized agents may inspect farm products and fish marked, branded or labeled in accordance
with official grades or standards established and promulgated by the said commissioner, with
the approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, for the purpose of determining and
certifying the quality and condition thereof and other material facts relative thereto. Certificates
issued in pursuance of such inspection and executed by the inspector shall state the date
and place of inspection, the grade, condition and approximate quality of the farm products
and fish inspected and such other pertinent facts as the said commissioner, with the approval
of the said board, may require. Such a certificate relative to the condition or quality of
said farm products and fish shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of the state of the
facts required to be stated therein. (Acts 1969, No. 311, p. 646,...
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8-16-16
Section 8-16-16 Standards for containers of farm products - Duty to establish. It shall be
the duty of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries to fix and promulgate official standards
for containers of farm products and to change any of them from time to time as may be found
necessary. (Ag. Code 1927, §260; Code 1940, T. 2, §617.)...
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2-26-7
Section 2-26-7 Requirements as to labeling of containers in which seed sold, distributed, etc.
(a) Agricultural seed. (1) Each container of agricultural seed in excess of two pounds which
is sold, offered for sale, exposed for sale or distributed within this state for planting
or sowing purposes shall have attached thereto in a conspicuous place a plainly written in
ink or printed label of a size not less than 2 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches in the English language,
giving information for the following items: a. Commonly accepted name, kind and variety (of
those crops for which commercial varieties have been developed) of each agricultural seed
component in excess of five percent of the whole, subject to tolerances as provided in Section
2-26-3, and the percentage by weight of each in the order of its predominance. Where more
than one component is required to be named, the word "mixture" or the word "mixed"
shall be shown conspicuously near the top of the label or tag in type of not less than 8...
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2-26-11
Section 2-26-11 Prohibited acts. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer for
sale, expose for sale or distribute within this state: (1) Any agricultural or vegetable seed
unless the test to determine the percentage of germination required by Section 2-26-7 shall
have been completed within a nine-month period, exclusive of the calendar month in which the
test was completed, immediately prior to sale or offering for sale, transportation or distribution;
provided, however, that the State Board of Agriculture and Industries shall have authority
under rules and regulations adopted under this article to prescribe a shorter required test
period when deemed necessary to meet seasonal conditions with respect to certain seed; provided
further, that the State Board of Agriculture and Industries shall also have authority pursuant
to rules and regulations to prescribe a longer period of time for the test required to determine
the percentage of germination for agricultural and...
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8-16-6
Section 8-16-6 Duties generally of commissioner respecting weights and measures. With respect
to weights and measures, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall have the following
duties: (1) To try and prove by the state standards, at least once in five years, all weights,
measures, and other apparatus which may belong to any county or city and shall seal such when
found to be accurate, stamping on them the letter "A" and the last two figures of
the year with seals which he or she shall have and keep for that purpose. (2) To have and
keep a general supervision of the weights, measures, and weighing and measuring devices offered
for sale, sold, or in use in the state. (3) Upon the written request of any citizen, firm,
corporation, or educational institution in the state, to test or calibrate weights, measures,
weighing, or measuring devices, and instruments or apparatus used as standards in this state.
(4) To assure that at least once annually all scales, weights, and...
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16-1-20.6
Section 16-1-20.6 Released time for student participation in religious instruction. (a) This
section shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Released Time Credit Act. (b) The Legislature
finds and declares all of the following: (1) That the United States Supreme Court, in its
decision in Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952), upheld the constitutionality of released
time programs for religious instruction for public school students during the school day.
(2) That the United States Constitution and state law allows local school districts to offer
religious released time education for the benefit of public school students. (3) That the
purpose of this section is to incorporate a constitutionally acceptable method of allowing
school districts to offer released time classes and, in grades where credit is earned, to
award students elective credit for classes taken during the school day in released time programs.
(c) As used in this section, the term released time means a period of...
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20-1-25
Section 20-1-25 When articles deemed misbranded generally - Food. An article of food shall
be deemed misbranded in the following cases: (1) If it is offered for sale under the name
of another article; (2) If it is labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser,
or purports to be a foreign product when not so or if the contents of the package as originally
put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed
in such package; (3) If, in package form, the name of the article together with the quantity
of the contents in terms of weight, measure, or numerical count and the name and principal
address of the manufacturer or other person responsible for placing the article on the market
are not plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside of the package; (4) If, in package
form, the package is not filled with the food it purports to contain within the limits of
tolerance fixed by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries,...
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