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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2-5A-39
Section 2-5A-39 Maintaining federal tax-exempt status. The Board of Agriculture and Industries
has the power and hereby delegates power to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries
to cause appropriate reports to be prepared and payments submitted to the United States of
America as shall be deemed necessary to cause the interest on any bonds of the Department
of Agriculture and Industries to be and remain exempt from federal income taxation. The commissioner
shall have the power to make agreements respecting the investment of funds of the Department
of Agriculture and Industries necessary in order that the interest income on bonds of the
Department of Agriculture and Industries be and remain exempt from federal income taxation.
(Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)...
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2-9-1
Section 2-9-1 Source of fund. Wherever provision is made in this title or any other provision
of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and
Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce for the collection of any fee
or license or the imposition of any fine or penalty for the violation of any provision of
this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department
or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce
without providing for the disposition of the proceeds derived therefrom, such proceeds shall
accrue to the Agricultural Fund. The Agricultural Fund shall include all funds available from
every source for the administration, enforcement or making effective the purposes of the provisions
of the laws included in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which
the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and...
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2-9-5
Section 2-9-5 Payment of salaries and expenses of commissioner, members of board, department
employees, etc. The salaries and expenses of the commissioner, members of the State Board
of Agriculture and Industries, and the salaries of the employees of the Department of Agriculture
and Industries, as otherwise fixed by law, shall be payable from the Agricultural Fund and
other funds available to said department by legislative appropriation or otherwise; provided,
that the expenses of travel and type or means of transportation of such officers and employees
and other expenses incident thereto in the performance of their official duties, as otherwise
provided by law, and proof thereof, shall be subject to rules and regulations approved by
the State Board of Agriculture and Industries as to the manner, method or system of payment.
The provisions of this section as to expenses shall also apply to experts and scientists when
performing duties as provided in this title or any other provision...
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8-15-14
Section 8-15-14 Revocation of permit; liquidation of operation. (a) In the event that the Commissioner
of Agriculture and Industries upon a public hearing finds and determines that a public warehouse
is being operated in violation of law and regulations and in jeopardy of the public interest,
he shall thereupon revoke the permit to operate such public warehouse and, in his discretion,
he may take charge of the operation of such warehouse for the purpose of liquidating the same
under the direction of the circuit court having jurisdiction at the place of the operation
thereof and to operate same under the direction of the court for such time as may be necessary
to protect the public interest or to compel compliance with the laws and regulations relating
to the operation of public warehouses. (b) Upon taking charge thereof, the Commissioner of
Agriculture and Industries shall appoint in writing, under his hand and official seal, an
agent to assist him in the duty of liquidation and...
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2-24-2
Section 2-24-2 Approval and certification. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,
pursuant to rules and regulations adopted under this chapter as provided in this chapter and
upon application therefor, is hereby authorized to approve and to certify soil-testing laboratories
which meet the requirements as set forth in such rules and regulations. (Acts 1969, No. 820,
p. 1480, §2.)...
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2-3-6
Section 2-3-6 Attorney General legal advisor; duties of district attorneys. The Attorney General
shall be the legal advisor of the Department of Agriculture and Industries in matters relating
to the powers and duties of the commissioner and State Board of Agriculture and Industries.
It shall be the duty of any district attorney, when requested by the commissioner or his duly
authorized agent, to investigate, institute and prosecute all violations of the laws of the
state and rules and regulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, and such
district attorney shall, upon the request of the commissioner, institute and prosecute all
necessary actions and proceedings which the commissioner is authorized to bring to enforce
the laws of the state and rules and regulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries.
(Ag. Code 1927, §31; Code 1940, T. 2, §30.)...
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8-15-1
Section 8-15-1 Definition; supervision by Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. (a) All
buildings, structures, or other protected enclosures used for storage of cotton or other articles
of value for the public, with or without compensation, and all buildings, structures, or other
protected enclosures for the storage of cotton or other articles of value where a statement
is issued acknowledging the receipt of the articles of goods stored and undertaking to deliver
the same are declared to be public warehouses. (b) All such warehouses shall be under the
supervision of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, whose duty it shall be to enforce
the requirements of the law and the rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of
Agriculture and Industries relative to public warehouses. (c) The term "public warehouse,"
as used in this chapter, shall not be construed as applying to any building, structure, or
protected enclosure, or portion thereof, used exclusively for the...
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8-15-7
Section 8-15-7 Permit - Bond and proof of insurance; prerequisite to issuance of permit; filing
of additional bonds; actions on bond. (a) In the event the Commissioner of Agriculture and
Industries decides that a permit to operate a public warehouse should be issued, he shall
fix the amount of the bond, which shall be furnished by the applicant and approved by the
commissioner prior to the issuance of the permit. In addition to the requirement of bond,
the commissioner may require the applicant, as a prerequisite to the issuance of such bond,
to furnish legal proof of warehouseman's legal liability insurance in effect on the commodities
to be stored in any such public warehouse. (b) Such bond shall be made with some surety company
that has complied with the laws of the State of Alabama and which has a reputation for promptly
settling claims upon their merits and shall be payable to the State of Alabama in such sum
as the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries may fix, but in no...
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8-16-72
Section 8-16-72 Rules and regulations for weighing agricultural commodities. The Commissioner
of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries,
may adopt and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this
division, to the end that persons, firms, corporations, or associations may be furnished with
accurate weighing services by the Department of Agriculture and Industries where such services
are required for the sale of agricultural commodities. (Acts 1956, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 25,
p. 295, §3.)...
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