2-15-210
Section 2-15-210 Establishment, conduct, and maintenance of swine disease diagnostic laboratory. (a) The Department of Agriculture and Industries may establish, conduct and maintain a swine disease diagnostic laboratory for the purpose of diagnosing contagious, infectious and communicable diseases of swine owned by producers of such livestock in Alabama, and the amount appropriated and made available for such purpose in the general appropriations act shall be used and expended by the Department of Agriculture and Industries to establish, operate and conduct such a laboratory. (b) Testing for swine disease may be performed at a swine disease diagnostic laboratory at a location in the State of Alabama to be designated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries or as otherwise provided in Section 2-2-33. (Acts 1961, No. 1035, p. 1621; Act 2015-262, ยง2.)...
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2-16-20
Section 2-16-20 Establishment, conduct, and maintenance of poultry disease diagnostic laboratories. (a) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, may establish, conduct, and maintain poultry disease diagnostic laboratories for the purpose of diagnosing, treating, eradicating, preventing, and controlling infectious and contagious diseases of poultry. The laboratories provided for in this section shall be located at places in the State of Alabama where they will best serve the farmers engaged in the production of poultry, and such locations shall be selected by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries with approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries. Such laboratories shall be staffed and operated by qualified personnel who are employees of the state Department of Agriculture and Industries. (b) In addition to testing and analysis as provided in subsection (a), testing and analysis may be performed...
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2-15-257
Section 2-15-257 Appropriation. There is hereby appropriated during each fiscal year such parts of funds made available by the Legislature for this purpose in the general appropriations act as is necessary for carrying out the provisions of this subdivision; provided, however, that the State Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to determine the amount of such appropriation that may be expended for the purchase and distribution of anti-hog cholera serum and other immunizing agents and the amount to be expended by the Department of Agriculture and Industries for swine disease control work pursuant to a swine disease control program adopted by said board, and such amounts so designated under this section are hereby appropriated for such use to defray all expenses incident thereto including salaries, equipment, purchases and other expenses; provided further, that the amount designated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries for swine disease control work shall...
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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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2-15-64
Section 2-15-64 Equipment and facilities required for markets; promulgation of rules and regulations by commissioner as to operation of markets generally. (a) Every livestock market operating under this division shall have adequate and proper facilities for handling livestock, which shall include proper pens for holding and segregating animals properly protected from the weather; an adequate sanitary water supply; satisfactory scales, such scales to be approved by the division of weights and measures, Department of Agriculture and Industries or its successor in duties; concrete-floored pens for holding cattle to be tested, treated or sprayed; and adequately constructed and designated quarantine pens for segregating and testing livestock that might be affected with or exposed to a contagious or infectious disease. Necessary chutes for handling cattle must be provided. If feeder or breeder swine are handled, concrete or other impervious floored pens must be provided that will keep this...
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2-6B-3
Section 2-6B-3 Nuisance exception requirements; evidence of nuisance. (a) A farm or farm operation shall not be deemed to be or become a public or private nuisance for purposes of Section 6-5-127, or any other law, or be deemed in violation of any municipal or county ordinance or resolution heretofore or hereafter adopted declaring any farm or farm operation a public or private nuisance other than zoning ordinances applicable thereto, if the farm or farm operation meets all of the following requirements: (1) The owner of the land or a partner, officer, director, or other principal thereof, does not act in a careless or wrongful manner, engage in the improper operation of any farm or farm operation, or fail to act or perform a legal obligation. (2) The owner of the land, or a partner, officer, director, or other principal thereof, resides on the farm or actively participates in the operation of the farm, or leases the farm to a person who resides on the farm or actively participates in...
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22-13A-4
Section 22-13A-4 Establishment and promotion of program; duties of officer; strategies for raising public awareness and educating consumers and professionals. (a) The State Department of Health, hereinafter referred to as "the department," shall establish, promote, and maintain an osteoporosis prevention and treatment education program in order to raise public awareness, educate consumers, educate and train health professionals, teachers, and human service providers, and for other purposes. (b) For purposes of administering this chapter, the State Health Officer shall do all of the following: (1) Provide sufficient staff to implement the Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Program. (2) Provide appropriate training for staff of the Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Program. (3) Identify the appropriate entities to carry out the program. (4) Base the program on the most up-to-date scientific information and findings. (5) Work to improve the capacity of...
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9-16-74
Section 9-16-74 Surface Mining Commission - Powers. In addition to any other powers conferred on it by law, the commission shall have the power to do all of the following: (1) Adopt, amend, suspend, repeal, and enforce reasonably necessary rules and regulations, provided such rules and regulations shall not be more stringent than those promulgated by federal law, or rule or regulation, to control surface coal mining operations consistent with this article including the declaration of public policy and legislative intent contained in Section 9-16-71. Such rules and regulations may be for the state as a whole or may vary from area to area, as may be appropriate to accomplish the policy and intent of this article and in order to take into account varying local conditions. (2) Hold public hearings as may be specified by law relating to any aspect or matter in the administration of this article and, in connection therewith, administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses and the...
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2-17-25
Section 2-17-25 Designation and powers of commissioner as state agency for cooperating with Secretary of Agriculture; jurisdiction of commissioner exclusive as to activities covered by chapter; cooperation with other governmental branches and agencies. (a) The commissioner is hereby designated as the state agency which shall be responsible for cooperating with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States under the provisions of the federal Meat Inspection Act and the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act, and such agency is hereby directed to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in developing and administering the meat and poultry inspection program of this state under this chapter to assure that its requirements will be at least equal to those imposed by the applicable provisions of the federal Meat Inspection Act and the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act and in developing and administering the program of this state under this chapter in such...
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2-26-2
Section 2-26-2 Powers and duties of commissioner generally. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, who may act individually or through his authorized agents to: (1) Inspect, sample, make analyses of and test agricultural, vegetable, herb, tree, shrub and flower seeds transported, sold, offered or exposed for sale or distributed within this state for sowing or planting purposes, at such time and place and to such extent as he may deem necessary to determine whether said seeds are in compliance with the provisions of this article and notify promptly the person who transported, sold, offered or exposed the seed for sale of any violation; (2) Enter upon any public or private premises during regular business hours in order to have access to seeds subject to this article and the rules and regulations thereunder; (3) Issue and enforce a written or printed "stop-sale," "suspension from sale" or "nonuse" order to the owner or custodian of any lot of...
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