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2-16-42
Section 2-16-42 Administration and enforcement of division generally; quarantining of poultry
and eggs produced on premises not equipped with prescribed disposal facilities; right of entry
and inspection of State Veterinarian, etc. (a) This division shall be administered and enforced
by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries through the facilities of the Department
of Agriculture and Industries, and the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, the State
Veterinarian, his associates and assistants or other authorized employees or agents of the
Department of Agriculture and Industries shall be authorized to quarantine and prohibit the
removal or other disposition of any poultry and eggs from premises, buildings, vehicles or
other places unless such poultry and eggs are produced on premises equipped with disposal
facilities as prescribed by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries as authorized and
required under Section 2-16-41. Quarantine orders issued under this section...
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2-15-20
Section 2-15-20 Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BOARD.
The State Board of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. (2) BRAND. Any recorded
identification mark applied to any position on the hide of livestock by means of heat, acid,
or a chemical, except numbers used to keep production records or record of age. The word "brand"
shall also mean and include tattoo marks on the hide or in the ear of livestock. (3) COMMISSIONER.
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. (4) DEPARTMENT. The
Department of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. (5) LIVESTOCK. Cattle, swine,
sheep, goats, equine or equidae, ratites, and poultry. (6) LIVESTOCK HIDE DEALER. Any dealer
who buys hides of livestock. (7) LIVESTOCK MARKET. A place where a person assembles livestock
for public sale, if the person is required to procure a...
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2-8-62
Section 2-8-62 Penalty for failure to deduct and pay over assessment; inspection of books and
records; injunctions. (a) Any dealer, handler, processor, sales market or other purchaser
of swine who willfully fails or refuses to deduct and pay to the Commissioner of Agriculture
and Industries any assessment required to be so deducted and remitted to the commissioner
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, in addition to other penalty
provided by law, shall be fined in an amount equal to three times the amount of the assessment
he failed or refused to collect and remit as required under this article. Any purchaser of
swine who fails or refuses to allow the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his
authorized agents and employees to inspect and review his books and records which disclose
his purchases of swine for the purpose of ascertaining the accuracy of amounts deducted and
remitted as required under this article shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor. The...
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2-8-103
Section 2-8-103 Penalty; inspection of books and records; injunctions. (a) Any dealer, handler,
processor or other purchaser of soybeans who willfully fails or refuses to deduct and pay
to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries any assessment required to be so deducted
and remitted to the commissioner or who fails or refuses to obtain a permit authorizing the
purchase of soybeans in Alabama shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall
be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $500.00 and, in the discretion of the court, may
also be imprisoned for a term not to exceed six months. Any purchaser of soybeans who fails
or refuses to allow the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his authorized agents
and employees to inspect and review his books and records which disclose his purchases of
soybeans for the purpose of ascertaining the accuracy of amounts deducted and remitted as
required under this article shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon...
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2-15-193
Section 2-15-193 Supervision, etc., of disease control program; right of entry and inspection,
etc., of State Veterinarian, etc.; interference with performance of duties by State Veterinarian,
etc. Any compulsory, voluntary or recommended program for the control and eradication of brucellosis
disease in cattle as may be established under authority of this article shall be carried out
under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries and
the State Veterinarian through the facilities of the Department of Agriculture and Industries.
The State Veterinarian, his associates and assistants or other authorized employees of the
Department of Agriculture and Industries are hereby authorized to enter any place or upon
any premises or into any barns or other buildings, including stockyards, where livestock are
kept for any purpose or to stop any truck, vehicles or other carriers transporting cattle
in order to perform any inspection, testing, examination or any...
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2-15-29
Section 2-15-29 Prohibited acts. It shall be unlawful for: (1) Any person to use any brand
for branding livestock unless the brand is registered with the department; (2) Any person
to obliterate, alter or deface the brand of any livestock; (3) Any livestock market or livestock
dealer to receive any livestock for sale or any livestock slaughterer to receive livestock
for slaughter unless records of receipt and sale are kept in accordance with the requirements
of this article; (4) Any livestock market, livestock dealer or livestock slaughterer to fail
or refuse to keep a copy of the register of brands furnished by the department in a place
easily accessible to interested parties for inspection at reasonable times as required by
subsection (a) of Section 2-15-27; (5) Any livestock market or livestock dealer or livestock
slaughterer to fail or refuse to keep a record for review and inspection at reasonable times
as required by subsection (b) of Section 2-15-27; and (6) Any livestock hide...
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2-8-201
Section 2-8-201 Collection of assessment; "ginner" defined; remittance of assessments
by ginner; inspection of books and records by commissioner; deductions for expenses. (a) In
the event the required number of cotton producers approve, by a referendum as provided hereunder,
the levying of an assessment upon the ginning of cotton for a promotional program, the Commissioner
of Agriculture and Industries shall, within 30 days, notify in writing every person engaged
in the business of ginning cotton in Alabama that on or after the date designated in such
notice, which shall not be less than 30 nor more than 60 days after the mailing of such notice
by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, the amount of the assessment levied pursuant
to the referendum shall be collected by all ginners of cotton when such cotton is ginned within
the state. (b) For the purposes of this article, the word "ginner" shall mean any
person, partnership, corporation or cooperative association, public or...
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2-8-161
Section 2-8-161 Collection of assessment; deductions for expenses. In the event the required
number of egg producers approve, by a referendum as provided in this article, the levying
of an assessment upon the sale of hens for a promotional program, the Commissioner of Agriculture
and Industries shall, within 30 days, notify in writing every person engaged in the business
of selling hens for the purpose of dressing, processing or reselling to processors, whether
said buyers [sellers] are located within the State of Alabama or not, that on or after the
date designated in such notice, which shall not be less than 30 nor more than 60 days after
the mailing of such notice by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, that the amount
of the assessment levied pursuant to the referendum shall be added by all such sellers of
hens to the sale price thereof where such hens are purchased within the area covered by the
referendum where such hens are sold for commercial processing or where such...
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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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2-15-64
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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