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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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2-8-164
Section 2-8-164 Expenditure of assessments. The funds derived from any assessments levied upon
the sale of hens as authorized under this article shall be used and expended by the certified
association, after such funds are remitted to it by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,
for the purpose of promoting and stimulating, by advertising and other methods, the increased
use and sale of eggs and egg products, and such funds may also be used for the financing or
contributing toward the financing of research, experimental and educational programs for the
efficient and economical production, distribution, processing and marketing of eggs and egg
products. Any such certified association may enter into cooperative agreements with appropriate
agencies of any public or private institution or organization, and funds derived from assessments
to the extent agreed upon and approved may be contributed to such public or private institution
or agency for such research, experimental and...
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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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2-17-2
Section 2-17-2 Legislative findings of fact and declaration of policy; purpose and construction
of chapter generally; adoption and promulgation of regulations promulgated under certain federal
acts. (a) Meat and meat food products are an important source of the nation's total supply
of food. It is essential to the public interest that the health and welfare of consumers be
protected by assuring that meat and meat food products distributed to them are wholesome,
not adulterated, and properly marked, labeled and packaged. Unwholesome, adulterated or misbranded
meat or meat food products are injurious to the public welfare, destroy markets for wholesome,
not adulterated and properly labeled and packaged meat and meat food products and result in
sundry losses to livestock producers and processors of meat and meat food products as well
as injury to consumers. The unwholesome, adulterated, misbranded or deceptively packaged articles
can be sold at lower prices and compete unfairly with the...
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2-9-4
Section 2-9-4 Authority of commissioner over fund. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,
with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall use the Agricultural
Fund in accordance with the provisions of law for the support and expense of the regulatory,
control and administrative work of the Department of Agriculture and Industries and in such
manner as said board deems will best effect the purposes of all laws included in this title
which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries are authorized or
directed to administer or enforce. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the
approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall direct the expenditure of
said fund, it being the purpose of this section to vest the financial supervision and control
over the use of said fund for the work and activities assigned to the Department of Agriculture
and Industries in the manner provided by law. (Ag. Code 1927,...
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2-11-72
Section 2-11-72 Official grades; issuance of certificates of inspection. The Commissioner of
Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries,
shall have authority to adopt and promulgate official grades for the purpose of determining
the grade, quality, classification or condition of fresh fruits and vegetables grown in the
State of Alabama, and the commissioner, with the approval of the Board of Agriculture and
Industries, is authorized to adopt as official grades for fresh fruits and vegetables such
grades as have been promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture. The grades
for fresh fruits and vegetables adopted under this section shall be official grades therefor.
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, through agents duly designated by him, is
authorized to issue certificates of inspection certifying as to the grade of fresh fruits
and vegetables inspected by such agents. Certificates of inspection issued by the...
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2-17-1
Section 2-17-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COMMISSIONER.
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama or his duly authorized
representative. (2) FIRM. Any partnership, association or other unincorporated business organization.
(3) MEAT BROKER. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling
carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats,
horses, mules or other equines or poultry 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,...
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2-2-12
Section 2-2-12 Legal counsel for department. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,
with the approval of the Attorney General, shall be authorized, subject to the provisions
of the state Merit System law, to appoint a legal counsel for the state Department of Agriculture
and Industries. He shall be commissioned as an assistant attorney general and shall have the
authority and duties of an assistant attorney general, but he shall devote his entire time
to the business of the Department of Agriculture and Industries. The compensation for the
said legal counsel shall be paid out of funds appropriated to the state Department of Agriculture
and Industries and in the same manner as the compensation of other employees is paid. (Acts
1953, No. 640, p. 899.)...
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2-28-10.1
Section 2-28-10.1 Financial responsibility. (a) The commissioner with the approval of the State
Board of Agriculture and Industries may promulgate rules and regulations which require any
applicant for a permit to perform professional work or services to provide evidence of his
ability to properly indemnify persons damaged in any manner by the use or application of pesticides.
The amount and form of indemnification required shall be determined by rules and regulations
promulgated by the commissioner with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries.
(b) The commissioner with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, may
promulgate rules and regulations requiring an applicant for a permit to perform professional
work or services to furnish and file with the commissioner a surety bond payable to the State
of Alabama. The surety bond shall be conditioned that the principal therein named shall honestly
and in a skillful and workmanlike manner conduct...
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2-13-93
Section 2-13-93 Rules and regulations. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with
the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is authorized to promulgate
and adopt rules and regulations to effectuate the evident intent and purposes of this article.
All rules and regulations promulgated under this article shall be in writing, and said rules
and regulations shall become effective 30 days after a copy of the same has been posted in
the office of the commissioner. The commissioner shall mail a copy of all such rules and regulations
to each holder of a permit issued under this article, addressed to such permit holder at his
last known address. No rule or regulation under the authority of this article shall become
effective prior to the expiration of 30 days from the date of its promulgation and posting
as aforesaid. (Acts 1955, No. 570, p. 1239, ยง6.)...
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