2-4-1
Section 2-4-1 Appointment of State Veterinarian; qualifications; compensation and powers and
duties. The State Veterinarian of Alabama shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Agriculture
and Industries, the Governor of Alabama, and the President of the Alabama Veterinary Medical
Association, or majority of them, from the list of qualified applicants who have passed the
official examination and who have been certified to the aforesaid appointing authorities by
the State Personnel Department. The State Veterinarian appointed under the provisions of this
section shall be subject to the provisions of the Merit System, and his or her salary shall
be fixed by the State Personnel Board, upon recommendation of the Commissioner of Agriculture
and Industries with approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, which salary
shall be paid out of the appropriation provided by law for payment of salaries and expenses
of the employees of the Department of Agriculture and Industries. The...
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2-8-291
Section 2-8-291 Penalty for failure to deduct and pay over assessment; inspection of books
and records; injunctions. (a) Any dealer, handler, processor, buyers or other distributors
of catfish feed 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 distributor
of catfish feed 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 distributed or manufactured tonnage of catfish feed for the purpose of ascertaining the
accuracy of amounts deducted and remitted as required under this...
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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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9-13-241
Section 9-13-241 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have the meaning
stated below, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) BOARD. The State Board of
Agriculture and Industries. (2) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries
or his designated representative. (3) CULTIVATED GINSENG. Ginseng that has been planted and
cultivated by standard horticultural practices. (4) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Agriculture
and Industries. (5) EXPORT. To transport, deliver or cause to be transported or delivered
to any person or place for the purpose of transportation from any place in this state to any
place outside this state. (6) GINSENG. The plant Panax quinquefolius L., including cuttings,
roots, fruits, seed, propagules or any other portion thereof. (7) GINSENG COLLECTOR. Any person
who intentionally removes wild ginseng from the location in which the plant grew for the purpose
of sale, resale or export. (8) GINSENG DEALER. Any person who...
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2-1-12
Section 2-1-12 Collection of farming information. In the interest of public health, safety,
and welfare, the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries may collect
information, from time to time, regarding the existence, operation, or business of livestock,
milk and dairy products, eggs, cotton, poultry, commercial feed, grain, seed, fertilizer,
plants and trees, pesticides, or any other subject regulated by the department pursuant this
title. In order to collect the information without revealing the personal information about
individual farming operations, the commissioner may make the information collected pursuant
to this section confidential except as otherwise provided by law. (Act 2006-504, p. 1148,
§2.)...
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2-13-92
Section 2-13-92 Right of entry of commissioner; investigations and inspections; examination
of records; resisting or interfering with commissioner. The Commissioner of Agriculture and
Industries and inspectors, employees and agents of the Department of Agriculture and Industries
shall have power and authority to enter upon any premises where milk being or having been
shipped or transported into the State of Alabama is processed, bottled, collected, cooled
or otherwise handled or to stop and inspect any truck or other vehicle transporting milk into
this state, except as provided in this article, to be sold or offered for sale in this state
and to make such investigations, examinations or inspections as may be necessary to determine
whether such milk, cream, milk products or by-products thereof being shipped or transported
into this state are produced, distributed, processed or otherwise handled in accordance with
the requirements of this article and rules and regulations promulgated...
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2-14-13
Section 2-14-13 Rules and regulations. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with
the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, may adopt and promulgate such
rules and regulations as necessary to carry out the evident intent and purpose of this chapter,
including rules and regulations to govern the shipment, movement, or transportation of honeybees,
beekeeping equipment, and supplies into or within the State of Alabama, the establishment
of quarantines, the annual registration of colonies of honeybees, and the collection of registration
fees, the establishment of fees to defray the expense of the duties imposed by this chapter,
and other rules and regulations for the control and eradication of contagious and infectious
diseases of honeybees. The rules and regulations duly promulgated under this chapter shall
have the force and effect of law. All fees collected under this chapter shall be deposited
into the Agricultural Fund in the State Treasury. (Acts 1965,...
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2-15-173
Section 2-15-173 Payment of expenses of suppression or eradication of livestock diseases and
administration of article. (a) The State Board of Agriculture and Industries shall provide
for payment of the expense of the suppression or eradication of infectious, contagious or
communicable diseases of livestock from the Agricultural Fund. (b) The funds appropriated
in the general appropriation bill for the purpose of controlling outbreaks of plant and animal
disease may be expended in the administration of this article, including all help in such
control as may be deemed necessary by the commissioner, and in payment of animals and materials
which have been condemned as provided and authorized in this article. (Ag. Code 1927, §588;
Code 1940, T. 2, §380; Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §29.)...
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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, §2.)...
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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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