2-17A-5
Section 2-17A-5 Expenditure of available funds; authority to contract with federal government. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to expend any funds that may hereafter be appropriated or otherwise available to such officer in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, including financial aid and other assistance as may be made available by the Congress of the United States. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall also be authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in developing a state program for rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products inspection in the event the Congress of the United States shall in the future authorize or require inspection of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products. Unless funds are made available as herein provided, the slaughtering or processing establishment receiving the inspection services shall pay the cost and expense thereof pursuant to contracts...
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2-17A-3
Section 2-17A-3 Contracts for inspection services by Department of Agriculture and Industries; fees for inspection services. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is authorized and empowered to enter into agreements of contract with any person, firm, corporation or association on terms mutually agreeable with the parties thereto whereby the Department of Agriculture and Industries shall provide qualified personnel to perform rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products inspection in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be adopted under authority of this chapter. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, under authority of contracts for inspection work as authorized in this section, is empowered to charge and collect fees for inspection services to be performed, which fees shall be in the nature of a contribution to defray the cost of such services. All amounts collected as inspection fees shall be...
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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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2-17A-4
Section 2-17A-4 Inspections voluntary unless otherwise provided by Congress; other statutes relative to inspections not affected by chapter. The provisions of this chapter authorizing the inspection of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products shall not be construed to make such inspection mandatory. Inspection services shall be on a voluntary basis upon request of a person, firm, corporation or association desiring such inspection. In the event the Congress of the United States at any time in the future requires compulsory inspection of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products, then the provisions and requirements of this chapter for inspection of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products shall become mandatory and otherwise in compliance with such congressional act. This chapter shall not affect, restrict, limit or modify the power and duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries to provide and require mandatory inspection for slaughter of cattle, sheep, swine, goats,...
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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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9-18A-1
Section 9-18A-1 Enactment of Southern States Energy Compact. The Legislature hereby enacts, and the State of Alabama hereby enters into, the Southern States Energy Compact with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: "SOUTHERN STATES ENERGY COMPACT "Article I. Policy and Purpose. "The party states recognize that the proper employment and conservation of energy and employment of energy-related facilities, materials, and products, within the context of a responsible regard for the environment, can assist substantially in the industrialization of the south and the development of a balanced economy for the region. They also recognize that optimum benefit from an acquisition of energy resources and facilities require systematic encouragement, guidance and assistance from the party states on a cooperative basis. It is the policy of the party states to undertake such cooperation on a continuing basis; it is the purpose of...
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9-18-1
Section 9-18-1 Enactment of Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact. The Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the state of Alabama with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: "SOUTHERN INTERSTATE NUCLEAR COMPACT "Article I. Policy and Purpose "The party states recognize that the proper employment of nuclear energy, facilities, materials, and products can assist substantially in the industrialization of the south and the development of a balanced economy for the region. They also recognize that optimum benefit from and acquisition of nuclear resources and facilities requires systematic encouragement, guidance, and assistance from the party states on a cooperative basis. It is the policy of the party states to undertake such cooperation on a continuing basis; it is the purpose of this compact to provide the instruments and framework for such a cooperative effort to improve...
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41-18-1
Section 41-18-1 Text. Article I. Findings and Purposes. (a) The party states find that the South has a sense of community based on common social, cultural and economic needs and fostered by a regional tradition. There are vast potentialities for mutual improvement of each state in the region by cooperative planning for the development, conservation and efficient utilization of human and natural resources in a geographic area large enough to afford a high degree of flexibility in identifying and taking maximum advantage of opportunities for healthy and beneficial growth. The independence of each state and the special needs of subregions are recognized and are to be safeguarded. Accordingly, the cooperation resulting from this agreement is intended to assist the states in meeting their own problems by enhancing their abilities to recognize and analyze regional opportunities and take account of regional influences in planning and implementing their public policies. (b) The purposes of...
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27-60-2
Section 27-60-2 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact: ARTICLE I. PURPOSES. The purposes of this compact are, through means of joint and cooperative action among the compacting states: 1. To promote and protect the interest of consumers of individual and group annuity, life insurance, disability income, and long-term care insurance products; 2. To develop uniform standards for insurance products covered under the compact; 3. To establish a central clearinghouse to receive and provide prompt review of insurance products covered under the compact and, in certain cases, advertisements related thereto, submitted by insurers authorized to do business in one or more compacting states; 4. To give appropriate regulatory approval to those product filings and advertisements satisfying the applicable uniform standard; 5. To improve coordination of...
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2-17A-2
Section 2-17A-2 Promulgation of rules and regulations by Board of Agriculture and Industries; minimum standards for rules and regulations. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations providing for inspection for wholesomeness of domestically raised rabbits, rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products at any adequately equipped meat or meat food products slaughtering or processing plant or establishment where domesticated rabbits are killed, dressed or processed for human food to the end that domesticated rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products may be sold commercially for human food and that consumers thereof will be supplied with a wholesome and healthful product. Such rules and regulations shall provide for the inspection of rabbit carcasses and parts thereof, as well as any rabbit food products offered for sale and distribution in this state and for the seizure, condemnation and destruction of rabbits, rabbit...
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