2-21-24
Section 2-21-24 Inspection fee; quarterly statement; disposition of fees; overpayments. (a) An inspection fee established by the Board of Agriculture and Industries not to exceed twenty-five cents ($.25) per ton shall be paid on commercial feeds by every person who distributes the commercial feed in this state, exempting bulk grain; except that: (1) The inspection fee shall be paid only once on any commercial feed, feed ingredients, customer-formula feeds or parts thereof. Commercial feeds, feed ingredients, customer-formula feeds or parts thereof on which the inspection fee has not been paid by the distributor or previous distributor shall be subject to the inspection fee. (2) No fee shall be paid on "vertical-integrator feed" or on the ingredient used to manufacture a "vertical-integrator feed." Any services the Department of Agriculture and Industries provides manufacturers of "vertical-integrator feed" in relation to this chapter shall be paid for according to fees established by...
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2-11-6
Section 2-11-6 Designation and licensing of inspectors; duties; fees; unlawful acts. The commissioner is hereby authorized to designate any competent employee or agent of the Department of Agriculture and Industries or United States Department of Agriculture and to license any competent person and to charge and collect a reasonable fee for such license to inspect or classify agricultural products for the purposes of this article and to revoke such licenses at his discretion. Such inspectors shall be stationed at such places, furnish such certificates and information to the commissioner and interested parties and perform such other duties pertaining to the provisions of this article as the commissioner may require. The commissioner, with the approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may fix, assess and collect or cause to be collected fees for such services. Any person other than those properly designated under the provisions of this article who shall issue certificates of...
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2-15-1
Section 2-15-1 Department authorized to enter into contracts to perform inspection or testing services, etc., for persons, firms, etc., engaged in business of marketing livestock; charge and collection of fees for services rendered and disposition thereof. The Department of Agriculture and Industries, acting by and through the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is authorized and empowered to enter into contracts with any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association engaged in the business of marketing livestock whereby the Department of Agriculture and Industries, on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon between the parties to such a contract, shall perform any inspection or testing of livestock or any brand inspection or recording duties required by law to be performed by such person, firm, partnership, corporation or association engaged in the business of marketing livestock. The Department of...
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2-8-381
Section 2-8-381 Definitions. As used in this article the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Agriculture and Industries. (2) GROWER. Any person, business entity, or cooperative licensed to grow industrial hemp by the department or an institution of higher education pursuant to this article. (3) HEMP PRODUCTS. Any and all products made from industrial hemp, including, but not limited to, cloth, cordage, fiber, food, fuel, paint, paper, particleboard, plastics, seed, seed meal and seed oil for consumption, and seed for cultivation if the seeds originate from industrial hemp varieties. (4) INDUSTRIAL HEMP or HEMP. The plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, cultivated or possessed by a licensed grower or otherwise in accordance with the state's USDA-approved regulatory plan, whether growing or not, with a...
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8-16-17
Section 8-16-17 Standards for containers of farm products - Adoption of federal standards. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized to fix and promulgate as the official standards for this state, for any container for any agricultural product, the standard for such product which may have been promulgated or announced therefor under the authority of the Congress of the United States. In carrying out the provisions of this section the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries is authorized to cooperate with the United States government, or any department thereof, in accomplishing the matters and things referred to in this section. (Ag. Code 1927, §258; Code 1940, T. 2, §615.)...
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16-1-46
Section 16-1-46 Farm-to-school procurement processes and procedures. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Farm-To-School Procurement Act. (b) For the purposes of this section, unprocessed agricultural products means only those agricultural products that retain their inherent character. The effects of any of the following handling and preservation techniques shall not be considered as changing an agricultural product into a product of a different inherent character: Cooling, refrigerating, freezing; size adjustment through size reduction made by peeling, slicing, dicing, cutting, chopping, shucking, and grinding; drying or dehydration, or both; washing; the application of high water pressure or cold pasteurization; packaging, such as placing eggs in cartons, and vacuum packing and bagging, such as placing vegetables in bags; butchering livestock, fish, and poultry; and the pasteurization of milk. (c)(1) The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries and the...
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2-15-5
Section 2-15-5 Care and handling of livestock and animal husbandry practices on private property. (a) For the purpose of this section and Sections 2-4-1 and 13A-11-14, the term livestock shall include, but is not limited to, bovines, swine, sheep, goats, equine or equidae, ratites, poultry, pen-raised livestock such as quail, deer, pheasants, or similar livestock, and other farm animals. (b) This section shall not affect the authority or the responsibility of any law enforcement agency or its officers to investigate or prosecute any violation of the law. (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving a farm or farm operation from complying with public health and sanitation statutes, rules, and orders administered or enforced by or through the Department of Public Health and any county health department. (d) Except as otherwise provided by state or federal law or as provided in subsection (f), the entire subject matter concerning the care and handling of livestock and...
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2-8-123
Section 2-8-123 Application for certification and approval to conduct referendum - Generally. Any commission, council, board or other agency or any nonprofit association of producers, fairly representative of the growers or producers of any agricultural commodity referred to in this article may make application to the State Board of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama for certification and approval for the purpose of conducting a referendum among the growers or producers of such particular agricultural commodity for commercial purposes upon the question of levying an assessment under the provisions of this article and collecting and utilizing the same for the purposes stated in such referendum. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §4.)...
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2-16-9
Section 2-16-9 Violations of provisions of article or rules or regulations promulgated thereunder deemed misdemeanors; disposition of fines. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provisions of this article or any rule or regulation duly established by authority of this article or shall operate or engage in business without a permit as required by Section 2-16-3 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. All fines paid under this article shall be transmitted to the Department of Agriculture and Industries for deposit in the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund. (Acts 1945, No. 481, p. 718, §8; Acts 1951, No. 556, p. 972, §2.)...
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2-26-5
Section 2-26-5 Annual permit fees. (a) Every person who sells, offers for sale, exposes for sale, distributes or solicits orders for the sale of any agricultural, vegetable, herb, tree, shrub, or flower seed to retail seed dealers, farmers, or to others who use or plant such seed in the State of Alabama shall, before selling or offering such seed for sale or distributing or soliciting orders for the sale of such seed and on or before January 1 of each year secure an annual permit from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries to engage in such business. Seed dealers and other sellers of seed shall apply for an annual permit upon forms prescribed by the commissioner, and such permit shall be issued upon the payment of the following permit fees when the application is in proper form: (1) For each person engaged in selling seed at retail in closed containers or packets of eight ounces or less displayed on a supplemental container display, a permit fee established by the Board of...
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