2-27-51
Section 2-27-51 Purpose of article. The purpose of this article is to regulate, in the public interest, the application of pesticides. In recent years many new materials have been discovered or synthesized which are valuable and necessary for the control of insects, plant diseases and weeds; however, such materials when misused may seriously injure health, property, crops, wildlife, bees and fish. Pesticides may also injure man or animals, either by direct poisoning or by gradual accumulation of poisons in the tissues. The drifting or washing of pesticides into streams or lakes can cause appreciable damage to aquatic life. A pesticide applied by aircraft or ground equipment for the purpose of controlling diseases, insects or weeds in a crop which is not itself injured by the pesticide may drift, sometimes for miles, and injure or contaminate other crops and other things with which it comes in contact. Therefore, it is deemed necessary and in the public interest to provide some means of...
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9-9-48
Section 9-9-48 Control and supervision of completed improvements; annual tax for repairs and maintenance; payment of costs of repairs and maintenance; injury, damage or obstruction of improvements. Whenever any improvement constructed under this article is completed, it shall be under the control and supervision of the board of water management commissioners. It shall be the duty of said board to maintain the levees, ditches, drains, watercourses, floodwater retarding structures and any other improvements in good repair, and for this purpose the board of water management commissioners may annually levy a tax on the lands benefited by the construction of such improvement in the same manner as other water management taxes are levied, not to exceed 10 percent of the assessed benefits in any one year, and the fund that is collected shall be used for repairing and maintaining the ditches, drains, watercourses, floodwater retarding structures and other improvements in perfect order;...
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2-30-41
Section 2-30-41 Objects, purposes and duties of Agricultural Experiment Station System. (a) The objects, purposes and duties of the Alabama Experiment Station System are: (1) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations bearing upon and relating to the production, marketing, manufacturing, use and distribution of agricultural crops and products; (2) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the production, marketing and curing of all kinds of livestock and livestock products that may be sold from or consumed on the farms of Alabama; (3) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the production, culture and use of pasture plants and for the establishment, care, use and management of pastures; (4) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the testing of all kinds of hay, feed and forage crops, including those that may be used for lawns and other sod crop purposes; (5) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the...
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36-21-183
Section 36-21-183 Board of Commissioners of the Alabama Firefighters Annuity and Benefit Fund - Powers and duties. The board shall have the following powers in carrying out its responsibilities: (1) To collect all moneys provided in this article to be collected by it. (2) To provide for and maintain all necessary administrative facilities and personnel. (3) To provide for payment of all administrative salaries, fees, and expenses. (4) To cause its moneys to be invested in a manner consistent with the ERS investment policies and practices. (5) To pass upon all applications for annuities and benefits provided for in this article. (6) To adopt such rules as may be necessary or desirable to expedite the administration of the affairs of the board pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. (7) To provide upon request descriptive literature regarding the fund. (8) To pay all benefits and annuities that may be determined to be due under this article and under the rules of the board....
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2-15-132
Section 2-15-132 Dealer license required; denial or revocation of license; appeal. (a) No person may engage in the business of a dealer as defined in Section 2-15-131 without having a license therefor issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, which license shall expire on December 31 and shall be renewable as of January 1 of each year. (b) An application for a license or annual renewal of a license as required under subsection (a) of this section shall be filed with the commissioner upon a form furnished for this purpose accompanied by a fee established by the Board of Agriculture and Industries payable before issuance of such license. Such application shall state the full name and address of the person applying for the license, the name of each member of the firm or all officers, if a corporation or association, together with the location of the applicant's business operation and the general territory or area in which the applicant intends to buy livestock, and it...
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36-18-36
Section 36-18-36 Director to have powers of corporation; powers of department. For the purposes of implementing the provisions of this article or to defray the costs thereof, the Director of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences shall have all the powers and privileges of a corporation and all of his or her business shall be transacted in the name of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. In addition to any other powers and duties specified elsewhere in this article, the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences shall have power to: (a) Regulate its own procedures except as otherwise provided in this article. (b) Define any term not defined in this section. (c) Prescribe forms necessary to carry out the purposes of this article. (d) Take judicial notice of general, technical and scientific facts within the director's specialized knowledge. (e) Collect all moneys provided by this article to be collected by the director. (f) Provide for and maintain all necessary administrative...
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2-15-150
Section 2-15-150 Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. (2) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. (3) DISEASE or DISEASE OF ANIMALS. Contagious, communicable or infectious diseases of animals. (4) MATERIALS. Infected barns or other infected structures or parts thereof and farm products, clothing, straw, hay or other feed for animals and other articles stored or contained in or adjacent to such barns or other structures. (5) LIVESTOCK. Any animal maintained in captivity for any reason. (Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §1; Acts 1994, No. 94-322, p. 562, §1.)...
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36-21-64
Section 36-21-64 Board of Commissioners of Alabama Peace Officers' Annuity and Benefit Fund - Powers and duties generally. The board shall have the following powers in carrying out its responsibilities under this article: (1) To collect all moneys provided in this article to be collected by it; (2) To provide for and maintain all necessary administrative facilities and personnel; (3) To provide for payment of all administrative salaries, fees and expenses; (4) To cause its moneys to be invested and its investments sold or exchanged and the proceeds and income collected; (5) To determine who is a peace officer; (6) To pass upon all applications for annuities and benefits provided for in this article; (7) To adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary or desirable to expedite the administration of the affairs of the board and as shall not be inconsistent with the laws of the state; (8) To provide descriptive literature respecting the fund; (9) To pay all benefits and annuities...
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45-6-242
Section 45-6-242 Levy of taxes; exemptions; payment of taxes; reports by taxpayers; applicability of state sales tax statutes; disposition of funds. (a) The following words, terms, and phrases where used in this section shall have the following respective meanings except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) "County" means Bullock County in the State of Alabama. (2) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Revenue of the state. (3) "State Department of Revenue" means the Department of Revenue of the state. (4) "State" means the State of Alabama. (5) "State sales tax statutes" means Division 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 23 of Title 40, as amended, including all other statutes of the state which expressly set forth any exemptions from the computation of the taxes levied in Division 1 and all other statutes which expressly apply to, or purport to affect, the administration of Division 1 and the incidence and collection of the taxes imposed therein. (6) "State sales...
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2-15-297
Section 2-15-297 Stray cattle, equine, or equidae found on quarantined or tick infested ranges, pastures, etc.; condemnation and sale; redemption. All stray cattle and equine or equidae running at large on quarantined or tick infested ranges, commons, pastures, or fields, if the cattle and equine or equidae have not been dipped as provided in this article, shall be taken up by the sheriff, any constable or livestock inspector, quarantined and dipped regularly once every two weeks and fed and cared for at the expense and risk of the owner of the animals. The sheriff, any constable or livestock inspector shall apply to any judge of a district court to have the animals condemned as strays and sold at public auction. The judge of the district court shall post notices of the sale of the animals in three public places in the county where the stock is taken up and in one county paper, if one is published in the county, giving the time and place of the sale, and the sale shall not be made...
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