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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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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2-18-1
Section 2-18-1 Promulgation of rules and regulations for grading at poultry slaughtering, dressing
or processing plants or establishments by state board. The State Board of Agriculture and
Industries is authorized to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations providing for poultry
meat grading at poultry slaughtering, dressing or processing plants or establishments to the
end that consumers of poultry and poultry products may be supplied with a product which complies
with the requirements of such rules and regulations and which may also comply with requirements
of the federal government or any municipality receiving such poultry or poultry products or
any state to which such poultry or poultry products may be shipped. (Acts 1957, No. 625, p.
896, §1.)...
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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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2-17-11
Section 2-17-11 Inspection of sanitary conditions in slaughtering and processing establishments;
commissioner to refuse to allow marking, stamping, etc., of meat food products, poultry food
products in establishments where sanitary conditions adulterate meat food products, poultry
food products, etc. The commissioner shall cause to be made by experts in sanitation or by
other competent inspectors such inspection of all slaughtering, meat canning, salting, packing,
rendering or similar establishment in which cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules and
other equines and poultry are slaughtered and the meat and meat products and poultry food
products thereof are prepared solely for intrastate commerce as may be necessary to inform
himself concerning the sanitary conditions of the same and to prescribe the rules and regulations
of sanitation under which such establishment shall be maintained; and, where the sanitary
conditions of any such establishment are such that the meat or meat...
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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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20-1-78
Section 20-1-78 Powers and duties of State Board of Agriculture and Industries; rules and regulations.
(a) The State Board of Agriculture and Industries, as the administrative agency, shall perform
all of the following duties: (1) To make, amend, and rescind such rules and regulations as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article, including, but without being
limited to, such orders, rules, and regulations as it is hereinafter specifically authorized
and directed to make and to establish fees for reimbursement of expenses. (2) To adopt from
time to time such regulations changing or adding to the required ingredients for flour, cornmeal,
grits, or bread specified in Sections 20-1-73 through 20-1-75 as shall be necessary to conform
to the definitions and standards of identity of enriched flour and other products from time
to time promulgated by the appropriate federal agency pursuant to the federal Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act. (3) To issue an order, to be effective...
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2-17-3
Section 2-17-3 Cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, etc., to be inspected prior to slaughter; diseased
cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, etc., to be separately slaughtered; examination and inspection
of carcasses of slaughtered animals generally. (a) For the purpose of preventing the use in
intrastate commerce, as provided in this chapter, of meat and meat food products which are
adulterated, the commissioner shall cause to be made, by inspectors appointed for that purpose,
an examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules and other
equines before they shall be allowed into any slaughtering, packing, meat canning, rendering
or similar establishment in this state in which slaughtering and preparation of meat and meat
food products of such animals are conducted solely for intrastate commerce, and all cattle,
sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules and other equines found on such inspection to show symptoms
of disease shall be set apart and slaughtered separately from all...
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2-18-2
Section 2-18-2 Inspection at poultry slaughtering, dressing and processing establishments.
The Department of Agriculture and Industries, through qualified personnel of said department,
is authorized to inspect poultry meat at poultry slaughtering, dressing or processing establishments
for the purpose of determining whether or not poultry and poultry products slaughtered, dressed
or processed at such plants or establishments comply with the requirements set forth in rules
and regulations promulgated as authorized under Section 2-18-1. (Acts 1957, No. 625, p. 896,
§2.)...
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2-18-3
Section 2-18-3 Department may enter into contracts to perform grading at poultry slaughtering,
dressing or processing plants; collection of fees by department and disposition thereof. The
Department of Agriculture and Industries, acting by and through the Commissioner of Agriculture
and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is also
authorized and empowered to enter into contracts with any person, firm, partnership, corporation
or association engaged in slaughtering, dressing, processing or marketing poultry or poultry
products whereby the Department of Agriculture and Industries, on terms and conditions mutually
agreed upon between the parties to such a contract, shall perform poultry meat grading at
poultry slaughtering, dressing or processing plants to the end that poultry slaughtered, dressed
or processed at such plants shall meet the requirements of any rules, regulations, specifications
or standards adopted and promulgated under the...
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