8-16-70
Section 8-16-70 Appointment. (a) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries is authorized
to designate and appoint any competent employee or agent of the State Department of Agriculture
and Industries or United States Department of Agriculture to weigh or supervise the weighing
of any agricultural commodities which are to be sold on the basis of weight; and such employees
or agents so appointed may be designated or appointed by the commissioner as public weighmasters;
provided, that such employees or agents shall comply with all of the provisions of this article
required for the appointment of weighmasters. (b) Weight certificates issued by such employees
appointed under this section shall be issued in accordance with the provisions and requirements
of this article governing public weighmasters. (Acts 1956, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 25, p. 295,
§1.)...
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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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2-11-6
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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2-9-4
Section 2-9-4 Authority of commissioner over fund. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,
with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall use the Agricultural
Fund in accordance with the provisions of law for the support and expense of the regulatory,
control and administrative work of the Department of Agriculture and Industries and in such
manner as said board deems will best effect the purposes of all laws included in this title
which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries are authorized or
directed to administer or enforce. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the
approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall direct the expenditure of
said fund, it being the purpose of this section to vest the financial supervision and control
over the use of said fund for the work and activities assigned to the Department of Agriculture
and Industries in the manner provided by law. (Ag. Code 1927,...
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2-2-7
Section 2-2-7 Annual report; publication of handbooks, pamphlets, etc. The commissioner, with
the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall submit each year on or
before December 1 or as early thereafter as practicable to the Governor an annual report covering
all operations of the Department of Agriculture and Industries and the condition, progress
and needs of agriculture and industries throughout the state. Such annual report may be printed
as now provided by law in sufficient quantities for general distribution as needed. He may
publish, by and with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, such handbooks,
pamphlets, bulletins, notices and information as in his judgment will aid and promote agricultural
and industrial development of Alabama and the enforcement of the provisions of law relating
to agriculture and industries. (Ag. Code 1927, §13; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940,
T. 2, §19.)...
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2-26-10
Section 2-26-10 Maintenance, inspection, etc., of records as to receipt, sale and delivery
of seeds generally; maintenance of sales records by retail sellers; maintenance of bills of
lading, waybills, etc., by trucks, etc., transporting seed for sale, etc.; auditing of records
of receipts, sales and deliveries of seeds. (a) Records of receipts, sale and delivery of
all seed, other than retail sales and deliveries by a dealer, except as provided in subsection
(b) of this section, shall be kept readily accessible for examination by an authorized agent
of the Department of Agriculture and Industries. These records shall include invoices, bills
of lading or transportation records and a copy of the labeling information, and these records
must show the lot numbers. Such records must be made available to the inspectors within 10
days after receipt of seeds which said records cover. Such records as are surrendered shall
be duplicated and a copy left with the owner or party in question. Records...
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2-9-20
Section 2-9-20 Fund created; moneys to be paid into fund. There is hereby created in the State
Treasury a fund to be known and designated as the Shipping Point Inspection Fund. All funds,
fees, charges, costs and collections accruing to or collected by the Department of Agriculture
and Industries in connection with the administration and enforcement of, or providing inspection,
classification or grading services pursuant to Articles 1, 4 and 5 of Chapter 11 of this Title,
and any other laws or parts of laws whereby agricultural shipping point and terminal market
inspection services are furnished by the Department of Agriculture and Industries, including
services furnished for weighing and issuing weight certificates to be used for the sale of
agricultural commodities, shall be deposited into the State Treasury, to the credit of the
Shipping Point Inspection Fund. (Acts 1956, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 26, p. 296, §1.)...
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2-9-6
Section 2-9-6 Requisitions and warrants for payments from fund. All expenses incurred under
this title or any other provision of this code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department
or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce
for the operation of the department shall be paid by warrants drawn by the comptroller on
the Agricultural Fund upon the requisition of the commissioner. Said requisition shall be
itemized and sworn to and accompanied by an itemized statement of expenses by any person in
whose favor a warrant is to be drawn, verified by affidavit that such statement is correct
and such amount is unpaid, with such other information or evidence as the board may require.
Thereupon, a warrant or warrants shall be drawn by the comptroller upon the Agricultural Fund
of the State Treasury for the amounts so requisitioned. (Ag. Code 1927, §490; Acts 1935,
No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §36.)...
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8-16-71
Section 8-16-71 Fees and charges for weighing agricultural commodities; disposition of collected
amounts. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board
of Agriculture and Industries, may fix, assess and collect, or cause to be collected, fees
and charges for weighing services furnished by the Department of Agriculture and Industries
through services furnished by duly appointed weighmasters as authorized under Section 8-16-70,
and all amounts collected therefor shall be deposited into the Shipping Point Inspection Fund
of the State Treasury. No amounts collected under this section shall accrue or be paid to
the employee or agent of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, as all such amounts
are required to be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the Shipping Point Inspection
Fund. (Acts 1956, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 25, p. 295, §2.)...
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2-26-74
Section 2-26-74 Filing of complaint as to performance or labeling of seed by purchaser; forwarding
of complaint and answer thereto to committee for investigation, findings and recommendations.
Any farmer, or other purchaser of agricultural, vegetable, flower, tree and shrub or herb
seeds purchased for planting purposes who believes that he has been damaged by the failure
of the seed to perform as represented, or to conform to the description on the labeling attached
thereto or accompanying such seed as required by Sections 2-26-1 through 2-26-14, and rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder, may make a sworn complaint against the seed dealer
from whom such seeds were purchased. The complaint shall allege the failure of the seed to
perform or to conform to legal requirements and the damages sustained or to be sustained by
him. The complaint shall be filed with the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries within
10 days after the alleged defect or violation becomes apparent. The...
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