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AL Code § 7-9A-628 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 7 - Commercial Code.|Article 9A - Secured Transactions.|Part 6 - Default.|Division 2 - Noncompliance With Article.|Section 7-9A-628 - Nonliability and Limitation on Liability of Secured Party; Liability of Secondary Obligor.

Section 7-9A-628Nonliability and limitation on liability of secured party; liability of secondary obligor. (a) Limitation of liability of secured party for noncompliance with article. Unless a secured party knows that a person is a debtor or obligor, knows the identity of the person, and knows how to communicate with the person: (1) the secured party is not liable to the person, or to a secured party or lienholder that has filed a financing statement against the person, for failure to comply with this article; and (2) the secured party's failure to comply with this article does not affect the liability of the person for a deficiency. (b) Limitation of liability based on status as secured party. A secured party is not liable because of its status as secured party: (1) to a person that is a debtor or obligor, unless the secured party knows: (A) that the person is a debtor or obligor; (B) the identity of the person; and (C) how to communicate with the person; or (2) to a secured party or lienholder that has filed a financing statement against a person, unless the secured party knows: (A) that the person is a debtor; and (B) the identity of the person. (c) Limitation of liability if reasonable belief that transaction not a consumer-goods transaction or consumer transaction. A secured party is not liable to any person, and a person's liability for a deficiency is not affected, because of any act or omission arising out of the secured party's reasonable belief that a transaction is not a consumer-goods transaction or a consumer transaction or that goods are not consumer goods, if the secured party's belief is based on its reasonable reliance on: (1) a debtor's representation concerning the purpose for which collateral was to be used, acquired, or held; or (2) an obligor's representation concerning the purpose for which a secured obligation was incurred. (d) Limitation of liability for statutory damages. A secured party is not liable to any person under Section 7-9A-625(c)(2) for its failure to comply with Section 7-9A-616. (e) Limitation of multiple liability for statutory damages. A secured party is not liable under Section 7-9A-625(c)(2) more than once with respect to any one secured obligation. (Act 2001-481, p. 647, §1.)
AL Code § 8-16-50 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-50 - Appointment; Oath; Certificate of Appointment.

Section 8-16-50Appointment; oath; certificate of appointment. (a) Any person engaged in the business of weighing for hire who shall weigh or measure any commodity, produce or article and issue therefor a weight certificate which shall be accepted as the accurate weight upon which the purchase or sale of such commodity, produce or article is based shall be known as a public weighmaster. All public weighmasters shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. (b) Persons not engaged in the business of weighing for hire, but to whom the services of a certified weigher are necessary for the proper conduct of any business in which they may be engaged, may, upon application to the commissioner, have one or more of their employees, or some other suitable person, designated by the commissioner to act as weighmaster for such persons. (c) Each weighmaster shall make oath faithfully to execute his trust as a weighmaster before entering upon his duties. (d) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall issue a certificate of such appointment or designation and shall keep a record of the same. (Ag. Code 1927, §256; Code 1940, T. 2, §621.)
AL Code § 8-16-51 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-51 - Rules and Regulations; Fees.

Section 8-16-51Rules and regulations; fees. (a) The term of appointment for weighmasters shall be for one year. (b) A fee established by the Board of Agriculture and Industries not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100), which shall accrue to the Agricultural Fund, shall be paid to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries by each person appointed or designated as weighmaster. (c) Provided, however, any weighmaster whose term of appointment has not expired on or after July 30, 1979, shall not be required to pay the increased permit fee during such term. (Ag. Code 1927, §274; Code 1940, T. 2, §630; Acts 1979, No. 79-612, p. 1083; Act 2004-516, p. 996, §1.)
AL Code § 8-16-52 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-52 - Bond.

Section 8-16-52Bond. Repealed by Act 2012-399, §1, effective May 14, 2012. (Ag. Code 1927, §275; Code 1940, T. 2, §631.)
AL Code § 8-16-53 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-53 - Rights and Duties; Compensation Not to Be Paid by State.

Section 8-16-53Rights and duties; compensation not to be paid by state. The rights and duties of all weighmasters shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries. Such weighmasters shall not receive compensation from the state for the duties so performed. (Ag. Code 1927, §266; Code 1940, T. 2, §622.)
AL Code § 8-16-54 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-54 - Seal.

Section 8-16-54Seal. (a) It shall be the duty of every weighmaster in this state to provide himself with a seal at his own expense which shall have inscribed on the outer margin thereof his name and the word "Alabama," with the words "Public Weigher" inscribed in the center of such seal. (b) Such seal shall be impressed upon each and every weight certificate issued by such weighmaster, and such seal, when applied to weight certificates, shall be a recognized authority of accuracy. (Ag. Code 1927, §268; Code 1940, T. 2, §624.)
AL Code § 8-16-55 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-55 - Records.

Section 8-16-55Records. All public weighmasters shall keep and preserve correct and accurate records of all public weighings as provided by this article, which records shall be open at all times for inspection by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his assistants. (Ag. Code 1927, §269; Code 1940, T. 2, §625.)
AL Code § 8-16-56 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-56 - Weight Certificate Form; Certificate Deemed Prima Facie Evidence of Weight.

Section 8-16-56Weight certificate form; certificate deemed prima facie evidence of weight. (a) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall prescribe the form of weight certificate to be used by all public weighmasters in this state. (b) Such certificate shall state thereon the kind of commodity, produce or article, the number of units of the same, the date of the receipt of the commodity, produce or article, the owner, agent or consignee, the total weight of the commodity, produce or article, the vessel, railroad, team, truck or other means by which the commodity, produce or article was received, any trade or other mark thereon and such other information as may be necessary to distinguish or identify the commodity, produce or article from a like kind. (c) No certificate other than the one prescribed in this section shall be used by any public weighmaster in this state, and when so made and properly signed, such certificates shall be a prima facie evidence of such weights. (Ag. Code 1927, §267; Code 1940, T. 2, §623.)
AL Code § 8-16-57 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-57 - Certificates to Contain Accurate Weight.

Section 8-16-57Certificates to contain accurate weight. All certificates of weights and measures, as provided by this article, shall contain the accurate and correct weight of any and all commodities weighed when issued by the public weighmaster. (Ag. Code 1927, §270; Code 1940, T. 2, §626.)
AL Code § 8-16-58 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-58 - Reweighing of Certified Commodity, Produce or Article.

Section 8-16-58Reweighing of certified commodity, produce or article. When doubt or differences arise as to the correctness of the net or gross weight of any amount or part of any commodity, produce or article for which a certificate of weights and measures has been issued by a public weighmaster, the owner, agent or consignee, upon complaint to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his assistants, may have such amount or part of the amount of any commodity, produce or article reweighed by the commissioner, his assistants or a public weighmaster designated by him, the services for which reweigh, when performed by the commissioner or his assistants, shall be gratis. (Ag. Code 1927, §273; Code 1940, T. 2, §629.)
AL Code § 8-16-59 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 1 - General Provisions.|Section 8-16-59 - False Certificates.

Section 8-16-59False certificates. Any weighmaster who shall issue a certificate of weights and measures giving a false weight or measure of any article or commodity weighed or measured by him or his representative to any person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. In addition thereto, he shall forfeit his certificate as weighmaster, which certificate, when so forfeited, shall be turned over to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. (Ag. Code 1927, §271; Code 1940, T. 2, §627.)
AL Code § 8-16-70 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 2 - State and Federal Employees.|Section 8-16-70 - Appointment.

Section 8-16-70Appointment. (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.)
AL Code § 8-16-71 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 2 - State and Federal Employees.|Section 8-16-71 - Fees and Charges for Weighing Agricultural Commodities; Disposition of Collected Amounts.

Section 8-16-71Fees 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.)
AL Code § 8-16-72 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 16 - Weights and Measures.|Article 3 - Weighmasters.|Division 2 - State and Federal Employees.|Section 8-16-72 - Rules and Regulations for Weighing Agricultural Commodities.

Section 8-16-72Rules and regulations for weighing agricultural commodities. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, may adopt and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this division, to the end that persons, firms, corporations, or associations may be furnished with accurate weighing services by the Department of Agriculture and Industries where such services are required for the sale of agricultural commodities. (Acts 1956, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 25, p. 295, §3.)
AL Code § 8-17-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 17 - Regulation of Certain Goods and Products.|Article 5 - Petroleum Products.|Division 1 - Standards and Inspections Generally.|Section 8-17-81 - Determination and Adoption of Standards and Methods of Tests; Promulgation of Rules; Effect of Prior Standards.

Section 8-17-81Determination and adoption of standards and methods of tests; promulgation of rules; effect of prior standards. (a) The Board of Agriculture and Industries shall have the power and duty to: (1) Determine and adopt standards of minimum specifications for petroleum products, and the various classifications and kinds thereof, as to safety, purity, freedom from objectionable substances, distillation tests, heat-producing qualities, fire tests, and efficiency which are not inconsistent with the specifications for the same products that are published from time to time by the United States Department of Commerce; and (2) Make changes from time to time in such standards, all as the board may deem necessary to provide for the public safety and to provide that such petroleum products are satisfactory and efficient for the purposes for which they may be sold, offered for sale, stored, or used in the state; provided, that such standards shall not be adopted or altered by the board until after a specified date when any person in interest may appear before the board with reference to such standards. (b) The Board of Agriculture and Industries shall prescribe the methods of tests to be used in determining whether or not petroleum products are in compliance with such standards as shall be adopted as authorized in this section. Any testing and analysis required to be performed may be performed as provided in Section 2-2-33. (c) The Board of Agriculture and Industries shall have authority to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to secure the safe handling of petroleum products and other such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this division as in the judgment of the board may be necessary to the proper enforcement of this division. (d) The standards of minimum specifications heretofore promulgated by the Board of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to authorization in either Article 21 of Chapter 1 of Title 2 of the Code of Alabama of 1940, or Division 2 of Article 26 of Chapter 1, shall constitute the standards of minimum specifications applicable under this division until such time as the board shall adopt standards pursuant to the provisions of this division. (Acts 1971, No. 1403, p. 2363, §5; Act 2015-262, §2.)
AL Code § 8-17-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 17 - Regulation of Certain Goods and Products.|Article 5 - Petroleum Products.|Division 1 - Standards and Inspections Generally.|Section 8-17-82 - Labeling Requirement.

Section 8-17-82Labeling requirement. (a) Each person selling, offering for sale, storing or using in the state any petroleum product must label, or cause to be labeled, each tank car, tank, barrel, pump, or other container in which such petroleum product is contained or marketed with the words "guaranteed legal standards" and with an additional word or words denoting the precise character of the petroleum product in the container so labeled. Each word in such label shall be legibly printed in letters not less than one-half inch in height. (b) An alternate manner for container and other labeling information as required under subsection (a) of this section may be prescribed by the Board of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to rules and regulations which shall be consistent with the evident intent and purposes of this section. (c) In addition to the requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of this section each person selling, offering for sale, storing or using in the state any petroleum product to be used as a motor fuel containing a minimum of 10 percent blend of ethyl alcohol of a purity of at least 99 percent denatured in conformity with one of the approved methods set forth by the U.S. Department of Treasury Division of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and derived from agricultural or forest products or other renewable resource products commonly known as gasohol must label or cause to be labeled each container, pump, or dispenser from which such petroleum product is sold or dispensed with the word "GASOHOL." Each such container or pump shall be conspicuously, clearly and distinctly labeled on each side which faces the motor vehicle and readily visible in an upright position with the word "GASOHOL" printed in black letters at least three inches in height and one-quarter inch in width on a yellow background. The Board of Agriculture and Industries shall have authority to make and issue rules and regulations relating to the implementation of the provisions of this subsection; provided, however, no alternate method of labeling shall be prescribed by such board for this subsection nor shall the requirements of this subsection be in any manner delayed. (Acts 1971, No. 1403, p. 2363, §3; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 339, p. 4643, §2; Acts 1987, No. 87-277, p. 385, §1.)
AL Code § 8-17-83 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 17 - Regulation of Certain Goods and Products.|Article 5 - Petroleum Products.|Division 1 - Standards and Inspections Generally.|Section 8-17-83 - Adulteration or Lowering of Standard Prohibited.

Section 8-17-83Adulteration or lowering of standard prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person who has purchased for resale any petroleum product in respect of which an inspection fee has been paid or which has been designated "guaranteed legal standard" to adulterate or in any way lower the standard of the said petroleum product by the addition of any other liquid or substance, including, without limitation to, any other petroleum product, or to sell, offer for sale, store or use any petroleum product so adulterated or lowered in standard. (Acts 1971, No. 1403, p. 2363, §8.)
AL Code § 8-17-84 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 17 - Regulation of Certain Goods and Products.|Article 5 - Petroleum Products.|Division 1 - Standards and Inspections Generally.|Section 8-17-84 - Records to Be Kept; Preservation and Inspection of Records; Regulations as to Keeping of Records.

Section 8-17-84Records to be kept; preservation and inspection of records; regulations as to keeping of records. (a) Each person required to be licensed under Section 40-17-332(a), (b), or (f) for gasoline, or permitted under Section 8-17-96 for dyed diesel fuel, dyed kerosene, or lubricating oil, and each bulk user and retailer shall keep and maintain all records pertaining to the petroleum products received, produced, manufactured, refined, compounded, used, sold, imported, or delivered, together with delivery tickets, invoices, bills of lading, and other pertinent records and papers required by the Department of Revenue for the reasonable administration of this article, for a period of no less than three years. (b) All such records shall be preserved for a period of three years and shall at all times during the business hours of the day be subject to inspection by the Revenue Commissioner or his or her agents or representatives. (c) The Revenue Commissioner may prescribe regulations respecting the keeping of the records required in this section and the forms thereof. (Acts 1971, No. 1403, p. 2363, §4; Act 2015-54, §1.)
AL Code § 8-17-86 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 17 - Regulation of Certain Goods and Products.|Article 5 - Petroleum Products.|Division 1 - Standards and Inspections Generally.|Section 8-17-86 - Duty to Test Samples; Certificate of Tests.

Section 8-17-86Duty to test samples; certificate of tests. (a) It is the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries to secure samples of all petroleum products sold, offered for sale, stored or used in the state and to determine: (1) Whether or not such petroleum products are sold, offered for sale, stored or used in correct measure or quantity claimed by the person selling or offering for sale or storing or using such petroleum products; and (2) Whether the same is of legal standard and of the standard advertised. (b) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall test, or cause to be tested, such samples in the manner provided by the rules and regulations made by the Board of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to authorization in Section 8-17-81, and shall make a certificate of such test, a copy of which certificate shall be furnished by the commissioner upon request to the person from whom the sample was obtained. (Acts 1971, No. 1403, p. 2363, §6.)
AL Code § 8-17-88 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 17 - Regulation of Certain Goods and Products.|Article 5 - Petroleum Products.|Division 1 - Standards and Inspections Generally.|Section 8-17-88 - Sale, Storage, etc., of Nonstandard Products Prohibited; Suspension From Sale, Condemnation, etc., of Nonstandard Products.

Section 8-17-88Sale, storage, etc., of nonstandard products prohibited; suspension from sale, condemnation, etc., of nonstandard products. (a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, store, use or bring to rest in the state for sale, offer for sale, use or storage in the state any petroleum product which fails to comply with the standards adopted by the Board of Agriculture and Industries. (b) Publicity shall be given to any failure to comply with the standards as the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall prescribe. (c) The sale, offer for sale, storage or use of petroleum products that fall below the standards fixed by the Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby declared illegal, and such petroleum products shall be subject to suspension from sale, offer for sale, storage or use and may be condemned and sold as provided in Sections 2-2-30 through 2-2-37. (Acts 1971, No. 1403, p. 2363, §7.)