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AL Code § 2-8-102 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 3 - Soybean Industry.|Section 2-8-102 - Permit Required of Buyers of Soybeans.

Section 2-8-102Permit required of buyers of soybeans. Any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other business unit which buys soybeans in Alabama from the producer thereof shall, in the event assessments are required to be deducted from the purchase price of such soybeans under the provisions of this article, obtain from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries an annual permit which shall authorize such individual or business firm to engage in the business of buying soybeans in Alabama. The permit required by this section shall expire on June 30 in each year and shall be renewable as of July 1 unless revoked by the commissioner for failure to comply with the provisions of this article. The application for the annual permit as required by this section shall be accompanied by a fee of $5.00, which shall be deposited by the commissioner in the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund. The permit shall be conditioned upon compliance with the provisions of this article and rules and regulations duly adopted for carrying out the requirements of this article relative to the deduction and remittance of assessments by individuals or business firms buying soybeans in Alabama, whether such individuals or business firms are domiciled in Alabama or another state. (Acts 1971, No. 227, p. 523, §23.)
AL Code § 2-8-103 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 3 - Soybean Industry.|Section 2-8-103 - Penalty; Inspection of Books and Records; Injunctions.

Section 2-8-103Penalty; inspection of books and records; injunctions. (a) Any dealer, handler, processor or other purchaser of soybeans who willfully fails or refuses to deduct and pay to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries any assessment required to be so deducted and remitted to the commissioner or who fails or refuses to obtain a permit authorizing the purchase of soybeans in Alabama shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $500.00 and, in the discretion of the court, may also be imprisoned for a term not to exceed six months. Any purchaser of soybeans who fails or refuses to allow the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his authorized agents and employees to inspect and review his books and records which disclose his purchases of soybeans for the purpose of ascertaining the accuracy of amounts deducted and remitted as required under this article shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as in this subsection provided. (b) In addition to the above penalty, the circuit court, or any judge thereof, shall have jurisdiction for cause shown, to grant a temporary restraining order or permanent injunction or both, restraining and enjoining any person from buying soybeans in Alabama without having a valid permit as required under this article or after such a permit has been revoked or from violating any other provisions and requirements of this article. Petitions for injunctive relief as authorized under this subsection shall be filed in the name of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries in the circuit court in the county of residence of the person who buys soybeans in violation of the provisions of this article or in the county where such violation occurs. Any temporary restraining order or permanent injunction issued under this subsection shall be issued without a bond. (Acts 1971, No. 227, p. 523, §24.)
AL Code § 2-8-120 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-120 - Declaration of Policy.

Section 2-8-120Declaration of policy. It is declared to be in the interest of the public welfare that the Alabama farmers who are producers of nuts, bulbs, fruits and vegetables shall be permitted and encouraged to act jointly and in cooperation with handlers, dealers and processors of such products in promoting and stimulating by research, education, advertising and other methods the increased use and sale, domestic and foreign, of any and all such agricultural commodities. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §1.)
AL Code § 2-8-121 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-121 - Authorized Activities Not Illegal or in Restraint of Trade.

Section 2-8-121Authorized activities not illegal or in restraint of trade. No association, meeting or activity undertaken in pursuance of the provisions of this article and intended to benefit all of the producers, handlers and processors of a particular commodity shall be deemed or considered illegal or in restraint of trade. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §2.)
AL Code § 2-8-122 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-122 - Referendum to Levy Assessment Declared to Be in Public Interest.

Section 2-8-122Referendum to levy assessment declared to be in public interest. It is hereby further declared to be in the public interest and highly advantageous to the agricultural economy of the state that farmers, producers and growers commercially producing the commodities referred to in this article shall be permitted by referendum to be held among the respective groups and subject to the provisions of this article to levy upon themselves an assessment on such respective commodities or upon the acreage used in the production of the same and provide for the collection of the same for the purpose of financing or contributing toward the financing of a program of research, education, advertising and other methods designed to increase the consumption of and the domestic as well as foreign markets for such agricultural products. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §3.)
AL Code § 2-8-123 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-123 - Application for Certification and Approval to Conduct Referendum - Generally.

Section 2-8-123Application 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.)
AL Code § 2-8-124 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-124 - Application for Certification and Approval to Conduct Referendum - Action by Board on Application.

Section 2-8-124Application for certification and approval to conduct referendum - Action by board on application. Upon the filing with the State Board of Agriculture and Industries of such application as is provided for in Section 2-8-123, on the part of any commission, council, board, other agency or association, the said board shall, within 30 days thereafter, meet and consider the application. If upon such consideration the said board shall find that the commission, council, board, other agency or association making such application is fairly representative of and has been duly chosen and delegated as representative of the growers producing such commodity, and the board shall otherwise find and determine that such application is in conformity with the provisions of this article and the purposes stated in this article, it shall be the duty of said board to certify such commission, council, board, other agency or association as the duly delegated and authorized group or organization representative of the commercial growers and producers of such agricultural commodity and to likewise certify that such organization is duly authorized to conduct among the growers and producers of such commodity a referendum for the purposes stated in this article. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §5.)
AL Code § 2-8-125 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-125 - Authority of Certified Organization to Conduct Referendum on Assessment.

Section 2-8-125Authority of certified organization to conduct referendum on assessment. Upon being certified by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries in the manner set forth in Section 2-8-124, such organization shall thereupon be fully authorized and empowered to hold and conduct on the part of the producers and growers of such particular agricultural commodity a referendum on the question of whether or not such growers and producers shall levy upon themselves an assessment under and subject to and for the purposes stated in this article. Such referendum may be conducted either on a statewide or area basis. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §6.)
AL Code § 2-8-126 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-126 - Notice of Referendum; Maximum Assessment.

Section 2-8-126Notice of referendum; maximum assessment. When a referendum has been authorized as provided in Section 2-8-125, the certified organization shall, before calling and announcing such referendum, fix, determine and publicly announce, at least 30 days before the date determined upon for such referendum, the date, hours and polling places for voting in such referendum, the amount and basis of the assessment proposed to be collected, the means by which such assessment shall be collected if authorized by the growers and the general purposes to which said amount so collected shall be applied. Such notice shall be published by the certified association through the medium of an established farm publication, and written notice thereof shall be given to each county extension chairman in the area covered by the referendum. Provided, however, any referendum called under the provisions of this article for the assessment of peanuts, notice shall also be published once a week in a newspaper in the county in which USDA inspection and buying points for peanuts are located for three successive weeks next preceding the referendum. No annual assessment levied under the provisions of this article shall exceed three fourths of one percent of the value of the year's production of such agricultural commodity grown by any farmer, producer or grower included in the group to which such referendum is submitted. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §7; Acts 1987, No. 87-595, p. 1034, §1.)
AL Code § 2-8-127 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-127 - Conduct of Referendum; Payment of Expense.

Section 2-8-127Conduct of referendum; payment of expense. The arrangements for and management of any referendum conducted under the provisions of this article shall be under the direction of the organization duly certified and authorized to conduct the same, and any and all expenses in connection therewith shall be borne by such organization. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §8.)
AL Code § 2-8-128 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-128 - Eligibility to Vote in Referendum; Question Before Voters.

Section 2-8-128Eligibility to vote in referendum; question before voters. Any referendum conducted under the provisions of this article may be held either on an area or statewide basis, as may be determined by the certified organization before the referendum is called. The referendum, either on an area or statewide basis, may be participated in by all producers engaged in the production of the agricultural commodity on a commercial basis who shall be subject to any assessments levied under this article and who produced the agricultural commodity in any of the three crop years immediately preceding the referendum. In the referendum, individuals eligible for participation shall vote upon the question of whether or not there shall be levied an annual assessment for a period of three years in the amount set forth in the call for the referendum on the agricultural product covered by the referendum. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §9; Act 2002-406, p. 1023, §1.)
AL Code § 2-8-129 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-129 - Negative Vote in Referendum.

Section 2-8-129Negative vote in referendum. If in any referendum held under the provisions of this article a majority of the producers in the area in which the referendum is conducted, eligible to participate and voting therein, shall vote in the negative and against the levying or collection of the assessment, then no assessment shall be levied or collected. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §10; Act 2002-406, p. 1023, §1.)
AL Code § 2-8-130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-130 - Affirmative Vote in Referendum.

Section 2-8-130Affirmative vote in referendum. If in any referendum called under the provisions of this article, a majority of the producers in the area in which any referendum is conducted, eligible to participate and voting therein, shall vote in the affirmative and in favor of the levying and collection of the assessment proposed in the referendum on the agricultural commodity covered thereby, then the assessment shall be collected in the manner determined and announced by the organization conducting the referendum. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §11; Act 2002-406, p. 1023, §1.)
AL Code § 2-8-131 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-131 - Hours, Voting Places, Rules and Regulations, etc., for Referendum; Notices to Be Given.

Section 2-8-131Hours, voting places, rules and regulations, etc., for referendum; notices to be given. The hours, voting places and rules and regulations for any referendum authorized in this article with respect to any of the agricultural commodities herein referred to and the area in which such referendum shall be held shall be established and determined by the organization of the commercial growers and producers of such agricultural commodity duly certified by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries as provided in this article. The said referendum date, area, hours, voting places and rules and regulations with respect to the holding of such referendum shall be published by such organization conducting the same through the medium of the public press in the State of Alabama at least 30 days before the holding of such referendum, and direct written notice thereof shall likewise be given to farm organizations within the State of Alabama and to each county agent in any county in which such agricultural product is grown. Such notice shall likewise contain a statement of the amount of annual assessment proposed to be levied, which shall not exceed the amount specified in Section 2-8-126, and shall likewise state the method by which such assessment shall be collected and how the proceeds thereof shall be administered and the purposes to which the same shall be applied, which purposes shall be in keeping with the provisions of this article. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §12.)
AL Code § 2-8-132 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-132 - Ballots and Poll Holders for Referendum; Canvass of Results.

Section 2-8-132Ballots and poll holders for referendum; canvass of results. The duly certified organization of the producers of any agricultural product among whom a referendum shall be conducted under the provisions of this article shall likewise prepare and distribute in advance of such referendum all necessary ballots for the purposes thereof and shall, under rules and regulations promulgated by said organization, arrange for the necessary poll holders for conducting the said referendum. Following such referendum and within 10 days thereafter, the said organization shall canvass and publicly declare the results of such referendum. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §13.)
AL Code § 2-8-133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-133 - Collection of Assessment; Disposition.

Section 2-8-133Collection of assessment; disposition. In the event a majority of the producers eligible for participation in a referendum conducted under the provisions of this article and voting therein, shall vote in favor of the assessment, then the assessment shall be collected annually for three years, as set forth in the call for the referendum, and the collection of the assessment shall be under such method, rules, and regulations as may be determined by the organization conducting the referendum. The assessment collected shall be paid into the treasury of the organization conducting the referendum, to be used together with other funds from other sources, including donations from individuals, concerns, or corporations and grants from state or governmental agencies, for the purpose of promoting and stimulating, by research, education, advertising, and other methods, the increased use and sale, domestic and foreign, of the agricultural commodity covered by the referendum. Upon the request of the duly certified organization of producers of any agricultural products referred to in this article, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall notify, by registered or certified mail, all persons, firms, and corporations engaged in the business of purchasing any such agricultural products in this state that on and after the date specified in the letter the assessments shall be deducted by the purchaser or his or her agent or representative from the purchase price of any such agricultural products. The assessment deducted shall, on or before the twentieth day of the month following the deduction, be remitted by the purchaser to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, who shall thereupon, by the end of the month, pay the amount of the assessments to the duly certified organization entitled thereto. The books and records of all the purchasers of agricultural products shall at all times during regular business hours be open for inspection by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his or her duly authorized agents. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall be entitled to deduct five percent of all sums remitted to him or her under this section to defray the expense incident to the administration of this article. All amounts deducted shall be paid into the State Treasury and be credited to the account of the Agricultural Fund. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §14; Act 2002-406, p. 1023, §1.)
AL Code § 2-8-134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-134 - Subsequent Referendum After Negative Vote.

Section 2-8-134Subsequent referendum after negative vote. In the event a referendum conducted as provided in this article shall not be supported by a majority of those eligible for participation therein and voting therein, then the organization conducting the referendum shall have full power and authority to call another referendum for the purposes set forth in this article no earlier than 90 days after the preceding referendum, whether the referendum was conducted before or after April 17, 2002, on the question of an annual assessment for three years. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §15; Act 2002-406, p. 1023, §1.)
AL Code § 2-8-135 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-135 - Subsequent Referendum After Affirmative Vote.

Section 2-8-135Subsequent referendum after affirmative vote. In the event a referendum conducted as provided in this article is carried by the vote of a majority of the eligible producers participating therein and assessments in pursuance thereof are levied annually for three years as set forth in the call for the referendum, then the organization conducting the referendum shall, in its discretion, have full power and authority to call and conduct, during the third year of the period, another referendum in which the producers of such agricultural commodity shall vote upon the question of whether or not assessments shall be continued for the next ensuing three years. The certified organization shall have the full power and authority to hold subsequent referendums it deems necessary to alter or modify the terms of the existing assessment. Intermediary referendums shall comply with the terms and conditions of the original request. In the event the intermediary referendum fails to receive a favorable vote, the previously approved assessment shall remain in force and subsequent referendums shall be conducted as provided in this article. However, if the intermediary referendum receives an affirmative vote, no subsequent referendum may be conducted until the passage of one year. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §16; Acts 1987, No. 87-595, p. 1034, §1; Act 2002-406, p. 1023, §1.)
AL Code § 2-8-136 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 8 - Promotion of Agricultural Industries and Products.|Article 4 - Nuts, Bulbs, Fruits and Vegetables.|Section 2-8-136 - Refund of Assessment.

Section 2-8-136Refund of assessment. In the event a referendum conducted as provided in this article is carried in the affirmative and the assessment is levied and collected as provided in this article and under the regulations to be promulgated by the duly certified organization conducting the same, any farmer or producer upon and against whom such annual assessment shall have been levied and collected under the provisions of this article, if dissatisfied with said assessment and the results thereof, shall have the right to demand of and receive from the treasurer of said organization a refund of such annual assessment so collected from such farmer or producer, if such demand for refund is made in writing within 30 days from the date on which said assessment is collected from such farmer or producer. (Acts 1957, No. 108, p. 142, §17.)