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AL Code § 2-17-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-20 - Refusal or Withdrawal of Inspection as to Establishments Deemed Unfit to Engage in Business Because of Convictions Based Upon Acquisition, Distribution, etc., of Unwholesome, Mislabeled or Deceptively Packaged Food, etc.; Appeals From Determination and Order of Commissioner.

Section 2-17-20Refusal or withdrawal of inspection as to establishments deemed unfit to engage in business because of convictions based upon acquisition, distribution, etc., of unwholesome, mislabeled or deceptively packaged food, etc.; appeals from determination and order of commissioner. The commissioner may for such period or indefinitely, as he deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter, refuse to provide or withdraw inspection service under this chapter with respect to any establishment if he determines, after opportunity for a hearing is accorded to the applicant for or recipient of such service, that such applicant or recipient is unfit to engage in any business requiring inspection under this chapter because the applicant or recipient or anyone responsibly connected with the applicant or recipient has been convicted in any federal or state court of any felony or of one or more violations of any law other than a felony based upon the acquiring, handling or distributing of unwholesome, mislabeled or deceptively packaged food or upon fraud in connection with transactions in food. This section shall not affect in any way other provisions of this chapter for withdrawal of inspection services under this chapter from establishments failing to maintain sanitary conditions or failing to destroy condemned carcasses, parts, meat or meat food products or poultry food products as required by this chapter. For the purpose of this section, a person shall be deemed to be responsibly connected with the business if he is a partner, officer, director, holder or owner of 10 percent or more of its voting stock or an employee in a managerial or executive capacity. The determination and order of the commissioner under this section shall be final and conclusive unless the affected applicant for or recipient of inspection service files application for judicial review within 30 days after the effective date of such order in the appropriate court as provided in Section 2-17-19. Judicial review of any such order shall be upon the record upon which the determination and order by the commissioner are based. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §23.)
AL Code § 2-17-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-21 - Promulgation, Approval, Adoption, Amendment, etc., of Regulations for Implementation of Chapter Generally; Issuance, etc., of Temporary Orders of Commissioner.

Section 2-17-21Promulgation, approval, adoption, amendment, etc., of regulations for implementation of chapter generally; issuance, etc., of temporary orders of commissioner. Wherever in this chapter it is provided that regulations may or shall be promulgated by the commissioner or that any activity or procedure may be regulated by order of the commissioner or wherever any words of like import appear, any such regulation so issued and promulgated for the purpose of implementing this chapter must, before the same shall become effective, be approved and adopted by the Board of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. Any such regulation so issued and promulgated may at any time be altered, amended or rescinded by the said Board of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama; provided, however, that when it is found by the commissioner and such finding is expressed in an official order issued by him, together with his reasons for such finding, that any activity, practice or procedure subject to the provisions of this chapter is being conducted in such a manner as to constitute or which inherently constitutes a clear and immediate hazard to the public welfare, safety or health, such activity, practice or procedure may be regulated, controlled or prohibited by a temporary order of the commissioner, which such temporary order shall be valid for no more than 60 days unless, within such period, the same is ratified, approved, adopted and promulgated by the Board of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama as a regulation promulgated under the authority of this chapter; and, in the event such temporary order of the commissioner is not ratified, approved, adopted and promulgated by the said board within such period, the commissioner may not thereafter reissue the same or a substantially similar temporary order with respect to the same activity, practice or procedure by the authority of this section. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §1; Acts 1971, No. 2252, p. 3622, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 2-17-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-22 - Promulgation of Regulations as to Storage and Handling of Carcasses, Meats, Etc.

Section 2-17-22Promulgation of regulations as to storage and handling of carcasses, meats, etc. The commissioner may by regulations prescribe conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products and poultry and poultry food products capable of use as human food shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing or transporting, in or for intrastate commerce such articles whenever the commissioner deems such action necessary to assure that such articles will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer, and violation of any such regulation is prohibited. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §17.)
AL Code § 2-17-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-23 - Classes of Persons, Firms, etc., Required to Maintain Records; Examination, etc., of Records, Facilities and Inventories.

Section 2-17-23Classes of persons, firms, etc., required to maintain records; examination, etc., of records, facilities and inventories. (a) The following classes of persons, firms and corporations shall keep such records as willfully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their business: (1) Any persons, firms or corporations that engage for intrastate commerce in the business of slaughtering any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines or poultry or preparing, freezing, packaging or labeling any carcasses or parts or products of carcasses of any such animals or birds for use as human food or animal food; (2) Any persons, firms or corporations that engage in the business of buying or selling (as meat brokers, wholesalers or otherwise) or transporting in intrastate commerce, or storing in or for such commerce any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses of any such animals or birds; and (3) Any persons, firms or corporations that engage in business in or for intrastate commerce as renderers or engage in the business of buying, selling or transporting in such commerce any dead, dying, disabled or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines or poultry or parts of the carcasses of any such animals or birds that died otherwise than by slaughter. (b) Any records required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for such period of time as the commissioner may by regulation prescribe. (c) All persons, firms and corporations subject to the requirement of this section shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the commissioner, afford such representative and any duly authorized representative of the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States accompanied by such representative of the commissioner access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory and records thereof, to copy all such records and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §19.)
AL Code § 2-17-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-26 - Meat and Poultry Inspection Advisory Council.

Section 2-17-26Meat and Poultry Inspection Advisory Council. Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §32.)
AL Code § 2-17-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-28 - Exemption of Meat, etc., Inspected and Passed by United States Department of Agriculture.

Section 2-17-28Exemption of meat, etc., inspected and passed by United States Department of Agriculture. Any meat or meat food products or poultry or poultry food products which have been inspected and passed by inspectors of the United States Department of Agriculture shall be exempt from the meat and poultry inspection provisions of this chapter unless such products are further processed, in which event they shall be subject to all other provisions and requirements of this chapter. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §15; Acts 1971, No. 2252, p. 3622, §6; Acts 1975, No. 550, §1.)
AL Code § 2-17-29 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-29 - Applicability of Chapter to Persons, Firms, etc., Regulated Under Federal Meat Inspection Act and Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act.

Section 2-17-29Applicability of chapter to persons, firms, etc., regulated under federal Meat Inspection Act and federal Poultry Products Inspection Act. The requirements of this chapter shall apply to persons, firms, corporations, establishments, animals and articles regulated under the federal Meat Inspection Act or the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act only to the extent provided for in such federal acts. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §30.)
AL Code § 2-17-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-30 - Jurisdiction and Prosecution of Injunctive Proceedings Under Chapter or Regulations Promulgated Thereunder.

Section 2-17-30Jurisdiction and prosecution of injunctive proceedings under chapter or regulations promulgated thereunder. The circuit courts of the several counties of this state are vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce and to prevent and restrain violations of this chapter or any regulation promulgated under authority thereof by temporary restraining order or permanent injunction or otherwise. Petitions for injunctive relief as authorized hereunder shall be filed in the circuit court of the county of residence of the person who violates the provisions of this chapter. Any action commenced hereunder based upon facts furnished by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or others having knowledge thereof may be brought in the name of the State of Alabama upon the relation of the Attorney General and with his approval, and such officer shall upon request be assisted by the district attorney or deputy district attorney of the judicial circuit in which injunctive proceedings are filed. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §26; Acts 1975, No. 550, §3.)
AL Code § 2-17-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-31 - Admissibility of Evidence of Violations of Chapter or Regulations Promulgated Thereunder in Civil Actions for Damages Against Persons, Firms, etc., Subject Thereto.

Section 2-17-31Admissibility of evidence of violations of chapter or regulations promulgated thereunder in civil actions for damages against persons, firms, etc., subject thereto. It shall be competent evidence in any civil action brought for damages against any person, firm or corporation regulated by this chapter to prove that such person, firm or corporation has violated any term or provision of this chapter or any regulation promulgated under this chapter where such act or failure to act is proximately related to the injury or loss for which damages are claimed, but proof of any acts or failure to act which may constitute a violation of any term or provision of this chapter or of any regulation promulgated under this chapter shall not constitute prima facie proof of negligence in any such action against the party sought to be charged with damages. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §31.)
AL Code § 2-17-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-32 - Interference With Person Engaged in Performance of Official Duties Under Chapter, Etc.

Section 2-17-32Interference with person engaged in performance of official duties under chapter, etc. Any person who forceably assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates or interferes with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this chapter shall be fined not more than $5,000.00 or imprisoned for not more than three years or both. Whoever, in the commission of such acts, uses a deadly or dangerous weapon shall be fined not more than $10,000.00 or imprisoned not more than 10 years or both. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §27.)
AL Code § 2-17-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-33 - Failure to Attend and Testify, Answer Lawful Inquiry or Produce Documentary Evidence in Obedience to Subpoena, etc., of Commissioner.

Section 2-17-33Failure to attend and testify, answer lawful inquiry or produce documentary evidence in obedience to subpoena, etc., of commissioner. Any person, firm or corporation that shall neglect or refuse to attend and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry or to produce documentary evidence, if in his or its power to do so, in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the commissioner shall be guilty of an offense and, upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000.00 or by imprisonment for not more than one year or both. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §29.)
AL Code § 2-17-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-34 - Making, etc., of False Statements or Entries in Reports, Accounts, etc.; Mutilation, Alteration, etc., of Documentary Evidence, Etc.

Section 2-17-34Making, etc., of false statements or entries in reports, accounts, etc.; mutilation, alteration, etc., of documentary evidence, etc. Any person, firm or corporation that shall willfully make or cause to be made any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be made under this chapter, or that shall willfully make or cause to be made any false entry in any account, record or memorandum kept by any person, firm or corporation subject to this chapter or that shall willfully neglect or fail to make or to cause to be made full, true and correct entries in such accounts, records or memoranda of all facts and transactions appertaining to the business of such person, firm or corporation or that shall willfully remove out of the jurisdiction of this state or willfully mutilate, alter or by any other means falsify any documentary evidence of any such person, firm or corporation or that shall willfully refuse to submit to the commissioner or to any of his authorized agents for the purpose of inspection and making copies any documentary evidence of any such person, firm or corporation in his possession or within his control shall be deemed guilty of an offense and shall be subject, upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, to a fine of not more than $5,000.00 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than one year or to both. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §29.)
AL Code § 2-17-35 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-35 - Forfeiture by Persons, Firms, etc., Upon Failure to File Annual or Special Reports as Required by Commissioner.

Section 2-17-35Forfeiture by persons, firms, etc., upon failure to file annual or special reports as required by commissioner. If any person, firm or corporation required by this chapter to file any annual or special report shall fail so to do within the time fixed by the commissioner for filing the same and such failure shall continue for 30 days after notice of such default, such person, firm or corporation shall forfeit to this state the sum of $25.00 for each and every day of the continuance of such failure, which forfeiture shall be payable into the Treasury of this state and shall be recoverable in a civil action in the name of the state brought in the county where the person, firm or corporation has his or its principal place of business or in any county in which he or it shall do business. It shall be the duty of the various district attorneys under the direction of the Attorney General of this state to prosecute for the recovery of such forfeitures. The cost and expenses of such prosecution shall be paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of the courts of this state. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §29.)
AL Code § 2-17-36 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-36 - Disclosure by State Officer or Employee of Information Obtained by Commissioner Without Proper Authority.

Section 2-17-36Disclosure by state officer or employee of information obtained by commissioner without proper authority. Any officer or employee of this state who shall make public any information obtained by the commissioner without proper authority, unless directed by a court, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000.00 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year or by both. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §29.)
AL Code § 2-17-37 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-37 - Penalties for Violations of Chapter; Commissioner Not Required to Report Minor Violations of Chapter for Prosecution, Etc.

Section 2-17-37Penalties for violations of chapter; commissioner not required to report minor violations of chapter for prosecution, etc. (a) Any person, firm or corporation who violates any provision of this chapter for which no other criminal penalty is provided by this chapter shall, upon conviction, be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00; provided, that no person, firm or corporation shall be subject to penalties under this section for receiving for transportation or transporting any article or animal in violation of this chapter if such receipt or transportation was made in good faith, unless such person, firm or corporation refuses to furnish on request of a representative of the commissioner the name and address of the person from whom he received such article or animal and copies of all documents, if any there be, pertaining to the delivery of the article or animal to him. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as requiring the commissioner to report for prosecution or for the institution of a proceeding for condemnation or injunction proceeding minor violations of this chapter whenever he believes that the public interest will be adequately served by other remedies and procedures to be exercised by him. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §28.)
AL Code § 2-17-38 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection.|Section 2-17-38 - Construction of Chapter.

Section 2-17-38Construction of chapter. The provisions of this chapter are cumulative with and shall not be construed as to repeal or supersede Sections 20-1-2, 20-1-20, 20-1-21, 20-1-22, 20-1-25, and 20-1-27. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this chapter and Sections 22-2-2 or 22-3-2, the provisions of this chapter shall control. (Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §33.)
AL Code § 2-17A-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17A - Rabbit Meat and Rabbit Meat Food Products.|Section 2-17A-1 - Slaughtering, Processing, Inspection, etc., of Domestic Rabbits in Compliance With Chapter.

Section 2-17A-1Slaughtering, processing, inspection, etc., of domestic rabbits in compliance with chapter. Any rule, regulation or promulgation of the Health Department or the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to the contrary notwithstanding, any domestically raised rabbit may be slaughtered, butchered, processed, packaged, labeled and inspected for sale as human food at any slaughterhouse, abattoir, meat packing plant, processing plant or like facility in this state approved by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to the requirements of this chapter as hereinafter authorized. (Acts 1978, No. 656, p. 944, §1.)
AL Code § 2-17A-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 17A - Rabbit Meat and Rabbit Meat Food Products.|Section 2-17A-2 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations by Board of Agriculture and Industries; Minimum Standards for Rules and Regulations.

Section 2-17A-2Promulgation 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 carcasses and parts thereof not in compliance with rules and regulations adopted under authority of this chapter. Rules and regulations as authorized in this section shall also be promulgated and adopted to govern the preparation, packaging, labeling and transportation of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products as well as the cleanliness and sanitation of the premises on which rabbits and rabbit meat food products are slaughtered, processed, packaged, labeled or sold or offered for sale for human consumption, together with provisions for withdrawal of inspection services for violations of any rules and regulations adopted under this section. Any such rules and regulations as may be adopted under this section shall comply with or be at least equal to requirements of any regulations now proposed or as may hereafter be imposed by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States relating to the slaughtering, processing and sale of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products. (Acts 1978, No. 656, p. 944, §2.)