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AL Code § 2-5-36 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5 - Farmers' Market Authority.|Article 2 - Bond Issuance Authorized.|Section 2-5-36 - Establishment of Debt Service Reserve Fund.

Section 2-5-36Establishment of debt service reserve fund.  Repealed by Act 2013-286, §2, effective August 1, 2013. (Act 98-243, p. 396, §8.)
AL Code § 2-5-37 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5 - Farmers' Market Authority.|Article 2 - Bond Issuance Authorized.|Section 2-5-37 - Investment of Proceeds From Bond Sale.

Section 2-5-37Investment of proceeds from bond sale.  Repealed by Act 2013-286, §2, effective August 1, 2013. (Act 98-243, p. 396, §9.)
AL Code § 2-5-38 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5 - Farmers' Market Authority.|Article 2 - Bond Issuance Authorized.|Section 2-5-38 - Property of Authority Exempt From Taxation.

Section 2-5-38Property of authority exempt from taxation.  Repealed by Act 2013-286, §2, effective August 1, 2013. (Act 98-243, p. 396, §10.)
AL Code § 2-5-39 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5 - Farmers' Market Authority.|Article 2 - Bond Issuance Authorized.|Section 2-5-39 - Maintain Federal Tax-Exempt Status.

Section 2-5-39Maintain federal tax-exempt status.  Repealed by Act 2013-286, §2, effective August 1, 2013. (Act 98-243, p. 396, §11.)
AL Code § 2-5A-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-2 - Director.

Section 2-5A-2Director. (a) The commissioner may appoint a director who, under the supervision of the commissioner, shall administer this article. The director shall receive a salary to be fixed as provided in Section 36-6-6, payable in installments in the same manner as the salaries of other state employees are paid, and shall be allowed the same travel expenses in the performance of his or her duties as are allowed to other state employees as provided by law. The director, with the approval of the commissioner and subject to the state Merit System, shall appoint all necessary clerks, stenographers, inspectors, and other employees to administer this article. The director shall act as manager, secretary, and custodian of all records unless the commissioner shall otherwise direct. In addition to those duties already described, the director's duties shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following: (1) Directing the overall planning, development, and administration of promotional or assistive services or programs of the authority. (2) Directing the development and implementation of departmental planning and budget issues. (3) Directing compliance activities at farmers' markets and in programs administered by the authority. (4) Directing promotional activities of the authority. (5) Managing real property and other assets of the authority. (6) Representing the authority to the public and to federal, state, and local governments. (7) Managing the personnel of the authority. (8) Managing the fiscal affairs of the authority. (9) Writing grant proposals. (10) Negotiating and administering contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements. (b) The director, with the approval of the commissioner, shall fix the duties of all employees of the authority. The director shall be at the time of his or her appointment a resident of the State of Alabama. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-3 - Establishment of Farmers' Markets.

Section 2-5A-3Establishment of farmers' markets.  When a site has been acquired by purchase, lease, rent, gift, or otherwise, the commissioner may establish thereon a farmers' market, independent of and without the necessity of securing any permit from any municipality in which a site or sites may be located. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-4 - Regulation of Market Location; No Right of Eminent Domain.

Section 2-5A-4Regulation of market location; no right of eminent domain. Any farmers' market, as to its location in any municipality, shall be subject to any necessary or fair municipal zoning ordinances or fire or health regulations. This article shall not be construed as conferring the right of eminent domain upon the Department of Agriculture and Industries. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-5 - Regulating Conduct of Markets; Grades and Classes for Produce; Sale of Cull Produce.

Section 2-5A-5Regulating conduct of markets; grades and classes for produce; sale of cull produce.  The commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may make such rules as in his or her judgment may be necessary to conduct properly such farmers' market or markets, both wholesale and retail. The commissioner may provide experienced and competent persons to act as graders and classifiers on such markets. The commissioner may prescribe and designate reasonable grades and classes for farm products, truck crops, fruits, vegetables, and fish products and to enforce the same in all markets in the state. The commissioner may designate separate places on any market where fruits, vegetables, truck crops, and fish products of the different classes and grades shall be handled and kept separate. The commissioner may promulgate rules regulating or prohibiting the sale of cull produce or produce unfit for human consumption at any state farmers' market. Ripe peaches, cantaloupes, tomatoes, and other commodities of a similar nature shall not be classed as cull produce when sold in Alabama for local consumption. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-6 - Market Charges.

Section 2-5A-6Market charges.  In acquiring the sites for such market or markets and in conducting same, the commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may prescribe and collect reasonable charges to pay the necessary costs of acquiring, operating, and maintaining such sites and markets, may erect the necessary buildings, and may conduct the markets as provided by law. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-7 - Sale of Articles Unfit for Food to Be Prohibited.

Section 2-5A-7Sale of articles unfit for food to be prohibited.  Whenever any farm products are found on any market in this state in such condition that they are unfit for food, it shall be the duty of the commissioner or his or her duly authorized agent to forbid the same from being sold in this state, the same as is now done with other food and feeds. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-8 - Rules to Enforce Article.

Section 2-5A-8Rules to enforce article.  The commissioner, with the approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may make and promulgate such rules as in his or her judgment may be necessary to enforce this article. The rules shall be promulgated by being posted for a period of 24 hours in a conspicuous place in each market established under this article and, when so promulgated, shall have the force and effect of law. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-9 - Ejection of Persons From Markets.

Section 2-5A-9Ejection of persons from markets. The commissioner, through his or her authorized agents, may eject from any farmers' market any person, and his or her property, refusing to comply with this article and the rules promulgated hereunder. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-10 - Fixing Minimum Prices.

Section 2-5A-10Fixing minimum prices.  The commissioner, from time to time, as he or she may deem necessary, may fix minimum prices on the different grades and classes as provided for in this article and enforce the same by not permitting any person to sell any fruits, vegetables, or truck crops within the bounds of any market established under this article, at a lower price than the minimum price fixed by the commissioner. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-11 - Facilitating Sale and Exchange of Products.

Section 2-5A-11Facilitating sale and exchange of products.  The commissioner, when in his or her judgment it shall be advisable and necessary, shall provide a suitable means of communication between the Board of Agriculture and Industries and the farmers' market or markets established under this article so as to facilitate the sale and exchange of farm products and fish products of all kinds. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-12 - Disposition of Funds.

Section 2-5A-12Disposition of funds. All funds collected under this article shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of a special fund for the use of the Department of Agriculture and Industries and shall be used solely for maintenance, repair, and capital outlay for markets and market facilities, for payment of other expenses of operations as approved by the authority, and for liquidation of costs of construction of the markets and facilities. The funds shall be paid out on warrants drawn by the state Comptroller on the State Treasury, upon the authorization of the commissioner. After August 1, 2013, all funds remaining in the original Farmers’ Market Authority Fund #0360 shall transfer into a newly created Farmers’ Market Authority Fund for use by the Department of Agriculture and Industries. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-13 - Sales by Producer to Consumer Outside Markets.

Section 2-5A-13Sales by producer to consumer outside markets.  No provision of this article shall be construed to apply to any producer of this state who sells his or her own produce directly to the consumer outside of the state markets established under this article. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-14 - Lease of Space or Facilities; Remedies Upon Default.

Section 2-5A-14Lease of space or facilities; remedies upon default.  To assure the liquidation of the costs incurred in the installation of facilities at farmers' markets, notwithstanding Article 3 (commencing with Section 9-15-70) of Chapter 15 of Title 9, the commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may enter into contracts whereby persons who desire space or facilities at the markets may lease the facilities or space as necessary for their operation for a term not exceeding 30 years. The contract or lease, or both, shall contain provisions for the termination of the contract or lease, or both, upon the breach of the conditions therein or upon the failure to comply with the rules promulgated by the commissioner. The venue of any action resulting from the termination of such a lease or contract, or both, shall be in Montgomery County. If there be any default by the municipality, county, state, or any public corporation or state agency in the payment of any installment of rent or the performance of any agreement required to be made or performed under the provisions of any lease agreement, the corporation and the trustee, under any indenture, shall have and may exercise any one or more of the following remedies: (1) By mandamus, injunction, or other proceedings, compel performance by the officials of such lessee of their duties respecting payment of the rentals required to be paid and the performance of the agreements on the part of such lessee required to be performed under any such lease agreement.  (2) Obtain a judgment against such lessee for all monetary payments required to be made by such lessee under the provisions of such lease agreement with respect to which the lessee is then in default. (3) Terminate the lease and take possession of the project or part thereof leased to such lessee. (4) Exercise any other remedy provided for in the lease. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-5A-15 - Local Appropriations Authorized.

Section 2-5A-15Local appropriations authorized.  The county commission of any county and the governing body of any municipality may make such appropriations as, in their discretion, may be deemed necessary or proper to assist in the establishment of farmers' markets under this article. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 2 - Bond Issuance Authorized.|Section 2-5A-31 - Authorization to Issue Bonds.

Section 2-5A-31Authorization to issue bonds. The commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, in addition to all other powers previously conferred upon it, may issue and sell its bonds in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, enlarging, improving, renovating, equipping, and maintaining farmers' market facilities which the Department of Agriculture and Industries may establish pursuant to Section 2-5A-1. The bonds shall be in such form or forms and denomination or denominations and of such tenor and maturities, shall bear such rate or rates of interest payable and evidenced in such manner, shall be made subject to redemption prior to their maturities, and shall contain provisions not inconsistent with this article, all as may be provided by the resolution under which the bonds may be issued; provided, that those bonds having maturities more than 10 years after their date shall be subject to redemption at the option of the commissioner, with the approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, on any interest payment date on and after the tenth anniversary after their date at such redemption price and under such conditions as may be prescribed in the proceedings of the Board of Agriculture and Industries under which they are issued. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 2 - Bond Issuance Authorized.|Section 2-5A-32 - Execution and Other Details of Bonds.

Section 2-5A-32Execution and other details of bonds.  The bonds shall be signed by the chair or vice chair of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, and the seal of the Department of Agriculture and Industries shall be affixed thereto, or a facsimile thereof imprinted thereon, and attested by the secretary of the board. All signatures of the chair, vice chair, and secretary may be facsimile signatures if the proceedings under which the bonds are issued provide for the manual authentication of such bonds by a trustee or paying agent or by named individuals who are employees of the State of Alabama and who are assigned to the Department of Finance or office of the State Treasurer. The seal of the Department of Agriculture and Industries shall be impressed on the bonds and a facsimile of such seal may be printed or otherwise reproduced on any of the bonds in lieu of being manually impressed thereon. Delivery of bonds so executed shall be valid notwithstanding any changes in officers subsequent to the signing of such bonds. For the purpose of paying the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the bonds, the commissioner shall designate the State Treasurer. Funds for the payment of debt service shall be transferred by the Department of Agriculture and Industries to the State Treasurer on the actual due date of such principal, premium, if any, or interest. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 2 - Bond Issuance Authorized.|Section 2-5A-33 - Sale of Bonds.

Section 2-5A-33Sale of bonds.  The bonds may be sold by the Department of Agriculture and Industries from time to time in series. Each series of the bonds shall be sold at competitive bid and at such price or prices and at such time or times as the commissioner may consider advantageous. Bonds sold by competitive bid shall be sold, whether on sealed bids or at public auction, to the bidder whose bid reflects the lowest effective borrowing cost to the Department of Agriculture and Industries on the series of bonds being sold; provided, that if no bid acceptable to the commissioner is received, he or she may reject all bids. Summary notice of each such sale shall be given by publication in either a financial journal or a financial newspaper published in the City of New York, New York, and also by publication in a newspaper published in the State of Alabama which is customarily published not less often than three days during each calendar week, each of which notices must be published at least one time not less than 10 days prior to the date fixed for the sale or, in the event no bid acceptable to the commissioner is received at any such sale and the bonds so offered are thereafter reoffered on the same terms and conditions, not less than five days prior to the date fixed for sale. Neither a public hearing nor consent of the state Department of Finance or any other department or agency shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of any of the bonds. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 2 - Bond Issuance Authorized.|Section 2-5A-34 - Security for Bonds.

Section 2-5A-34Security for bonds.  The bonds shall not be general obligations of the Department of Agriculture and Industries but shall be limited obligations payable solely from one or more specified sources, including, but not limited to, revenues derived from market charges, authorized under Section 2-5A-6, lease revenues, authorized under Section 2-5A-14, and appropriations made under Section 2-5A-15. The commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may pledge all or any portion of such revenues as security for the payment of the bonds. All such pledges made by the commissioner shall take precedence in the order of the adoption of the resolutions containing the pledges. The commissioner may also obtain credit enhancement for the department’s bonds, including, but not limited to, bond insurance and letters of credit, and to pledge all or a portion of its revenues as security for its reimbursement obligations with respect thereto. All bonds issued by the Department of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to the provisions hereof shall be solely and exclusively obligations of the Department of Agriculture and Industries and shall not be an obligation or debt of the State of Alabama or any county or any municipality within the State of Alabama. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)
AL Code § 2-5A-35 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority.|Article 2 - Bond Issuance Authorized.|Section 2-5A-35 - Refunding Bonds.

Section 2-5A-35Refunding bonds.  (a) Any bonds issued by the Department of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to this article may from time to time thereafter be refunded by the issuance of refunding bonds of the Department of Agriculture and Industries; provided, however, that no refunding bonds shall be issued unless the present value of all debt service on the refunding bonds, computed with a discount rate equal to the true interest rate of the refunding bonds and taking into account all underwriting discount and issuance expenses, shall not be greater than 97 percent of the present value of all debt service on the bonds to be refunded, computed using the same discount rate and taking into account the underwriting discount and other issuance expenses originally applicable to such bonds, determined as if such bonds to be refunded were paid and retired in accordance with the schedule of maturities, considering mandatory redemption as a scheduled maturity, provided at the time of their issuance. Such refunding bonds may be sold and issued from time to time, at either public or private sale, and on such other terms and conditions as the commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall determine to be advantageous and shall adopt and provide for in its proceedings for the sale and issuance of such refunding bonds. Any such refunding bonds may be issued whether the bonds to be refunded shall have then matured or shall thereafter mature, and such refunding may be effected either by sale of the refunding bonds and the application of the proceeds thereof to the payment or redemption of the bonds so refunded or by exchange of the refunding bonds for those to be refunded thereby. (b) The proceeds derived from any sale of refunding bonds remaining after payment of the expenses of their issuance shall be applied in accordance with the proceedings of the Board of Agriculture and Industries under which such refunding bonds are issued. Pending the application of the proceeds to the purchase, redemption, or payment of such outstanding bonds, such proceeds may be invested in permitted investments pursuant to a trust agreement providing for the future application of such proceeds to the purchase, redemption, or payment of such outstanding bonds. Bonds refunded prior to their maturity with the proceeds of refunding bonds shall be deemed not outstanding if the Board of Agriculture and Industries, in the proceedings under which such refunding bonds are issued, establishes a trust fund consisting of cash or government securities, or both, sufficient to pay in accordance with the provisions of such trust fund when due, the entire principal of and interest and premium, if any, on the bonds to be refunded; provided that such government securities shall not be subject to redemption prior to their maturities other than at the option of the holder thereof. (Act 2013-286, p. 981,§1.)