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AL Code § 2-9-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 1 - Agricultural Fund.|Section 2-9-1 - Source of Fund.

Section 2-9-1Source of fund. Wherever provision is made in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce for the collection of any fee or license or the imposition of any fine or penalty for the violation of any provision of this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce without providing for the disposition of the proceeds derived therefrom, such proceeds shall accrue to the Agricultural Fund. The Agricultural Fund shall include all funds available from every source for the administration, enforcement or making effective the purposes of the provisions of the laws included in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce. All such funds shall be paid into the State Treasury and be kept intact, liquid and in trust, subject only to the requisitions of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, and shall not be subject to any allotment or proration of appropriations for the benefit of any other department, institution or other state agency or for any other purposes or for use in any manner other than as provided in Section 2-9-4. (Ag. Code 1927, §484; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §31.)
AL Code § 2-9-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 1 - Agricultural Fund.|Section 2-9-2 - Proceeding Against Persons Delinquent in Payment of License or Permit Fee.

Section 2-9-2Proceeding against persons delinquent in payment of license or permit fee. When any person has been delinquent for 30 days or more in the payment of any license or permit fee levied under the provisions of this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is directed or authorized to administer or enforce, he shall be deemed to be delinquent and shall, upon the demand of a license inspector in his county or upon demand of an inspector of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, be required to immediately make application for such permit or license and shall pay to such license inspector or inspector of the Department of Agriculture and Industries a fee of 15 percent of the amount of said permit or license in addition to the price of such permit or license. Such license inspector or inspector of such department shall immediately forward such application with the money therefor to the Department of Agriculture and Industries. Such license inspector may retain the delinquent fee of 15 percent, but inspectors of the department shall pay into the department such delinquent fee along with the regular permit or license fee. (Ag. Code 1927, §486; Code 1940, T. 2, §32.)
AL Code § 2-9-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 1 - Agricultural Fund.|Section 2-9-3 - Purpose for Which Agricultural Fund May Be Expended.

Section 2-9-3Purpose for which Agricultural Fund may be expended. The Agricultural Fund shall not be expended upon any work or activity of any department, institution, bureau, commission, board or other state agency in connection with the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station System or the Alabama Extension Service or any work or activity which is assigned to any department, institution, bureau, commission, board or state agency other than the Department of Agriculture and Industries or which is not definitely assigned to and defined as a part of the proper work of said Department of Agriculture and Industries. Said fund shall be expended exclusively for the expenses of the regulatory control and administrative work of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, except as otherwise expressly provided by law. (Ag. Code 1927, §487; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §33.)
AL Code § 2-9-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 1 - Agricultural Fund.|Section 2-9-4 - Authority of Commissioner Over Fund.

Section 2-9-4Authority of commissioner over fund. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall use the Agricultural Fund in accordance with the provisions of law for the support and expense of the regulatory, control and administrative work of the Department of Agriculture and Industries and in such manner as said board deems will best effect the purposes of all laws included in this title which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries are authorized or directed to administer or enforce. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall direct the expenditure of said fund, it being the purpose of this section to vest the financial supervision and control over the use of said fund for the work and activities assigned to the Department of Agriculture and Industries in the manner provided by law. (Ag. Code 1927, §488; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §34.)
AL Code § 2-9-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 1 - Agricultural Fund.|Section 2-9-5 - Payment of Salaries and Expenses of Commissioner, Members of Board, Department Employees, Etc.

Section 2-9-5Payment of salaries and expenses of commissioner, members of board, department employees, etc. The salaries and expenses of the commissioner, members of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, and the salaries of the employees of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, as otherwise fixed by law, shall be payable from the Agricultural Fund and other funds available to said department by legislative appropriation or otherwise; provided, that the expenses of travel and type or means of transportation of such officers and employees and other expenses incident thereto in the performance of their official duties, as otherwise provided by law, and proof thereof, shall be subject to rules and regulations approved by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries as to the manner, method or system of payment. The provisions of this section as to expenses shall also apply to experts and scientists when performing duties as provided in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce. (Ag. Code 1927, §489; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §35.)
AL Code § 2-9-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 1 - Agricultural Fund.|Section 2-9-6 - Requisitions and Warrants for Payments From Fund.

Section 2-9-6Requisitions and warrants for payments from fund. All expenses incurred under this title or any other provision of this code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce for the operation of the department shall be paid by warrants drawn by the comptroller on the Agricultural Fund upon the requisition of the commissioner. Said requisition shall be itemized and sworn to and accompanied by an itemized statement of expenses by any person in whose favor a warrant is to be drawn, verified by affidavit that such statement is correct and such amount is unpaid, with such other information or evidence as the board may require. Thereupon, a warrant or warrants shall be drawn by the comptroller upon the Agricultural Fund of the State Treasury for the amounts so requisitioned. (Ag. Code 1927, §490; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §36.)
AL Code § 2-9-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 1 - Agricultural Fund.|Section 2-9-7 - Withdrawals and Expenditures to Be Pursuant to Budget and Allotment; Unappropriated or Unexpended Funds.

Section 2-9-7Withdrawals and expenditures to be pursuant to budget and allotment; unappropriated or unexpended funds. The withdrawal or expenditure of any funds in the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund for the payment of salaries, expenses, equipment, operational costs or maintenance or for any reason whatsoever shall be pursuant to budget and allotment as is provided in Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41 of this Code, and limited to the amounts provided therefor by the Legislature in the general appropriation bill; provided, that the provisions of this sentence shall not affect in any manner or to any extent the appropriations for payment of rentals made in Sections 2-6-50 through 2-6-54. Any unappropriated funds remaining in the Agricultural Fund or any unexpended funds remaining in the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture and Industries by the Legislature at the end of each fiscal year shall be carried in the State Treasury in the Agricultural Fund. (Acts 1951, No. 999, p. 1670.)
AL Code § 2-9-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 2 - Shipping Point Inspection Fund.|Section 2-9-20 - Fund Created; Moneys to Be Paid Into Fund.

Section 2-9-20Fund created; moneys to be paid into fund. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund to be known and designated as the Shipping Point Inspection Fund. All funds, fees, charges, costs and collections accruing to or collected by the Department of Agriculture and Industries in connection with the administration and enforcement of, or providing inspection, classification or grading services pursuant to Articles 1, 4 and 5 of Chapter 11 of this Title, and any other laws or parts of laws whereby agricultural shipping point and terminal market inspection services are furnished by the Department of Agriculture and Industries, including services furnished for weighing and issuing weight certificates to be used for the sale of agricultural commodities, shall be deposited into the State Treasury, to the credit of the Shipping Point Inspection Fund. (Acts 1956, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 26, p. 296, §1.)
AL Code § 2-9-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 2 - Shipping Point Inspection Fund.|Section 2-9-21 - Expenditure of Fund.

Section 2-9-21Expenditure of fund. All funds now or hereafter deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Shipping Point Inspection Fund shall be expended to provide and furnish the services for which such funds are collected in accordance with the provisions of the law authorizing the collection of such funds or as otherwise directed by the Legislature. (Acts 1956, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 26, p. 296, §2.)
AL Code § 2-9-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 2 - Shipping Point Inspection Fund.|Section 2-9-22 - Insurance for Employees of Department of Agriculture and Industries at Shipping Points, Etc.

Section 2-9-22Insurance for employees of Department of Agriculture and Industries at shipping points, etc. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, subject to approval by the Governor, is hereby authorized and empowered and may enter into a contract by bond or policy with an insurance company authorized to do business in this state whereby employees of the Department of Agriculture and Industries who are engaged in work involving inspection, grading, classifying, weighing or otherwise handling agricultural commodities at shipping points, terminal markets, receiving centers or elsewhere will be insured against personal injury or death caused by accidental means while discharging their duties as such employees. The amount of insurance protection to be paid to any employee as authorized under this section on account of death, injury or disability shall not exceed the amount or amounts as provided by the workmen's compensation laws of the State of Alabama if such employees were privately employed; except, that such insurance may provide additional benefits not to exceed $10,000.00 per employee for the payment of hospital and medical expenses. The cost of any accident, death, disability, hospital, medical or other insurance benefits as authorized under this section shall be paid out of the Shipping Point Inspection Fund of the State Treasury. (Acts 1965, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 40, p. 56.)
AL Code § 2-9-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 9 - Special Funds Relating to Agriculture.|Article 3 - Egg Inspection Fund.|Section 2-9-40 - Sources of Fund; Expenditures From Fund.

Section 2-9-40Sources of fund; expenditures from fund. There shall be maintained in the State Treasury the fund now existing therein and designated as the "Egg Inspection Fund" into which fund there shall be deposited all amounts received pursuant to any cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture or other federal departments or agencies which provide for inspection and grading of eggs or other related or similar duties incident thereto which involve the inspection, grading or determination of the condition or quality of eggs or egg products. There shall also be deposited into said "Egg Inspection Fund" any amounts available by appropriation or otherwise for the administration and enforcement of the provisions and requirements of Chapter 12 of this title, which said amounts so deposited or transferred into said fund shall be used and expended for payment of salaries, other expenses, equipment purchases necessary for and incident to the administration and enforcement of Chapter 12 of this title, subject, however to the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41 of this Code. (Acts 1955, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 46, p. 152, §4; Acts 1975, No. 342, §3.)
AL Code § 2-10-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 10 - Cooperatives and Associations.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-10-1 - Use of Word "Cooperative" in Title.

Section 2-10-1Use of word "cooperative" in title. No person, firm, corporation or association organized or doing business in this state as a cooperative association to market agricultural products shall be entitled to use the word "cooperative" as a part of its corporate or other business name or title unless it has complied with the provisions of this chapter. (Acts 1921, Ex. Sess., No. 31, p. 38; Code 1923, §7147; Code 1940, T. 2, §105; Acts 1959, No. 591, p. 1480.)
AL Code § 2-10-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 10 - Cooperatives and Associations.|Article 2 - Marketing Associations Generally.|Section 2-10-20 - "Association" Defined.

Section 2-10-20"Association" defined. The word "association," as used in this article, shall refer to agricultural cooperative marketing associations and other organizations, whether incorporated or not, which have for their objects engaging in activities similar to those of a cooperative marketing association. Such associations are hereby declared to be impressed with a public service, and every such association shall be subject to the supervision, inspection and investigation of the commissioner. (Ag. Code 1927, §547; Code 1940, T. 2, §69.)
AL Code § 2-10-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 10 - Cooperatives and Associations.|Article 2 - Marketing Associations Generally.|Section 2-10-21 - Permit Required; Fee.

Section 2-10-21Permit required; fee. No association shall engage in business until it has first secured a permit from the commissioner. Application for such permit shall be made on blanks prescribed by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries and shall be accompanied by a fee of $25.00. (Ag. Code 1927, §548; Code 1940, T. 2, §70; Acts 1983, No. 83-593, p. 926, §1.)
AL Code § 2-10-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 10 - Cooperatives and Associations.|Article 2 - Marketing Associations Generally.|Section 2-10-22 - Duty of Commissioner Upon Receipt of Application for Permit.

Section 2-10-22Duty of commissioner upon receipt of application for permit. Upon receipt of an application by an association for a permit, the commissioner shall ascertain from the best source of information at his command whether the character and general fitness of the persons to have charge and control are such as to command the confidence of the community or communities in which it will operate and are such as to reasonably assure a fair and successful operation of such association. (Ag. Code 1927, §549; Code 1940, T. 2, §71.)
AL Code § 2-10-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 10 - Cooperatives and Associations.|Article 2 - Marketing Associations Generally.|Section 2-10-23 - Issuance of Permit; Annual Renewal Permit Fee; Penalty for Failure to Pay Renewal Fee.

Section 2-10-23Issuance of permit; annual renewal permit fee; penalty for failure to pay renewal fee. If the commissioner is satisfied from his investigation that the character and general fitness of the persons to manage an association are such as to assure a proper, fair and successful operation of such association and that such association will be of public benefit, then a permit to operate shall be granted after all officers handling or controlling property or cash shall have given a bond in such amount and under such conditions as may be prescribed by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries. Thereafter, each association shall pay an annual renewal permit fee of $25.00, payable on or before the start of the fiscal year of said association. Such fee shall accompany completed forms for yearly renewal, provided by the association, prior to the start of its fiscal year. Those associations in possession of valid permits as of July 25, 1983 shall also be required to pay the above annual renewal permit fees on or before the start of their next fiscal year following the passage of this section. Failure to pay annual renewal permit fees shall be considered grounds for revocation of any existing permit. The above annual permit fee of $25.00 shall also be due and payable for each and every subsidiary, branch office or other like establishment of associations that conduct any business of the association, in towns or areas different from that of the home office of the association. (Ag. Code 1927, §550; Code 1940, T. 2, §72; Acts 1983, No. 83-593, p. 926, §2.)
AL Code § 2-10-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 10 - Cooperatives and Associations.|Article 2 - Marketing Associations Generally.|Section 2-10-24 - Refusal of Permit.

Section 2-10-24Refusal of permit. In the event the commissioner is of the opinion from his investigation that an association making application for a permit cannot be successfully conducted or that the character or general fitness of the person to have charge or control are not such as to assure its fair and successful operation or if for any reason he is of the opinion that said association should not attempt to function, he shall refuse to issue such permit. (Ag. Code 1927, §551; Code 1940, T. 2, §73.)
AL Code § 2-10-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 10 - Cooperatives and Associations.|Article 2 - Marketing Associations Generally.|Section 2-10-25 - Notice of Decision Refusing Permit; Appeal.

Section 2-10-25Notice of decision refusing permit; appeal. If the commissioner refuses to issue a permit, he shall by registered or certified mail notify the principal officer or manager of the association and may notify by mail all members. An appeal by anyone interested shall lie from the decision of the commissioner to the State Board of Agriculture and Industries by filing with the Department of Agriculture and Industries a written demand for such appeal. The appeal shall be heard at the next meeting of said State Board of Agriculture and Industries, and the board shall render such judgment as it deems proper from the facts. (Ag. Code 1927, §552; Code 1940, T. 2, §74.)
AL Code § 2-10-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 10 - Cooperatives and Associations.|Article 2 - Marketing Associations Generally.|Section 2-10-26 - Temporary Permit Pending Appeal.

Section 2-10-26Temporary permit pending appeal. In the event an association desires to do business pending the appeal provided for in Section 2-10-25, it may be issued a temporary permit to do so upon paying $1.00 and filing bond with the commissioner in such sum as the commissioner may fix, conditioned to protect all persons dealing with the association from injury or loss. Said bond shall be in a reasonable amount, approved by the commissioner, and made in some bonding company authorized to do business in Alabama. Before such association shall be permitted to file bond as authorized in this section, there shall be filed with the Department of Agriculture and Industries, on blanks prescribed by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, an application for such temporary permit, accompanied by a full list of the members of such association and their addresses. Immediately upon the filing of such application, the commissioner shall call a meeting, by mailing notice to each member of the association, at such place as the commissioner deems most convenient for the majority of said members, and at such meeting he shall explain the reasons why he rejected the application for a permit. If a majority vote for such temporary certificate after such statement by the commissioner, the temporary certificate shall issue. The commissioner may issue the temporary certificate without such hearing. (Ag. Code 1927, §553; Code 1940, T. 2, §75.)
AL Code § 2-10-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 10 - Cooperatives and Associations.|Article 2 - Marketing Associations Generally.|Section 2-10-27 - Authority to Acquire Stock and Execute Mortgages.

Section 2-10-27Authority to acquire stock and execute mortgages. All cooperative agricultural associations of any kind or character whatsoever, heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase or otherwise acquire and to hold stock in the New Orleans Bank for Cooperatives and in the Central Bank for Cooperatives in accordance with the provisions of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as heretofore amended and as it may hereafter be amended by the Congress of the United States. All corporations, heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, which are eligible to borrow from production credit associations, are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase or otherwise acquire and to hold stock in production credit associations in accordance with the provisions of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as heretofore amended and as it may hereafter be amended by the Congress of the United States. Notwithstanding the provisions of other laws of the State of Alabama, any agricultural cooperative association organized under the laws of the State of Alabama or authorized to do business in said state may provide in its bylaws that the board of directors of such cooperative shall have the power to authorize the execution of mortgages covering its real property as security for debts of the cooperative; provided, that boards of directors of such cooperative associations shall not be authorized to mortgage real property unless such action is favored and approved by not less than a majority of the membership of the board of directors. (Acts 1935, No. 223, p. 615; Code 1940, T. 2, §76; Acts 1959, No. 593, p. 1482.)