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AL Code § 2-2-33 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 2 - Suspension From Sale, Condemnation and Sampling of Articles and Products.|Section 2-2-33 - Duty to Perform Tests or Analyses; Delegation; Use of Results.

Section 2-2-33Duty to perform tests or analyses; delegation; use of results. (a) Whenever it shall be necessary to have any tests or analyses made in order to properly execute any law or rule and regulation under authority of law, the execution or administration of which is a duty imposed on the commissioner or the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, the commissioner shall make such tests or analyses or cause to be made such tests or analyses by employees of the Department of Agriculture and Industries or as otherwise provided in subsection (b). (b) The commissioner, with approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, may enter into agreements delegating the responsibility for laboratory tests or analyses to any laboratory operated by the United States government or any other state government. The commissioner may use the results of tests or analyses performed by these laboratories for the execution or administration of any law or rule imposed on the commissioner or the State Board of Agriculture and Industries. (Ag. Code 1927, §220; Code 1940, T. 2, §497; Act 2015-262, §1.)
AL Code § 2-2-34 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 2 - Suspension From Sale, Condemnation and Sampling of Articles and Products.|Section 2-2-34 - Where Analyses to Be Made.

Section 2-2-34Where analyses to be made. All chemical analyses shall be made in a laboratory at such place or places as the commissioner with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries determines will best serve to increase the efficiency of the work of the department. (Ag. Code 1927, §222; Code 1940, T. 2, §499; Acts 1969, No. 1055, p. 1975, §1.)
AL Code § 2-2-35 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 2 - Suspension From Sale, Condemnation and Sampling of Articles and Products.|Section 2-2-35 - Certificate of Analysis Admissible as Evidence.

Section 2-2-35Certificate of analysis admissible as evidence. A certificate of analysis or examination by the chemist who is the supervisor or director of the laboratory of the Department of Agriculture and Industries or other laboratory utilized by the commissioner as provided in Section 2-2-33 in which the analysis or examination is made, when properly verified by affidavit, shall be admissible and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in any of the courts of this state on the trial of any issue involving the merits, and the quality of the bulk from which the sample was taken shall prima facie be presumed to be the same as the quality of the sample as shown by the analysis or examination. (Ag. Code 1927, §224; Code 1940, T. 2, §501; Acts 1969, No. 1055, p. 1975, §1; Act 2015-262, §1.)
AL Code § 2-2-36 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 2 - Suspension From Sale, Condemnation and Sampling of Articles and Products.|Section 2-2-36 - Establishment and Operation of Laboratory.

Section 2-2-36Establishment and operation of laboratory. The commissioner, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall have authority to incur such expenses and use such funds as necessary for the establishment, operation and maintenance of a laboratory or laboratories in which adequate and proper tests or chemical analyses can be made and conducted. (Ag. Code 1927, §225; Code 1940, T. 2, §502; Acts 1969, No. 1055, p. 1975, §1.)
AL Code § 2-2-37 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 2 - Suspension From Sale, Condemnation and Sampling of Articles and Products.|Section 2-2-37 - Commissioner Authorized to Inspect and Secure Samples.

Section 2-2-37Commissioner authorized to inspect and secure samples. The commissioner is authorized, in person or by deputy or by his agents, to have free access at all reasonable hours to all premises, places of business, buildings, transportation facilities or packages or containers of whatever kind used in the manufacture, transportation, importation, sale or storage of any article, substance, material or product, the possession or sale of which is regulated by the provisions of this title or the possession or sale of which is regulated by any other statute which the commissioner, department or board is directed to administer or enforce, and shall have the power and authority to examine and inspect any parcel, container or receptacle containing or supposed to contain any of said articles, substances, material or product and, upon paying or offering to pay the full value of said specimen or sample, to take therefrom samples or specimens for analysis, examination and inspection. (Ag. Code 1927, §227; Code 1940, T. 2, §503.)
AL Code § 2-2-50 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 3 - Statistics.|Section 2-2-50 - Agricultural Statistics.

Section 2-2-50Agricultural statistics. The commissioner shall gather, compile and publish statistics relating to crop acreage, prospects and production; livestock and livestock products; prices of farm commodities; the marketing of farm products; wages of farm labor; the use and results of commercial and other forms of fertilizers; systems of farming and of farm rentals; the production, purchase and sale of food and food products and such other data relating to farms and farming as may be of interest to the people of Alabama and pertinent to the administration of the laws relating to agriculture. (Ag. Code 1927, §32; Code 1940, T. 2, §490.)
AL Code § 2-2-51 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 3 - Statistics.|Section 2-2-51 - Designation of Federal Statistician.

Section 2-2-51Designation of federal statistician. The commissioner, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, may designate the statistician assigned to Alabama by the United States Department of Agriculture upon such terms as may be agreed upon with the United States Department of Agriculture. (Ag. Code 1927, §33; Code 1940, T. 2, §491.)
AL Code § 2-2-52 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 3 - Statistics.|Section 2-2-52 - Funds to Pay Expenses of Compiling Statistics.

Section 2-2-52Funds to pay expenses of compiling statistics. To defray the expenses of gathering, compiling and publishing statistics, funds available to the Department of Agriculture and Industries by legislative appropriation or otherwise may be expended for this purpose pursuant to budget and allotment as now provided by law. (Ag. Code 1927, §34; Code 1940, T. 2, §492; Acts 1965, No. 569, p. 1054.)
AL Code § 2-2-53 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 3 - Statistics.|Section 2-2-53 - Use of Information Gathered Under Article.

Section 2-2-53Use of information gathered under article. No information gathered or received from any individual under this article shall be used for tax purposes and shall not be disclosed except in aggregate amounts for entire counties. (Ag. Code 1927, §35; Code 1940, T. 2, §493.)
AL Code § 2-2-70 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 4 - Bond Equivalent.|Section 2-2-70 - Legislative Findings.

Section 2-2-70Legislative findings. The Legislature has found and does hereby declare that bonds that are required by persons obtaining licenses and permits that are issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or the Department or the Board of Agriculture and Industries are hard to obtain and unduly expensive. Many times the person applying for the permit or license will have available funds such as cash or negotiable securities or credit, but existing statutes do not allow for these funds to be substituted in lieu of a bond. It is, therefore, the purpose of this law to allow certain specified funds to be substituted in lieu of those bonds that are required to be obtained prior to being licensed or permitted. (Acts 1989, No. 89-692, p. 1364, §1.)
AL Code § 2-2-71 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 4 - Bond Equivalent.|Section 2-2-71 - Substitution of Bond Equivalent; Forms.

Section 2-2-71Substitution of bond equivalent; forms. (a) Whenever there is a requirement under law to obtain any permit or license issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, the Board of Agriculture and Industries or the Department of Agriculture and Industries that the permittee or licensee be bonded, the licensee or permittee may substitute in lieu of the bond a bond equivalent. (b) The bond equivalent shall be in the form of a trust fund agreement based upon cash, fully negotiable bonds of the U.S. Government or of the State of Alabama, or an irrevocable letter of credit. (c) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall furnish all necessary forms to be used for the issuance of the bond or bond equivalent. (Acts 1989, No. 89-692, p. 1364, §2.)
AL Code § 2-2-72 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 4 - Bond Equivalent.|Section 2-2-72 - Trust Fund Agreements.

Section 2-2-72Trust fund agreements. Every provision relating to the amount, the making, executing, filing and maintaining and all other requirements required for a bond issued by a surety shall also be applicable for any trust fund agreement issued in lieu of a bond. (Acts 1989, No. 89-692, p. 1364, §3.)
AL Code § 2-2-73 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 4 - Bond Equivalent.|Section 2-2-73 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations.

Section 2-2-73Promulgation of rules and regulations. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, and under the provisions of the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act, is hereby authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the evident intent and purposes of this article. The commissioner is also empowered, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, to also adopt such rules concerning irrevocable letters of credit so as to adequately protect the department and the public who may have occasion to depend upon said letter of credit for payment. (Acts 1989, No. 89-692, p. 1364, §4.)
AL Code § 2-3-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-3-1 - Composition of Board.

Section 2-3-1Composition of board. There shall be a State Board of Agriculture and Industries composed of 11 members which shall consist of the Governor as ex officio chairman, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, the Director of the Cooperative Extension Service of Auburn University, the Administrative Head of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Auburn University, four outstanding farmers and three outstanding leaders of industry. (Acts 1939, No. 145, p. 199; Code 1940, T. 2, §25; Acts 1979, No. 79-234, p. 361, §1.)
AL Code § 2-3-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-3-2 - Farmer and Industry Members Appointed by Governor; Terms of Office.

Section 2-3-2Farmer and industry members appointed by Governor; terms of office. The four farmer members and the three industry members shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate; provided, that no two of the farmer members shall reside in the same congressional district of the state; provided further, that no two of the industry members shall reside in the same congressional district of the state. The members of said State Board of Agriculture and Industries appointed by the Governor shall hold office for and only during the tenure of office of the Governor making the appointment and until their successors are appointed and qualified. (Acts 1939, No. 145, p. 199; Code 1940, T. 2, §26.)
AL Code § 2-3-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-3-3 - Meetings; per Diem and Expenses.

Section 2-3-3Meetings; per diem and expenses. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries shall hold its annual meetings each year at the office of the commissioner on the second Tuesday in November. Other regular meetings shall be held on the second Tuesdays in February, May and August. Special meetings may be held as the duties and business of the board may require. In case of the absence of the chairman, the board shall elect a temporary chairman. The rules generally adopted by deliberative bodies for their government shall be observed by the board. No motion or resolution shall be adopted without the concurrence of a majority of the whole board. The appointive members of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries shall receive a per diem of $50.00 per day, and their expenses incurred in attending meetings and transacting the business of the board shall be paid as provided in Article 2 of Chapter 7 of Title 36; provided, that they shall not draw such per diem for more than 20 days in any fiscal year. An ex officio or nonappointive member of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries may designate or appoint any member of his staff to attend meetings of the board when such ex officio member is unable to attend and such staff member so designated shall have full power and authority to vote for and on behalf of such ex officio member on any question that may come before the board. (Ag. Code 1927, §27; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §27; Acts 1953, No. 669, p. 926; Acts 1979, No. 79-234, p. 361, §;2.)
AL Code § 2-3-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-3-4 - Duties of Board.

Section 2-3-4Duties of board. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries to consider the agricultural and industrial needs of the state; to make and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations necessary to carry out the objects and purposes of the regulatory work required by law to be executed by the commissioner; to cooperate with all federal, state, county and municipal agencies in the enforcement of such regulatory work or police matters as relate to the duties of the commissioner; to cooperate with the Agricultural Experiment Station, the extension service of Auburn University and with all official agencies in promoting the interest of agriculture and industry in Alabama; to provide that the soil survey of Alabama and the necessary resurvey and revision of the soil survey work are completed and state soil survey maps and reports are printed for distribution and to discharge such other duties as are required by law. (Ag. Code 1927, §28; Code 1940, T. 2, §28.)
AL Code § 2-3-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-3-5 - Assistance From Specialists and Scientists of Auburn University and Agricultural Extension Service.

Section 2-3-5Assistance from specialists and scientists of Auburn University and Agricultural Extension Service. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to call into consultation the heads of departments, professors or scientists of Auburn University and officers or specialists of the Alabama Agricultural Extension Service whenever it may be deemed advisable to secure technical, scientific or practical information relating to any of the subjects of this title. It shall be the duty of such heads of departments, professors or scientists of Auburn University and of the officers or specialists of the Alabama Agricultural Extension Service, when so requested by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, to attend any meetings of the board and to furnish such information, facts and data in their possession as may be requested by the said board. The actual traveling expenses of such persons in attending such meeting may be paid from the Agricultural Fund. (Ag. Code 1927, §30; Code 1940, T. 2, §29.)
AL Code § 2-3-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 2-3-6 - Attorney General Legal Advisor; Duties of District Attorneys.

Section 2-3-6Attorney General legal advisor; duties of district attorneys. The Attorney General shall be the legal advisor of the Department of Agriculture and Industries in matters relating to the powers and duties of the commissioner and State Board of Agriculture and Industries. It shall be the duty of any district attorney, when requested by the commissioner or his duly authorized agent, to investigate, institute and prosecute all violations of the laws of the state and rules and regulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, and such district attorney shall, upon the request of the commissioner, institute and prosecute all necessary actions and proceedings which the commissioner is authorized to bring to enforce the laws of the state and rules and regulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries. (Ag. Code 1927, §31; Code 1940, T. 2, §30.)
AL Code § 2-3-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 2 - Acquisition and Construction of Markets.|Section 2-3-20 - Acquisition of Sites and Erection of Facilities; Storage; Charges for Space; Services and Facilities; Disposition of Funds Collected.

Section 2-3-20Acquisition of sites and erection of facilities; storage; charges for space; services and facilities; disposition of funds collected. The Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, donation, lease or condemnation, for and in the name of the State of Alabama a suitable site or sites accessible to highways and railroad and air terminal facilities and to erect and install thereon such structures, facilities and equipment as may be necessary for the inspection, grading, standardization, classification, refrigeration, dehydration (for both food and feed), canning, packing, processing, cold storage and marketing of agricultural products, including all staple food crops, fruits, vegetables, poultry, dairy products, fish and kindred products and to let or lease space and facilities in such markets for the storage of such products pending inspection, grading, packing, canning, processing, classification, refrigeration, dehydration (for both food and feed) and marketing of such products and to make such charges for such space, services and facilities as will cover the reasonable costs of operation and maintenance of such markets, equipment and facilities; provided that such charges shall not be made with a view to producing any revenue or profit to the State of Alabama or to the board but shall be based exclusively upon the reasonable cost of operation and maintenance and liquidation of costs of construction. All collections of such charges shall be deposited monthly in the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund, and shall be used for payment of the expenses of operation and maintenance and liquidation of costs of construction of such markets and facilities, upon requisition upon the State Comptroller, to be paid by the warrant of the Comptroller upon the Treasury. Any moneys remaining after payment of the above expenses may be used for the payment of principal and interest on any bonds issued for the purpose of construction of a farmers market facility, upon requisition upon the State Comptroller, to be paid by warrant of the Comptroller upon the State Treasury. Said collections received from operations of a farmers market facility are hereby appropriated for the above uses. (Acts 1943, No. 32, p. 25, §§3, 4; Acts 1984, No. 84-239, p. 360, §1.)
AL Code § 2-3-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 2 - Acquisition and Construction of Markets.|Section 2-3-21 - Other Departments to Furnish Services and Labor in Construction of Roads, Etc.

Section 2-3-21Other departments to furnish services and labor in construction of roads, etc. All surveying and engineering services in connection with the construction of roads, approaches and paving connected with such market or markets shall be furnished by and shall be rendered under the supervision of the Department of Transportation, without charge to the Board of Agriculture and Industries, and all labor for construction of such roads, approaches and paving shall be furnished without charge by the Alabama Department of Corrections. (Acts 1943, No. 32, p. 25, §8.)
AL Code § 2-3-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 2 - Acquisition and Construction of Markets.|Section 2-3-22 - Commissioner of Agriculture to Supervise Operation of Facilities, Etc.

Section 2-3-22Commissioner of Agriculture to supervise operation of facilities, etc. The operation of any structure, facility, equipment or market as provided in this article shall be under the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries. He is empowered to employ any necessary personnel for the efficient operation of said facilities or markets. At the discretion of the commissioner, one person for each market may be employed in the unclassified service. (Acts 1984, No. 84-239, p. 361, §2; Acts 1991, No. 91-731, p. 1423, §1.)
AL Code § 2-3-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 2 - Agriculture.|Chapter 3 - Board of Agriculture and Industries.|Article 2 - Acquisition and Construction of Markets.|Section 2-3-23 - Promulgation and Enforcement of Rules and Regulations; Posting of Rules; Penalty.

Section 2-3-23Promulgation and enforcement of rules and regulations; posting of rules; penalty. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries is empowered and authorized, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, to promulgate and enforce such rules and regulations, as in the opinion of the commissioner, shall be necessary to carry out the purposes of this article. Any rules and regulations made and promulgated shall be posted in a conspicuous place at each structure, facility or market. When so promulgated and posted, such rules and regulations shall have the force and effect of law. Any person willfully violating the provisions of any rule or regulation after it has been promulgated and posted, as provided above, for over 30 days, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. (Acts 1984, No. 84-239, p. 360, §3.)