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2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection. › Section 2-17-16 - Commissioner to Appoint Inspectors; Duties of Inspectors; Inspections and Examinations to Be Made in Accordance With Rules and Regulations Prescribed by Commissioner.

Section 2-17-16
Commissioner to appoint inspectors; duties of inspectors; inspections and examinations to be made in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by commissioner.
The commissioner shall appoint from time to time inspectors to make examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules and other equines and poultry, the inspection of which is hereby provided for, and of all carcasses and parts thereof and of all meats and meat food products and poultry food products thereof and of the sanitary conditions of all establishments in which such meat and meat food products and poultry food products hereinbefore described are prepared. Said inspectors shall refuse to stamp, mark, tag or label any carcasses or any part thereof or food product therefrom prepared in any establishment hereinbefore mentioned until the same shall have actually been inspected and found to be not adulterated and shall perform such other duties as are provided by this chapter and by the rules and regulations to be prescribed by said commissioner who shall, from time to time, make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the efficient execution of the provisions of this chapter, and all inspections and examinations made under this chapter shall be such and made in such manner as described in the rules and regulations prescribed by said commissioner not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
(Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §13.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection. › Section 2-17-18 - Detention of Carcasses, Meat Food Products, Poultry Food Products, etc., Believed to Be Adulterated or Misbranded, etc.; Removal of Official Marks Therefrom Prior to Release.

Section 2-17-18
Detention of carcasses, meat food products, poultry food products, etc., believed to be adulterated or misbranded, etc.; removal of official marks therefrom prior to release.
Whenever any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat food product of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines or carcass or part of a carcass of poultry or poultry food product or any product exempted from the definition of a meat food product or any dead, dying, disabled or diseased cattle, sheep, swine, goat or equine or poultry is found by any authorized representative of the commissioner upon any premises where it is held for purposes of or during or after distribution in intrastate commerce and there is reason to believe that any such article is adulterated or misbranded and is capable of use as human food or that it has not been inspected, in violation of the provisions of this chapter or of the federal Meat Inspection Act or the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act or that such article or animal has been or is intended to be distributed in violation of any such provisions, it may be detained by such representative for a period not to exceed 20 days, pending action under Section 2-17-19 or notification of any federal authorities having jurisdiction over such articles or animal, and shall not be moved by any person, firm or corporation from the place at which it is located when so detained until released by such representative. All official marks may be required by such representative to be removed from such article or animal before it is released unless it appears to the satisfaction of the commissioner that the article or animal is eligible to retain such marks.
(Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §24.)
2023 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 2-17-20
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.
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.)
2023 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 2-17-21
Promulgation, 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.)
2023 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 2-17-22
Promulgation 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.)
2023 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 2-17-23
Classes 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.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection. › Section 2-17-26 - Meat and Poultry Inspection Advisory Council.

Section 2-17-26
Meat and Poultry Inspection Advisory Council.
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
(Acts 1969, No. 1049, p. 1939, §32.)
2023 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 2-17-28
Exemption 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.)
2023 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 2-17-29
Applicability 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.)
2023 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 2-17-30
Jurisdiction 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.)
2023 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 2-17-31
Admissibility 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.)
2023 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 2-17-32
Interference 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.)
2023 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 2-17-33
Failure 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.)
2023 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 2-17-34
Making, 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.)
2023 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 2-17-35
Forfeiture 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.)
2023 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 2-17-36
Disclosure 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.)
2023 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 2-17-37
Penalties 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.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 17 - Meat and Poultry Inspection. › Section 2-17-38 - Construction of Chapter.

Section 2-17-38
Construction 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.)
2023 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-1
Slaughtering, 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.)
2023 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-2
Promulgation 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.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 17A - Rabbit Meat and Rabbit Meat Food Products. › Section 2-17A-3 - Contracts for Inspection Services by Department of Agriculture and Industries; Fees for Inspection Services.

Section 2-17A-3
Contracts for inspection services by Department of Agriculture and Industries; fees for inspection services.
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is authorized and empowered to enter into agreements of contract with any person, firm, corporation or association on terms mutually agreeable with the parties thereto whereby the Department of Agriculture and Industries shall provide qualified personnel to perform rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products inspection in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be adopted under authority of this chapter. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, under authority of contracts for inspection work as authorized in this section, is empowered to charge and collect fees for inspection services to be performed, which fees shall be in the nature of a contribution to defray the cost of such services. All amounts collected as inspection fees shall be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund and be specifically designated or earmarked therein for expenditure by the Department of Agriculture and Industries to defray cost and expenses necessary to furnish such inspection services. The amount of fees or compensation to be paid to the Department of Agriculture and Industries under the provisions of any contract authorized hereunder shall be fixed and approved by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries at an amount whereby no cost or additional expenses will be borne by said department in rendering the inspection services to be performed, except as hereinafter provided. The amount of inspection fees or compensation shall not be fixed at a sum which will produce any profit or additional revenue to the Department of Agriculture and Industries over and above the actual cost necessary to furnish such inspection service. In the event the Legislature appropriates funds to defray the cost and expenses of providing inspection services as authorized under this chapter, then any contract as authorized hereunder with respect to the payment of inspection fees shall not be necessary; provided, that if any such amount as may be appropriated shall be insufficient to furnish the required inspection services such contracts may then provide that the difference or an additional amount as may be necessary to perform the required inspection services shall be paid by the slaughtering and processing establishment receiving the inspection services.
(Acts 1978, No. 656, p. 944, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 17A - Rabbit Meat and Rabbit Meat Food Products. › Section 2-17A-4 - Inspections Voluntary Unless Otherwise Provided by Congress; Other Statutes Relative to Inspections Not Affected by Chapter.

Section 2-17A-4
Inspections voluntary unless otherwise provided by Congress; other statutes relative to inspections not affected by chapter.
The provisions of this chapter authorizing the inspection of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products shall not be construed to make such inspection mandatory. Inspection services shall be on a voluntary basis upon request of a person, firm, corporation or association desiring such inspection. In the event the Congress of the United States at any time in the future requires compulsory inspection of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products, then the provisions and requirements of this chapter for inspection of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products shall become mandatory and otherwise in compliance with such congressional act. This chapter shall not affect, restrict, limit or modify the power and duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries to provide and require mandatory inspection for slaughter of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, equine and poultry for meat and meat food products for distribution in this state as authorized and required by Chapter 17 of this title.
(Acts 1978, No. 656, p. 944, §4.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 17A - Rabbit Meat and Rabbit Meat Food Products. › Section 2-17A-5 - Expenditure of Available Funds; Authority to Contract With Federal Government.

Section 2-17A-5
Expenditure of available funds; authority to contract with federal government.
The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to expend any funds that may hereafter be appropriated or otherwise available to such officer in carrying out the provisions of this chapter, including financial aid and other assistance as may be made available by the Congress of the United States. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall also be authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in developing a state program for rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products inspection in the event the Congress of the United States shall in the future authorize or require inspection of rabbit meat and rabbit meat food products. Unless funds are made available as herein provided, the slaughtering or processing establishment receiving the inspection services shall pay the cost and expense thereof pursuant to contracts as authorized under Section 2-17A-3.
(Acts 1978, No. 656, p. 944, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 18 - Poultry Meat Grading. › Section 2-18-1 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations for Grading at Poultry Slaughtering, Dressing or Processing Plants or Establishments by State Board.

Section 2-18-1
Promulgation of rules and regulations for grading at poultry slaughtering, dressing or processing plants or establishments by state board.
The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations providing for poultry meat grading at poultry slaughtering, dressing or processing plants or establishments to the end that consumers of poultry and poultry products may be supplied with a product which complies with the requirements of such rules and regulations and which may also comply with requirements of the federal government or any municipality receiving such poultry or poultry products or any state to which such poultry or poultry products may be shipped.
(Acts 1957, No. 625, p. 896, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 18 - Poultry Meat Grading. › Section 2-18-2 - Inspection at Poultry Slaughtering, Dressing and Processing Establishments.

Section 2-18-2
Inspection at poultry slaughtering, dressing and processing establishments.
The Department of Agriculture and Industries, through qualified personnel of said department, is authorized to inspect poultry meat at poultry slaughtering, dressing or processing establishments for the purpose of determining whether or not poultry and poultry products slaughtered, dressed or processed at such plants or establishments comply with the requirements set forth in rules and regulations promulgated as authorized under Section 2-18-1.
(Acts 1957, No. 625, p. 896, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 18 - Poultry Meat Grading. › Section 2-18-3 - Department May Enter Into Contracts to Perform Grading at Poultry Slaughtering, Dressing or Processing Plants; Collection of Fees by Department and Disposition Thereof.

Section 2-18-3
Department may enter into contracts to perform grading at poultry slaughtering, dressing or processing plants; collection of fees by department and disposition thereof.
The Department of Agriculture and Industries, acting by and through the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is also authorized and empowered to enter into contracts with any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association engaged in slaughtering, dressing, processing or marketing poultry or poultry products whereby the Department of Agriculture and Industries, on terms and conditions mutually agreed upon between the parties to such a contract, shall perform poultry meat grading at poultry slaughtering, dressing or processing plants to the end that poultry slaughtered, dressed or processed at such plants shall meet the requirements of any rules, regulations, specifications or standards adopted and promulgated under the provisions of this chapter.
The Department of Agriculture and Industries, under terms and conditions of any contract entered into under this section, is authorized to charge and collect fees for services to be performed thereunder, and such fees shall be in the nature of a contribution to defray the cost of such work, with the amount thereof to be mutually agreed upon. All amounts collected under this section as fees shall be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund. The amount of fees or compensation to be paid to the Department of Agriculture and Industries under the provisions of any contract authorized under this section shall be fixed at an amount whereby no cost or additional expenses will be borne by the department in rendering the services to be performed thereunder, nor shall the amount of fees or compensation be fixed at a sum which will produce a profit or any additional revenue to the department, as it is the intent and purpose of this section that such fees or compensation shall be fixed at an amount which will defray the actual cost and expense of the services provided.
The provisions of this section shall not be construed to require or make it mandatory upon the Department of Agriculture and Industries or any person, firm, partnership, corporation or association to enter into contracts as authorized under this section, as it is the intent and purpose of this section that such contracts shall be voluntarily entered into.
(Acts 1957, No. 625, p. 896, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-1 - Making of Deductions From Actual Weight of Cotton by Persons Buying or Selling Baled Cotton; Use of Untested Weights in Weighing Cotton.

Section 2-19-1
Making of deductions from actual weight of cotton by persons buying or selling baled cotton; use of untested weights in weighing cotton.
It shall be unlawful for any person in buying or selling baled cotton or in weighing such cotton for any person other than himself to deduct from the actual weight thereof as shown on a level-standing beam of the scale or to use in weighing cotton untested weights so as to deprive the seller of the cotton of any of its real value. Deductions may be made by mutual consent of buyer and seller or their authorized agents or representatives, on wet or damaged cotton bales, on each bale so weighed or deducted from.
Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §§351, 352; Code 1940, T. 2, §§141, 142.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-2 - Corporations, etc., Operating, etc., Places for Storing, Weighing or Dealing in Cotton to Maintain Records of Bale Cotton Weighed, Etc.

Section 2-19-2
Corporations, etc., operating, etc., places for storing, weighing or dealing in cotton to maintain records of bale cotton weighed, etc.
Any corporation, company, individual or his or their agents operating or owning places for storing, weighing or dealing in cotton doing business in this state who fail to keep a record of all bale cotton weighed by warehousemen, corporations, companies, individuals or their agents for whom each bale of cotton is weighed, with the names of such persons posted on the books daily together with the weight and description of each bale, or who fail to keep such record open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable times shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §353; Code 1940, T. 2, §143.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-3 - Mutilation, etc., of Marks, Brands, etc., on Cotton or Concealment of Cotton by Ginners, Warehouse Proprietors, Etc.

Section 2-19-3
Mutilation, etc., of marks, brands, etc., on cotton or concealment of cotton by ginners, warehouse proprietors, etc.
Any ginner, warehouse proprietor, common carrier, officer, agent, clerk or employee of such common carrier or person or any other person who, for the purpose of preventing, delaying or hindering the identification of any cotton by any authorized officer or the rightful owner or person having a lien thereon from recognizing, finding and recovering his cotton (whether the same has been sold to the warehouse proprietor or to other persons), changes or mutilates the marks, brands or numbers on such cotton or conceals any cotton delivered to such warehouse, common carrier or to such other person for sale or storage shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §354; Code 1940, T. 2, §144.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-4 - Appropriation of Cotton From Bale, etc., by Factor, Commission Merchant, etc., Having Custody Thereof.

Section 2-19-4
Appropriation of cotton from bale, etc., by factor, commission merchant, etc., having custody thereof.
Any factor, commission merchant, consignee or agent having the control of any cotton who, without the consent of the owner, appropriates to his own use any cotton taken from any bale under his control or authorizes or knowingly permits any other person to take from any such bale any part thereof and to retain the same to his own use shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §355; Code 1940, T. 2, §145.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-5 - Taking of Cotton From Bale Without Consent of Owner, Consignee, Etc.

Section 2-19-5
Taking of cotton from bale without consent of owner, consignee, etc.
Any person who knowingly and unlawfully takes from any bale of cotton any part thereof without the authority of the owner, consignee or agent shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §356; Code 1940, T. 2, §146.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-6 - Conversion, etc., of Cotton Samples.

Section 2-19-6
Conversion, etc., of cotton samples.
Any person who is authorized to sample cotton and who, with intent to defraud, converts such samples to his own use or refuses to deliver them on demand to the owner, consignee or agent, unless they have been destroyed or stolen without his agency or taken out of his possession by legal process, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §357; Code 1940, T. 2, §147.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-7 - Buying or Receiving Cotton Taken From Bale Without Consent of Owner, Consignee, Etc.

Section 2-19-7
Buying or receiving cotton taken from bale without consent of owner, consignee, etc.
Any person who, knowingly and with intent to defraud, buys or receives any cotton taken from the bale without the authority of the owner, consignee or agent shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §358; Code 1940, T. 2, §148.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-8 - Opening, Sampling, etc., of Bale of Cotton Without Consent of Owner, Consignee, Etc.

Section 2-19-8
Opening, sampling, etc., of bale of cotton without consent of owner, consignee, etc.
Any person who, without authority of the owner, consignee or agent, willfully or wantonly cuts, tears or otherwise opens any bail of cotton or takes any sample therefrom shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §359; Code 1940, T. 2, §149.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-9 - Failure of Purchaser of Cotton to Maintain Record as to Name of Seller, Etc.

Section 2-19-9
Failure of purchaser of cotton to maintain record as to name of seller, etc.
Any person who purchases cotton in this state who shall fail to keep a record showing the name and address of the person from whom the same was purchased, the date of said purchase and the identification marks on and weight of said cotton shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §360; Code 1940, T. 2, §150.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-10 - Failure of Cotton Broker, etc., to Pay for Cotton Purchased and Disposed Of.

Section 2-19-10
Failure of cotton broker, etc., to pay for cotton purchased and disposed of.
Any cotton broker or other person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying cotton, either on his own account or for others, who buys or engages to buy from a planter or commission merchant any cotton and fails or refuses to pay for the same at the time agreed upon and makes away with or disposes of any cotton purchased and not paid for is guilty of fraud and embezzlement and, on conviction, must be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years at the discretion of the jury.
(Ag. Code 1927, §361; Code 1940, T. 2, §151.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-11 - Fraudulent Packing or Baling of Cotton.

Section 2-19-11
Fraudulent packing or baling of cotton.
Any person who fraudulently packs or bales any cotton by plating or otherwise shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §363; Code 1940, T. 2, §152.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-12 - Exhibition of False Samples of Cotton, Etc.

Section 2-19-12
Exhibition of false samples of cotton, etc.
Any person who fraudulently exhibits any false samples of any cotton or of any other articles or commodity by means whereof any person is injured shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §364; Code 1940, T. 2, §153.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-13 - Removal, etc., From State of Cotton Subject to Purchase Money Lien.

Section 2-19-13
Removal, etc., from state of cotton subject to purchase money lien.
Any person who removes or aids in removing from this state any cotton subject to the lien given by law for the purchase money with intent to prevent, hinder or delay the enforcement of such lien must, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years at the discretion of the jury.
(Ag. Code 1927, §365; Code 1940, T. 2, §154.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-14 - Removal From Bale of Cotton, etc., of Ginner's Tag.

Section 2-19-14
Removal from bale of cotton, etc., of ginner's tag.
Any person, other than the purchaser, whether such person is the owner in whole or in part or warehouseman or other person who shall remove or destroy the tag placed upon any bale of cotton by the ginner thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §366; Code 1940, T. 2, §155.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-15 - Ginners to Maintain Registers of Cotton Ginned; Contents and Inspection Thereof.

Section 2-19-15
Ginners to maintain registers of cotton ginned; contents and inspection thereof.
Every person, firm or corporation who gins cotton shall keep a book in which it shall register all cotton received at its gins to be ginned in the name of the owner thereof, if known, and, if not known, then the ginner shall make due and diligent inquiry of the person who delivers said cotton to be ginned and record in its book the name of the owner as given and the name of the person from whom the cotton may be received, which book shall also show the date of ginning and the gin number of such bale, which gin number shall continue consecutively for each bale ginned by any particular gin to the close of the season. Such register shall be kept open for the inspection of the public.
(Ag. Code 1927, §367; Code 1940, T. 2, §156.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-16 - Marking, Tagging, etc., of Cotton by Ginners.

Section 2-19-16
Marking, tagging, etc., of cotton by ginners.
Every person who gins cotton in this state shall mark, label or tag the same in such manner as prescribed by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries.
(Ag. Code 1927, §368; Code 1940, T. 2, §157.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 2 - Agriculture. › Chapter 19 - Cotton. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 2-19-17 - Charging of Different Price for Ginning, etc., Cotton to Person Selling Seed Therefrom to Ginner.

Section 2-19-17
Charging of different price for ginning, etc., cotton to person selling seed therefrom to ginner.
Any person engaged in buying cotton seed and who also operates or owns a public ginnery in this state who shall charge any other or different price for ginning or ginning and wrapping cotton to any person selling said person the seed out of his cotton from that price which said person charges for ginning or ginning and wrapping the cotton of a person who does not sell said person the seed out of his cotton shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ag. Code 1927, §370; Code 1940, T. 2, §158.)