Code of Alabama - Title 2: Agriculture - Chapter 2 - Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 2-2-1 Chief executive officer of department
  The constitutional officer known as the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall be the chief executive officer and shall have management and control of the...
• Section 2-2-2 Qualifications of commissioner
  The commissioner shall be a person of good moral character of recognized executive ability and trained in the practice and science of agriculture.
• Section 2-2-3 Bond
  Before entering upon the duties of his office, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be...
• Section 2-2-4 Term of office; vacancy
  The commissioner shall hold office for a term of four years from the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next after his election...
• Section 2-2-5 Salary of commissioner
  The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall be paid such salary as shall be fixed by law. Such salary shall be payable from the Agricultural...
• Section 2-2-6 Inspection of books; examination of witnesses; divulging information
  The commissioner or his duly appointed agents shall have authority to inspect books and records, to hear complaints, to administer oaths, to certify to all...
• Section 2-2-7 Annual report; publication of handbooks, pamphlets, etc
  The commissioner, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall submit each year on or before December 1 or as early...
• Section 2-2-8 Commissioner's powers and duties generally; assistance from other state agencies
  (a) The commissioner shall execute the agricultural and industrial policies of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries. It shall be his duty: (1) To...
• Section 2-2-8.1 Promotion of economic and industrial development
  (a) The Commissioner of the State Department of Agriculture and Industries, or an employee designated in writing by the commissioner, in order to promote economic...
• Section 2-2-9 Delegation of powers and duties
  The commissioner may delegate any of his powers to or direct any of his duties to be performed by the chief of a division and,...
• Section 2-2-10 Assistant to commissioner
  The Board of Agriculture and Industries may, in its discretion, designate one employee of the Department of Agriculture and Industries as an assistant to the
• Section 2-2-11 Organization of department; unclassified service
  The commissioner shall, with the advice and approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, organize the Department of Agriculture and Industries into such...
• Section 2-2-12 Legal counsel for department
  The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall be authorized, subject to the provisions of the state Merit System...
• Section 2-2-13 Appointment of assistants and employees; employees' bonds
  The commissioner shall, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries and as otherwise provided by law, appoint such chiefs, assistants, deputies,...
• Section 2-2-14 Livestock theft investigator
  The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized to designate as "livestock theft investigator" any employee or employees...
• Section 2-2-14.1 Appearance upon arrest for misdemeanor livestock violations
  (a) Whenever any person is arrested by livestock theft investigators of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries under Section 2-2-14 for misdemeanor violations of...
• Section 2-2-14.2 Forfeiture of conveyances and vehicles used to perpetrate livestock theft
  (a) All conveyances and vehicles of transportation including trailers and semitrailers, equine or equidae, or any other equipment, together with all harness or other accessories,...
• Section 2-2-15 Accountant in charge of clerical work and records; qualifications of division heads
  There shall be employed in the Department of Agriculture and Industries an expert accountant who shall have charge of all clerical work and records of...
• Section 2-2-16 Commissioner to enforce laws; promulgation of rules and regulations; notice
  The Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries is charged with the execution and enforcement of the laws and provisions contained in this title...
• Section 2-2-17 Evidence of rules, regulations and notices; copies furnished to probate judges
  The rules, regulations or notices purporting to be published by authority of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries in book or pamphlet form and...
• Section 2-2-18 Civil penalties or fines for violations of Chapters 27 and 28; maximum amount; notice; failure to pay assessed fine or penalty
  (a) Notwithstanding the existence of any other penalty imposed for violations of the provisions of the Alabama Pesticide Act of 1971 as found in Chapter...
• Article 2 Suspension From Sale, Condemnation and Sampling of Articles and Products.
• Section 2-2-30 Suspension of sale of article
  If at any time the commissioner or his duly authorized agent shall have reason to believe that any product or article, the possession or sale...
• Section 2-2-31 Seizure and condemnation of adulterated, misbranded or substandard article
  Any article, substance, material or product which is subject to the provisions of this article which is adulterated, misbranded or under the standard, grade, weight...
• Section 2-2-32 Procedure when analysis shows article or product in violation of title
  Upon the examination of specimens or samples of any article, substance, material or product the sale of which is subject to the provisions of this...
• Section 2-2-33 Duty 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...
• Section 2-2-34 Where 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...
• Section 2-2-35 Certificate 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...
• Section 2-2-36 Establishment 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...
• Section 2-2-37 Commissioner 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...
• Article 3 Statistics.
• Section 2-2-50 Agricultural 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...
• Section 2-2-51 Designation 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...
• Section 2-2-52 Funds 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...
• Section 2-2-53 Use 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...
• Article 4 Bond Equivalent.
• Section 2-2-70 Legislative 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...
• Section 2-2-71 Substitution 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...
• Section 2-2-72 Trust 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...
• Section 2-2-73 Promulgation 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...
• Article 5 Center for Alternative Fuels.
• Division 1 General Provisions.
• Section 2-2-90 Legislative findings; Center for Alternative Fuels; definitions
  (a) The Legislature finds that the interests of the citizens, businesses, and political subdivisions of this state are best served by promoting the development and...
• Section 2-2-91 Duties of the center
  The responsibilities of the center shall be as follows: (1) To assess the current status and development of sources of alternative fuels as defined in...
• Section 2-2-92 Promulgation of rules
  The department may promulgate rules necessary for the efficient operation of the center.
• Section 2-2-93 Contributions to the Alternative Fuel Research and Development Fund
  Pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 40-18-140, each individual taxpayer required to file a state tax return desiring to contribute to the Alternative Fuel Research...
• Division 2 Public Interest Energy and Fuel Research and Development Grants Program.
• Section 2-2-110 Legislative findings
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 2-2-111 Program created; goals; implementation and administration
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 2-2-112 Advisory Commission on Public Interest Energy and Fuel Research and Development Grant
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 2-2-113 Evaluation of grant proposals; report to Legislature
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 2-2-114 Public Interest Energy and Fuel Research and Development Grants Fund
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.

Last modified: May 3, 2021