Code of Alabama - Title 2: Agriculture - Chapter 5A - Farmers' Marketauthority

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 2-5A-1 Establishment; powers and duties
  (a) The Farmers' Market Authority is established in the Department of Agriculture and Industries. The authority shall have the powers and duties to establish agricultural...
• Section 2-5A-2 Director
  (a) The commissioner may appoint a director who, under the supervision of the commissioner, shall administer this article. The director shall receive a salary to...
• Section 2-5A-3 Establishment of farmers' markets
  When a site has been acquired by purchase, lease, rent, gift, or otherwise, the commissioner may establish thereon a farmers' market, independent of and without...
• Section 2-5A-4 Regulation of market location; no right of eminent domain
  Any farmers' market, as to its location in any municipality, shall be subject to any necessary or fair municipal zoning ordinances or fire or health...
• Section 2-5A-5 Regulating conduct of markets; grades and classes for produce; sale of cull produce
  The commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may make such rules as in his or her judgment may be necessary to...
• Section 2-5A-6 Market charges
  In acquiring the sites for such market or markets and in conducting same, the commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may...
• Section 2-5A-7 Sale of articles unfit for food to be prohibited
  Whenever any farm products are found on any market in this state in such condition that they are unfit for food, it shall be the...
• Section 2-5A-8 Rules to enforce article
  The commissioner, with the approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may make and promulgate such rules as in his or her judgment may...
• Section 2-5A-9 Ejection of persons from markets
  The commissioner, through his or her authorized agents, may eject from any farmers' market any person, and his or her property, refusing to comply with...
• Section 2-5A-10 Fixing minimum prices
  The commissioner, from time to time, as he or she may deem necessary, may fix minimum prices on the different grades and classes as provided...
• Section 2-5A-11 Facilitating sale and exchange of products
  The commissioner, when in his or her judgment it shall be advisable and necessary, shall provide a suitable means of communication between the Board of...
• Section 2-5A-12 Disposition of funds
  All funds collected under this article shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of a special fund for the use of the...
• Section 2-5A-13 Sales by producer to consumer outside markets
  No provision of this article shall be construed to apply to any producer of this state who sells his or her own produce directly to...
• Section 2-5A-14 Lease of space or facilities; remedies upon default
  To assure the liquidation of the costs incurred in the installation of facilities at farmers' markets, notwithstanding Article 3 (commencing with Section 9-15-70) of Chapter...
• Section 2-5A-15 Local appropriations authorized
  The county commission of any county and the governing body of any municipality may make such appropriations as, in their discretion, may be deemed necessary...
• Article 2 Bond Issuance Authorized.
• Section 2-5A-30 Definitions
  Whenever used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BONDS. Those bonds, including...
• Section 2-5A-31 Authorization to issue bonds
  The commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, in addition to all other powers previously conferred upon it, may issue and sell...
• Section 2-5A-32 Execution and other details of bonds
  The bonds shall be signed by the chair or vice chair of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, and the seal of the Department of...
• Section 2-5A-33 Sale of bonds
  The bonds may be sold by the Department of Agriculture and Industries from time to time in series. Each series of the bonds shall be...
• Section 2-5A-34 Security for bonds
  The bonds shall not be general obligations of the Department of Agriculture and Industries but shall be limited obligations payable solely from one or more...
• Section 2-5A-35 Refunding bonds
  (a) Any bonds issued by the Department of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to this article may from time to time thereafter be refunded by the...
• Section 2-5A-36 Establishment of debt service reserve fund
  A debt service reserve fund may be established and maintained in such an amount and under such conditions for any or all series of the...
• Section 2-5A-37 Investment of proceeds from bond sales
  Prior to the completion of farmers' market facilities to be financed with proceeds of bonds, any portion of the principal proceeds derived from the sale...
• Section 2-5A-38 Property of authority exempt from taxation
  The Department of Agriculture and Industries, its property and income and all obligations issued by the Department of Agriculture and Industries, the income from such...
• Section 2-5A-39 Maintaining federal tax-exempt status
  The Board of Agriculture and Industries has the power and hereby delegates power to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries to cause appropriate reports to...

Last modified: May 3, 2021