Title 2

The Department of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized and required to purchase anti-hog cholera serum and any other approved immunizing agent in such units as deemed advisable by said department, at the lowest and best bid or bids, from one or more reliable manufactur…

(a) Except as provided in Section 2-15-253, the department shall distribute through employees of the livestock sanitary division of the said department, licensed veterinarians and others approved by the State Veterinarian, anti-hog cholera serum and any other approved immunizing …

The hog cholera immunizing agent known as “hog cholera virus” shall not be distributed or sold by the Department of Agriculture and Industries under any of the provisions of this subdivision, and such department is hereby expressly prohibited from purchasing or making any distrib…

The livestock sanitary division of the Department of Agriculture and Industries shall distribute anti-hog cholera serum or other approved immunizing agent at a price equal to all cost of the product, storage and distribution thereof to said department to owners of hogs in Alabama…

Any person who knowingly makes any false representation for the purpose of securing any anti-hog cholera serum or any other immunizing agent as provided in this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $500.00 and shall fo…

All moneys accruing from the sale of anti-hog cholera serum or other approved immunizing agent as provided in Section 2-15-253 shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Department of Agriculture and Industries in a fund to be known as the “Serum Fund,” which f…

(a) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is hereby authorized to promulgate and adopt such rules and regulations as may be reasonably necessary to carry out the evident intent and purposes of this subd…

There is hereby appropriated during each fiscal year such parts of funds made available by the Legislature for this purpose in the general appropriations act as is necessary for carrying out the provisions of this subdivision; provided, however, that the State Board of Agricultur…

The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for the purpose of controlling the manufacture, sale, distribution, handling, keeping and use of all veterinary, biological products, serums and vaccines…

Rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under authority of Section 2-15-270 shall not become effective until the expiration of a period of not less than 30 days from the date on which such rules and regulations are adopted, and during such 30-day period the Department of Ag…

Rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries as authorized under Section 2-15-270 shall have the force and effect of law, and any person who shall violate any such rule or regulation or who shall fail to or refuse to perform any d…

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries and the State Veterinarian are charged with the duty of the administration and enforcement of any rules and regulations as may be adopted and promulgated under authority of this subdivision. (Acts 1967, No. 397, p. 1000, §5.)

The provisions of this subdivision are cumulative or supplemental to other laws or parts of laws enacted for the prevention, control and eradication of the disease of hog cholera, and this subdivision shall not repeal any such laws or parts of laws unless the provisions hereof ar…

The work of tick eradication shall be taken up in all counties that shall be at any time partially or completely tick infested under the rules and regulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries. Where the State Board of Agriculture and Industries has begun the work …

In the event the Agricultural Fund will permit, the State Board of Agriculture and Industries may aid a county in defraying the county’s expense of tick eradication from the said Agricultural Fund; provided, that such aid shall not exceed $20,000.00 to any one county during the f…

The county commission of each county shall provide, build, repair and maintain the necessary number of concrete dipping vats with adequate pens and also provide the necessary chemicals, solutions and all other materials required for making, filling, replenishing and operating the…

The State Veterinarian shall determine the required number of dipping vats in the county and shall give written notice to the county commission of said county of the necessary number of dipping vats and the required number of inspectors and the amount of material required for kee…

The county commission in each county shall pay a reasonable salary, as determined by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, to as many inspectors as shall be required in the county to guard county lines, look after isolated vats, quarantined ranges and premises and quaran…

Every person, firm, company or corporation having in possession or in charge as owner, agent or otherwise one or more cattle in a tick infested or quarantined county or on a tick infested or quarantined premises, range, farm or pasture that has not been released from state and fe…

All stray cattle and equine or equidae running at large on quarantined or tick infested ranges, commons, pastures, or fields, if the cattle and equine or equidae have not been dipped as provided in this article, shall be taken up by the sheriff, any constable or livestock inspect…

No ticky cattle or equine or equidae shall be driven, moved, or transported in any way into Alabama. (Ag. Code 1927, §583; Code 1940, T. 2, §376; Act 2004-627, p. 1421, §1.)

(a) The county commission in a county released from state or federal quarantine shall provide and pay a reasonable salary to one or more inspectors or as many inspectors as shall be required to guard exposed county boundary lines, to look after local quarantined premises, ranges,…

The purpose of this article is to protect farmers of this state against damage resulting from breeding to sires advertised with bogus or fraudulent pedigrees and to secure to the owners of sires payment for service. (Ag. Code 1927, §593; Code 1940, T. 2, §395.)

Every owner of a sire charging a service fee, in order to have a lien upon the get of any such sire under the provisions of this article for said service, shall file a statement verified by oath or affirmation to the best of his knowledge and belief with the Commissioner of Agric…

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, upon the receipt of the statement provided for in Section 2-15-311, duly verified by affidavit, shall issue a certificate to the owner of said sire, a copy of which certificate shall be forwarded to the probate judge of the county c…

The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized to fix a charge for such certificate, not to exceed $2.00, as may be necessary to cover the expense incident to the execution of the provisions of this article. (Ag. Code 1927, §597; Code 1940, T. 2, §399.)

The owner or owners of any sire receiving such certificate by complying with the provisions of this article shall obtain and have a lien upon the get of any such sire for the period of one year from the date of birth of get. (Ag. Code 1927, §595; Code 1940, T. 2, §397.)

No get of any such sire shall be exempt from levy and sale under execution issued upon a judgment obtained in any court of competent jurisdiction for said service. (Ag. Code 1927, §596; Code 1940, T. 2, §398.)

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall have such a number of the annual reports printed and bound as may be deemed advisable by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries to obtain the greatest benefit to the breeders of improved stock in this state, said reports…

Any person who, by false pretense, shall obtain from any club, association, society, or company for improving the breed of cattle, equine or equidae, sheep, swine, or other domestic animals a certificate of registration of any animal in the herd registered or other register of an…