Title 2 — Title 2
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Ala. Code § 2-15-172 Promulgation of Rules and Regulations as to Manufacture, Sale, Etc., of
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Veterinary or Biological Products and Serums and Disposal of Dead Carcasses, Etc. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries may make rules and regulations governing the manufacture, sale, distribution, handling and keeping and use of all veterinary or biological products and …
Ala. Code § 2-15-173 Payment of Expenses of Suppression or Eradication of Livestock
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Diseases and Administration of Article. (a) The State Board of Agriculture and Industries shall provide for payment of the expense of the suppression or eradication of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases of livestock from the Agricultural Fund. (b) The funds appropria…
Ala. Code § 2-15-174 Penalty for Violations of Article or Rules or Regulations of Department,
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Commissioner, Etc. Any person violating any section or provision of this article or any rule or regulation promulgated by the department, its board or the commissioner shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished accordingly. History: (Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §28.)…
Ala. Code § 2-15-190 Purpose of Article
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The purpose of this article is to authorize and empower the State Board of Agriculture and Industries to establish a program to include methods and procedures for the prevention, control and eradication of brucellosis or Bang’s disease in cattle and to prescribe the powers, autho…
Ala. Code § 2-15-191 Adoption and Establishment of Calfhood Vaccination Program by State
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Board. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized and empowered to adopt and establish a calfhood vaccination program whereby persons owning cattle or calves in Alabama shall have such animals vaccinated against brucellosis at a time and in such a manner and unde…
Ala. Code § 2-15-192 Establishment of Disease Control Program by State Board
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The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby further authorized and empowered to establish a program which shall include methods and procedures whereby all persons owning cattle and calves in Alabama shall be required to make such animals available for testing by the S…
Ala. Code § 2-15-193 Supervision, Etc., of Disease Control Program; Right of Entry and
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Inspection, Etc., of State Veterinarian, Etc.; Interference with Performance of Duties by State Veterinarian, Etc. Any compulsory, voluntary or recommended program for the control and eradication of brucellosis disease in cattle as may be established under authority of this artic…
Ala. Code § 2-15-194 Cooperation with Federal Agencies
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The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries and the State Veterinarian, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall be authorized to cooperate with appropriate officials and agencies of the United States Department of Agriculture and to enter into…
Ala. Code § 2-15-195 Expenditure of General Appropriations for Conduct of Disease Control
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Program and Indemnification of Owners of Cattle Condemned, Slaughtered or Destroyed. Funds appropriated under the provisions of the general appropriations act for brucellosis or Bang’s disease control and eradication work or any other funds that may be available for this purpose …
Ala. Code § 2-15-196 Penalty for Violations of Rules and Regulations Promulgated by State
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Board. Rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries as authorized under this article for a brucellosis disease program shall have the force and effect of law, and any person who shall violate any such rule or regulation or who sha…
Ala. Code § 2-15-197 Article Cumulative
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The provisions of this article are cumulative or supplemental to other laws or parts of laws enacted for the control and eradication of diseases of livestock. History: (Acts 1961, No. 1036, p. 1621, §8.)
Ala. Code § 2-15-2 Payment of Indemnification to Owners of Cattle Slaughtered Under
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Program for Eradication of Tuberculosis, Paratuberculosis or Bang’s Disease. Funds to indemnify owners of cattle which have been condemned and slaughtered, after having reacted to the test for tuberculosis, paratuberculosis or Bang’s disease as prescribed by the rules and regulat…
Ala. Code § 2-15-20 Definitions
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When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BOARD. The State Board of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. (2) BRAND. Any recorded identification mark applied to…
Ala. Code § 2-15-21 Registration of Brands by Livestock Owners; Fees; Certificate of
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Registration. (a) Any livestock owner who uses a brand to identify his or her livestock must register such brand by applying to the department. The application shall be made on forms prescribed and furnished by the department, which application shall be accompanied by a fee estab…
Ala. Code § 2-15-210 Establishment, Conduct, and Maintenance of Swine Disease Diagnostic
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Laboratory. (a) The Department of Agriculture and Industries may establish, conduct and maintain a swine disease diagnostic laboratory for the purpose of diagnosing contagious, infectious and communicable diseases of swine owned by producers of such livestock in Alabama, and the …
Ala. Code § 2-15-211 Feeding of Garbage to Swine
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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, municipality, county, political subdivision, governmental agency or department, institution, individual, partnership, corporation, association, other entity or organization to feed garbage to swine. (b) For the purposes of this section, “g…
Ala. Code § 2-15-22 Admissibility of Certificate of Registration in Civil Actions or Criminal
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Proceedings as to Title or Right of Possession. In all civil actions or in any criminal proceedings when the title or right of possession of livestock is involved, a copy of the certificate of livestock brand registration verified by affidavit of the commissioner shall be receive…
Ala. Code § 2-15-23 Renewal of Brands; Effect of Failure to Renew Brand
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(a) There shall be a renewal period for recording livestock brands with the department which shall be once every three years, beginning with October 1, 2005. All brands recorded on or after October 1, 2005, shall be renewed or rerecorded on or before October 1, 2008, and each thr…
Ala. Code § 2-15-230 Definitions
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When used in this subdivision, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) HOG CHOLERA VIRUS. An unattenuated virus administered to swine for the purpose of immunizing such swine from the disease known a…
Ala. Code § 2-15-231 Possession, Sale, Etc., of Hog Cholera Virus
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It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association in the State of Alabama to have in possession or keep, sell or offer for sale, barter, exchange, give away or otherwise dispose of hog cholera virus. History: (Acts 1951, No. 308, p. 601, §2.)
Ala. Code § 2-15-232 Sale of Swine Infected with or Exposed to Hog Cholera
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It is unlawful for any person knowingly or willfully to sell any hog, pig or shoat which is infected with or has been exposed to hog cholera disease. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as prescribed by law. Hist…
Ala. Code § 2-15-233 Quarantining of Lots, Stalls, Etc., Where Swine Infected with Hog
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Cholera; Disposition of Bodies of Hogs Dying from Hog Cholera; Moving of Hogs from Quarantined Premises, Etc. All lots, stalls and pastures and other premises where swine are kept and the disease of hog cholera is diagnosed or exists among such swine are hereby declared to be qua…
Ala. Code § 2-15-234 Appropriation and Expenditure of Funds by Counties for Hog Cholera
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Eradication Programs; Employment of Inspectors, Etc. County commissions of the several counties of the State of Alabama, when such bodies desire to conduct a hog cholera eradication program, are hereby authorized to appropriate and expend county funds in such sums as they deem ne…
Ala. Code § 2-15-235 Commissioner Charged with Execution and Enforcement of
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Subdivision; Promulgation of Rules and Regulations by Commissioner. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries is charged with the execution and enforcement of the provisions of this subdivision, and he is authorized and empowered, with the approval of the State Board of Agri…
Ala. Code § 2-15-236 Penalties for Violations of Provisions of Subdivision
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Except as otherwise provided, any person who violates any of the provisions of this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than $500.00. History: (Acts 1951, No. 308, p. 601, §6.)
Ala. Code § 2-15-24 Furnishing, Etc., of Forms for Registration, Reregistration and Transfer
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of Brands by Department. The department shall prescribe and furnish forms on which applications for registration, reregistration and transfer of livestock brands shall be made and shall furnish such forms to the sheriff and the county agricultural agent of each county of the stat…
Ala. Code § 2-15-25 Maintenance, Publication, Etc., of Register of Brands by Department;
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Department to Determine Ownership, Etc., of Lost, Estrayed or Stolen Livestock and Furnish Said Information to Interested Persons. (a) The department shall maintain a complete register of all brands, showing the name and address of the owner, and shall publish and distribute copi…
Ala. Code § 2-15-250 Department to Acquire Anti-hog Cholera Serum and Other Approved
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Immunizing Agents. 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 …
Ala. Code § 2-15-251 Distribution of Anti-hog Cholera Serum and Other Immunizing Agents by
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Department Generally; Payment of Cost of Inoculating Swine. (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 Veterinaria…
Ala. Code § 2-15-252 Hog Cholera Virus Not to Be Purchased or Distributed by Department
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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…
Ala. Code § 2-15-253 Distribution of Anti-hog Cholera Serum and Other Immunizing Agents by
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Department to Owners of Commercial Garbage-Fed Swine, Etc. 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 distribut…
Ala. Code § 2-15-254 Making of False Representation for Purpose of Securing Anti-hog
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Cholera Serum or Other Immunizing Agents. 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…
Ala. Code § 2-15-255 Serum Fund
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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…
Ala. Code § 2-15-256 Promulgation of Rules and Regulations for Implementation of
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Subdivision by Commissioner; Adoption of Swine Disease Control Program and Promulgation of Rules or Regulations Therefor by State Board; Expenditure of Funds Designated Therefor. (a) The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agricultu…
Ala. Code § 2-15-257 Appropriation
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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…
Ala. Code § 2-15-26 Disposition of Fees Collected for Registration, Transfer, Etc., of Brands,
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Etc. All fees collected under this article for the registration, transfer and reregistration of brands together with amounts received for copies of brand registration books furnished upon request as authorized under Section 2-15-25 shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the …
Ala. Code § 2-15-27 Records Required to Be Maintained by Operators of Livestock Markets,
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Livestock Hide Dealers, Etc. (a) Every operator of a livestock market where livestock are received and sold shall keep a copy of the register of livestock brands in his place of business where it will be easily accessible for public inspection during business hours. (b) The opera…
Ala. Code § 2-15-270 Adoption of Rules and Regulations for Control of Manufacture, Sale,
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Etc., of Hog Cholera Vaccines, Serums, Etc., by State Board Authorized. 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, kee…
Ala. Code § 2-15-271 Effective Date of Rules and Regulations; Notice to Veterinarians,
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County Agricultural Extension Chairmen, Manufacturers, Etc., of Rules. 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 reg…
Ala. Code § 2-15-272 Rules and Regulations to Have Force and Effect of Law; Violations of
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Rules or Regulations Deemed Misdemeanors. 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 wh…
Ala. Code § 2-15-273 Administration and Enforcement of Rules and Regulations
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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. History: (Acts 1967, No. 397, p. 1000, §5.…
Ala. Code § 2-15-274 Subdivision Cumulative; Repeal of Conflicting Laws
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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…
Ala. Code § 2-15-28 Promulgation of Rules and Regulations by Commissioner for
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Implementation of Article, Etc., Generally; Designation by Commissioner of Positions on Which Animals May Be Branded. (a) The commissioner, with the approval of the board, shall have authority to promulgate such rules and regulations as are reasonably necessary to carry out the e…
Ala. Code § 2-15-29 Prohibited Acts
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It shall be unlawful for: (1) Any person to use any brand for branding livestock unless the brand is registered with the department; (2) Any person to obliterate, alter or deface the brand of any livestock; (3) Any livestock market or livestock dealer to receive any livestock for…
Ala. Code § 2-15-290 When Tick Eradication to Be Commenced Within County; Expenditures
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by County Upon Commencement of Tick Eradication by State Board; County Commissions to Make Appropriations for Tick Eradication. 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 regul…
Ala. Code § 2-15-291 State Aid to Counties for Payment of Expenses of Tick Eradication
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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…
Ala. Code § 2-15-292 Counties to Provide and Maintain Required Number of Dipping Vats and
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Chemicals, Etc., Required Therefor. 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, fil…
Ala. Code § 2-15-293 State Veterinarian to Determine and Notify County Commission as to
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Number of Dipping Vats, Inspectors, Chemicals, Etc., Required; Admissibility in Evidence, Etc., of Copy of Notice. 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…
Ala. Code § 2-15-294 Appointment, Commissioning and Supervision of Inspectors; Inspectors
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to Be Paid by Counties. 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…
Ala. Code § 2-15-295 Dipping of Cattle in Tick Infested or Quarantined Ranges, Farms, Etc
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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…