Title 2

The commissioner with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the evident intent and purposes of this article. (Acts 1969, No. 568, p. 1049, §7.)

(a) Any person who shall engage in business as a dealer as defined in Section 2-15-131 without having a license as required by subsection (a) of Section 2-15-132 or any person who shall violate any of the other requirements of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, up…

The provisions of this article shall not apply to purchases of livestock bought by bona fide farmers or stockmen for grazing, feeding, dairying or breeding purposes when such livestock is held and kept for such purposes during a period of 15 days or more. (Acts 1969, No. 568, p. …

None of the provisions of this article shall be construed to repeal, amend, modify or otherwise change the provisions and requirements of Article 3 of this chapter, as it is hereby intended that the provisions of this article are cumulative and supplemental to such other requirem…

When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama. (2) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Departme…

The work of suppression or eradication of any infectious, contagious or communicable disease of livestock shall be taken up under the provisions of this article in any county or any part of a county or any part of the State of Alabama when the State Board of Agriculture and Indus…

Upon determination by the commissioner of the existence of a disease of animals which, in his opinion, threatens the livestock industry of the State of Alabama, he shall invite the United States government to cooperate with the department in the arrest or eradication of such dise…

The State Veterinarian or an assistant veterinarian or state livestock inspector shall quarantine a stall, lot, yard, pasture, field, town, city, township, county or any part of the State of Alabama when he shall determine the fact that livestock in such place or places are infec…

No railroad company or the owners or masters of any vessel, boat, truck or other vehicle or other transportation company shall receive for transportation or shall transport livestock from any quarantined district into any other part of Alabama, except as provided in this section.…

All livestock, when brought into Alabama by a person, company or corporation or railroad or other transportation companies, shall be accompanied by a certificate of health, and said certificate shall state that said animal or animals are free from contagious, infectious or commun…

Owners, agents, renters or parties in possession of quarantined livestock or quarantined places shall follow the directions in the rules and regulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries in cleaning and disinfecting infected or exposed livestock and infested or inf…

All vehicles in which animals are transported in Alabama shall be cleaned and disinfected at the expense of the operator thereof after each time of use or before the vehicles are used to transport other animals. (Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §15.)

The State Veterinarian, the assistant state veterinarian and the state livestock inspectors may enter upon the premises or into any barns or other buildings where livestock are kept or found in the State of Alabama in the discharge of the duties prescribed in this article. Any pe…

It shall be unlawful for any person to permit livestock to run at large in a quarantined district without a written permit of the State Veterinarian or a commissioned livestock inspector, and any person convicted of violating this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Acts…

If it appears necessary for the arrest or eradication of any disease of animals to destroy animals affected by or exposed to or any material contaminated by or exposed to disease, the commissioner is authorized, in cooperation with the State Veterinarian, to indemnify the owner a…

Before authorizing the slaughter of diseased animals, they shall be appraised by a duly commissioned representative of the State Veterinarian or a cooperating representative of the United States Secretary of Agriculture duly commissioned by said State Veterinarian. (Acts 1947, No…

If the owner shall refuse to accept the appraisal provided for in Section 2-15-161, the animals shall be appraised by three competent and disinterested appraisers, one to be selected by the duly commissioned representative of the State Veterinarian or the representative of the Un…

Animals which are exposed to but not affected with the disease and whose flesh can be saved for food without risk of spreading the disease shall be appraised by the appraisal committee, as provided in Sections 2-15-161 and 2-15-162, and such salvage shall be paid the owner and cr…

The amount of appraisal of animals shall be based on the meat, dairy or breeding value; but, in the case of appraisal based on breeding value, no appraisal of any animal shall exceed three times its meat or dairy value. (Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §21.)

The same board which is herein authorized in Section 2-15-161 to appraise animals shall also appraise materials which are to be destroyed. (Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §22.)

Appraisals of animals shall be reported on forms furnished by the department, and such reports shall show the number of animals and either the value per head or the weight of the value per pound. (Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §23.)

Appraisals of materials shall be reported on forms furnished by the department. Reports of appraisals of materials shall, when practicable, show the number, size or quantity, unit price and total value of each kind of material appraised. (Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §24.)

When the animals and materials affected or exposed to disease are ordered condemned, which the commissioner is herein authorized to do, any designated agent of the department shall proceed to destroy said animals and materials and to dispose of the carcasses under such rules and …

When it becomes necessary in the eradication or control of disease to sell any exposed animal and salvage the flesh, the sale shall be made under such rules and regulations as the commissioner may prescribe. (Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §26.)

The commissioner, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall have the power and authority to promulgate all necessary rules and regulations for the control and eradication of all infectious, contagious or communicable diseases of livestock. These ru…

The State Board of Agriculture and Industries shall have full power to make or enact such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for governing the movement, transportation or disposition of livestock that may be quarantined as provided in this article on account of bein…

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 serums and also the disposal of dead carcasses, infectious and toxic meats and fee…

(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 appropriated in the general appropriation bill fo…

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. (Acts 1947, No. 694, p. 528, §28.)

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…

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 under condi…

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…

Any compulsory, voluntary or recommended program for the control and eradication of brucellosis disease in cattle as may be established under authority of this article shall be carried out under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries and t…

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…

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 may be used and expended to carry out any brucellosis disease eradication and control…

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 shall fail…

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. (Acts 1961, No. 1036, p. 1621, §8.)

(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 amount appro…

(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…

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…

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. (Acts 1951, No. 308, p. 601, §2.)

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. (Act…

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 quarantined for a period of at least 30 days. No hogs may be removed for any purpose from such premises for a per…

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 necessary for enforcing the provisions of this subdivis…

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 Agriculture and Industries, to promulgate rules and regulations necessar…

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. (Acts 1951, No. 308, p. 601, §6.)