Agricultural Fund.

Ala. Code tit. 2, ch. 9, art. 1

in effect

Ala. Code § 2-9-1 Source of Fund.

2-9-1. Source of Fund. Wherever provision is made in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce for the collection of any fee or license or the imposition of any fine or penalty for the violation of any provision of this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce without providing for the disposition of the proceeds derived therefrom, such proceeds shall accrue to the Agricultural Fund. The Agricultural Fund shall include all funds available from every source for the administration, enforcement or making effective the purposes of the provisions of the laws included in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce. All such funds shall be paid into the State Treasury and be kept intact, liquid and in trust, subject only to the requisitions of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, and shall not be subject to any allotment or proration of appropriations for the benefit of any other department, institution or other state agency or for any other purposes or for use in any manner other than as provided in Section 2-9-4. (Ag. Code 1927, §484; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §31.)

Ala. Code § 2-9-2 Proceeding Against Persons Delinquent in Payment of License or Permit Fee.

2-9-2. Proceeding Against Persons Delinquent in Payment of License or Permit Fee. When any person has been delinquent for 30 days or more in the payment of any license or permit fee levied under the provisions of this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is directed or authorized to administer or enforce, he shall be deemed to be delinquent and shall, upon the demand of a license inspector in his county or upon demand of an inspector of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, be required to immediately make application for such permit or license and shall pay to such license inspector or inspector of the Department of Agriculture and Industries a fee of 15 percent of the amount of said permit or license in addition to the price of such permit or license. Such license inspector or inspector of such department shall immediately forward such application with the money therefor to the Department of Agriculture and Industries. Such license inspector may retain the delinquent fee of 15 percent, but inspectors of the department shall pay into the department such delinquent fee along with the regular permit or license fee. (Ag. Code 1927, §486; Code 1940, T. 2, §32.)

Ala. Code § 2-9-3 Purpose for Which Agricultural Fund May Be Expended.

2-9-3. Purpose for Which Agricultural Fund May Be Expended. The Agricultural Fund shall not be expended upon any work or activity of any department, institution, bureau, commission, board or other state agency in connection with the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station System or the Alabama Extension Service or any work or activity which is assigned to any department, institution, bureau, commission, board or state agency other than the Department of Agriculture and Industries or which is not definitely assigned to and defined as a part of the proper work of said Department of Agriculture and Industries. Said fund shall be expended exclusively for the expenses of the regulatory control and administrative work of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, except as otherwise expressly provided by law. (Ag. Code 1927, §487; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §33.)

Ala. Code § 2-9-4 Authority of Commissioner Over Fund.

2-9-4. Authority of Commissioner Over Fund. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall use the Agricultural Fund in accordance with the provisions of law for the support and expense of the regulatory, control and administrative work of the Department of Agriculture and Industries and in such manner as said board deems will best effect the purposes of all laws included in this title which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries are authorized or directed to administer or enforce. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall direct the expenditure of said fund, it being the purpose of this section to vest the financial supervision and control over the use of said fund for the work and activities assigned to the Department of Agriculture and Industries in the manner provided by law. (Ag. Code 1927, §488; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §34.)

Ala. Code § 2-9-5 Payment of Salaries and Expenses of Commissioner, Members of Board, Department Employees, Etc.

2-9-5. Payment of Salaries and Expenses of Commissioner, Members of Board, Department Employees, Etc. The salaries and expenses of the commissioner, members of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, and the salaries of the employees of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, as otherwise fixed by law, shall be payable from the Agricultural Fund and other funds available to said department by legislative appropriation or otherwise; provided, that the expenses of travel and type or means of transportation of such officers and employees and other expenses incident thereto in the performance of their official duties, as otherwise provided by law, and proof thereof, shall be subject to rules and regulations approved by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries as to the manner, method or system of payment. The provisions of this section as to expenses shall also apply to experts and scientists when performing duties as provided in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce. (Ag. Code 1927, §489; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §35.)

Ala. Code § 2-9-6 Requisitions and Warrants for Payments from Fund.

2-9-6. Requisitions and Warrants for Payments from Fund. All expenses incurred under this title or any other provision of this code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce for the operation of the department shall be paid by warrants drawn by the comptroller on the Agricultural Fund upon the requisition of the commissioner. Said requisition shall be itemized and sworn to and accompanied by an itemized statement of expenses by any person in whose favor a warrant is to be drawn, verified by affidavit that such statement is correct and such amount is unpaid, with such other information or evidence as the board may require. Thereupon, a warrant or warrants shall be drawn by the comptroller upon the Agricultural Fund of the State Treasury for the amounts so requisitioned. (Ag. Code 1927, §490; Acts 1935, No. 13, p. 12; Code 1940, T. 2, §36.)

Ala. Code § 2-9-7 Withdrawals and Expenditures to Be Pursuant to Budget and Allotment; Unappropriated or Unexpended Funds.

2-9-7. Withdrawals and Expenditures to Be Pursuant to Budget and Allotment; Unappropriated or Unexpended Funds. The withdrawal or expenditure of any funds in the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund for the payment of salaries, expenses, equipment, operational costs or maintenance or for any reason whatsoever shall be pursuant to budget and allotment as is provided in Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41 of this Code, and limited to the amounts provided therefor by the Legislature in the general appropriation bill; provided, that the provisions of this sentence shall not affect in any manner or to any extent the appropriations for payment of rentals made in Sections 2-6-50 through 2-6-54. Any unappropriated funds remaining in the Agricultural Fund or any unexpended funds remaining in the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture and Industries by the Legislature at the end of each fiscal year shall be carried in the State Treasury in the Agricultural Fund. (Acts 1951, No. 999, p. 1670.)

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