Chapter 1 - Farmers' Market Authority
- Article 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS.
- Section 2-5-1 Establishment; powers and duties
(a) There is established in the State of Alabama a Farmers' Market Authority with powers and duties to establish agricultural markets to prevent waste ...
- Section 2-5-2 Composition; qualifications of members; terms of office; chair and vice-chair
The Farmers' Market Authority shall consist of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries by virtue of his or her office and eight members, at ...
- Section 2-5-3 Meetings; per diem and expenses
The Farmers' Market Authority shall meet on the call of the chairman. In case of absence of the chairman and vice-chairman, the members present ...
- Section 2-5-4 Director
(a) The Farmers' Market Authority may appoint a director who, under the supervision of the authority, shall administer this article. The director shall receive ...
- Section 2-5-5 Establishment of farmers' markets
The Farmers' Market Authority shall have authority, when a site has been acquired by purchase, lease, rent, gift or otherwise, to establish thereon a ...
- Section 2-5-6 Regulation of market location; no right of eminent domain
Any farmers' market shall, as to its location in any municipality, be subject to any necessary or fair municipal zoning ordinances or fire or ...
- Section 2-5-7 Regulating conduct of markets; grades and classes for produce; sale of cull produce
The Farmers' Market Authority is hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations as in its judgment may be necessary to conduct properly such ...
- Section 2-5-8 Market charges
The Farmers' Market Authority shall have the power and authority, in acquiring the sites for such market or markets and in conducting same, to ...
- Section 2-5-9 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 ...
- Section 2-5-10 Rules and regulations to enforce article
The Farmers' Market Authority is hereby empowered to make and promulgate such rules and regulations as in its judgment may be necessary to enforce ...
- Section 2-5-11 Ejection of persons from markets
The director, through his or her authorized agents, may eject from any farmers' market any person, and his or her property, refusing to comply ...
- Section 2-5-12 Fixing minimum prices
The Farmers' Market Authority is authorized to fix from time to time, as it may deem necessary, minimum prices on the different grades and ...
- Section 2-5-13 Facilitating sale and exchange of products
The Farmers' Market Authority is authorized and directed, when in its judgment it shall be advisable and necessary, to provide suitable means of communication ...
- Section 2-5-14 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 ...
- Section 2-5-15 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 own produce directly to the ...
- Section 2-5-16 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 of Chapter 15 of Title ...
- Section 2-5-17 Local appropriations authorized
The county commission of any county and the governing body of any municipality are hereby authorized to make such appropriations as may, in their ...
- Article 2 Bond Issuance Authorized.
- Section 2-5-30 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, ...
- Section 2-5-31 Authorization to issue bonds
The Farmers' Market Authority shall, in addition to all other powers previously conferred upon it, have the power to issue and sell its bonds ...
- Section 2-5-32 Execution and other details of the bonds
The bonds shall be signed by the chair or vice chair of the authority, and the seal of the authority shall be affixed thereto, ...
- Section 2-5-33 Sale of the bonds
The bonds may be sold by the authority from time to time in series. Each series of the bonds shall be sold at competitive ...
- Section 2-5-34 Security for the bonds
The bonds shall not be general obligations of the authority but shall be limited obligations payable solely from one or more specified sources, including, ...
- Section 2-5-35 Refunding bonds
(a) Any bonds issued by the authority pursuant to this article may from time to time thereafter be refunded by the issuance of refunding ...
- Section 2-5-36 Establishment of debt service reserve fund
A debt service reserve fund is authorized to be established and maintained in such an amount and under such conditions for any or all ...
- Section 2-5-37 Investment of proceeds from bond sale
Prior to the completion of farmers' market facilities to be financed with proceeds of bonds, any portion of the principal proceeds derived from the ...
- Section 2-5-38 Property of authority exempt from taxation
The authority, its property and income and all obligations issued by the authority, the income from such obligations or from the investment of such ...
- Section 2-5-39 Maintain federal tax-exempt status
The authority has the power and hereby delegates power to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries to cause appropriate reports to be prepared and ...
