Terms Used In Alabama Code 2-24-4

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

No person, firm, partnership, corporation or association which maintains a soil-testing laboratory for agricultural purposes shall be required to comply with the provisions of this chapter as it is hereby intended that only those laboratories which desire to be certified under authority of this chapter shall be required to comply with its requirements. The agricultural soil-testing laboratory of Auburn University shall not in any way be affected by the requirements of this chapter, nor shall such laboratory be required to comply with any of its requirements.