Terms Used In Alabama Code 2-16-2

  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

In order to promote the poultry industry in this state, the Department of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to make such regulations as may be necessary to set up minimum standards for the operation of public hatcheries, to regulate chick dealers and jobbers, to provide standards and to regulate shipping into this state of baby chicks, turkey poults and hatching eggs and for the control and eradication of contagious and infectious diseases of poultry.