Terms Used In Alabama Code 2-19-2

  • 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.
  • 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

Any corporation, company, individual or his or their agents operating or owning places for storing, weighing or dealing in cotton doing business in this state who fail to keep a record of all bale cotton weighed by warehousemen, corporations, companies, individuals or their agents for whom each bale of cotton is weighed, with the names of such persons posted on the books daily together with the weight and description of each bale, or who fail to keep such record open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable times shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.