Alabama Administrative Code
Title 80 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES
COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE
Chapter 80-6-1 - COTTON GINS
Section 80-6-1-.02 - Bagging And Tie Requirements For Cotton Bales

(1) Every proprietor, lessee or manager of every cotton gin shall place on every bale of cotton ginned not less than eighteen (18) pounds of bagging and ties, or more than twenty-one (21) pounds of bagging and ties.

(2) Every proprietor, lessee or manager of every cotton gin shall place on every bale of cotton ginned six ties known as standard forty-five pounds to the bundle of thirty ties, and not less than six yards of sound bagging, new or second hand (the minimum tensile strength to be determined by the State Board of Agriculture), which said bagging shall be free of all sample holes, rents or cuts, shall be lapped sufficiently to cover the ends of the bales and shall be securely tucked under the ties or sewed. No ties shall be used that are so badly rusted as to be likely to break or pull apart before the bale has been compressed. No ties shall be used that have been spliced, leaving sharp or projecting edges at the place of splice lap. All ties must be securely fastened on the bale before it is allowed to leave the gin yard.

(3) Every cotton gin is required to adequately cover each bale of cotton with sound bagging sufficiently strong to protect the cotton and the heads of bales must be completely covered with such bagging.

NOTE: Paragraph (3) of Rule No. 80-6-1-.02 above was certified into Legislature Reference Service in 1983 as Chapter 80-6-2. This Chapter has now been downgraded into a subrule as evidenced above.

Author: Charles H. Barnes