Alabama Administrative Code
Title 80 - ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRIES
COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE
Chapter 80-6-1 - COTTON GINS
Section 80-6-1-.03 - Record-Keeping Requirements

(1) Every proprietor, lessee or manager of a public gin shall keep and use a book of register as required by Section 367 of the Agricultural Code of Alabama, which said section reads as follows: Every person, firm or corporation who gins cotton for hire or toll shall keep a book in which they shall register all cotton received at their gins to be ginned in the name of the owner thereof if known; and if not known, then the ginner shall make due and diligent inquiry of the person who delivers said cotton to be ginned, and record in his book the name of the owner as given, and the name of the person from whom the cotton may be received, which book shall also show the date of ginning and the gin number of each bale, which gin number shall continue consecutively for each bale ginned by any particular gin, to the close of the season; such register shall be kept open for the inspection of the public.

(2) The amount of seed cotton ginned, if determined prior to the ginning of a bale, shall also be recorded in the book of register. If the weight of a bale and/or seed be recorded, the weight shall be correctly determined by the use of accurate, standard scales.

NOTE: Section 367 of the Agricultural Code of Alabama set out above has been codified into Code of Ala. 1975, § 2-19-15.

Author: Charles H. Barnes