Section 2-15-41

Dealer's permit required generally; application for permit; permit fee and delinquency penalty generally; dealers to pay permit fee for vehicles used in hauling or transporting livestock; issuance of permit plates for vehicles; requirements as to dealers licensed, etc., under provisions of Article 6 of chapter.

No such dealer as defined in Section 2-15-40, except as provided in this section, shall engage in any business described in Section 2-15-40 without a permit therefor. Every dealer shall annually, on or before October 1, file an application with the commissioner for a permit to engage in such business. Such application shall be made upon forms to be furnished by the Department of Agriculture and Industries, and shall contain such information as may be required. The fee for every such permit, except as provided in this section, shall be $10.00, which shall be paid to the commissioner and deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund. If such permit fee is not paid within 45 days from the date on which the fee is due, a delinquent penalty of 15 percent shall be added.

Every dealer who engages in the business of transporting or hauling for hire cattle, sheep, goats or hogs along any public road or highway of Alabama for resale, market or slaughter shall pay an annual permit fee of $10.00 for each vehicle used in hauling or transporting such livestock, and the commissioner, under rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall issue a suitable permit plate for proper identification of each vehicle used by dealers in hauling or transporting livestock for resale, market or slaughter.

Any dealer, as defined in Section 2-15-40, who procures a license as a dealer pursuant to the requirements of Article 6 of this chapter and who otherwise complies with the provisions of Article 6 of this chapter shall not be required to obtain the annual permit nor pay the fee therefor as required under this section, but every such dealer shall comply with the other provisions and requirements of this article; provided, that any dealer who is required to procure a license by Article 6 of this chapter who also engages in the business of transporting or hauling for hire cattle, sheep, goats or hogs along any public road or highway in Alabama shall also be required to procure a permit and pay the fee therefor as required under this section.

(Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 190, p. 222; Code 1940, T. 2, §385; Acts 1953, No. 226, p. 292; Acts 1976, No. 363, p. 448, §1.)