§2-15-210. Establishment, conduct and maintenance of swine disease diagnostic laboratory by department; expenditure of funds appropriated therefor.

(a) The Department of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to establish, conduct and maintain a swine disease diagnostic laboratory for the purpose of diagnosing contagious, infectious and communicable diseases of swine owned by producers of such livestock in Alabama, and the amount appropriated and made available for such purpose in the general appropriations act shall be used and expended by the Department of Agriculture and Industries to establish, operate and conduct such a laboratory.

(b) Any funds appropriated and made available by the Legislature to the Department of Agriculture and Industries for a swine disease diagnostic laboratory for the purposes set forth in this section shall be expended by said department to establish and conduct such a laboratory at a location in the State of Alabama to be designated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries.

(Acts 1961, No. 1035, p. 1621.)