Wherever provision is made in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce for the collection of any fee or license or the imposition of any fine or penalty for the violation of any provision of this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce without providing for the disposition of the proceeds derived therefrom, such proceeds shall accrue to the Agricultural Fund. The Agricultural Fund shall include all funds available from every source for the administration, enforcement or making effective the purposes of the provisions of the laws included in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce. All such funds shall be paid into the State Treasury and be kept intact, liquid and in trust, subject only to the requisitions of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, and shall not be subject to any allotment or proration of appropriations for the benefit of any other department, institution or other state agency or for any other purposes or for use in any manner other than as provided in Section 2-9-4.

When any person has been delinquent for 30 days or more in the payment of any license or permit fee levied under the provisions of this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is directed or authorized to administer or enforce, he shall be deemed to be delinquent and shall, upon the demand of a license inspector in his county or upon demand of an inspector of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, be required to immediately make application for such permit or license and shall pay to such license inspector or inspector of the Department of Agriculture and Industries a fee of 15 percent of the amount of said permit or license in addition to the price of such permit or license. Such license inspector or inspector of such department shall immediately forward such application with the money therefor to the Department of Agriculture and Industries. Such license inspector may retain the delinquent fee of 15 percent, but inspectors of the department shall pay into the department such delinquent fee along with the regular permit or license fee.

There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund to be known and designated as the Shipping Point Inspection Fund. All funds, fees, charges, costs and collections accruing to or collected by the Department of Agriculture and Industries in connection with the administration and enforcement of, or providing inspection, classification or grading services pursuant to Articles 1, 4 and 5 of Chapter 11 of this Title, and any other laws or parts of laws whereby agricultural shipping point and terminal market inspection services are furnished by the Department of Agriculture and Industries, including services furnished for weighing and issuing weight certificates to be used for the sale of agricultural commodities, shall be deposited into the State Treasury, to the credit of the Shipping Point Inspection Fund.

All funds now or hereafter deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Shipping Point Inspection Fund shall be expended to provide and furnish the services for which such funds are collected in accordance with the provisions of the law authorizing the collection of such funds or as otherwise directed by the Legislature.

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, subject to approval by the Governor, is hereby authorized and empowered and may enter into a contract by bond or policy with an insurance company authorized to do business in this state whereby employees of the Department of Agriculture and Industries who are engaged in work involving inspection, grading, classifying, weighing or otherwise handling agricultural commodities at shipping points, terminal markets, receiving centers or elsewhere will be insured against personal injury or death caused by accidental means while discharging their duties as such employees. The amount of insurance protection to be paid to any employee as authorized under this section on account of death, injury or disability shall not exceed the amount or amounts as provided by the workmen's compensation laws of the State of Alabama if such employees were privately employed; except, that such insurance may provide additional benefits not to exceed $10,000.00 per employee for the payment of hospital and medical expenses. The cost of any accident, death, disability, hospital, medical or other insurance benefits as authorized under this section shall be paid out of the Shipping Point Inspection Fund of the State Treasury.

The Agricultural Fund shall not be expended upon any work or activity of any department, institution, bureau, commission, board or other state agency in connection with the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station System or the Alabama Extension Service or any work or activity which is assigned to any department, institution, bureau, commission, board or state agency other than the Department of Agriculture and Industries or which is not definitely assigned to and defined as a part of the proper work of said Department of Agriculture and Industries. Said fund shall be expended exclusively for the expenses of the regulatory control and administrative work of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, except as otherwise expressly provided by law.

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall use the Agricultural Fund in accordance with the provisions of law for the support and expense of the regulatory, control and administrative work of the Department of Agriculture and Industries and in such manner as said board deems will best effect the purposes of all laws included in this title which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries are authorized or directed to administer or enforce. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall direct the expenditure of said fund, it being the purpose of this section to vest the financial supervision and control over the use of said fund for the work and activities assigned to the Department of Agriculture and Industries in the manner provided by law.

There shall be maintained in the State Treasury the fund now existing therein and designated as the 'Egg Inspection Fund' into which fund there shall be deposited all amounts received pursuant to any cooperative agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture or other federal departments or agencies which provide for inspection and grading of eggs or other related or similar duties incident thereto which involve the inspection, grading or determination of the condition or quality of eggs or egg products. There shall also be deposited into said 'Egg Inspection Fund' any amounts available by appropriation or otherwise for the administration and enforcement of the provisions and requirements of Chapter 12 of this title, which said amounts so deposited or transferred into said fund shall be used and expended for payment of salaries, other expenses, equipment purchases necessary for and incident to the administration and enforcement of Chapter 12 of this title, subject, however to the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41 of this Code.

The salaries and expenses of the commissioner, members of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, and the salaries of the employees of the Department of Agriculture and Industries, as otherwise fixed by law, shall be payable from the Agricultural Fund and other funds available to said department by legislative appropriation or otherwise; provided, that the expenses of travel and type or means of transportation of such officers and employees and other expenses incident thereto in the performance of their official duties, as otherwise provided by law, and proof thereof, shall be subject to rules and regulations approved by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries as to the manner, method or system of payment. The provisions of this section as to expenses shall also apply to experts and scientists when performing duties as provided in this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and Industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce.

All expenses incurred under this title or any other provision of this Code or other statute which the Commissioner, Department or Board of Agriculture and industries is authorized or directed to administer or enforce for the operation of the department shall be paid by warrants drawn by the comptroller on the Agricultural Fund upon the requisition of the commissioner. Said requisition shall be itemized and sworn to and accompanied by an itemized statement of expenses by any person in whose favor a warrant is to be drawn, verified by affidavit that such statement is correct and such amount is unpaid, with such other information or evidence as the board may require. Thereupon, a warrant or warrants shall be drawn by the comptroller upon the Agricultural Fund of the State Treasury for the amounts so requisitioned.

The withdrawal or expenditure of any funds in the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund for the payment of salaries, expenses, equipment, operational costs or maintenance or for any reason whatsoever shall be pursuant to budget and allotment as is provided in Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41 of this Code, and limited to the amounts provided therefor by the Legislature in the general appropriation bill; provided, that the provisions of this sentence shall not affect in any manner or to any extent the appropriations for payment of rentals made in Sections 2-6-50 through 2-6-54. Any unappropriated funds remaining in the Agricultural Fund or any unexpended funds remaining in the appropriation to the Department of Agriculture and Industries by the Legislature at the end of each fiscal year shall be carried in the state treasury in the Agricultural Fund.