The State Board of Health hereby declares the following to be a nuisance per se and a menace to public health: any adulterated shellfish found in the possession of any person for commercial purposes; or any improperly identified, improperly tagged, unidentified, or untagged sack or container of shellfish found in possession of any person for commercial purposes, including transport by the harvester to the dealer, other than on board the fisherman or harvester's vessel within the harvest area. Agents of the State or County Health Department or Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division, are authorized to seize and hold such, or to order such to be seized and held, or to summarily destroy such in accordance with law.
Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-3-18-.07
Authors: Lewis A. Byrd, Ph.D., Christine Collins, Jeff McCool, Greg Dunn, Byron Webb
Statutory Authority:Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 9-12-126, 22-2-2(6), 22-20-5.