Ala. Code § 2-3-4
It shall be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries to consider the agricultural and industrial needs of the state; to make and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations necessary to carry out the objects and purposes of the regulatory work required by law to be executed by the commissioner; to cooperate with all federal, state, county and municipal agencies in the enforcement of such regulatory work or police matters as relate to the duties of the commissioner; to cooperate with the Agricultural Experiment Station, the extension service of Auburn University and with all official agencies in promoting the interest of agriculture and industry in Alabama; to provide that the soil survey of Alabama and the necessary resurvey and revision of the soil survey work are completed and state soil survey maps and reports are printed for distribution and to discharge such other duties as are required by law.
Ala. Code § 2-3-4 (1975)