All necessary expenses incident to the membership of the State of Alabama in the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission shall be payable out of the Seafoods Fund upon the requisition of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources. Such expenses shall include travel cost and necessary expenses of the commissioners and other representatives of the State of Alabama to and from meetings of the commission or its duly constituted sections or committees.
Ala. Code § 9-12-183 (1975)