33-1-1
Section 33-1-1 State may engage in promoting, constructing, operating, etc., harbors and ports; expenditure of funds to entertain customers, etc., authorized; audit and accounting of certain expenditures. The State of Alabama may engage in, through the agency of the Alabama State Port Authority provided and designated by law, works of internal improvement, and of promoting, developing, constructing, maintaining and operating all harbors, seaports or riverports within the state or its jurisdiction, including the acquisition or construction, maintaining and operating at seaports and riverports of harbor watercraft and terminal railroads, as well as all other kinds of terminal facilities. Such work or improvement and facilities shall be under the management and control of the state through the governing agency provided and designated by law. The Alabama State Port Authority in further promoting harbors, seaports and riverports within the state, through its director, and such employees as...
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39-2-1
Section 39-2-1 Definitions. As used in this title, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows: (1) AWARDING AUTHORITY. Any governmental board, commission, agency, body, authority, instrumentality, department, or subdivision of the state, its counties and municipalities. This term includes, but shall not be limited to, the Department of Transportation, the State Building Commission, the State Board of Education, and any other entity contracting for public works. This term shall exclude the State Docks Department and any entity exempted from the competitive bid laws of the state by statute. (2) FORCE ACCOUNT WORK. Work paid for by reimbursing for the actual costs for labor, materials, and equipment usage incurred in the performance of the work, as directed, including a percentage for overhead and profit, where appropriate. (3) LIFE CYCLE COSTS. The total cost of ownership over the extended life of a public works project, taking into consideration the costs of...
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45-39-221.03
Section 45-39-221.03 Powers of tourism board. (a) The tourism board may conduct programs and events, including, but not limited to, programs of information and publicity, sporting events, and other public events to attract tourists and visitors to the county. The tourism board may conduct programs or events in the state and elsewhere and expend its funds in the furtherance of such programs and events in the state and elsewhere. (b) The tourism board may enter into contracts with any person, firm, corporation, or association to carry out the purposes set forth herein. No contract entered into by the tourism board shall bind either the state, the county, or any municipality. (c) The tourism board shall have the following additional powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits and actions against it, including suits and actions ex delicto...
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11-92C-2
Section 11-92C-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words have the following meanings: (1) APPLICANT. A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of any authorizing subdivision in accordance with Section 11-92C-3. (2) AUTHORITY. Any local redevelopment authority organized pursuant to this chapter. (3) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. A resolution adopted by the governing body of any authorizing subdivision in accordance with Section 11-92C-3, which authorizes the incorporation of the authority. (4) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. Any county or municipality that has adopted an authorizing resolution. (5) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority. (6) BONDS. Any bonds, notes, certificates, or any other form of indebtedness representing an obligation to pay money. (7) CONTIGUOUS. Two or more tracts of land if touching for a continuous distance of not less than 200 feet. The term shall include tracts of land divided by bodies of water, streets,...
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33-18-1
Section 33-18-1 Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact: Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact The States of Alabama and Georgia and the United States of America hereby agree to the following compact which shall become effective upon enactment of concurrent legislation by each respective state legislature and the Congress of the United States. Short Title This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact" and shall be referred to hereafter in this document as the "ACT Compact" or "compact." Article I Compact Purposes This compact among the States of Alabama and Georgia and the United States of America has been entered into for the purposes of promoting interstate comity, removing causes of present and future controversies, equitably apportioning the surface waters of the ACT, engaging in water planning,...
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33-19-1
Section 33-19-1 Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact: Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact The States of Alabama, Florida and Georgia and the United States of America hereby agree to the following compact which shall become effective upon enactment of concurrent legislation by each respective state legislature and the Congress of the United States. Short Title This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact" and shall be referred to hereafter in this document as the "ACF Compact" or "compact." Article I Compact Purposes This compact among the States of Alabama, Florida and Georgia and the United States of America has been entered into for the purposes of promoting interstate comity, removing causes of present and future controversies, equitably apportioning the...
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37-4-130
Section 37-4-130 Right to condemn. Every electric public utility corporation organized under the laws of this state, and every such corporation organized under the laws of any other state of the United States and which has complied with the constitution and laws of this state as to foreign corporations, may in addition to its other rights and powers acquire by condemnation ways and rights-of-way or easements, without limitation as to width, on, over, under or across the lands or easements of others, on, over, under or across which it may erect, construct, operate and maintain transmission and distribution lines for the transmission, distribution, supply and sale of electric power. Such corporation shall have the right and authority to clear and remove from such lands, rights-of-way or easements all timber and other growth, and the right and authority to remove outside of such lands, rights-of-way or easements such timber as may injure or endanger by shading, falling or otherwise, any...
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9-9-27
Section 9-9-27 Viewing and assessment of lands by board of viewers; report of findings. (a) Within 30 days after qualifying, the board of viewers shall begin its duties, and it may at any time call upon the attorney of the district for legal advice and information relative to its duties. Said viewers shall proceed to view the premises and determine the value of all land and other property within or without the district to be acquired and used for rights-of-way or other works of drainage, leveeing, reclamation, flood prevention or for the conservation, development, utilization and disposal of water as set out in the water management plan. They shall assess the amount of benefits and the amount of damages, if any, that will accrue to each tract of 40 acres or less, according to the legal or recognized subdivisions of land according to ownership, to public highways, railroad and other rights-of-way, railroads, roadways and other property from carrying out and putting into effect the plan...
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10A-21-2.04
Section 10A-21-2.04 Condemnation for rights-of-way or easements by mining, manufacturing, industrial, power, and quarrying companies. (a) Every mining, manufacturing, industrial, power, and quarrying corporation or company may acquire by condemnation rights-of-way or easements over or across the lands or easements of others for ways and rights-of-way on or under which it may erect or construct and operate railways, tramways, pipelines, transmission lines, cables, ways, roads, and underground passages not exceeding 100 feet in width for the purpose of connecting any part of its lands, works, plants, mines, lines, or system with any other part thereof, with any public road, railroad, navigable water, with the mines, lands, works, plants, lines, or system of any other such company, corporation, or owner or with any shipping, storage, delivery, receiving, or distributing point and for the purpose of transporting or transmitting any materials, equipment, or products used by or mined,...
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37-13-1
Section 37-13-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, unless the context plainly indicates otherwise, the present tense shall include the future tense, the singular shall include the plural, the plural shall include the singular and the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section. (1) ADDITIONAL RAIL SERVICE AREA. Any territory that is outside the boundaries or corporate limits, as the case may be, of any of its authorizing subdivisions and that the governing body of the county, and of any city or town, in which such territory is located has by resolution designated as an area in which the authority may render rail transportation service. (2) AUTHORITY. Any public corporation organized pursuant to this chapter or any law amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto. (3) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. Any county, city, or town in this state in which there are located railroad properties and facilities and whose governing body receives an...
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