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9-7-10
Section 9-7-10 Definitions. The following terms, whenever used in this chapter shall have the
following respective meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COASTAL
AREA. The coastal waters, including the lands therein and thereunder, and the adjacent shorelands,
including the waters therein and thereunder, strongly influenced by each and in proximity
to the shorelines of Alabama and including transitional and intertidal areas, salt marshes,
wetlands, and beaches. The area extends seaward to the outer limit of the United States territorial
sea and extends inland from the shorelines only to the extent necessary to control shorelands,
the uses of which have a direct and significant impact on the coastal waters. (2) COASTAL
WATERS. Those waters, adjacent to the shoreline, which contain a measurable quantity or percentage
of sea water, including but not limited to, sounds, bays, lagoons, bayous, ponds and estuaries.
(3) ESTUARY. That part of a river or stream or other...
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11-3A-2
Section 11-3A-2 Powers for public welfare, health, and safety; authorization; scope. (a) Except
where otherwise specifically prohibited or provided for either heretofore or hereafter by
general law or the constitution of this state and subject to the procedures and limitations
set out in this chapter, the county commission of a county may provide for its property and
affairs; and for the public welfare, health, and safety of the citizens throughout the unincorporated
areas of the county by exercising certain powers for the protection of the county and public
property under its control. The powers granted herein to provide for the public welfare, health,
and safety of its citizens shall only include the following: (1) Abatement of weeds as a public
nuisance as defined in Section 11-67-60. (2) Subject to the provisions of Section 6-5-127,
control of animals and animal nuisances. (3) Control of litter as defined in subsection (b)
of Section 13A-7-29, or rubbish as defined in subdivision...
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24-3-4
Section 24-3-4 Powers, rights, etc., of housing authorities, etc., with respect to urban renewal
projects generally; surveys and plans. An authority shall have all the powers necessary or
convenient to undertake and carry out urban renewal plans and urban renewal projects, including
the authority to acquire and dispose of property, to make payments to persons and businesses
displaced by the acquisition and disposal of any property, to issue bonds and other obligations,
to borrow and accept grants from the federal government or other source, and to exercise the
other powers which Chapter 2 of this title confers on an authority with respect to redevelopment
projects. In connection with the planning and undertaking of any urban renewal plan or urban
renewal project, the authority, the municipality, and all public and private officers, agencies,
and bodies shall have all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities which they have with
respect to a redevelopment plan or redevelopment...
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4-3-47
Section 4-3-47 Powers of authority generally. The authority shall have the following powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be
in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued in its
own name in civil actions, excepting actions in tort against the authority; (3) To adopt and
make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt and alter bylaws
for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, receive, take
and hold, whether by purchase, option to purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, property
of every description, whether real, personal or mixed, whether in one or more counties and
whether within or without the corporate limits of any authorizing subdivision, and to manage
said property and to develop any property and to sell, exchange, lease or...
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41-10-456
Section 41-10-456 Powers of authority. The authority shall have the following powers among
others specified in this article: (1) to have succession by its corporate name until dissolved
as provided in this article; (2) to sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend, at law or
in equity, in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties thereto;
(3) to have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) to make and
alter all needful bylaws, rules and regulations for the transaction of the authority's business
and the control of its property and affairs; (5) to establish a fiscal year; (6) to provide
for the construction, renovation, reconstruction, improvement, alteration, addition, demolition,
equipment, operation and maintenance of public office building facilities (including the State
Capitol), surfacing and resurfacing of land for parking and other uses to produce revenue
and for the procurement of sites and equipment for such facilities;...
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6-6-282
Section 6-6-282 Actions by mortgagee, etc., against mortgagors, etc. If the action is by a
mortgagee or his assignee against the mortgagor, or anyone holding under him, the defendant
may plead payment of the mortgage debt or the performance of the condition of the mortgage,
or any matter which might be pleaded to a direct civil action for the recovery of the mortgage
debt, except the statute of limitations. The jury must pass upon such answers and must ascertain
the amount of the mortgage debt if any is found to exist. If the verdict is for the defendant,
judgment must be entered for him; but if the verdict ascertains an amount due on the mortgage
debt, judgment must be entered for the plaintiff for the possession of the land and the costs,
and the amount of the mortgage debt, as ascertained by the jury, must be stated in the judgment.
If, within 30 days after the entry of the judgment, the defendant shall pay to the plaintiff,
or to the clerk for his use, such debt, interest, and...
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6-6-286
Section 6-6-286 Proceedings upon defendant's suggestion of adverse possession. (a) When an
action is commenced to recover land or the possession thereof, the defendant may, at any time
before the trial, suggest upon the record that he, and those whose possession he has, have,
for three years next before the commencement of the action, had adverse possession thereof,
which must be construed to mean the same character of possession as will put in operation
the statute of limitations. In such case, if the jury finds for the plaintiff, it must also
ascertain by its verdict whether such suggestion is true or false. If the jury finds it to
be false, it must return a verdict for the damages as in ordinary cases. If the jury finds
it to be true, it must assess the value, at the time of trial, of the permanent improvements
made by the defendant, or those whose estate he has, and also ascertain by its verdict the
value of the lands and of the use and occupation thereof, not including the...
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9-2-150
Section 9-2-150 Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board; oyster aquaculture leasing program. (a)
For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD.
The Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources. (3) OYSTER AQUACULTURE. The cultivation and harvesting of hatchery-spawned
oysters for commercial purposes. (b) There is created the Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board,
which shall be responsible for developing a shellfish aquaculture policy and implementing
a sustainable program for leasing land in the coastal waters of Alabama for oyster aquaculture.
For administrative purposes, the board shall be an administrative unit within the department.
(c) The board shall consist of the following members: (1) The Commissioner of the Alabama
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or his or her designee. (2) The Commissioner
of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries or his or her...
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11-81-51
Section 11-81-51 Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All municipalities shall have full
and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or
that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds (when such issue is authorized by an
election as provided in this article if such election is required by the Constitution, but
without an election if an election is not so required) for the following named purposes: (1)
For the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, enlarging or extending public buildings,
sewers, streets, alleys, bridges and public schoolhouses and buildings and of constructing
or acquiring by purchase or otherwise water, electric light, electric power and gas plants
and systems or any two or more such plants or systems combined, including transmission and
distribution systems, and of constructing enlargements and extensions to any such plants or
systems; (2) For the purchase of real estate necessary for any improvement authorized...
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11-81-80
Section 11-81-80 Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All counties shall have full and continuing
power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or that may be hereafter
provided to issue and sell bonds, when such issue is authorized by the election provided for
in this chapter, for the following named purposes: (1) To purchase and acquire or construct
courthouses, jails, poorhouses, hospitals, asylums for the insane, tuberculosis sanatoriums,
workhouses, houses of correction and other public buildings. (2) For the purchase of real
estate for any improvement authorized by law or for the site for any building or improvement
to be used for public purposes. (3) For extending, enlarging, improving, repairing, or securing
the more complete use of and enjoyment of any building or improvement, owned, purchased, or
constructed by the county and for equipping and furnishing the same. (4) To fund floating
debt. (5) To acquire land for county parks and to improve the...
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