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11-14-23
Section 11-14-23 Acquisition of lands for drainage ditches, lime and stone quarries, etc. Counties
may acquire by purchase or by condemnation land necessary for drainage ditches and borrow
pits, lime and stone quarries, clay and clay pits, sand and sand pits, chert and chert pits,
gravel and gravel pits, together with any and all other materials of every character that
may be necessary or essential or desired in the construction and maintenance of highways and
bridges, and may tap and draw material from the same and acquire such road right-of-way as
may be necessary for ingress or egress to and from such material. The reasonable market value,
if any, of such land and material shall be paid for same. (Acts 1923, No. 516, p. 687; Code
1923, §6757; Code 1940, T. 12, §198.)...
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23-1-3
Section 23-1-3 Closing of public roads to traffic; acquisition of materials. The state, acting
through the State Department of Transportation and its duly authorized employees, and the
various counties of the state, acting through the county commissions and their duly authorized
employees, in the doing of public roads work shall have and exercise the right, power, and
authority, when deemed necessary or advisable to do so, to close public roads to traffic and,
when possible so to do, to make detour roads and to contract for such land as may be necessary
for such detour roads; also to acquire, by purchase, or by condemnation, land necessary for
drainage ditches and borrow pits, lime and stone quarries, clay and clay pits, sand and sand
pits and gravel and gravel pits, together with any and all other material of every character
that may be necessary or essential or desired in the construction and maintenance of highways
and bridges, and to tap and draw materials from the same to such...
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23-2-144
Section 23-2-144 Powers of the authority. (a) The authority shall have the following powers:
(1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business. (2)
To adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure. (3) To maintain a principal office
and branch offices at the place or places within the state as it may designate. (4) To sue
and be sued in its own name, including suits in tort. (5) With the consent and approval of
the department, to acquire and construct toll road, bridge, or tunnel projects at locations
as the authority may determine to be desirable, practicable, and economically feasible and
to maintain, repair, and operate the projects. (6) To issue toll road, bridge, or tunnel revenue
bonds of the authority for any of its corporate purposes, payable solely from its tolls, other
revenues, and proceeds of the bonds, and to refund its bonds, all as provided in this article.
No bonds issued under the provisions of this article shall constitute a...
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9-16-2
Section 9-16-2 Definitions. Unless clearly indicated otherwise by the context, as used in this
article, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) AFFECTED LAND. The area of land
from which overburden has been removed or upon which overburden has been deposited after October
1, 1970. (2) CONTEMPORANEOUS. Occurring at the same time as a surface mining operation and
in conjunction with the grading activities at the site. (3) CONTIGUOUS. In actual contact,
touching, as contrasted with being near but not in contact. (4) DEPARTMENT. The Department
of Industrial Relations of the State of Alabama or any department, bureau, or commission as
may lawfully succeed to the powers and duties of the department relating to mining operations.
(5) DIRECT SEEDING. The planting of seeds by hand sowing, machine sowing, or aerial seeding.
(6) DIRECTOR. Director of the department or officer, bureau, or commission as may lawfully
succeed to the powers and duties of the director. (7) HIGHWALL. The...
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25-9-272
Section 25-9-272 Maintenance, etc., of means of access to pits. (a) Access. Safe means of access
shall be provided to all working places in any pit. (b) Fastening ladders. All fixed ladders
shall be properly installed, securely fastened and provided with back guards where necessary.
At least three inches of toe clearance shall be provided. (c) Incline of ladders. Under no
circumstances shall any ladder inclining backward from the vertical be installed or used.
(d) Maintenance. Ladderways where used shall be maintained in safe condition and shall be
inspected regularly. (e) Steps. Where stairs are used, they shall comply with the requirements
set forth in the basic safety manual, State of Alabama. (f) Travel. Access to pits over railway
haulage shall be provided with adequate warning signs. (g) Walkway. Where access to pits is
by walkway, it shall be properly graded, and if travel along the walkway is unsafe by reason
of danger of falling into the pit, the walkway shall be protected by...
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9-9-15
Section 9-9-15 Board of water management commissioners - Powers and duties generally. The board
of water management commissioners shall have the right and authority to enter into contracts
or other agreements with the United States government or any department thereof, with persons,
with railroads or other corporations, with public corporations, with the state government
of this or other states and with drainage, conservation or other improvement districts in
this or other states for cooperating or assisting in constructing, maintaining, using or operating
the works of the district or for making surveys and investigations or reports thereon and
may purchase, lease or acquire land or other property in adjoining states in order to secure
outlets or for other purposes of this article, and may let contracts for securing such outlets
or other works in adjoining states as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
article. The board shall have the authority to borrow funds from...
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10A-21-2.07
Section 10A-21-2.07 Condemnation of water sources, riparian rights and necessary lands by waterworks
corporation. (a) Corporations authorized to construct and operate waterworks for the supplying
of municipalities and their inhabitants, or others living or doing business in the vicinity
of them, with water shall have the power, in order to obtain a supply of water for their storage
ponds, reservoirs, pipes, and canals, to take over and use, after condemning the same, water
of any river, stream, spring, or other water source which may be necessary for them to use
for that purpose. They may also acquire by condemnation riparian rights and all lands adjacent
to such streams or water sources as shall be necessary to protect and preserve the purity
of such supply; and they shall also have the power to condemn rights-of-way and sites of any
necessary area for pipelines, ditches, canals, dams, storage ponds, reservoirs, and other
necessary purposes for the operation of their waterworks and...
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9-8-21
Section 9-8-21 Legislative findings; declaration of policy. (a) It is hereby declared as a
matter of legislative determination: (1) That the farm, forest and grazing lands of the State
of Alabama are among the basic assets of the state and that the preservation of these lands
is necessary to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of its people;
(2) That improper land-use practices have caused and have contributed to, and are now causing
and contributing to, a progressively more serious erosion of the farm, forest and grazing
lands of this state by wind and water; (3) That the consequences of such soil erosion are
the silting and sedimentation of stream channels, reservoirs, dams, ditches and harbors, the
loss of fertile soil material, the reduction in productivity or outright ruin of rich bottom
lands by overwash of poor subsoil material, sand and gravel and the deterioration of soil
and its fertility; and (4) That to conserve soil resources and control and prevent...
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11-28-1.1
Section 11-28-1.1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the following respective meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1)
COSTS. When used with reference to or in connection with any public facility or any portion
thereof, include all or any part of the cost of acquiring, constructing, altering, enlarging,
extending, reconstructing, or remodeling such public facility, including the cost of all lands,
structures, real or personal property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, permits,
licenses, and interests acquired or used for, in connection with or with respect to such public
facility, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired,
including the cost of acquiring land to which such buildings or structures may be moved, the
cost of all machinery, equipment, furniture, furnishings, and fixtures acquired or used for,
in connection with or with respect to such public facility,...
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33-12-5
Section 33-12-5 Powers, duties and functions. The powers, duties and functions of the agency
shall be as follows: (1) GENERALLY. The agency a. Shall have perpetual succession in its corporate
name. b. May sue and be sued in its corporate name. c. May adopt, use and alter a corporate
seal, which shall be judicially noticed. d. May enter into such contracts and cooperative
agreements with the federal, state and local governments, with agencies of such governments,
with private individuals, corporations, associations, trusts and other organizations as the
board may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purposes of this chapter,
including the planned, orderly residential development of the area. e. May adopt, amend and
repeal bylaws. f. May appoint such managers, officers, employees, attorneys and agents as
the board deems necessary for the transaction of its business, fix their compensation, define
their duties, require bonds of such of them as the board may...
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