11-49-40
Section 11-49-40 Authorized. The city council or other governing body of each city in the State of Alabama having according to the most recent federal census a population of more than 35,000 inhabitants shall have full power and authority to require railroad companies to construct and maintain within the city limits viaducts, bridges, and tunnels or parts of viaducts, bridges, and tunnels and their approaches over, along, or under the tracks at their own expense, such bridges and their approaches, tunnels or other conveniences at public crossings and such viaducts and their approaches over their tracks where the same cross or extend along public highways or streets. (Code 1907, §1296; Code 1923, §2070; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 37, §651.)...
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11-81-140
Section 11-81-140 Definitions. When used in this division, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) UNDERTAKING. Such term shall include all of the following revenue-producing undertakings or any combination of two or more of such undertakings, whether now existing or hereafter acquired or constructed: a. Causeways, tunnels, viaducts, bridges and other crossings, highways, parks, parkways, airports, docks, piers, wharves, seaport or river terminals, hospitals, public markets, tennis courts, swimming pools, golf courses, stadiums, armories, auditoriums and other public buildings of all kinds, incinerator plants and systems in connection with the generation, production, transmission and distribution of electric energy for lighting, heating and power for public and private uses, together with all parts of any such undertaking and all appurtenances thereto, including lands, easements, rights-of-way,...
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23-1-9
Section 23-1-9 Elimination of railroad grade crossings. Whenever the funds of the state are being expended for the construction, maintenance, or repair of a public highway, the State Department of Transportation shall have the power and authority to compel all railways operating in this state to construct viaducts, tunnels, underpasses, or bridges to the full extent of the width of the right-of-way and over the tracks as owned or operated by any railway when, in the judgment of the State Department of Transportation, such viaducts, tunnels, underpasses, or bridges are necessary for the safety of the general public and whereby a dangerous grade crossing is eliminated. The State Department of Transportation may appropriate out of the funds credited to the State Department of Transportation for the construction and maintenance of highways an amount not to exceed 50 percent of the cost to construct said viaducts, tunnels, underpasses, or bridges to the full extent of the width of the...
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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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37-2-84
Section 37-2-84 Abandonment and discontinuance of grade crossings. (a) The Department of Transportation is given authority and power to abandon and discontinue any portion of a state highway, or street on a state highway route with the approval of the city council or governing body of any municipality, crossing the tracks or right-of-way of any railroad or street railway within the state, and to close the grade crossing, whenever in the judgment of the department the grade crossing has ceased to be necessary for the public as a part of any state highway, because of relocation of the highway, or because of the construction of an underpass or overpass, or other provision made for the elimination of the grade crossing. Whenever the department orders the abandonment of a portion of the highway or street and the closing of a grade crossing, it shall enter its order providing therefor in the department minutes. Notice in writing of the abandonment and discontinuance of the portion of the...
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11-49-44
Section 11-49-44 Enforcement of ordinance by action in circuit court. Such governing body may also, by complaint filed in the circuit court in the county in which the city is situated, compel compliance with any or all proper ordinances ordering the construction or maintenance of viaducts, bridges, or tunnels passed under the authority of this article, express jurisdiction being conferred on all circuit courts of this state to that end. (Code 1907, §1300; Code 1923, §2074; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 37, §655.)...
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11-49-45
Section 11-49-45 Right of appeal of railroad from ordinances requiring construction, etc., of bridges, tunnels, etc., and from orders imposing penalties for failure to comply therewith. Any railroad companies so ordered by ordinance of such governing bodies to construct and maintain viaducts, bridges, and tunnels shall have the right to appeal to any circuit court in the county in which the city is situated from the ordinances of such governing bodies and from any orders made penalizing such railroad companies for their failure to construct and maintain such viaducts, bridges, and tunnels. On such appeal the railroad companies shall give such bond as may be prescribed by said circuit court. (Code 1907, §1301; Code 1923, §2075; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 37, §656.)...
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33-1-16
Section 33-1-16 Terminal railroads. The port authority may acquire, own, lease, locate, install, construct, hold, maintain, control, and operate at seaports a line of terminal railroads with necessary sidings, turn outs, spurs, branches, switches, yard tracks, bridges, trestles, and causeways, and in connection therewith or appurtenant thereto shall have the further right to lease, install, construct, acquire, own, maintain, control, and use any and every kind or character of motive power and conveyances or appliance necessary or proper to carry passengers, goods, wares, and merchandise over, along or upon the tracks of the railroads or other conveyances. The port authority may make agreements as to scale of wages, seniority, and working conditions with locomotive engineers, locomotive firemen, switchmen and switch engine foremen, and hostlers engaged in the operation of the terminal railroads provided for in this section, and the service and equipment pertinent thereto. Should the...
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10A-20-15.01
Section 10A-20-15.01 Rights, powers, and authority. All corporations organized under the general laws of this state, or heretofore under a special act of the Legislature, and all corporations organized under the laws of any other of the United States which have complied with the Constitution and laws of the State of Alabama as to foreign corporations and which by their charter have the right to manufacture, supply, and sell to the public power produced by water as a motive force, shall, after acquiring by purchase, or otherwise than by condemnation, a dam site or power site comprising not less than one acre of land upon each and opposite sides of any watercourse or after acquiring by purchase, or otherwise than by condemnation, a dam site comprising not less than one acre of land upon one side of any watercourse and, where the dam site on the other side of the watercourse is owned or controlled by the United States, shall have acquired the permission of the United States to attach to...
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23-1-156
Section 23-1-156 Contracts; conveyance of property to state. All contracts of the corporation for the construction, reconstruction and relocation of public roads, bridges and approaches thereto, tunnels, other public roadway improvements, and work incidental or related thereto and the acquisition of property necessary therefor, shall be in writing, shall be subject to the rules and regulations and shall be let under the supervision of the Department of Transportation and shall be subject to approval by the Governor and by the State Department of Transportation. All work provided for in any contract shall be supervised by the Department of Transportation or as otherwise provided through agreement with the Department of Transportation. All persons engaged in the supervision or performance of any such work of construction, reconstruction, or relocation that may be done by the corporation without the award of a contract therefor shall be employees of the Department of Transportation or as...
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