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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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