11-92B-2
Section 11-92B-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature makes the following findings: (1) That the economic development of property comprising a former military installation is of vital importance to the life, health, and welfare of the citizens of local cities and counties affected by the base closure and the state. (2) That it is desirable to allow for the establishment of local reuse authorities capable of managing and promoting the reuse and economic development of military installations after the closure of the military installations. (3) That an Alabama court has ruled that a city and county lack legislative authority to join in any entity for the purposes provided for in this chapter. The Legislature finds that the purpose of this chapter is to provide such authority. (4) That in consideration of the critical need for valid and fully authorized public entities, with community involvement and notice, to develop closed military installations, and perform environmental restoration...
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11-92B-10
Section 11-92B-10 Powers and duties of authority. An authority shall have the following powers and duties together with all powers and duties incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof: (1) To sue or be sued and to prosecute and defend in any court of competent jurisdiction. (2) To adopt and to use a corporate seal and to alter the seal at pleasure. (3) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business. (4) With respect to property within the operational area of the authority, to acquire, receive, and take title to by purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, to hold, keep, improve, maintain, and impose restrictive covenants and land use controls, to engage in environmental remediation and restoration efforts as required under applicable agreements with the United States Department of Defense, to equip, furnish, develop, and to transfer, convey, donate, sell, lease, grant options to, assign, encumber with easements and mortgages and...
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22-27-45
Section 22-27-45 State Solid Waste Management Plan. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, with the advice and consultation of the Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee, is directed to prepare a State Solid Waste Management Plan. In developing the state plan, the department will seek to achieve the following goals: (1) That solid waste facilities and management systems are provided for in an orderly manner consistent with the needs and plans of the state and its regions and local governments; (2) That alternative methods of solid waste management are encouraged as a means of reducing the state's dependence on landfilling; (3) That all aspects of local, regional and state planning, zoning, population estimates, and economics are taken into consideration; and (4) That appropriate time schedules are set for the phasing in of the required component parts of the system. Said plan shall be developed in two phases: a. The first phase of the plan shall be...
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16-6F-6
Section 16-6F-6 Authorization of establishment; Alabama Public Charter School Commission; registration requirements; powers and duties of authorizers. (a) Eligible authorizing entities. (1) A public charter school shall not be established in this state unless its establishment is authorized by this section. No governmental entity or other entity, other than an entity expressly granted chartering authority as set forth in this section, may assume any authorizing function or duty in any form. The following entities shall be authorizers of public charter schools: a. A local school board, for chartering of schools within the boundaries of the school system under its jurisdiction, pursuant to state law. b. The Alabama Public Charter School Commission, pursuant to this section. (2) A local school board that registers as an authorizer may approve or deny an application to form a public charter school within the boundaries of the local school system overseen by the local school board. (3) All...
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11-47-14.1
Section 11-47-14.1 Construction of port facilities by Class 1 municipalities; bonds and other contributions. (a) Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama finds that the Tombigbee Waterway will soon be completed, and the transportation opportunities afforded thereby must be fully utilized if Alabama is to benefit from economic growth and job development potential afforded by this project, and that local governments need broader authorization to participate in the development of river port facilities necessary to accomplish this purpose. (b) Municipalities authorized to construct port facilities; limitations thereon. The council or other governing body of any Class 1 municipality may alter and change the channel of any watercourse within 25 miles of such municipality and may construct and maintain wharves and construct buildings and other improvements on and near wharves and wharf sites, within such municipality or within 25 miles of the limits thereof, and may collect wharfage...
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11-100-2
Section 11-100-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature hereby finds and determines that: (1) The convention industry is a vital and beneficial industry for the State of Alabama and promotes the health, welfare, progress, and physical and economic well-being of the people of this state. (2) Adequate facilities are essential to the proper development of the meeting and entertainment industries. Adequate convention facilities are often not self-supporting so as to permit their financing with revenue bonds, but generate economic activity and stimulate business and commerce in the affected locality, and throughout the state, through increased demand for goods and services furnished by restaurants, hotels, places of entertainment, as well as stores, shops and other establishments, and, as a consequence, they generate additional state and local tax revenues. (3) It is in the interest of the state and its cities and counties, for the state to assist any city, county, and entities or...
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11-98-13.1
Section 11-98-13.1 Permanent Oversight Commission on 911. (a) The Permanent Oversight Commission on 911 is established. The commission shall do the following: (1) Study the operational and financial condition of the current 911 systems within the State of Alabama and publish a report detailing the same. (2) Study the rate charged for 911 services and make recommendations to the board regarding adjustments to the rate. (3) Develop recommendations for the most efficient and effective delivery of 911 services in Alabama over both the long- and short-term. (4) Study the charges levied by each telecommunications provider to each communications district for both data base and network charges. (5) Develop legislation necessary to implement its long-term 911 plan. (6) Report its findings, recommendations, and proposed legislation to the Legislature prior to the last day of the 2014 Regular Session. (b) The commission shall remain in place until the later of the end of the 2014 Regular Session...
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31-5-7
Section 31-5-7 State Service Commissioner - Duties generally; compensation. (a) The State Service Commissioner shall submit to the State Board of Veterans' Affairs for its approval an annual budget of all funds appropriated by the Legislature to the department for the specific purposes for which they are appropriated, and also a budget of any federal funds which may be allotted to the state by the federal government for the purposes of the department according to the regulations of the federal authorities. He shall publish annually a full report of the operations and administration of the department, together with recommendations and suggestions, and submit such report to the state board. (b) It shall be the duty of the state commissioner to: (1) Prepare detailed plans for, and fully develop, a comprehensive statewide veterans' assistance program. (2) Cooperate with all other heads of the state departments in coordinating the plans and programs of state agencies which may properly be...
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11-99-1
Section 11-99-1 Legislative findings and declarations. (a) Act 2013-51 shall be known and may be cited as the Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zone Act. (b)(1) It is hereby found and declared that there exist in municipalities and counties of the state blighted or economically distressed areas which constitute a serious and growing problem, injurious to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare of the residents of the state; that the existence of such areas contributes substantially and increasingly to the spread of disease and crime, constitutes an economic and social liability imposing onerous burdens which decrease the tax base and reduce tax revenues, substantially impairs or arrests sound growth, retards the provision of housing accommodations, aggravates traffic problems, and substantially hampers the elimination of traffic hazards and the improvement of traffic facilities; and that the prevention and elimination of slums and blighted areas and economically distressed areas...
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11-99-2
Section 11-99-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) BLIGHTED OR ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA: a. An area in which the structures, buildings, or improvements, by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age, or obsolescence, inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces, high density of population and overcrowding, or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors, are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, or crime, and are detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare, or b. Any area which by reason of the presence of a substantial number of substandard, slum, deteriorated, or deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of site or other improvements,...
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