18-2-2
Section 18-2-2 Application to probate court. For authority to erect such dam, application in writing, verified by affidavit, must be made to the probate court of the county in which it is proposed to erect the mill, gin, factory or electric light plant, if by the owner of the land on both sides of the stream or if by the owner of the land on one side only, to the court of probate of the county in which the land on the opposite side of the stream, abutting the proposed site of the dam, lies. (Code 1852, §§2090, 2091; Code 1867, §§2482, 2483; Code 1876, §§3556, 3557; Code 1886, §3185; Code 1896, §1728; Code 1907, §3889; Code 1923, §7508; Code 1940, T. 19, §35.)...
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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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18-2-16
Section 18-2-16 Proceedings when construction of canal or ditch through adjoining lands necessary. When such land joins other lands and it is necessary for the erection of the mill, gin or factory to dig a ditch or canal through such other lands, the application must be made to the court of probate of the county in which the lands, through which the ditch or canal is proposed to be dug, lie, and the writ must be obtained, inquest held, notice given, inquest returned, the owners of other lands summoned to show cause, the application granted or refused and damages paid in the same manner as in other cases provided for in this chapter. (Code 1852, §2107; Code 1867, §2499; Code 1876, §3573; Code 1886, §3199; Code 1896, §1742; Code 1907, §3903; Code 1923, §7522; Code 1940, T. 19, §48.)...
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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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11-41-1
Section 11-41-1 Authority; petition to probate judge for order of incorporation. When the inhabitants of an unincorporated community, which has a population of not less than 300, constituting a body of citizens whose residences are contiguous to and all of which form a homogeneous settlement or community, desire to become organized as a municipal corporation, they may apply to the judge of probate of the county in which the territory is situated, or the greater portion thereof if it is situated in two or more counties, for an order of incorporation, by a petition in writing signed by not less than 15 percent of the qualified electors residing within the limits of the proposed municipality and by the persons, firms, or corporations owning at least 60 percent of the acreage of the platted or unplatted land of the proposed municipality. No platted or unplatted territory shall be included within the boundary unless there are at least four qualified electors, according to government survey,...
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42-2-7
Section 42-2-7 Commissioners for assessment of damages and compensation - Appointment; notice to commissioners; duties. If the application is granted, the judge of probate must appoint three citizens of the county in which the lands sought to be condemned are situated, who shall possess the qualifications of jurors, who shall be disinterested and who shall be required to file a certificate along with their award that neither of them had ever been consulted, advised with or approached by any person in reference to the value of the lands or the proceedings to condemn the same, prior to the assessment of the damages, and that they knew nothing of the same before their appointment. The judge of probate is authorized to fill any vacancy occasioned by the death, resignation, failure to act or any disqualification of any such commissioners from interest, prior knowledge of the subject matter or by being consulted, advised with or approached in reference to the condemnation of such lands prior...
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40-10-122
Section 40-10-122 Manner of redemption when land sold to party other than state. THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2018-494 IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020. TO SEE THE AMENDED VERSION, SEE THE VERSION LABELED PENDING. (a) In order to obtain the redemption of land from tax sales where the same has been sold to one other than the state, the party desiring to make such redemption shall deposit with the judge of probate of the county in which the land is situated the amount of money for which the lands were sold, with interest payable at the rate of 12 percent per annum from date of sale, and, on the portion of any excess bid that is less than or equal to 15 percent of the market value as established by the assessing official, together with the amount of all taxes which have been paid by the purchaser, which fact shall be ascertained by consulting the records in the office of the tax collector, or other tax collecting official, with interest on the payment at 12...
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18-2-4
Section 18-2-4 Notice to owner of land on opposite side of stream abutting proposed dam site. If application is filed by the owner of the land on one side of a stream only, notice must be given to the owner of the land on the opposite side by serving him in the same manner as is provided for service of owners in Section 18-1-8, and if the owner be a minor or person of unsound mind, a guardian ad litem must be appointed as provided in Section 18-1A-275. (Code 1852, §§2095-2097; Code 1867, §§2487-2489; Code 1876, §§3561-3563; Code 1886, §§3188, 3189; Code 1896, §§1730, 1731; Code 1907, §§3891, 3892; Code 1923, §§7510, 7511; Code 1940, T. 19, §37.)...
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18-2-1
Section 18-2-1 Right of property owner to erect dam. A dam for any gristmill, sawmill, gin, factory or plant to generate electricity by water power to be operated for the public may be erected across any watercourse, not a navigable stream, by the owner in fee of the land on both sides of the stream, or on one side at the place where the dam is proposed to be erected, by proceeding as provided in this chapter. (Code 1852, §2089; Code 1867, §2481; Code 1876, §3555; Code 1886, §3184; Code 1896, §1727; Code 1907, §3888; Code 1923, §7507; Code 1940, T. 19, §34.)...
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18-2-5
Section 18-2-5 Issuance of writ upon filing of application. On the filing of such application, the judge of probate must issue to the sheriff a writ, setting forth the substantial averments contained in the application, the name of the applicant and the place where it is proposed to erect the dam and commanding the sheriff to summon seven disinterested freeholders of the county to meet at the place where the dam is to be erected, on a day to be specified in the writ, not less than 15 nor more than 30 days after the filing of the application, and then and there to inquire touching the matter contained therein. (Code 1852, §2094; Code 1867, §2486; Code 1876, §3560; Code 1886, §3187; Code 1896, §1732; Code 1907, §3893; Code 1923, §7512; Code 1940, T. 19, §38.)...
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