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22-22A-4
Section 22-22A-4 Department of Environmental Management created; principal office; director;
deputy director; divisions and division chiefs; transfer of functions; designation as State
Environmental Control Agency, etc.; contract with Health Department for routine bacteriological
analyses. (a) There is hereby created and established the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management to carry out the purposes of this chapter and to administer and enforce the provisions
of this chapter and all functions transferred to the department by this chapter. The department
shall maintain its principal office in the City of Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama.
(b) The department shall be under the supervision and control of an officer who shall be designated
as the director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The director shall
be an individual knowledgeable and experienced in environmental matters. The director shall
employ such officers, agents and employees as he deems...
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20-2-190
Section 20-2-190 Penalties; sale of ephedrine, etc.; Alabama Drug Abuse Task Force. (a) Any
person who manufactures, sells, transfers, receives, or possesses a listed precursor chemical
violates this article if the person: (1) Knowingly fails to comply with the reporting requirements
of this article; (2) Knowingly makes a false statement in a report or record required by this
article or the rules adopted thereunder; (3) Is required by this article to have a listed
precursor chemical license or permit, and is a person as defined by this article, and knowingly
or deliberately fails to obtain such a license or permit. An offense under this subsection
shall constitute a Class C felony. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 20-2-188,
a person who possesses, sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes or attempts to solicit another
or conspires to possess, sell, transfer, or otherwise furnish a listed precursor chemical
or a product containing a precursor chemical or ephedrine or...
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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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22-22A-3
Section 22-22A-3 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases,
unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context or by legislation governing
functions transferred by this chapter, shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management, established by this chapter. (2) DIRECTOR.
The director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (3) DIVISION. A subdivision
of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, which may be headed by a division chief.
Such divisions may be divided into sections where appropriate. (4) ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
COMMISSION. The Environmental Management Commission of the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management. (5) FUNCTION(S). A duty, power or program exercised by or assigned to a commission,
board or the State Health Department, including all positions and personnel relating to the
performance of such function, unless otherwise provided by...
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22-27-2
by the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill which guarantees the availability
of funds which may be used to close, provide post-closure care, or conduct corrective action
at that facility if the owner or operator fails to properly execute his or her responsibilities
under this article and any rules adopted by the department for closure, post-closure care,
or corrective action and the terms of any permit issued for operation of that facility. (12)
GARBAGE. Putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation,
cooking, and consumption of food, including wastes from markets, storage facilities, handling
and sale of produce and other food products and excepting such materials that may be serviced
by garbage grinders and handled as household sewage. (13) GENERATION. The act or process of
producing solid waste. Solid waste shall be considered to be generated at the point that waste
materials are first discarded or collected, regardless of...
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45-49-252
INCINERATION. A controlled process by which solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible wastes are
burned and changed into gases, and the residue produced contains little or no combustible
material. (20) INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE. Solid waste that results from industrial processes
and manufacturing. (21) INFECTIOUS WASTES. Those wastes resulting from the operation of medical
clinics, hospitals, abattoirs, and other facilities producing waste which may consist of,
but are not limited to, human and animal parts, contaminated bandages, pathological
specimens, hypodermic needles, contaminated clothing, and surgical gloves. (22) NON-RESIDENTIAL
SOLID WASTE. Solid waste from agricultural, commercial, industrial, or institutional activities
or from parcels of property occupied by six or more residential units unless exempt by the
Mobile County Commission from mechanical pickup requirements. (23) PERSONS. Any individual,
partnership, copartnership, firm, company, public or private corporation,...
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22-27-9
Section 22-27-9 Authority of Department of Environmental Management and Department of Public
Health. (a) The Department of Environmental Management shall be the agency with primary regulatory
authority over the management of solid waste in the state, except for the collection and transportation
of nonhazardous and nonmedical solid waste. The department may exercise the regulatory authority
over the permitting and operation of solid waste management facilities necessary to enforce
the requirement and purposes of this article. (b) The Alabama Department of Public Health
shall have primary regulatory authority over the collection and transportation of solid waste,
excluding medical waste and hazardous waste, the management of sanitary waste in septic tanks,
excluding landfill disposal, and the management of collection activities including, but not
limited to, the provision of collection services by county and municipal governing bodies,
participation in local collection systems, the...
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22-22A-9
Section 22-22A-9 Transfer of functions, personnel, equipment, funds, etc., to Department of
Environmental Management. (a) All employees engaged in duties pertaining to the functions
transferred by this chapter to the department, shall be assigned to the department on October
1, 1982, to perform their usual duties, subject to any action that may be appropriate thereafter
in accordance with the laws and rules governing personnel and employees. (b) All files, books,
papers, records, equipment, furniture, motor vehicles, any other tangible property, and any
other asset employed in carrying out the powers, duties and functions transferred by this
chapter to the department shall, on October 1, 1982, be transferred to the department. (c)
All reports, documents, surveys, books, records, files, correspondence, papers or other writings
in the possession of any department, division, bureau, board, commission or other agency,
the functions, powers and duties of which have been transferred to the...
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22-28-2
Section 22-28-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AIR POLLUTION. The presence
in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in such quantities and duration
as are, or tend to be, injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life or
property or would interfere with the enjoyment of life or property throughout the state and
in such territories of the state as shall be affected thereby. (2) AIR CONTAMINANT. Any solid,
liquid or gaseous matter, any odor or any combination thereof, from whatever source. (3) COMMISSION.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (4) PERSON. Any and all persons, natural
or artificial, including, but not limited to, any individual, partnership, association, society,
joint stock company, firm, company, corporation, institution, trust, estate, or other legal
or other business organization or any governmental entity, and any...
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22-23-31
Section 22-23-31 Definitions. When used in this article and except where the context prohibits,
the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (1) FEDERAL ACT. The Federal
Safe Drinking Water Act, being Public Law 93-523. (2) ADMINISTRATOR. The Administrator of
the United States Environmental Protection Agency. (3) NATIONAL PRIMARY DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS.
Primary drinking water regulations promulgated by the administrator pursuant to the federal
act. (4) FEDERAL AGENCY. Any department, agency or instrumentality of the government of the
United States, the regulation of which has been delegated to the State of Alabama pursuant
to the federal act. (5) BOARD. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (6) HEALTH
OFFICER. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (7) LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL
UNIT. Any community, town, city, county, board, authority, nonprofit corporation or other
unit of government created by the Legislature. (8) PERSON....
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