35-2-30
Section 35-2-30 Acquisition of land for monuments and office. The Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources, division of land surveys, may acquire in the name of the State of Alabama
lands or interests therein, where necessary, to establish permanent monuments, and may lease
or purchase or acquire by negotiation land, if necessary, for the establishment of an office
of the division, which shall be at or near the capitol complex in the City of Montgomery.
(Acts 1971, No. 2249, p. 3608, §10.)...
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9-11-263
Section 9-11-263 Consent to acquisition of lands, etc., for establishment of migratory bird
reservations. Consent of the State of Alabama is given to the acquisition by the United States
by purchase, gift, devise or lease of such areas of land or water or of land and water in
the State of Alabama as the United States may deem necessary for the establishment of migratory
bird reservations in accordance with the act of Congress approved February 18, 1929, entitled
"An Act to more effectively meet the obligations of the United States under the Migratory
Bird Treaty with Great Britain by lessening the dangers threatening migratory game birds from
drainage and other causes by the acquisition of areas of land and of water to furnish in perpetuity
reservations for the adequate protection of such birds; and authorizing appropriations for
the establishment of such areas, their maintenance and improvement and for other purposes,"
reserving, however, to the State of Alabama full and complete...
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9-2-3
Section 9-2-3 Powers and duties as to state parks and parkways, etc. The Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources, for the purpose of establishing, developing and maintaining state parks
and parkways, may acquire land by donation, purchase, condemnation or lease and for these
purposes may use such funds as may be available to it and not otherwise obligated and may
enter into agreements with the federal government or other agencies for acquiring by lease,
purchase or otherwise such lands as in its judgment are desirable for state parks or parkways.
As to the purchase of lands, such agreements may provide for a division of the payments over
a period of years, in which case the payments may be secured by mortgage; provided, that no
liability shall attach to the State of Alabama or any of its departments, boards, bureaus
or commissions or any member or official thereof if the security specifically given in any
such mortgage is insufficient to pay said mortgage at a forced sale or...
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23-1-248
Section 23-1-248 Authority of director - Acquisition of land. (a) When the director determines
that the topography of the land adjoining the interstate or primary systems will not permit
adequate screening of such junkyards or that screening would not be economically feasible,
the director shall have the authority to acquire by gift, purchase, exchange, or eminent domain
such interests in lands as may be necessary, including fee simple title, to secure the relocation,
removal, or disposal thereof. (b) When the director determines that it is in the best interest
of the state, he may acquire such lands upon payment of just compensation to the owners, or
interest in said lands as may be necessary to provide adequate screening of such junkyards.
(c) Damages resulting from any taking of property in eminent domain shall be ascertained in
the manner provided by law. (Acts 1967, No. 643, p. 1455, §9.)...
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9-13-3
Section 9-13-3 Assistance, etc., of private landowners; suppression of forest fires, etc.;
promotion and development of forestry, etc.; acquisition, management and disposition of land;
officers, assistants and employees. (a) The commission shall give such advice, assistance
and cooperation as may be practicable to private landowners and promote, so far as it may
be able, a proper appreciation in this state among all classes of the population of the benefits
to be derived from forest culture, preservation and use. (b) The commission may take such
measures as may be reasonable and practicable to prevent and suppress forest fires and other
influences harmful to forest growth and may apply such parts of the forestry fund and other
funds accruing to it as may be necessary to such purposes and to providing such systems of
control as it may establish, either independently or in cooperation with the federal government
and other agencies, public or private. (c) The commission shall be the sole...
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11-19-4
Section 11-19-4 Land-use and control measures. Land-use and control measures shall provide
land-use restrictions based on probable exposure to flooding. Measures specified in this section
shall: (1) Prohibit inappropriate new construction or substantial improvements in the flood-prone
areas; (2) Control land uses and elevations of all new construction within the flood-prone
area; (3) For coastal flood-prone areas prescribed land uses and minimum elevations of the
first floors of buildings and include consideration of the need for bulkheads, seawalls, and
pilings; (4) Be based on competent evaluation of the flood hazard as revealed by current authoritative
flood-prone information; (5) Be consistent with existing flood-prone management programs affecting
adjacent areas and applicable to appropriate state standards; and (6) Prescribe such additional
standards as may be necessary to comply with federal requirements for making flood insurance
coverage under the National Flood Insurance Act...
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11-85-40
Section 11-85-40 Powers of Alabama Development Office and local, regional, and joint planning
commissions as to comprehensive advisory planning and research; comprehensive advisory planning
defined. (a) To facilitate the solution of urban and regional planning problems and to provide
for comprehensive advisory planning, including transportation planning, for the state and
its cities, counties, urban areas, and regions, the Alabama Development Office, the various
regional planning commissions presently authorized to be created, the various county planning
commissions presently authorized to be created, the various joint planning commissions presently
authorized to be created, municipalities, and the various municipal planning commissions presently
authorized to be created are each and all hereby empowered and authorized, within the respective
geographical areas as to which planning power has heretofore been delegated to such respective
office, commissions, or other agencies to perform...
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23-1-3
Section 23-1-3 Closing of public roads to traffic; acquisition of materials. The state, acting
through the State Department of Transportation and its duly authorized employees, and the
various counties of the state, acting through the county commissions and their duly authorized
employees, in the doing of public roads work shall have and exercise the right, power, and
authority, when deemed necessary or advisable to do so, to close public roads to traffic and,
when possible so to do, to make detour roads and to contract for such land as may be necessary
for such detour roads; also to acquire, by purchase, or by condemnation, land necessary for
drainage ditches and borrow pits, lime and stone quarries, clay and clay pits, sand and sand
pits and gravel and gravel pits, together with any and all other material of every character
that may be necessary or essential or desired in the construction and maintenance of highways
and bridges, and to tap and draw materials from the same to such...
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41-9-253
Section 41-9-253 Cahawba Historical Site - Powers of commission; payment of expenses. The Alabama
Historical Commission may acquire title, possession, or control of such properties and also
of objects of historic interest at the Cahawba Historical Site as it may deem necessary or
proper to be maintained, preserved, and protected on behalf of the State of Alabama and may
acquire, by purchase, construction, lease, gift, condemnation, or otherwise, lands and rights
in land, including leaseholds and easements, and water rights in the rivers and lands adjacent
to or in the immediate vicinity of Cahawba. The commission's power of eminent domain may be
exercised under Title 18 and any amendments thereto, or pursuant to any other general statutory
provision enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain. The commission may mark
in suitable manner the places or locations of historic interest at such point and prepare
and publish for distribution pamphlets or other printed matter with...
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9-14C-2
Section 9-14C-2 Creation; purpose. There is created the Red Mountain Greenway and Recreational
Area Commission to acquire, establish, operate, and maintain as a greenway, recreational and
educational area, alternative transportation route, and historic site the land and buildings
in Jefferson County along Red Mountain in Birmingham. The purpose of the commission shall
be to own, preserve, restore, maintain, and promote as a greenway, recreational area, or historic
site the land and relics of the property known as Red Mountain Greenway and Recreational Area,
and, in recognition of the important role played by the steel industry in the development
of this state, to exhibit this property as an example of the process of mining minerals necessary
for the production of steel in this state's early days. (Act 2006-542, p. 1256, §2.)...
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