9-13-183
Section 9-13-183 Participation by county commissions in fire protection program of State
Forestry Commission - Assessments against owners of forestlands for costs - Determination
of need therefor; determination and establishment of amount. The need for special assessments
to provide forest fire protection within the county shall be determined by the county commission
after a public hearing is held thereon. Such hearing shall be held by such body only after
a petition signed by a majority of the total number of persons owning forestlands within the
county has been presented thereto; provided, that such persons are the owners of more than
one half of the forestland situated within the county. The county commission shall give 10
days' notice of the time and place at which they shall meet to determine the need for a program
in such county to provide protection against forest fires, the manner of financing a fire
protection program, the part of the cost of such program to be assessed...
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9-8A-3
Section 9-8A-3 Commission - Members and officers; terms of office; vacancies; compensation
and expenses; meetings; quorum; record of proceedings; copies of proceedings as evidence;
members and officers not personally liable. (a) The members of the commission shall consist
of the Governor; the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries; the President of the Alabama
Farmers Federation; the President of the Alabama Cattlemen's Association; the Chair of the
State Soil and Water Conservation Committee; a member of the Alabama Forestry Commission designated
by the Governor; the President of the Alabama Association of Conservation Districts; and two
citizens of the state of good reputation who are active farmers or timberland owners or involved
in environmental protection appointed by the Governor. Each voting member of the commission,
except the two citizens appointed by the Governor, may appoint a designee to represent him
or her at all commission meetings. The members of the commission may...
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9-13-11
Section 9-13-11 Willful, malicious, or intentional setting on fire, etc., of woodlands,
grasslands, etc.; burning permits; fire alerts; organized forest fire protection; fines. (a)
It shall be a Class C felony for every person, firm, association, or corporation to do either
of the following: (1) Willfully, maliciously or intentionally burns, sets fire to, attempts
to set fire to, or causes to be burned or any fire to be set to any forest, grass, woodlands,
or other inflammable vegetation on any lands not owned, leased, controlled, or in the lawful
possession of the person, firm, association, or corporation setting the fire or burning such
lands or causing the fire to be set or lands to be burned. (2) Shall have in his or her possession
or shall set, throw or place any device, instrument, or other incendiary paraphernalia, including
any time-delay incendiary device, in or adjacent to any forest, grass, woodlands, or other
inflammable vegetation, which forest, grass, woodland or other...
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40-18-140
Section 40-18-140 Contribution designations. (a)(1) Each Alabama resident individual
income taxpayer desiring to contribute to any of the programs listed in subsection (b) may
designate an amount of his or her refund, rounded off in whole dollars, in an appropriate
box on the state income tax return form, to be credited to the program. (2) All future check-offs,
duly enacted by the Legislature subsequent to April 17, 2006, shall be accorded an appropriate
box on the state income tax return forms, subject to the terms and conditions prescribed herein,
without the requirement that they be added by amendment to this section. (b) Contributions
received for the following authorized charitable and nonpolitical income tax check-off recipients,
less costs of administration to the Department of Revenue not to exceed five percent, shall
be distributed and appropriated as provided herein: (1) Contributions to the Alabama Aging
Program shall be deposited with the State Treasurer into the Alabama...
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9-13-193
Section 9-13-193 Referendum; amount of assessment; payment and remission of assessment;
notice of referendum. (a) The commission shall authorize a referendum among owners or lessees
of forest land to determine whether an assessment shall be levied upon said owners or lessees
to offset, in whole or in part, the cost of forestry and forest fire protection programs.
(b) The assessment levied against each owner or lessee under this article shall be ten cents
per acre of forest land owned. (c) All affected owners or lessees of forest land shall be
entitled to vote in any such referendum. The commission shall determine any questions of eligibility
to vote and shall establish rules and regulations pertaining to the vote. (d) If a majority
of those voting at the referendum vote in favor of the assessment, then the charge, fee or
assessment shall be collected from the owners or lessees of forest land. The finance charge,
fee or assessment levied by this article shall not be effective until a...
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23-1-431
Section 23-1-431 (This section terminates April 26, 2018, if no revenue is created.)
Alabama Transportation Safety Fund. There is hereby created the Alabama Transportation Safety
Fund in the State Treasury. All proceeds from the revenues designated to the fund less the
cost of collection authorized by law shall be deposited into the fund to be expended only
as provided in this article. The provisions of this article shall not be superseded, amended,
altered, violated, or overridden by any provision of the state General Fund appropriation
act or any other annual or supplemental appropriation act, administrative rule, inter-agency
transfer, or executive order or directive. The monies allocated to counties and municipalities
from the fund shall be in addition to and shall not diminish any other revenues allocated
or distributed from other sources. Proceeds deposited into the fund shall be distributed as
follows: (1) The first thirty-two million dollars ($32,000,000) of the proceeds paid...
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45-31-141.11
Section 45-31-141.11 Fire protection fee levied on dwellings and commercial buildings.
(a) The expenses of establishing and maintaining a district shall be paid for by the proceeds
of a fire protection fee which shall be levied and collected in an amount sufficient to pay
the expense. One percent of the fee shall be appropriated to fund the Geneva County office
of the Alabama Forestry Commission. One percent of the fee shall be appropriated to the Geneva
County Volunteer Firefighters Association. The fee shall be levied at a uniform rate upon
each dwelling and commercial building served by the system. The term commercial building shall
not apply to any utility distribution or transmission poles or towers or utility substations.
The fee shall be collected, administered, and enforced at the same time, in the same manner,
and under the same requirements and laws as are the ad valorem taxes of the state. The property
owner would be provided the same rights in this situation as he or she...
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8-26B-31
Section 8-26B-31 Disposition of funds; Alabama Athlete Agents Fund. (a) All moneys collected
for registrations and all fines collected for violations of this chapter shall be paid to
the Secretary of State, who shall deposit them in a special fund in the State Treasury for
the use of the commission. (b) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund to be
known and designated as the Alabama Athlete Agents Fund. All funds, fees, charges, costs,
and collections accruing to or collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited
into the State Treasury to the credit of the Alabama Athlete Agents Fund. (c) Funds now or
hereafter deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Alabama Athlete Agents Fund
may not be expended for any purpose whatsoever unless the same shall have been allotted and
budgeted in accordance with Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41, and only in the amounts and
for the purposes provided by the Legislature in the general appropriation bill or...
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9-13-200
Section 9-13-200 Authorized; form. The governor on behalf of this state is hereby authorized
to execute a compact in substantially the following form with any one or more of the states
of Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
and West Virginia, and the Legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification
of such compact, which compact is as follows: SOUTHEASTERN INTERSTATE FOREST FIRE PROTECTION
COMPACT Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote effective prevention and control
of forest fires in the Southeastern region of the United States by the development of integrated
forest fire plans, by the maintenance of adequate forest fire fighting services by the member
states, by providing for mutual aid in fighting forest fires among the compacting states of
the region and with states which are party to other regional forest fire protection compacts
or agreements, and for more adequate forest protection....
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9-15-82
Section 9-15-82 Article not to apply to certain transfers, reversions, sales, etc. (a)
This article shall not apply to the transfers of real property between departments, boards,
bureaus, commissions, institutions, corporations, or agencies of the state. These transfers
may be made by mutual agreements between the chief executive officers of the respective departments
with the approval of the Governor. This article shall not apply to the leasing or sale of
timber from unused lands under Section 9-15-1 et seq.; to the leasing or sale of timber
from school lands and swamp and overflowed lands under Section 9-15-30 et seq.; to
the leasing of oil, gas, and other minerals under Section 9-17-60 et seq.; real property
sold by the Department of Revenue under tax sales and redemptions; to the sale of property
by the Alabama Historical Commission under Section 41-9-249(7); to reversions made
under Section 31-4-18; to the sale or conveyance of real property by the Alabama Housing
Finance...
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