11-50-273
Section 11-50-273 Construction of division; exemption from jurisdiction and regulation of state Public Service Commission. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this division, neither this division nor anything contained in this division shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any power, right, or remedy which any waterworks board now in existence or hereafter formed may have in the absence thereof, but shall be construed as cumulative and independent of any such power, right, or remedy. No proceedings, notice, or approval shall be required for the acquisition of any property or the making of any loans or issuance or instruments in evidence thereof or as security therefor, except as prescribed in this division, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding. (b) Any waterworks board organized under the provisions of this division shall be exempt from all jurisdiction of any regulation by the Alabama Public Service Commission. (Acts 1947, No. 154, p. 48, §5.)...
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12-25-32
Section 12-25-32 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Sentencing Commission, established as a state agency under the Supreme Court by this chapter. (2) CONTINUUM OF PUNISHMENTS. An array of punishment options, from probation to incarceration, graduated in restrictiveness according to the degree of supervision of the offender including, but not limited to, all of the following: a. Active Incarceration. A sentence, other than an intermediate punishment or unsupervised probation, that requires an offender to serve a sentence of imprisonment. The term includes time served in a work release program operated as a custody option by the Alabama Department of Corrections or in the Supervised Intensive Restitution program of the Department of Corrections pursuant to Article 7, commencing with Section 15-18-110, of Chapter 18 of Title 15. b. Intermediate Punishment. A sentence that may include assignment to any...
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24-7A-2
Section 24-7A-2 Establishment of authority. There is created and established an Indian housing authority for the jurisdiction of the State of Alabama, to be styled the Alabama Indian Housing Authority. Its purpose shall be to provide safe and decent dwelling places for low-income persons and families in Indian areas. The authority shall consist of five members who shall be appointed by the commission from nominations submitted to the commission from the tribal councils of the following tribal governments: (1) Cherokees of Southeast Alabama. (2) Cherokees of Northeast Alabama. (3) Echota Cherokees. (4) Machis Creeks. (5) Star Clan of Muscogee (Creeks). No person shall be barred from serving as a member of the authority because the person is a tenant or home buyer in a tribal housing project. Members of the authority shall serve a term of three years from their appointment, and may serve an unlimited number of terms. In the event of a vacancy on the authority, the commission shall...
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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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31-10-3
Section 31-10-3 Tuition reimbursement authorized for eligible members of National Guard. Subject to the annual appropriation in the annual Education Trust Fund Appropriation Act, provided such annual appropriations shall not exceed $10,000,000, the Alabama Commission on Higher Education is hereby authorized to pay or reimburse the qualifying tuition for any active member of the Alabama National Guard who is enrolled in a program leading to the associate, baccalaureate, masters, or doctorate degree in an accredited institution of higher learning, community or technical college within the State of Alabama. Such payments or reimbursements shall be made timely at the end of each academic quarter or semester for all tuition reimbursements, and shall be made on the basis of certified invoices submitted by such institution or school to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, and shall be supported by names of the students receiving such benefits, together with the amounts claimed for each...
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33-1-18
Section 33-1-18 Sales of submerged lands and made lands lying under or abutting tidal waters. (a) The Director of the Alabama State Port Authority is vested with power and authority to obtain and negotiate a sale of any submerged lands and made lands claimed or owned by the state, which lands are under or were formerly under any of the tidal waters of the State of Alabama, or which lands abut such tidal waters; provided, however, that if such lands abut or adjoin in whole or in part any uplands then no such sale shall be made to any purchaser other than the owner of such uplands, except a sale of so much of said land as may be used and occupied by such purchaser without interfering with the riparian rights appurtenant to such uplands, unless the owner of such uplands relinquishes such rights by appropriate instrument made in connection with such sale; and except that such sales may be made to a public body of the submerged or made land upon which docks or wharves have been constructed...
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33-10-2
Section 33-10-2 Purpose of chapter. It is the intent and purpose of this chapter to provide for the creation of the Ameraport Offshore Harbor and Terminal Commission, hereinafter referred to as the "commission," to promote, plan, finance, develop, construct, control, operate, manage, maintain and modify a deep draft harbor and terminal, in order to promote the economic welfare of the citizens of the State of Alabama, and to provide the necessary facilities for docking, loading and unloading of vessels carrying liquid or dry bulk and energy cargoes, and to provide for the laying of pipelines or other forms of transportation or transmission of energy cargoes of all kinds. It is the object of this chapter to assert and protect Alabama's economic, social and environmental interests in the development of any deep draft harbor and terminal outside the State of Alabama where such development may have an impact upon the State of Alabama. (Acts 1973, No. 1064, p. 1779, §1.)...
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36-21-40
Section 36-21-40 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates the contrary: (1) FUND. The Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Fund provided for in Section 36-21-47. (2) COMMISSION. The Alabama Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission established by Section 36-21-41. (3) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. The state Department of Public Safety, the Alabama Board of Corrections, the police department of each incorporated city or town, the department of each sheriff of the state, including all deputy sheriffs, the Enforcement Division of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Public Service Commission, and each public agency in the state charged with the enforcement of any laws and the officers or employees of which have power as such officials or employees to make arrests. The term does not include the National Guard or any military...
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9-12-180
Section 9-12-180 Authorized; form. The Governor of this state is hereby authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of Alabama with any one or more of the states of Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and with such other states as may enter into the compact legally therein in the form substantially as follows: GULF STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMPACT The contracting states solemnly agree: Article I Whereas the Gulf Coast States have the proprietary interest in and jurisdiction over fisheries in the waters within their respective boundaries, it is the purpose of this compact to promote the better utilization of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the seaboard of the Gulf of Mexico, by the development of a joint program for the promotion and protection of such fisheries and the prevention of the physical waste of the fisheries from any cause. Article II This compact shall become operative immediately as to those states ratifying it whenever any two...
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33-1-1
Section 33-1-1 State may engage in promoting, constructing, operating, etc., harbors and ports; expenditure of funds to entertain customers, etc., authorized; audit and accounting of certain expenditures. The State of Alabama may engage in, through the agency of the Alabama State Port Authority provided and designated by law, works of internal improvement, and of promoting, developing, constructing, maintaining and operating all harbors, seaports or riverports within the state or its jurisdiction, including the acquisition or construction, maintaining and operating at seaports and riverports of harbor watercraft and terminal railroads, as well as all other kinds of terminal facilities. Such work or improvement and facilities shall be under the management and control of the state through the governing agency provided and designated by law. The Alabama State Port Authority in further promoting harbors, seaports and riverports within the state, through its director, and such employees as...
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