41-1-1
Section 41-1-1 Sovereignty and jurisdiction of state; territorial waters; legislative findings.
(a) The sovereignty and jurisdiction of the state extend to all places within the boundaries
of the state, but the extent of the jurisdiction over places that have been or may be ceded
to the United States is qualified by the terms of the cession. (b) The limits and boundaries
of the territorial waters of the State of Alabama for management and protection of marine
resources shall consist of all territory included within the boundaries described in the Act
of Congress of March 2, 1819, together with all territory ceded to the State of Alabama by
later acts of Congress or by compacts or agreements with other states or the United States,
extending seaward to a distance of three Marine Leagues. (c) The Legislature hereby finds,
determines, and declares the following: (1) Significant inequitable disparities exist in the
limits and boundaries of the territorial waters among the Gulf Coast States...
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9-12-52
Section 9-12-52 Tax on shrimp taken for transportation to other states. Before any shrimp which
have been taken or caught in the waters of this state or the waters within the territorial
jurisdiction of this state shall be carried beyond the boundaries of the State of Alabama,
they shall be brought to a port of entry designated by the Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources, and then and there a tax of $.20 per barrel must be paid. This section
is intended to apply only to shrimp which are caught for the purpose of being transported
to other states and shall not apply to canned or headless shrimp which have been caught and
on which the tax due has been paid. (Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 169, p. 192, § 40; Code
1940, T. 8, § 163.)...
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9-12-53
Section 9-12-53 Tax on shrimp not to be exported. A tax of $.12 a barrel shall be paid at the
office of the Director, Marine Resources Division of the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources, not later than the fifth day of each month on all shrimp taken or caught in the
waters of Alabama or waters within the territorial jurisdiction of the State of Alabama or
brought into a port in the State of Alabama which are not to be carried or transported beyond
the boundary of the state. (Acts 1939, No. 565, p. 891, § 1; Code 1940, T. 8, § 164.)...

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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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9-12-22
Section 9-12-22 Right of owners of land fronting public waters to plant and gather oysters.
All the beds and bottoms of the rivers, bayous, lagoons, lakes, bays, sounds and inlets within
the jurisdiction of the State of Alabama are the property of the State of Alabama to be held
in trust for the people thereof, but the owners of land fronting on such waters where oysters
may be grown shall have the right to plant and gather same in the waters in front of their
land to the distance of 600 yards from the shore measured from the average low water mark,
but where the distance from shore to shore is less than 1,200 yards, the owners of either
shore may plant and gather to a line equidistant between the two shores, but no person shall
plant in any natural channel so as to interfere with navigation. The respective owners shall
plant within lines extended into the water from points where the boundaries intersect the
shore, as nearly as practicable, with a mean width corresponding with their...
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11-44B-25
Section 11-44B-25 Procedures to reduce or delete areas from police jurisdiction. Notwithstanding
any law to the contrary, any Class 4 municipality that is organized pursuant to this article
may from time to time reduce or delete various portions and areas from the territorial limits
of its respective police jurisdiction or its planning jurisdiction or both as established
by law, including, but not limited to, Sections 11-40-10 and 11-52-30, Act 76-594 and as amended
by Act 94-539, the reduction and deletion shall be pursuant to the following procedure: (1)
INITIATION. The governing body of the municipality shall adopt a resolution calling for public
hearings to consider the adoption of an ordinance or ordinances for the purpose of deleting
a portion or portions of territory from its respective police jurisdiction or planning jurisdiction,
or both, as the case may be. The resolution shall state the time, date, and place of all public
hearings in regard to the ordinance and a reasonably...
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31-9-40
Section 31-9-40 Compact adopted and enacted. The Emergency Management Assistance Compact is
enacted into law and entered with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form
substantially as follows: THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT Article I - Purpose
and Authorities. This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member
states which enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purpose of this
agreement, the term "states" is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions. The purpose
of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this
compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the
affected state or states, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made
disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources shortages, community disorders,...
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4-3-47
Section 4-3-47 Powers of authority generally. The authority shall have the following powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be
in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued in its
own name in civil actions, excepting actions in tort against the authority; (3) To adopt and
make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt and alter bylaws
for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, receive, take
and hold, whether by purchase, option to purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, property
of every description, whether real, personal or mixed, whether in one or more counties and
whether within or without the corporate limits of any authorizing subdivision, and to manage
said property and to develop any property and to sell, exchange, lease or...
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33-10-17
Section 33-10-17 Jurisdiction; right to acquire waterbottoms. The commission shall have exclusive
jurisdiction over the commission development program within the coastal waters of Alabama.
The commission shall have the right to acquire waterbottoms inside and outside of the territorial
limits of the State of Alabama for use in the construction, operation or maintenance of the
facilities functionally required, related, necessary or useful to the operation of the commission.
(Acts 1973, No. 1064, p. 1779, §4.)...
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9-11-5
Section 9-11-5 Commissioner, wardens, etc., constituted peace officers. The Commissioner of
Conservation and Natural Resources, his wardens, agents and employees shall be and are hereby
constituted peace officers of the State of Alabama with full and unlimited police power and
jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of the game and fish laws and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder, and they may exercise such power in any county of the State of Alabama
or in or on any waters of the State of Alabama or within the territorial jurisdiction of the
state. (Acts 1935, No. 240, p. 632, §47; Code 1940, T. 8, §46.)...
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