9-2-2
Section 9-2-2 Powers and duties generally. The general functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be as follows: (1) To protect, conserve, and increase the wildlife of the state and to administer all laws relating to wildlife and the protection, conservation, and increase thereof. (2) To make exploration, surveys, studies, and reports concerning the wildlife, state parks and monuments and historical sites in the state and to publish such thereof as will be of general interest. (3) To maintain, supervise, operate, and control all state parks, monuments and historical sites, except Mound State Monument and the First White House of the Confederacy; the serving and employing of attendants for all monuments and historical sites located on state-owned property in the City of Montgomery shall be performed by the Department of Finance. (4) To maintain, supervise, operate, and control all state lands other than those specifically committed to the use or...
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22-28-21
Section 22-28-21 Air pollution emergencies. (a) Any other provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, if the director finds that a generalized condition of air pollution exists and that it creates an emergency requiring immediate action to protect human health or safety, the director shall order persons causing or contributing to the air pollution to reduce or discontinue immediately the emission of air contaminants, and such order shall fix a place and time, not later than 24 hours thereafter, for a hearing to be held before the Environmental Management Commission. Not more than 24 hours after the commencement of such hearing, and without adjournment thereof, the Environmental Management Commission shall affirm, modify or set aside the order of the director. (b) In the absence of a generalized condition of air pollution of the type referred to in subsection (a) of this section, but if the director finds that emissions from the operation of one or more air contaminants sources...
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23-1-413
Section 23-1-413 Permit procedures. (a) The department shall establish procedures for submitting applications and issuing permits. (b)(1) The department shall produce and, from time to time, modify and update the forms on which the applications for a permit shall be made. (2) The filing fee assessed by the department shall not exceed five hundred dollars ($500) per application. Any number of structures or a group of structures may be included in a single application so long as they are part of a single project. (3) Applications containing inaccurate or incomplete information, or not accompanied by the correct application fee, shall be returned (together with any fee submitted), without consideration, to the applicant. (4) Application fees shall be deposited in the state Airports Development Fund, provided in Section 23-1-364, and used by the department to administer this article. (c)(1) Permits shall not be required for any structure or object of natural growth constructed, erected,...
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9-10C-2
Section 9-10C-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ADAPT. The Alabama Drought Assessment and Planning Team as created by this chapter. (2) ADECA. The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. (3) ADCNR COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (4) ADEM DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (5) AEMA DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency. (6) ALABAMA ADJUTANT GENERAL. The Commanding General of the Alabama National Guard. (7) AGI COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries. (8) COMMUNITY PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM. A public water system which serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents. (9) DROUGHT CONSERVATION PLAN. A written plan that addresses graduated drought response procedures...
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9-15-13
Section 9-15-13 Acquisition of lands to which state entitled; recordation of same. It shall be the duty of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to ascertain what, if any, lands the state or any institution thereof is entitled to which have not been received, allocated to or set aside to the state or such institution and to take immediate and appropriate action to acquire the same for the state or such institution as may be entitled to the same. Such lands, as well as any other lands acquired in any manner by the state or any institution thereof, shall be added to the record required in this article to be made as soon as such lands are acquired. (Acts 1927, No. 635, p. 725, §4; Code 1940, T. 8, §222.)...
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11-47-251
Section 11-47-251 Powers of coastal municipalities. (a) Any coastal municipality may do any of the following: (1) Plan, establish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, regulate, and protect beach projects, including, without limitation, joint beach projects with one or more other coastal municipalities. (2) Finance the cost of beach projects in whole or in part by the issuance of bonds, warrants, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness. (3) Pledge to the payment thereof its full faith and credit and any taxes, licenses, or revenues which the coastal municipality may then be authorized to pledge to the payment of bonded or other indebtedness. (4) Make and enforce rules and regulations governing the use of and activities upon the areas included within any beach project established by the coastal municipality with the concurrence of the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, acting through the Lands Division of the department. (5) Acquire or...
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22-3-5
Section 22-3-5 County health officers - Duties generally. It shall be the duty of the county health officer: (1) To exercise, subject to the advice of the county board of health in accordance with the health laws of the state, general supervision over the sanitary interests of the county; and, should he discover any cause of disease or the existence of any condition detrimental to the health of the people, he shall, so far as authorized by law, compel the removal or abatement of the same; and, should no authority for removal or abatement exist, he shall report the fact to the county board of health, adding such recommendations as to special action as he may deem proper; (2) To make personal and thorough investigation of the first case or early cases of any diseases suspected of being or known to be any one of those enumerated in Chapter 11 of this title that may come to his knowledge or be reported to him; and, should he decide such case or cases to be one of those enumerated in said...
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22-36-6
Section 22-36-6 Expenditure of funds from leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund; investigative and corrective powers in regard to administration of funds; liability of owner or operator for costs. (a) The department shall be authorized to administer the expenditure of any funds made available from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund established by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. (b) To enable the department to administer the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund, or state fund, where applicable, the department: (1) Shall have authority to take investigative and corrective action with respect to releases of petroleum from underground storage tanks; (2) Shall have the authority to expend any state funds which may be made available for investigative and corrective action or federal funds which are authorized for state use under 42 U.S.C. §6991b.(h) for investigative or corrective action involving releases of petroleum from underground...
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24-1-27
Section 24-1-27 Powers and duties of authority. (a) An authority shall constitute a public body and a body corporate and politic exercising public powers, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article, including the following powers in addition to others granted in this article: (1) To investigate into living, dwelling and housing conditions and into the means and methods of improving such conditions. (2) To determine where unsafe or unsanitary dwelling, public school or housing conditions exist. (3) To study and make recommendations concerning the plan of any city located within its boundaries in relation to the problem of clearing, replanning, and reconstruction of areas in which unsafe or unsanitary dwelling, public school, or housing conditions exist, and the provision of dwelling accommodations for persons of low income, and to cooperate with any city or regional planning agency. (4) To prepare, carry out,...
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24-1-66
Section 24-1-66 Powers and duties of authority generally. (a) An authority shall constitute a public body and a body corporate and politic exercising public powers, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article, including the following powers in addition to others granted in this article: (1) To investigate into living, dwelling, and housing conditions and into the means and methods of improving such conditions; (2) To determine where unsafe or unsanitary dwelling, public school, or housing conditions exist; (3) To study and make recommendations concerning the plan of the county in relation to the problem of clearing, replanning, and reconstruction of areas in which unsafe or unsanitary dwelling, public school, or housing conditions exist, and the provision of dwelling accommodations for persons of low income, and to cooperate with the county or any regional planning agency; (4) To prepare, carry out, and...
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