11-47-14.1
Section 11-47-14.1 Construction of port facilities by Class 1 municipalities; bonds
and other contributions. (a) Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama finds that the
Tombigbee Waterway will soon be completed, and the transportation opportunities afforded thereby
must be fully utilized if Alabama is to benefit from economic growth and job development potential
afforded by this project, and that local governments need broader authorization to participate
in the development of river port facilities necessary to accomplish this purpose. (b) Municipalities
authorized to construct port facilities; limitations thereon. The council or other governing
body of any Class 1 municipality may alter and change the channel of any watercourse within
25 miles of such municipality and may construct and maintain wharves and construct buildings
and other improvements on and near wharves and wharf sites, within such municipality or within
25 miles of the limits thereof, and may collect wharfage...
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11-80-1
Section 11-80-1 Condemnation of lands for public building sites, roads, streets, construction
materials, etc. (a) Counties and municipal corporations may condemn lands for public building
sites or additions thereto, or for enlargements of sites already owned, or for public roads
or streets or alleys, or for material for the construction of public roads or streets or for
any other public use. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a municipality or county
may not condemn property for the purposes of private retail, office, commercial, industrial,
or residential development; primarily for enhancement of tax revenue; for transfer to a person,
nongovernmental entity, public-private partnership, corporation, or other business entity;
or for the primary purpose of acquiring a mortgage or deed of trust. Provided, however, the
provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the use of eminent domain by any municipality,
housing authority, or other public entity based upon a finding...
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22-25B-2
Section 22-25B-2 Exempted entities. The following entities shall not be certified or
regulated by the commission, but shall be subject to all other requirements of this chapter:
(1) Cooperatives transacting business in this state pursuant to Chapter 6 of Title 37 deemed
to be general welfare cooperatives. (2) Municipalities and county governments and any public
corporations, boards, agencies, or entities created by a municipality or county government.
Nothing herein prohibits municipal and county governmental entities from contracting with
any other public or private entity to manage, maintain, or service wastewater systems owned
by them. (3) Entities managing small-flow cluster systems. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
entities managing small-flow cluster systems may elect to be subject to all requirements of
this chapter. (4) Entities owning wastewater systems including the source, collection, treatment,
and disposal of the wastewater and all of the dwelling structures or commercial...
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40-18-411
Section 40-18-411 (Per Section 40-18-416, this section is repealed following
the close of fiscal year 2020) Applications. (a) (1) A local economic development organization
which owns a site may apply to the Department of Commerce for funding to solve an inadequacy
involving the site. The application by the local economic development organization shall include
at least one of the following: a. If there is a pending expression of interest about the site
from an industry or business, a list of the site preparation or public infrastructure work
needed to make the site acceptable to the industry or business. b. If the site has been offered
to one or more industries or businesses but the offer did not result in the industry or business
locating on the site, a list of the site preparation or public infrastructure work which,
if it had been completed, would have made the site acceptable to the industries or businesses.
c. If the site is an industrial or research park which needs connections to...
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41-29-2
Section 41-29-2 Powers, duties, and functions of Department of Commerce. (a) The Department
of Commerce shall be the principal staff agency of the executive branch to plan with the other
departments of state government and with other governmental units for the comprehensive development
of the state's human, economic and physical resources and their relevance for programs administered
by the state and the governmental structure required to put such programs into effect. It
shall provide information, assistance and staff support by all appropriate means. The Department
of Commerce shall perform all the duties and exercise all the powers and authority relative
to state regional and local planning and industrial development heretofore vested in the Alabama
Development Office. All books, records, supplies, funds, equipment, and personnel of the Alabama
Development Office are also hereby transferred to the Department of Commerce. (b) All of the
powers and authority heretofore vested in the...
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9-10-8
Section 9-10-8 Bonds. The corporation is hereby authorized to provide by resolution
for issuance of its bonds from time to time in an amount not to exceed $____ for any of its
corporate purposes, including the refunding of its bonds. Such bonds may be used for paying
in whole or in part the cost of the acquisition of necessary land or interests therein and
the development of the resources of the area for purposes of irrigation and water conservation
and expenses incidental thereto. It may secure such bonds by a pledge of all or any of the
revenues which may now or hereafter come to the agency from any source, by a mortgage or deed
of trust of the agency's land or any part thereof or by a combination of the two, and it may
make such contracts in the issuance of its bonds as may seem necessary or desirable to assure
their marketability. No bond or other obligation of the corporation shall be deemed to be
the obligation of or claim against the state or any county or municipality therein....
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9-7-15
Section 9-7-15 Coastal Area Board - Development of coastal area management program.
The board shall provide for the development of a comprehensive coastal area management program.
The program shall be prepared in cooperation with local, regional, state and federal interests.
The inland boundaries of the coastal area subject to the management program are described
as follows: begin at the southernmost point on the Mississippi-Alabama state line where the
land surface elevation reaches 10 feet above mean sea level and continue in a general easterly
direction along the 10-foot contour to the proximity of Mobile Bay; continue in a northerly
direction on the 10-foot contour along the western shore of Mobile Bay and the Mobile River
delta to the north line of Mobile County; thence southeastward along the north line of Mobile
County to the intersection with the Baldwin County lines in the Mobile River; thence along
the west and north lines of Baldwin County in the Mobile and Alabama Rivers to...
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11-54-4
Section 11-54-4 Binding option agreements for sale of industrial park authorized. Each
municipality in this state holding property as the site of an industrial park is hereby authorized
to make and enter into binding option agreements for the sale of all or any portion of said
industrial park, subject however, to the following conditions and limitations: (1) No option
shall be entered into for a period exceeding one year. (2) Where an appraisal is required
pursuant to Section 11-54-3, the option amount shall be for not less than the average
of the market value stated in two independent appraisals dated not earlier than 60 days prior
to consummation of the option agreement. Where the option agreement is for less than one year,
said original option agreement may be extended by the municipality up to a maximum of one
year without new appraisals. When the provisions on any constitutional amendment relieve or
exempt the municipality from the provisions of Section 94 of the Constitution of...

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45-2-261.06
Section 45-2-261.06 Purposes and view. In preparation of the proposed master plan and
planning and zoning ordinances and regulations, the planning commission shall make careful
and comprehensive studies and surveys of the present conditions existing within unincorporated
areas with due regard to existing agricultural uses, to land by virtue of its availability,
proximity to water supplies, and other geographical features as particularly suited to agricultural
uses, to neighboring municipalities, towns and villages, to growth of subdivisions, to the
general population, to growth of the resort areas in the county, and make adequate provisions
for traffic, recreational areas, and industries and other public requirements. The comprehensive
plan, development and zoning ordinances, and regulations shall be made with the general purpose
of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the county
which will in accordance with present and future needs best...
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45-49-261.05
Section 45-49-261.05 Purposes and view. In preparation of the proposed master plan and
planning and zoning ordinances and regulations, the planning commission shall make careful
and comprehensive studies and surveys of the present conditions existing within unincorporated
areas with due regard to existing agricultural uses, to land by virtue of its availability,
proximity to water supplies, and other geographical features as particularly suited to agricultural
uses, to neighboring municipalities, towns, and villages, to growth of subdivisions, to the
general population, to growth of the resort areas in the county, and make adequate provisions
for traffic, recreational areas, and industries and other public requirements. The comprehensive
plan, development and zoning ordinances, and regulations shall be made with the general purpose
of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the county
which will in accordance with present and future needs best...
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