45-42-220
Section 45-42-220 Preservation of ancient cemeteries or burial grounds. (a) In Limestone County, the county commissioners, upon appropriate request, may provide assistance in the maintenance, restoration, care, and protection of any ancient cemetery or burial ground, as herein defined, located within the geographical perimeters of such county, and may appropriate funds for that purpose. (b) As used herein, the term ancient cemetery or burial ground means any land or structure located in Limestone County dedicated to and used for the interment of human remains, and which at the time Limestone County assists in the maintenance, restoration, care, and protection thereof has two or more graves therein which are at least 100 years old. (Act 92-237, p. 586, § 1.)...
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11-80-13
Section 11-80-13 Cemetery rehabilitation authorities. (a)(1) County commissions may establish a county cemetery rehabilitation authority, hereinafter authority, to designate, register, and maintain neglected cemeteries lying outside any municipal area within the county. (2) When a county commission establishes an authority, it shall appoint a board to oversee the duties given to the authority. Each board member shall serve at the pleasure of the county commission. (3) City governments have the same power to establish a city cemetery rehabilitation authority and a board to oversee the registration and maintenance of neglected cemeteries within their municipal limits. (4) Governments are encouraged to include on their board representatives of genealogical and historical societies and other citizens who have shown an interest in preserving cemeteries. (b) In the absence of action by the appropriate governing body, any citizen may submit, in writing, a request to the appropriate governing...
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41-10-141
Section 41-10-141 Powers and duties of authority generally. An 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 maintain civil actions and have civil actions maintained against it in its corporate name, except as otherwise provided in this article, and to defend civil actions against it; (3) To adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To amend its certificate of incorporation by filing in the office of the Secretary of State a certificate signed by all of the directors of the authority setting forth the details of the amendment, such certificate to be acknowledged in the same manner as the certificate of incorporation; (5) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and...
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22-32-1
Section 22-32-1 Enactment of Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: SOUTHEAST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT Article I. Policy and Purpose There is hereby created the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The party states recognize and declare that each state is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity either within or outside the state for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities. They also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most...
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45-41-30
Section 45-41-30 Lee County Cemetery Preservation Commission. (a) This section shall apply only in Lee County. (b) There is created and established the Lee County Cemetery Preservation Commission to be composed of five members to be appointed by the Lee County Commission of Lee County for terms of four years. (c) The chair and vice chair of the preservation commission shall be elected at the first meeting by the members of the preservation commission and annually thereafter. (d) The preservation commission is authorized to protect the cemeteries in the county. The preservation commission may provide for the maintenance and reasonable care of cemeteries in the county. The Lee County Commission may appropriate funds to the preservation commission to carry out the purposes of the preservation commission. (e) The members serving on the preservation commission, and any person, firm, or corporation making or participating in the making of a report relating to cemetery damage and any...
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13A-7-23.1
Section 13A-7-23.1 Desecration, defacement, etc., of memorial of dead; invasion or mutilation of corpse. (a) Any person who willfully or maliciously injures, defaces, removes, or destroys any tomb, monument, gravestone, burial mound, earthen or shell monument containing human skeletal remains or associated burial artifacts, or other structure or thing placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or any fence, railing, curb, or any enclosure for the protection or ornamentation of any tomb, monument, gravestone, burial mound, earthen or shell monument containing human skeletal remains or associated burial artifacts, or other structure before mentioned, or for any enclosure for the burial of the dead, or any person who willfully and wrongfully or maliciously destroys, removes, cuts, breaks, or injures any tree, shrub, plant, flower, decoration, or other real or personal property within any cemetery or graveyard shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (b) Any person who willfully or...
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41-10-138
Section 41-10-138 Application for authority to incorporate; contents; review of application and issuance of executive order by Governor. (a) In order to form a public corporation under the provisions of this article, any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall first file a written application with the Governor. Such application shall: (1) Contain a statement that such public corporation proposes to undertake and carry out one or more or all of the purposes defined in Section 41-10-137 with respect to public corporations formed under this article; (2) Contain a description by county name or otherwise of the area of operation in which the public corporation proposes to carry on its activities; (3) State that land, buildings, houses or other structures, facilities or property located in the area of operation of the public corporation and listed in the National Register of Historic Places are in need of restoration, renovation, preservation, improvement, protection or...
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45-36A-102
Section 45-36A-102 Historic preservation commission; architectural review board; review of building plans. (a) The governing body of the City of Scottsboro in Jackson County may adopt ordinances, pass resolutions, or take such appropriate action as necessary to promote the general public welfare within the city, such ordinances to protect the historic character of the city in the manner hereinafter described.. (b) The governing body of the city, upon the recommendation of the historic preservation commission, as provided for below, may designate as a historic district any area, site, building, or structure within the city having an overall atmosphere of either historic or architectural distinction, or both (c) A historic preservation commission with the following membership, duties, and powers may be created by the city governing body: (1) The commission shall be composed of no less than seven members who shall be selected by the city governing body in such a manner as to serve...
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33-12-5
Section 33-12-5 Powers, duties and functions. The powers, duties and functions of the agency shall be as follows: (1) GENERALLY. The agency a. Shall have perpetual succession in its corporate name. b. May sue and be sued in its corporate name. c. May adopt, use and alter a corporate seal, which shall be judicially noticed. d. May enter into such contracts and cooperative agreements with the federal, state and local governments, with agencies of such governments, with private individuals, corporations, associations, trusts and other organizations as the board may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including the planned, orderly residential development of the area. e. May adopt, amend and repeal bylaws. f. May appoint such managers, officers, employees, attorneys and agents as the board deems necessary for the transaction of its business, fix their compensation, define their duties, require bonds of such of them as the board may...
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11-47-41
Section 11-47-41 Contracts for municipal care and maintenance of burial grounds, cemeteries, and graves - Authorized. Any incorporated city or town having within its corporate limits an ancient family cemetery or burial ground or owning a cemetery or burial ground may make and enter into a contract with any interested party or parties obligating and binding the city or town to forever protect, maintain, and properly care for such cemetery or burial ground or for graves of individuals in the cemeteries or burial grounds owned by such city or town, upon terms and conditions as may be agreed upon and for such compensation as it may see fit to accept. (Code 1907, §1309; Acts 1919, No. 165, p. 153; Code 1923, §2122; Code 1940, T. 37, §479.)...
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