4-6-4
Section 4-6-4 Authority of counties and municipalities to adopt regulations; zoning jurisdiction of counties and municipalities. (a) Counties. - In order to prevent the creation or establishment of airport hazards, any county having an airport hazard area within its zoning jurisdiction, as hereinafter defined, may adopt, administer and enforce, under the police power and in the manner and upon the conditions hereinafter prescribed, airport zoning regulations for such airport hazard area, which regulations may divide such area into zones, and within such zones specify the land uses permitted and regulate and restrict the height to which structures and trees may be erected or allowed to grow. The zoning jurisdiction of the county is hereby declared to be all unincorporated areas in the county, except within the police jurisdiction of any municipality and the area within two miles of an airport owned or operated by a municipality when said municipality exercises or declares its intention...
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45-2-180.01
Section 45-2-180.01 Regulation of billboards in unincorporated areas; enforcement; variances; appeals. (a) This section shall apply only within the unincorporated areas of Baldwin County. (b)(1) In the unincorporated areas of Baldwin County, the county commission may regulate and shall have exclusive zoning authority to regulate billboards, including, but not limited to, the size and location of any billboards. Within the planning jurisdiction of a municipality that regulates billboards, the county commission shall regulate and shall have exclusive authority to regulate billboards which regulation and enforcement shall be no less stringent than the regulation of billboards by municipal ordinance within the corporate limits of the municipality. The regulations shall be adopted by resolution or ordinance of the county commission at a regularly scheduled meeting of the commission. Any resolution or ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall have standards as to distance between...
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45-2-261.10
Section 45-2-261.10 Boards of adjustment. (a) The Baldwin County Commission shall appoint two members to the boards of adjustment, and the regulations and ordinances adopted pursuant to the authority of this subpart shall provide that the boards of adjustment, in appropriate cases and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, may make special exceptions to the terms of the ordinances and regulations in harmony with their general purposes and interests and in accordance with general or specific rules therein contained. (b) Board of Adjustment Number One shall serve western, central, and northern Baldwin County and shall include Planning Districts 4, 10, 12, 15, 16, 28, and 31. Board of Adjustment Number Two shall serve southern Baldwin County and shall include Planning Districts 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 30, 32, and 33. If the majority of qualified electors voting in an election in a territory that is not in a planning district on August 1, 2020, vote to come within the...
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45-41-260.07
Section 45-41-260.07 Election for coverage. Except where jurisdiction has been obtained by the commission pursuant to Section 45-41-260.02, the master plan and zoning regulations provided by the commission shall not be applicable in any beat of Lee County until the majority of the qualified electors of the beat voting in a special election have signified by their vote that they desire the authority of the commission, its master plan, and the zoning regulations to apply to their beat. The election must be held not less than 90 days nor more than 120 days after a petition seeking the election is filed in the office of the judge of probate. The petition shall be signed by at least 15 percent of the electors who reside within the beat and who own real estate located in the beat. Notice of the election shall be given by three weeks' publication and posting notice in two public places within the beat. The cost of the election shall be paid from the General Fund of Lee County. The ballot...
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45-41-260.14
Section 45-41-260.14 Appeals. Any party aggrieved by any final judgment or decision of the commission, within 15 days, may request a review of the record by a five member review board appointed by the Lee County Commission, one member being the county planning director, one member being the county public works director, two members who are experts in related fields of planning, and one public member. This review board may require that the planning commission reconsider its earlier decision. If such reconsideration is ordered, the planning commission may reconsider the previous record and any additional material which the planning commission considers relevant. If upon reconsideration by the planning commission, any party remains aggrieved by any final judgment of the planning commission, any party, within 30 days thereafter, may appeal therefrom to circuit court as provided below. If no review by the five member review board is requested by any party aggrieved by any final judgment or...
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11-19-10
Section 11-19-10 Powers and duties of planning commission generally; special surveys or studies; right of entry upon lands for preparation of examinations and surveys. (a) It shall be the function and duty of the county planning commission to make and maintain comprehensive surveys and studies of existing conditions and probable future developments in the flood-prone area of the county and to prepare comprehensive plans for physical, social, and economic growth as will best promote the public health, safety, morals, convenience, prosperity, or the general welfare as well as efficiency and economy in the development of the flood-prone area of the county. The county planning commission shall have the authority to: (1) Promote public interest and understanding of the economic and social necessity for long-term, coordinated county planning. (2) Confer and cooperate with the federal, state, municipal, and other county and regional authorities regarding matters pertaining to or affecting the...
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45-49-261.04
Section 45-49-261.04 Procedure for adoption and amendment of ordinances and regulations. (a) The Mobile County Commission may adopt ordinances and regulations as necessary to effect this part. The ordinances or regulations shall be made in accordance with a master plan and designed to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers, to promote health and general welfare, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, and to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public requirements. The ordinances and regulations shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things, to the character of the planning jurisdiction and its peculiar suitability for particular uses and with the view of conserving the value of the buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout the planning jurisdiction. For the...
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45-2-260.01
Section 45-2-260.01 Regulation of subdivisions; application of certain setback requirements. (a) The Baldwin County Commission is authorized to regulate the minimum size of lots located or to be located in subdivisions of land situated outside the corporate limits of any municipality in the county and is authorized to regulate the planning and construction of all public streets, public roads, and drainage structures located or to be located in subdivisions of land situated outside the corporate limits of any municipality in the county, including the power to require the filing and posting of a reasonable surety bond with the county commission by the developers of such subdivisions to guarantee the actual construction and installation of approved proposed public streets, public roads, and drainage structures before the sale or offering for sale of any lots from such subdivision to the public. The county commission may require the developers of all proposed subdivisions of lands situated...
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11-32-7
Section 11-32-7 Powers of authority. (a) The authority shall exercise powers and duties necessary to the discharge of its powers and duties in corporate form as follows: (1) Have succession by its corporate name in perpetuity subject to Section 11-32-20. (2) Sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions and defend suits against it. (3) Adopt and make use of a corporate seal and alter the same at its pleasure. (4) Adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business. (5) Acquire, receive, take, by purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, and hold property of every description, real, personal, or mixed, whether located in one or more counties or municipalities and whether located within or outside the authorizing county. (6) Make, enter into, and execute contracts, agreements, leases, and other instruments and take other actions as may be necessary or convenient to accomplish any purpose for which the authority was organized, or exercise any...
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22-27-47
Section 22-27-47 Local plans required. (a) Each county and any municipality as described below shall submit to the department, within one and one-half years of May 16, 1989, a plan for the management of solid waste generated within its boundaries. A county's plan shall include the municipal jurisdictions within its boundaries except that any municipality may choose to submit its own solid waste management plan intended for implementation within its city limits and thereby be excluded from its county plan. Cities which do not choose to exclude themselves from their county's plan shall be responsible to share in the county's costs proportionately on a per capita basis. The content of all plans shall be consistent with the requirements of this article and every plan shall not become final until it has been officially adopted and approved pursuant to the requirements of this article. In the event a county or city does not submit a required plan or if said plan does not meet the minimum...
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