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9-13-271
Section 9-13-271 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the
application of prescribed burning is a landowner property right and a land management tool
that benefits the safety of the public, the environment, the natural resources, and the economy
of Alabama. Therefore, the Legislature finds that: (1) Prescribed burning reduces naturally
occurring vegetative fuels within wildland areas. The reduction of the fuel load reduces the
risk and severity of major catastrophic wildfire, thereby reducing the threat of loss of life
and property, particularly in urbanizing areas. (2) Many of Alabama's natural communities
require periodic fire for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Prescribed burning is
essential to the perpetuation, restoration, and management of many plant and animal communities.
Significant loss of the state's biological diversity will occur if fire is excluded from fire-dependent
ecosystems. (3) Forest lands constitute significant...
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34-13-1
Section 34-13-1 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ACCREDITED SCHOOL or COLLEGE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE. A school or
college approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service and which maintains a course of instruction
of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four academic quarters or college terms and which gives
a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but not limited to, the following:
a. Mortuary management and administration. b. Legal medicine and toxicology as it pertains
to funeral directing. c. Public health, hygiene, and sanitary science. d. Mortuary science,
to include embalming technique, in all its aspects; chemistry of embalming, color harmony;
discoloration, its causes, effects, and treatment; treatment of special cases; restorative
art; funeral management; and professional ethics. e. Anatomy and physiology. f. Chemistry,
organic and inorganic. g. Pathology. h. Bacteriology. i. Sanitation...
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33-12-5
grants or other assistance from federal, state and local governments or from agencies of such
governments and by issuing in its own name revenue bonds pledging a portion of the revenues
from such facilities. f. Arrange with any city, county, municipality or supplier of utilities
for the abandonment, relocation or other adjustment of roads, highways, bridges and utility
lines. (3) LAND ACQUISITION. The agency may acquire by purchase, lease, gift or condemnation
property of any kind, real, personal or mixed, or any interest therein, that the board
deems necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers or functions; provided, that acquisition
by condemnation shall be limited to land, rights in land, including leaseholds and easements,
and water rights in the Alabama portion of the Elk River Watershed that the board determines
to be necessary to the control and optimum development of the Elk River. The amount and character
of the interests in land, rights in land and water rights...
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33-15-6
loans, grants or other assistance from federal, state and local governments or from agencies
of such governments, and make contracts and execute instruments containing such terms, provisions
and conditions as the board in its discretion deems to be necessary, proper or advisable for
the purpose of obtaining such loans, grants or other assistance. (3) LAND ACQUISITION. The
authority may acquire by purchase, construction, lease, gift, condemnation or otherwise property
of any kind, real, personal or mixed, or any interest therein, that the board deems
necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers or functions; provided, that acquisition
by condemnation shall be limited to lands, rights in land, including leaseholds and easements,
and water rights in the Bear Creek Watershed that the board determines to be necessary to
the control and optimum development of Bear Creek and its tributaries, including such lands
adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity of water control...
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33-18-1
of the ACT Basin, and to share this information among the commission members and with others;
(10) To cooperate with appropriate state, federal, and local agencies or any other person
in the development, ownership, sponsorship, and operation of water resource facilities in
the ACT Basin; provided, however, that the commission shall not own or operate a federally-owned
water resource facility unless authorized by the United States Congress; (11) To acquire,
receive, hold and convey such personal and real property as may be necessary for the
performance of its duties under the compact; provided, however, that nothing in this compact
shall be construed as granting the ACT Basin Commission authority to issue bonds or to exercise
any right of eminent domain or power of condemnation; (12) To establish and modify an allocation
formula for apportioning the surface waters of the ACT Basin among the States of Alabama and
Georgia; and (13) To perform all functions required of it by this...
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33-19-1
of the ACF Basin, and to share this information among the commission members and with others;
(10) To cooperate with appropriate state, federal, and local agencies or any other person
in the development, ownership, sponsorship, and operation of water resource facilities in
the ACF Basin; provided, however, that the commission shall not own or operate a federally-owned
water resource facility unless authorized by the United States Congress; (11) To acquire,
receive, hold and convey such personal and real property as may be necessary for the
performance of its duties under the compact; provided, however, that nothing in this compact
shall be construed as granting the ACF Basin Commission authority to issue bonds or to exercise
any right of eminent domain or power of condemnation; (12) To establish and modify an allocation
formula for apportioning the surface waters of the ACF Basin among the States of Alabama,
Florida and Georgia; and (13) To perform all functions required of it by...
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27-60-2
committees as its bylaws may provide for the carrying out of its functions. 4. Corporate records
of the commission. The commission shall maintain its corporate books and records in accordance
with the bylaws. 5. Qualified immunity, defense, and indemnification. a. The members, officers,
executive director, employees, and representatives of the commission shall be immune from
suit and liability, either personally or in their official capacity, for any claim for damage
to or loss of property or personal injury or other civil liability caused by
or arising out of any actual or alleged act, error, or omission that occurred, or that the
person against whom the claim is made had a reasonable basis for believing occurred within
the scope of commission employment, duties, or responsibilities. Nothing in this paragraph
shall be construed to protect any such person from suit or liability, or both, for any damage,
loss, injury, or liability caused by the intentional or willful and wanton...
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40-23-4
sales of materials, equipment, and machinery that, at any time, enter into and become a component
part of ships, vessels, towing vessels or barges, or drilling ships, rigs or barges, or seismic
or geophysical vessels, other watercraft and commercial fishing vessels of over five tons
load displacement as registered with the U.S. Coast Guard and licensed by the State of Alabama
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Additionally, the gross proceeds from the
sale or sales of lifeboats, personal flotation devices, ring life buoys, survival craft
equipment, distress signals, EPIRB's, fire extinguishers, injury placards, waste management
plans and logs, marine sanitation devices, navigation rulebooks, navigation lights, sound
signals, navigation day shapes, oil placard cards, garbage placards, FCC SSL, stability instructions,
first aid equipment, compasses, anchor and radar reflectors, general alarm systems, bilge
pumps, piping, and discharge and electronic position fixing...
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9-13-3
Section 9-13-3 Assistance, etc., of private landowners; suppression of forest fires, etc.;
promotion and development of forestry, etc.; acquisition, management and disposition of land;
officers, assistants and employees. (a) The commission shall give such advice, assistance
and cooperation as may be practicable to private landowners and promote, so far as it may
be able, a proper appreciation in this state among all classes of the population of the benefits
to be derived from forest culture, preservation and use. (b) The commission may take such
measures as may be reasonable and practicable to prevent and suppress forest fires and other
influences harmful to forest growth and may apply such parts of the forestry fund and other
funds accruing to it as may be necessary to such purposes and to providing such systems of
control as it may establish, either independently or in cooperation with the federal government
and other agencies, public or private. (c) The commission shall be the sole...
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22-27-40
Section 22-27-40 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that: (1) The state, its subdivisions
and the nation face an emerging crisis in solid waste management; (2) Proper waste management
is an increasingly complex issue involving the need for reducing the volumes of waste requiring
disposal, properly managing wastes to reduce the likelihood of both short-term and long-term
threat to human health and the environment, and assuring that adequate, environmentally secure,
waste management and disposal facilities will be available at reasonable costs to accommodate
wastes generated in the state; (3) Provision for necessary systems, facilities, technology
and services for solid waste management and resource recovery is a matter of important public
interest and concern, and action taken in this regard will be for a public purpose and will
benefit the public welfare; (4) Solid waste management problems are potentially statewide
in scope and necessitate state and local action through the...
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