9-15-48
Section 9-15-48 Claims of title to swamp and overflowed lands. All persons claiming
title to any swamp and overflowed lands in this state under any alleged purchase or through
any chain of title may submit their claims to the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural
Resources together with such evidence of purchase or claim, whereupon the Commissioner of
Conservation and Natural Resources shall have such claim examined and investigated as he may
see fit; and, if it is found that the state has parted with its title to such lands in a legal
and effective way, the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall so determine
and shall certify same to the Governor and the State Department of Mental Health; but, if
the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall determine that the state has
not parted with its title to such lands in a legal or effective way but that equity and justice
shall be better served by a settlement with the claimant, he is hereby empowered to...
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9-15-44
Section 9-15-44 Exchanges of school lands. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural
Resources is hereby authorized to exchange school lands for other lands of equal value, with
the approval of the Governor and the State Superintendent of Education. The Commissioner of
Conservation and Natural Resources shall have the title to the land to be received by the
state examined; and, if in his opinion said title is without defect, he shall so certify to
the Governor and, provided the Governor and the State Superintendent of Education approve,
the Governor shall cause patents to be issued to those exchanging said lands. Such patent
shall vest a fee simple title in the grantee named therein. The title to the land received
in exchange for school land shall be in the State of Alabama in trust for the use of schools
and shall be classified as school land as defined by law. (Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §12;
Code 1940, T. 8, §244.)...
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9-15-30
Section 9-15-30 Title to swamp and overflowed lands and swamp and overflowed indemnity
lands patented to state by federal government; utilization, disposition, etc., of same generally.
(a) Title to all lands of the swamp and overflowed category or swamp and overflowed indemnity
lands, which are, subsequent to September 5, 1951, patented to the State of Alabama by the
federal government and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, shall be vested in
the Division of Lands of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (b) The Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources shall utilize such lands for the purpose or purposes
which he deems to be most expedient and beneficial. He is hereby authorized to practice forestry
upon such lands and may lease such lands for the exploration or extraction of oil, gas or
other minerals. Said land shall be supervised and managed in the same manner as other lands
which are under the supervision of the Department of Conservation...
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9-15-46
Section 9-15-46 Issuance of patents to purchasers of swamp and overflowed lands. All
persons purchasing said lands shall be entitled to a patent to said lands, and the Governor
of Alabama, when presented with the approval of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural
Resources and State Department of Mental Health, shall cause patents to be issued to those
purchasing said lands. Such patent shall vest a fee simple title in the grantee named therein.
(Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §15; Code 1940, T. 8, §247.)...
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16-20-6
Section 16-20-6 When title acquired by adverse possession. When a person is in possession
of any sixteenth section lands under color of title, and has been in such possession
for more than 20 years prior to the first day of May, 1908, and neither the state, nor any
department thereof, holds any note, bond, obligation or other contract of anyone for the purchase
money of such land, and the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
and the Director of Finance shall so certify, and the Attorney General shall certify that
proof of adverse possession, by the person now in possession, or coupled with his predecessor
in possession, for 20 years prior to May 1, 1908, under color of title, has been made, which
proof is satisfactory to the Attorney General. The Governor must cause a patent to issue to
said land under the seal of the state to the person entitled thereto. Notwithstanding the
foregoing provisions of this section, if the Attorney General is satisfied with...

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33-1-18
Section 33-1-18 Sales of submerged lands and made lands lying under or abutting tidal
waters. (a) The Director of the Alabama State Port Authority is vested with power and authority
to obtain and negotiate a sale of any submerged lands and made lands claimed or owned by the
state, which lands are under or were formerly under any of the tidal waters of the State of
Alabama, or which lands abut such tidal waters; provided, however, that if such lands abut
or adjoin in whole or in part any uplands then no such sale shall be made to any purchaser
other than the owner of such uplands, except a sale of so much of said land as may be used
and occupied by such purchaser without interfering with the riparian rights appurtenant to
such uplands, unless the owner of such uplands relinquishes such rights by appropriate instrument
made in connection with such sale; and except that such sales may be made to a public body
of the submerged or made land upon which docks or wharves have been constructed...
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9-15-38
Section 9-15-38 Sales of timber or minerals from school or swamp and overflowed lands.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may sell or cause to be sold timber
from school lands, swamp and overflowed lands, and other lands under the jurisdiction of the
State Lands Division, or minerals from school lands or swamp and overflowed lands, when in
his or her opinion the timber or minerals is of merchantable quality and quantity. Notice
of the sale of the timber or minerals shall be first advertised once a week for two successive
weeks in a newspaper published in the county where the timber or minerals are to be sold,
and the notice shall also be posted in a public place in the county. The notice shall describe
the timber or minerals to be sold and the amount and quality of the timber or minerals to
be sold and shall call for bids for the purchase price thereof. The notice shall further contain
the date upon which the bids shall be received and the date of the sale. If there...
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9-15-35
Section 9-15-35 Institution, etc., of practice of forestry and enforcement of state
fire and trespass laws - Swamp and overflowed lands. The Commissioner of Conservation and
Natural Resources is hereby empowered to have forestry practiced upon swamp and overflowed
lands, to supervise and inaugurate sound practices of forestry thereon, to put into effect
and enforce state fire and timber trespass laws on said lands and to do all things which in
his opinion he deems necessary to be done to promote the growth of timber thereon and to do
all things which in his opinion he deems advisable to be done for the best interests of the
state concerning said lands. (Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §6; Code 1940, T. 8, §238.)...

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9-15-31
Section 9-15-31 Management and supervision of school lands, swamp and overflowed lands,
etc. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is hereby expressly authorized
and empowered to have complete management of, and supervision over lands which are known as
school lands, as defined by Section 16-20-1, which lands are vested in or which may
hereafter be vested in the State of Alabama in trust for the use of schools, lands which are
known as swamp and overflowed lands, which are now or which may hereafter be owned by the
State of Alabama, the Salt Springs Lands reservation and any lands that may have been or may
be deeded to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources by the Director of the Department
of Revenue and of all papers, documents and records relating thereto, except those which are
required by law to be kept in the office of the Secretary of State. (Acts 1915, No. 76, p.
217, §1; Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §1; Code 1940, T. 8, §232.)...
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9-15-45
Section 9-15-45 Leases, exchanges or sales of swamp and overflowed lands. Swamp and
overflowed lands may be leased, exchanged or sold by the Commissioner of Conservation and
Natural Resources with the approval of the State Department of Mental Health. (Acts 1939,
No. 581, p. 949, §14; Code 1940, T. 8, §246.)...
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