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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9-15-48
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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9-15-46
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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9-15-82
Section 9-15-82 Article not to apply to certain transfers, reversions, sales, etc. (a)
This article shall not apply to the transfers of real property between departments, boards,
bureaus, commissions, institutions, corporations, or agencies of the state. These transfers
may be made by mutual agreements between the chief executive officers of the respective departments
with the approval of the Governor. This article shall not apply to the leasing or sale of
timber from unused lands under Section 9-15-1 et seq.; to the leasing or sale of timber
from school lands and swamp and overflowed lands under Section 9-15-30 et seq.; to
the leasing of oil, gas, and other minerals under Section 9-17-60 et seq.; real property
sold by the Department of Revenue under tax sales and redemptions; to the sale of property
by the Alabama Historical Commission under Section 41-9-249(7); to reversions made
under Section 31-4-18; to the sale or conveyance of real property by the Alabama Housing
Finance...
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40-10-137
Section 40-10-137 Conveyance to Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of
land bid in by state - Procedure. Any lands which have been bid in by the state at tax sale
shall, after three years have elapsed from the date of sale to the state and no person having
any interest therein having redeemed same from tax sale, be subject to conveyance to the Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources in the manner hereinafter provided: (1) Whenever the
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall determine any lands which have been
bid in by the state at tax sale and the title to which has not passed out of the state, to
be suitable or desirable for the use of the said Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,
either for the purpose of being used as a state park, state forest, or for the purpose of
exchange for other lands of equal value, which are determined to be suitable for said purposes,
or for any other use or disposition which the Department of Conservation...
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40-10-138
Section 40-10-138 Conveyance to Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of
land bid in by state - Deed to department. When lands are required to be conveyed to the Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources, as hereinabove provided, the Land Commissioner, in
behalf of the state, with the approval of the Governor, shall execute to the Department of
Conservation and Natural Resources, a deed, duly acknowledged, without warranty or covenant
of any kind on the part of the state, express or implied, conveying to the said Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources all the right, title, and interest of the state in and
to the lands so conveyed. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall thereafter
have all the right, title, and interest of the state in and to such lands and shall be held
and treated as the assignee of all the taxes due upon such lands or for which they were sold
and the penalties and all of the taxes that should have been under the law...
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40-10-139
Section 40-10-139 Conveyance to Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of
land bid in by state - Notice to former owner of intended conveyance. Whenever it is determined
by the Land Commissioner that it is to the best interest of the state to convey to the Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources the title of any lands which have been bid in at tax
sale and which remain unredeemed, he may, on his own motion and without application being
filed by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, issue notice to the former
owner or some person having an interest in such land, in the same manner as heretofore provided
for in cases where application for conveyance has been filed by the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources; and, if such lands are not redeemed within the time so fixed, the same
shall, upon approval of the Governor, be conveyed to the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources in the same manner as if application for such conveyance had...
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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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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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9-15-47
Section 9-15-47 Disposition of revenue from sales, etc., of swamp and overflowed lands.
Any revenue derived from the sale or adjustment of any swamp and overflowed lands as provided
in this article shall be paid by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources to
the State Department of Mental Health. (Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §17; Code 1940, T. 8,
§249.)...
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