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9-17-150
Section 9-17-150 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined
in this section shall have the following meanings when found in this article: (1) UNDERGROUND
STORAGE. Storage in an underground reservoir. (2) GAS. All natural gas, casinghead gas, and
occluded natural gas found in coal beds, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in
Section 9-17-1(3), except and not including liquid petroleum gas. (3) UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR.
Any subsurface sand, stratum, formation, aquifer, or cavity, cavern or void (whether natural
or artificially created), suitable for or capable of being made suitable for the injection
and storage of gas therein and the withdrawal of gas therefrom. (4) STORAGE FACILITY. Any
underground reservoir used or to be used for the underground storage of gas and all surface
and subsurface rights and appurtenances necessary or useful in the operation of the facility
for the underground storage of gas, including any necessary or reasonable...
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9-17-152
Section 9-17-152 Board approval; recordation of order; certificate of effectiveness; dissolution
of fields and units; determination of commercial reserves; creation of cavities. (a) The use
of an underground reservoir as a storage facility for gas is hereby authorized, provided that
the board shall first enter an order, after notice and hearing pursuant to the provisions
of Sections 9-17-3 to 9-17-8, inclusive, approving such proposed underground storage of gas
and designating the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the storage facility, such boundaries
to include within them any necessary or reasonable buffer zone for the purpose of insuring
the safe operation of the storage facility and to protect the storage facility against pollution,
invasion, and escape or migration of gas therefrom, upon finding as follows: (1) That the
storage facility is suitable and feasible for the injection, storage and withdrawal of gas
and has a greater value or utility for the storage of gas than for...
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9-17-1
Section 9-17-1 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The State Oil and Gas Board created by this article.
(2) DEVELOPED AREA or DEVELOPED UNIT. A drainage unit having a well completed thereon which
is capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities; however, in the event it is shown
and the board finds that a part of any unit is nonproductive, then the developed part of the
unit shall include only that part found to be productive. (3) DRAINAGE OR PRODUCTION UNIT.
The area in a pool which may be drained efficiently and economically by one well. (4) DRILLING
UNIT. An administrative unit established by the board to provide and allow for the drilling
of a well. Prior to establishment of a field and drainage or production unit within the field,
the board may establish a drilling unit to allow for the drilling of a well in search of oil
and gas. (5) FIELD. The general area which is underlain or appears to be...
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9-17-6
Section 9-17-6 Oil and Gas Board - Powers and duties generally. (a) The board shall have jurisdiction
and authority over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce effectively
the provisions of this article and all other articles relating to the conservation of oil
and gas. (b) The board shall have the authority and it shall be its duty to make such inquiries
as it may think proper to determine whether or not waste, over which it has jurisdiction,
exists or is imminent. In the exercise of such power the board shall have the authority to
perform the following: (1) Collect data. (2) Make investigation and inspection. (3) Examine
properties, leases, papers, books, and records, including drilling records, logs, and other
geological and geophysical data. (4) Examine, check, test, and gauge oil and gas wells, tanks,
plants, processing facilities, structures, natural gas pipelines and gathering lines, and
storage and transportation equipment and facilities, and other modes...
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9-17-156
Section 9-17-156 Exemption from taxation and certain gas deemed injected. No storage operator
shall be subject to any privilege or other tax on production, severance, extraction or withdrawal
of gas that has been injected into a storage facility when such gas is extracted or withdrawn
from such storage facility, and, specifically, no such gas shall be subject to taxation under
the provisions of Sections 9-17-25 through 9-17-31 or under the provisions of Article 1, Chapter
20 of Title 40. All hydrocarbons extracted or withdrawn from the underground reservoir which
were not injected, including any oil, condensate or natural gas liquids, shall be subject
to applicable severance taxes under Sections 9-17-25 through 9-17-31 and under Article I,
Chapter 20 of Title 40. (Acts 1992, No. 92-564, p. 1172, ยง7.)...
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9-17-25
Section 9-17-25 Tax for expenses of administration and enforcement of article - Levied; exemptions;
payment. (a) For the purpose of defraying the expenses connected with the administration and
enforcement of this article, including the expense of the inspections, tests, analyses, and
all other expenses connected with the supervision and protection of crude petroleum oil and
natural gas in the State of Alabama, there is hereby levied on the producer a tax equal in
amount to two percent of the gross value, at the point of production, of the crude petroleum
oil or natural gas produced for sale, transport, storage, profit, or for use from any well
or wells in the State of Alabama. Provided, however, that the tax on offshore production,
produced from depths greater than 8,000 feet below mean sea level, shall not be computed as
a percentage of gross value at the point of production, as provided in this section, but shall
be computed as a percentage of gross proceeds, as provided in Section...
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40-20-2
Section 40-20-2 Levy and amount of tax upon business of producing or severing oil or gas from
soil, etc., generally. (a)(1) There is hereby levied, to be collected hereafter, as herein
provided, annual privilege taxes upon every person engaging or continuing to engage within
the State of Alabama in the business of producing or severing oil or gas, as defined herein,
from the soil or the waters, or from beneath the soil or the waters, of the state for sale,
transport, storage, profit, or for use. The amount of such tax shall be measured at the rate
of eight percent of the gross value of the oil or gas at the point of production except as
provided in subsequent subdivisions of this subsection. Provided, however, that the tax on
offshore production, produced from depths greater than 8,000 feet below mean sea level, shall
not be computed as a percentage of gross value at the point of production, as provided in
this article, but shall be computed as a percentage of gross proceeds, as...
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40-20-1
Section 40-20-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) DEPARTMENT. The state Department of
Revenue. (2) ANNUAL. The calendar year or the taxpayer's fiscal year, when permission is obtained
from the department to use a fiscal year as a tax period in lieu of a calendar year. (3) VALUE.
The sale price or market value at the mouth of the well. If the oil or gas is exchanged for
something other than cash, if there is no sale at the time of severance or if the relation
between the buyer and the seller is such that the consideration paid, if any, is not indicative
of the true value or market price, then the department shall determine the value of the oil
or gas subject to the tax hereinafter provided for, considering the sale price for cash of
oil or gas of like quality. (4) OIL. Crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless
of gravity which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary...
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40-9B-3
Section 40-9B-3 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
mean: (1) ABATE, ABATEMENT. A reduction or elimination of a taxpayer's liability for tax or
payments required to be made in lieu thereof. An abatement of transaction taxes imposed under
Chapter 23 of this title, or payments required to be made in lieu thereof, shall relieve the
seller from the obligation to collect and pay over the transaction tax as if the sale were
to a person exempt, to the extent of the abatement, from the transaction tax. (2) ALTERNATIVE
ENERGY RESOURCES. The definition given in Section 40-18-1. (3) CONSTRUCTION RELATED TRANSACTION
TAXES. The transaction taxes imposed by Chapter 23 of this title, or payments required to
be made in lieu thereof, on tangible personal property and taxable services incorporated into
an industrial development property, the cost of which may be added to capital account with
respect to the property, determined without regard to any rule which...
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22-27-3
Section 22-27-3 Authority of local governing bodies as waste collections and disposal; household
exemptions; state regulatory program. (a) Generally. (1) The county commission or municipal
governing body may, and is hereby authorized to, make available to the general public collection
and disposal facilities for solid wastes in a manner acceptable to the department. The county
commission or municipal governing body may provide such collection or disposal services by
contract with private or other controlling agencies and may include house-to-house service
or the placement of regularly serviced and controlled bulk refuse receptacles within reasonable
(generally less than eight miles) distance from the farthest affected household and the wastes
managed in a manner acceptable to the department. (2) Any county commission or municipal governing
body providing services to the public under this article shall have the power and authority
by resolution or ordinance to adopt rules and...
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