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
in subdivisions (1), (2), (3), and (4) of this subsection, including the duty to plug each dry or abandoned well and to restore the well site for each dry or abandoned well and associated production and processing facility and plant upon the abandonment of such well, facility, or plant and to reclaim all surfaces disturbed during surface mining operations for the recovery of oil from oil sands. (6) To prevent wells from being drilled, operated, or produced in such a manner as to cause injury to neighboring leases or property and to protect neighboring leases or property from being damaged or injured by operations to recover oil from oil sands. (7) To prevent the drowning by water of any stratum or part thereof capable of producing oil or gas in paying quantities and to prevent the premature and irregular encroachment of water which reduces or tends to reduce the total ultimate recovery of oil or gas from any pool. (8) To require the operation of wells with efficient gas-oil...
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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
the ownership, operation, or maintenance of plants, facilities, machinery, pipelines, gathering lines, or any equipment whatsoever, which are, or may be, necessary or convenient to the production, treating, processing, ownership, storage, sale, purchase, marketing, or transportation of such oil or gas; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit, limit or restrict a county, city, town, or municipality from imposing and collecting ad valorem taxes on any property, real or personal, not otherwise now exempted by law; further, the limitation herein imposed upon counties, cities, towns, and municipalities shall not apply to any county, city, town, or municipality which does not receive a share of the severance tax levied upon production other than offshore production as defined in Section 40-20-1 under the provisions of this article. The limitation herein imposed upon counties, cities, towns, and municipalities shall remain in full force and effect in regard to offshore...
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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
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 permits expenditures properly chargeable to capital account to be treated as current expenses. (4) DATA PROCESSING CENTER. An establishment at which not less than 20 new jobs are located, the average annual total compensation, including benefits, of such new jobs to be not less than...
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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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