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33-5-51
Section 33-5-51 Operation of personal watercraft. (a) As used in this section, "personal
watercraft" means a vessel which uses an inboard motor powering a water jet pump as its
primary source of motive power and which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing,
or kneeling on the vessel, rather than the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside
the vessel. (b) A person may not operate a personal watercraft on the waters of this state,
as waters are defined in Section 33-5-3, unless each person operating, riding on, or being
towed by the vessel is wearing a personal flotation device approved by the United States Coast
Guard, in accordance with rules and regulations by the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources. (c) A person operating a personal watercraft on the waters of this
state that does not have self circling capability, shall have a lanyard type engine cutoff
switch and must attach the lanyard to the person, clothing, or...
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45-29-90.11
Section 45-29-90.11 Regulation of zoning, planning, and construction. For the purpose of promoting
the health, safety, morals, convenience, environment order, prosperity, and general welfare,
all power and authority regarding zoning and planning within the management area is hereby
vested in the board of directors of the authority. As described herein, no regulated activity
shall commence without the applicant having first obtained a land use certificate as issued
by the authority. (1) The board is authorized to regulate the planning, zoning, and construction
within the management area of all activity involving public streets, public roads, subdivisions,
drainage structures in subdivisions, mobile home parks, residential and commercial developments,
apartments, recreation parks, coal mining, gas/oil and methane exploration and development,
excavation, and logging. The board is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce such ordinances
as shall be necessary to implement any development...
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9-10-8
Section 9-10-8 Bonds. The corporation is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for issuance
of its bonds from time to time in an amount not to exceed $____ for any of its corporate purposes,
including the refunding of its bonds. Such bonds may be used for paying in whole or in part
the cost of the acquisition of necessary land or interests therein and the development of
the resources of the area for purposes of irrigation and water conservation and expenses incidental
thereto. It may secure such bonds by a pledge of all or any of the revenues which may now
or hereafter come to the agency from any source, by a mortgage or deed of trust of the agency's
land or any part thereof or by a combination of the two, and it may make such contracts in
the issuance of its bonds as may seem necessary or desirable to assure their marketability.
No bond or other obligation of the corporation shall be deemed to be the obligation of or
claim against the state or any county or municipality therein....
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9-12-126
Section 9-12-126 Inspection of oyster beds; closure order; relay of oysters from closed areas;
promulgation of rules; penalty; enforcement. (a) The State Board of Health is authorized to
inspect the waters of the state where oysters are grown and harvested. When the State Health
Officer shall determine that the waters surrounding the oyster beds are unsafe for the harvesting
of said oysters, the State Health Officer shall issue an order to close the waters around
said bed, which order shall be specific as to location of the area to be closed. Orders issued
pursuant to this section shall not be considered rules under the Alabama Administrative Procedure
Act (Section 41-22-1 et seq.). After the issuance of such a closure order, no person shall
harvest oysters in the said waters during the closure period. The State Health Officer is
authorized to permit the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to relay oysters
from closed areas. (b) The State Board of Health is authorized to...
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9-12-160
Section 9-12-160 Authorized. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall have
authority to enter into agreements of reciprocity with conservation commissioners or directors
and other proper officials of other states who have jurisdiction over the seafood laws and
regulations of such states whereby the citizens of the State of Alabama may be permitted to
catch or take fish, shrimp, crabs or oysters from the waters under the jurisdiction of such
other states for commercial purposes, upon similar agreements whereby such nonresidents are
allowed to take or catch fish, shrimp, crabs or oysters from the public salt waters of the
State of Alabama for commercial purposes regardless of residence. (Acts 1951, No. 238, p.
513, §1.)...
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9-12-22
Section 9-12-22 Right of owners of land fronting public waters to plant and gather oysters.
All the beds and bottoms of the rivers, bayous, lagoons, lakes, bays, sounds and inlets within
the jurisdiction of the State of Alabama are the property of the State of Alabama to be held
in trust for the people thereof, but the owners of land fronting on such waters where oysters
may be grown shall have the right to plant and gather same in the waters in front of their
land to the distance of 600 yards from the shore measured from the average low water mark,
but where the distance from shore to shore is less than 1,200 yards, the owners of either
shore may plant and gather to a line equidistant between the two shores, but no person shall
plant in any natural channel so as to interfere with navigation. The respective owners shall
plant within lines extended into the water from points where the boundaries intersect the
shore, as nearly as practicable, with a mean width corresponding with their...
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9-17-81
Section 9-17-81 Meeting of board to consider need for unit operation. In order to promote the
conservation of oil and gas resources, prevent waste, avoid the drilling of unnecessary wells,
allow the drilling of wells at optimum geologic locations, and protect correlative rights,
the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama upon its own motion may, or upon the petition of any
interested person shall, hold a hearing to consider the need for the operation as a unit of
an entire field or of any pool or pools or of any portion of a pool or combinations thereof
within a field for the production of oil or gas or both in order to increase the ultimate
recovery by enhanced recovery methods or any other method of cooperative development and operation
calculated to increase the ultimate recovery of oil or gas. (Acts 1957, No. 352, p. 461, §1;
Act 2000-714, p. 1517, §1.)...
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11-94-1
Section 11-94-1 Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter, unless the context plainly indicates
otherwise, the present term shall include the future term, the singular shall include the
plural, the plural shall include the singular, the masculine shall include the feminine, and
the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings respectively ascribed to
them by this section: (1) AUTHORITY. A nonprofit public corporation organized pursuant to
the provisions of this chapter. (2) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. Any county or municipality to
which application has been made for authority to incorporate an authority under this chapter.
(3) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority. (4) DIRECTOR. A member of the board of
directors of an authority. (5) COUNTY. Any county in this state that abuts on a navigable
river or through which a navigable river runs. (6) GOVERNING BODY. With respect to a county,
the county commission and, with respect to a municipality, the council,...
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33-5-15
Section 33-5-15 Certificates of registration and numbers generally - Foreign vessels; change
of ownership. (a) Any vessel already covered by a number in full force and effect which has
been awarded to it pursuant to the operative federal law or federally approved numbering system
of another state may be operated on the waters of this state for a period of 90 consecutive
days without being licensed under the provisions of this article. Any vessel operating for
more than 90 consecutive days must then be registered and licensed in the same manner as other
vessels are required to be licensed under this article. (b) Should the ownership of a vessel
change, a new application form with a fee of three dollars ($3) for change in registration
shall be filed with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and a new certificate
issued transferring the original vessel number to the new owner; provided, however, that the
Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may at his or her...
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33-5-3
Section 33-5-3 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings
respectively ascribed to them in this section, unless the context clearly requires a different
meaning: (1) VESSEL. Every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane, capable of being
used as a means of transportation on the water, but such term shall not include vessels 12
feet in length or less when used solely on farm ponds of less than 50 acres in size. (2) WATERS
OF THIS STATE. Any waters within the territorial limits of this state and the marginal sea
adjacent to this state and the high seas when navigated as a part of a journey or ride to
and from the shore of this state; provided, however, that "waters of this state"
shall not be interpreted to mean any private pond which is not used for boat rentals or the
charging of fees for fishing therein. (3) OWNER. A person, other than a lienholder, having
the property in or title to a vessel. The term includes a person entitled to the...
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