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9-17-9
Section 9-17-9 State Oil and Gas Supervisor. The State Geologist shall be, ex officio, the
State Oil and Gas Supervisor and shall perform all of the duties of and is hereby vested with
all the powers imposed upon and vested in the State Oil and Gas Supervisor under and by the
terms and provisions of this article. The State Oil and Gas Supervisor shall be charged with
the duty of enforcing this article and all rules, regulations and orders promulgated by the
board. The State Oil and Gas Supervisor shall be, ex officio, secretary of the board and shall
keep all minutes and records of the board. He shall, as secretary, give bond in such sum as
the board may direct with corporate surety to be approved by the board, conditioned that he
will well and truly account for any funds coming into his hands. The State Geologist shall
receive $3,600.00 per annum for the performance of his duty under this article. (Acts 1945,
No. 1, p. 1, §4; Acts 1949, No. 671, p. 1033, §1; Acts 1969, No. 1033, p....
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40-17-220
Section 40-17-220 Lubricating oil excise tax; exemptions. (a) There is hereby levied in addition
to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law an excise tax on lubricating oil of $.04
per gallon, which shall be collected as herein provided. (b) Every manufacturer, distributor,
refiner, retail dealer, storer, or user of lubricating oil shall collect and pay over to the
state Department of Revenue an excise tax of $.04 per gallon upon the selling, use or consumption,
distributing, storing, or withdrawing from storage in this state for any use of lubricating
oil as defined or otherwise referred to in this article, except lubricating oil expressly
exempted by the provisions of this article. Provided, that where any excise tax imposed by
this section upon the sale, use or consumption, distribution, storage or withdrawal from storage
in this state of gasoline or lubricating oil shall have been paid to the state by a manufacturer,
distributor, refiner or by any retail dealer, storer, or...
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40-20-30
Section 40-20-30 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) OIL, GAS AND OTHER MINERALS. Oil, gas,
petroleum, hydrocarbons, distillate, condensate, casing-head gas, other petroleum derivatives
and all other similar minerals of commercial value which are usually produced by the drilling,
boring or sinking of wells. (2) MINERAL ACRE and ROYALTY ACRE. The number of acres obtained
by multiplying the aggregate acreage described in the instrument involved by the fractional
interest leased or conveyed thereby. (3) PRIMARY TERM. In connection with any instrument affected
by this article shall mean the period of time that the estate created by such instrument shall
endure under the terms thereof in the absence of production of oil, gas or other minerals
in paying quantities, the carrying on of drilling or reworking operations for the production
of such oil, gas or other minerals, force majeure or laws, rules...
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45-27-246.30
Section 45-27-246.30 Trust fund. (a) The Legislature recognizes that there has been a certain
windfall to Escambia County paid during the fiscal year 1983-84 and arising under the oil
and gas severance tax levied under provisions of Section 40-20-2, and distributed under Section
40-20-8. The legislative intent of this section is to establish a trust fund, the corpus of
which is to be composed of four million dollars ($4,000,000) from the oil and gas severance
tax paid to Escambia County during the fiscal year of 1983-84 together with 20 percent of
the annual income thereon each year during the existence of this trust beginning with the
fiscal year 1984-85. (b) Subject to any limitation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901,
or of any general law of this state, the Escambia County Commission shall establish a trust
fund which shall be entitled the Escambia County Oil and Gas Severance Trust and which shall
hereafter in this section be referred to as the trust. The Escambia County...
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9-17-22
Section 9-17-22 Illegal oil, gas or product - Seizure, condemnation and sale. Apart from and
in addition to any other remedy or procedure which may be available to the board or any penalty
which may be sought against or imposed upon any person with respect to violations relating
to illegal oil, illegal gas or illegal product, all illegal oil, illegal gas and illegal products
shall, except under such circumstances as are stated in this section, be contraband, forfeited
to the State of Alabama and shall be seized and sold and the proceeds applied as provided
in this section. When any such seizure shall have been made, it shall be the duty of the Attorney
General of the state to institute at once condemnation proceedings in the circuit court of
the county in which such property is seized by filing a complaint in the name of the state
against the property seized, describing the same, or against the person or persons in possession
of such illegal property, if known, to obtain a judgment...
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9-17-21
Section 9-17-21 Illegal oil, gas or product - Sale, acquisition, processing, handling, etc.
(a) The sale, purchase or acquisition or the transportation, refining, processing or handling
in any other way of illegal oil, illegal gas or illegal product is hereby prohibited. (b)
Unless and until the board provides for certificates of clearance or tenders or some other
method so that any person may have an opportunity to determine whether any contemplated transaction
of sale, purchase or acquisition or of transportation, refining, processing or handling in
any other way involves illegal oil, illegal gas or illegal product, no penalty shall be imposed
for the sale, purchase or acquisition or the transportation, refining, processing or handling
in any other way of illegal oil, illegal gas or illegal product, except under circumstances
stated in this section. Penalties shall be imposed by the board for each transaction prohibited
in this section when the person committing the same knows that...
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9-17-5
Section 9-17-5 Oil and Gas Board - Representation in litigation; administration of oaths. The
Attorney General shall be attorney for the board; provided, that in cases of emergency the
board may call upon the district attorney of the circuit where the action is to be brought
or defended to represent the board until such time as the Attorney General may take charge
of the litigation. Any member of the board, or the secretary thereof, shall have power to
administer oaths to any witness in any hearing, investigation or proceeding contemplated by
this article or by any other law of this state relating to the conservation of oil and gas.
(Acts 1945, No. 1, p. 1, §7.)...
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45-49-171.44
Section 45-49-171.44 Funding - Additional revenues. The county commission also shall obligate
such additional revenues from the General Fund of Mobile County in the amount of any oil and
gas severance tax revenues being held in escrow designated for Mobile County and collected
pursuant to Act 79-434 and Act 80-708, and in the amount of any funds transferred from the
License Commissioner of Mobile County to the General Fund of Mobile County which relates to
beer taxes; such revenues to be used to the extent the board may require same to perform properly
its duties as provided in Section 45-49-171.41 after such funds authorized in Section 45-49-171.43
have been appropriated and paid out by the board. Provided, however, that in the event that
oil and gas severance tax revenues held in escrow and collected pursuant to Act 79-434 and
Act 80-708 and distributed to the General Fund of Mobile County are reduced by judicial decree,
the county commission shall obligate funds from its general...
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45-27-246.03
Section 45-27-246.03 Distribution of funds to Escambia County General Fund. (a) An amount equal
to 10 percent of the total of all net funds received by Escambia County after June 1, 1989,
and distribution of funds as provided in Section 45-27-246, from a severance tax or privilege
tax on oil and gas under any general law, including Sections 40-20-1 through 40-20-13, or
any local law whatsoever, shall be deposited in the Escambia County General Fund. (b) The
provisions of this section shall become effective immediately upon the first receipt of funds
by Escambia County pursuant to Sections 40-20-2 and 40-20-8. (Act 82-744, 2nd Sp. Sess., p.
215, §4; Act 84-543, p. 1168, §1; Act 89-270, p. 424, §3.)...
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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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