35-2-24
Section 35-2-24 Functions, duties, and responsibilities of Commissioner of Conservation and
Natural Resources acting through chief of division. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural
Resources, acting by and through the chief of the division of land surveys, is hereby vested
with the following functions, duties, and responsibilities: (1) To restore, maintain and preserve
the land survey monuments, section corners, and quarter section corners established by the
United States public land survey within Alabama, together with all pertinent field notes,
plats, and documents; and also to restore, establish, maintain, and preserve other boundary
markers considered by the division to be of importance or otherwise established by law; (2)
To design and cause to be placed at established public land survey corner sites, where practical,
substantial monuments permanently indicating, with words and figures, the exact location involved.
If such monuments cannot be placed at the exact corner...
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9-2-3
Section 9-2-3 Powers and duties as to state parks and parkways, etc. The Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources, for the purpose of establishing, developing and maintaining state parks
and parkways, may acquire land by donation, purchase, condemnation or lease and for these
purposes may use such funds as may be available to it and not otherwise obligated and may
enter into agreements with the federal government or other agencies for acquiring by lease,
purchase or otherwise such lands as in its judgment are desirable for state parks or parkways.
As to the purchase of lands, such agreements may provide for a division of the payments over
a period of years, in which case the payments may be secured by mortgage; provided, that no
liability shall attach to the State of Alabama or any of its departments, boards, bureaus
or commissions or any member or official thereof if the security specifically given in any
such mortgage is insufficient to pay said mortgage at a forced sale or...
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9-2-15
Section 9-2-15 Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources - Powers and duties. The
functions and duties of the Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be
as follows: (1) To assist in formulating the policies of the Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources in the performance of its functions and duties; (2) To examine all rules
and regulations made or promulgated by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources,
to recommend amendments or repeals thereof or additional rules or regulations and by a two-thirds
vote of those present at any meeting and with the approval of the Governor to amend or repeal
such rules and regulations or to make and promulgate additional rules or regulations; (3)
To advise with the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources concerning any matter
relating to the functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources;
and (4) To assist in giving publicity to the wildlife and other natural...
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45-17-90.06
Section 45-17-90.06 Powers and duties. The authority, or its agents and employees as directed,
may do any of the following: (1) Investigate, study, and engage in basic research relative
to the natural resources of land, water, minerals, and people in the cities and counties and
apply its findings and efforts to promote a sound and balanced agricultural, industrial, and
economic development of the cities and counties. (2) Cooperate with municipal, regional, state,
or federal planning entities or other industrial and economic development boards. (3) Publicize
and advertise the industrial, commercial, and agricultural resources and growth opportunities
of the cities and counties. (4) Collect, compile, and distribute literature concerning the
facilities, advantages, and attractions of the cities and counties, the educational, historic,
recreational, and scenic places of interest within the cities and counties, and the air, water,
and highway transportation facilities. (5) Contract with...
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45-39-92.06
Section 45-39-92.06 Powers and duties. The authority, or its agents and employees as directed,
may do any of the following: (1) Investigate, study, and engage in basic research relative
to the natural resources of land, water, minerals, and people in the cities and counties and
apply its findings and efforts to promote a sound and balanced agricultural, industrial, and
economic development of the cities and counties. (2) Cooperate with municipal, regional, state,
or federal planning entities or other industrial and economic development boards. (3) Publicize
and advertise the industrial, commercial, and agricultural resources and growth opportunities
of the cities and counties. (4) Collect, compile, and distribute literature concerning the
facilities, advantages, and attractions of the cities and counties, the educational, historic,
recreational, and scenic places of interest within the cities and counties, and the air, water,
and highway transportation facilities. (5) Contract with...
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2-3-4
Section 2-3-4 Duties of board. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries
to consider the agricultural and industrial needs of the state; to make and promulgate reasonable
rules and regulations necessary to carry out the objects and purposes of the regulatory work
required by law to be executed by the commissioner; to cooperate with all federal, state,
county and municipal agencies in the enforcement of such regulatory work or police matters
as relate to the duties of the commissioner; to cooperate with the Agricultural Experiment
Station, the extension service of Auburn University and with all official agencies in promoting
the interest of agriculture and industry in Alabama; to provide that the soil survey of Alabama
and the necessary resurvey and revision of the soil survey work are completed and state soil
survey maps and reports are printed for distribution and to discharge such other duties as
are required by law. (Ag. Code 1927, §28; Code 1940, T. 2,...
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9-15-5
Section 9-15-5 Duties of department to be performed without prejudice, etc., to rights of trust
beneficiaries or state institutions; department to act as technical advisor. The duties and
powers placed upon and vested in the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources by this
article are to be exercised in subordination to and without prejudice to the right of the
beneficiary of any trust under which the state may hold said lands or of the rights of any
institution of the state, but the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall act
as technical advisor to the state and to any such institution or political subdivision or
the inhabitants thereof with reference to such lands. (Acts 1927, No. 635, p. 725, §8; Code
1940, T. 8, §226.)...
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9-2-4
Section 9-2-4 Powers and duties as to seafoods, etc. (a) The Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources shall have full jurisdiction and control of all seafoods existing or living
in the waters of Alabama and of all public and natural oyster reefs and oyster bottoms of
the State of Alabama, and it shall ordain, promulgate and enforce all rules, regulations and
orders deemed by it to be necessary for the protection, propagation or conservation of the
same. (b) The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources may by order duly made and
published prescribe the manner of taking or catching, the time when and designate the places
from which seafoods may or may not be taken or caught during certain periods of the year,
or entirely, as it may deem to be for the best interest of the seafood industry. (c) It shall
have full authority to prohibit the catching or taking of oysters from reefs designated by
it by order duly made and promulgated during the entire open season or any part...
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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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9-16-71
Section 9-16-71 Declaration of public policy and legislative intent; all land surface mined
under this article shall be reclaimed. (a) The objective of this article is to provide for
the safe, responsible and reasonable reclamation of lands upon which surface disturbances
will be created by surface mining and the surface effects of underground mining so as to protect
the taxable value of property and preserve natural resources within the state and protect
and promote the health and safety of the people of this state, consistent with the protection
of property and with maximum employment and the economic and industrial well-being of the
state. The Legislature finds and declares that the extraction of coal by surface mining provides
a major present and future source of energy and is an essential and necessary activity which
contributes to the economic and material well-being of the state. (b) The Legislature finds
that the unregulated or irresponsible surface mining of coal may cause...
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