9-8-31
Section 9-8-31 Discontinuance. (a) At any time after three years after the organization of
a district under the provisions of this article, any 25 owners of land lying within the boundaries
of such district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee
praying that the operations of the district be terminated and the existence of the district
discontinued. The committee may conduct such public meetings and public hearings upon such
petition as may be necessary to assist it in consideration thereof. Within 60 days after such
a petition has been received by the committee, it shall give due notice of the holding of
a referendum and shall supervise such referendum and issue appropriate regulations governing
the conduct thereof, the question to be submitted by ballots upon which the words "For
terminating the existence of the _____ (name of the soil conservation district to be here
inserted)" and "Against terminating the existence of the _____ (name of the soil...

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9-10A-8
Section 9-10A-8 Notice of hearing; right of interested parties; record of final determination.
(a) Within 30 days after said petition has been filed with the board of supervisors, it shall
cause due notice to be given of a proposed hearing upon the practicability and feasibility
of creating said watershed management authority. All interested parties shall have the right
to attend such hearing and be heard. If it shall appear at the hearing that other lands should
be included or that lands included in the petition should be excluded, the board of supervisors
may permit such inclusion or exclusion, provided the land area involved still meets the requirements
of Section 9-10A-5. (b) If it appears upon the hearing that it may be desirable to include
within the proposed authority territory outside of the area within which due notice of the
hearing has been given, the hearing shall be adjourned and due notice of a further hearing
shall be given throughout the entire area considered for...
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9-8-25
duly made available to it by law, to furnish financial or other aid to any agency, governmental
or otherwise, or any owner or occupier of lands within the district in the carrying on of
erosion control and prevention operations within the district, subject to such conditions
as the supervisors may deem necessary to advance the purposes of this article. (5) To obtain
options upon and to acquire by purchase, exchange, lease, gift, grant, bequest, devise, or
otherwise, any property, real or personal, or rights or interests therein; to maintain,
administer, and improve any properties acquired, to receive income from such properties, and
to expend such income in carrying out the purposes and provisions of this article; and to
sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any of its property or interests therein in furtherance
of the purposes and of this article. (6) To make available on such terms as it shall prescribe
to landowners within the district agricultural and engineering machinery...
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9-10B-25
Section 9-10B-25 Considerations when designating capacity stress areas; authority of local
organizations to implement proposed actions. During the designation of a capacity stress area,
the commission shall give due consideration to any hydrologic boundaries or other geographical
considerations in designating an area of the state as a capacity stress area. In addition,
the commission shall determine whether any local organization, including, but not limited
to, watershed management authorities, conservancy districts, or soil and water conservation
districts, are duly organized and authorized to implement the proposed actions in a capacity
stress area other than those actions delegated to the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management pursuant to Section 9-10B-23. In the absence of local organizations or in the event
any such local organizations do not have the authority or are not authorized to take the action
proposed within the capacity stress area, the Office of Water Resources...
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9-10A-10
Section 9-10A-10 Election of directors. If an original director who is required to reside in
a particular county is to be selected by means of an election, the board of supervisors who
determined that an election would be the method of selection shall call the election. Said
election shall be held, within 30 days after need for a watershed management authority has
been determined, as provided in Section 9-10A-8. Due notice shall be required prior to said
election. All residents of the county where the director must reside who also reside within
the boundaries of the authority shall be eligible to vote in said election, and only said
residents shall be eligible to vote. Said residents shall be 18 years of age or older. Each
person who is qualified to vote for a resident director who desires to be elected a resident
director of the watershed management authority shall file not later than 10 days prior to
the date set for an election a nominating petition with the board of supervisors who...
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44-2-10
Interstate Commission may deem appropriate. The executive director shall serve as secretary
to the Interstate Commission, but shall not be a member and shall hire and supervise such
other staff as may be authorized by the Interstate Commission. Section C. Qualified immunity,
defense and indemnification 1. The Commission's executive director and employees shall be
immune from suit and liability, either personally or in their official capacity, for any claim
for damage to or loss of property or personal injury or other civil liability
caused or arising out of or relating to any actual or alleged act, error, or omission that
occurred, or that such person had a reasonable basis for believing occurred within the scope
of commission employment, duties, or responsibilities; provided, that any such person shall
not be protected from suit or liability for any damage, loss, injury, or liability
caused by the intentional or willful and wanton misconduct of any such person or caused by
acts or...
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11-99A-4
Section 11-99A-4 Establishment of districts. (a) One or more owners of land wishing to form
a district in a municipality or a county may petition the municipality or county to form a
district as follows: (1) The owners shall prepare a written petition executed by the owners
of all land proposed to be included within the district. (2) The petition shall include a
description of the tract or tracts of land proposed to be included within the district, which
may include less than all of any individual tract of land. The description shall be sufficient
if it refers to tax assessment tracts in accordance with the tax assessor's numbering or other
reference system, by metes and bounds, by subdivision lot, by reference to recorded deeds,
or by other reasonable reference method. (3) The petition shall include a map or plat of the
proposed district, showing that, if the district is created, (i) with respect to a petition
being submitted to a municipality, the land will be contiguous with land...
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9-8-52
Section 9-8-52 Lands which may be embraced in districts. The land area embraced in any watershed
conservancy district must be contiguous and must lie within a well-defined watershed. The
area shall not include lands not included within a soil and water conservation district or
lands embraced within another watershed conservancy district. Such districts may embrace lands
lying in one or more soil and water conservation districts. (Acts 1957, No. 517, p. 705, §2.)...

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9-8-51
Section 9-8-51 Creation authorized. Subdistricts of a soil and water conservation district,
as defined by the laws of this state, may be formed in any watershed area in such soil and
water conservation district for the purpose of developing and executing plans and programs
relating to any phase of conservation of water, water usage, flood prevention, flood control,
erosion prevention and control of erosion, floodwater and sediment damages. Such subdistricts
shall be known as watershed conservancy districts. (Acts 1957, No. 517, p. 705, §1; Acts
1969, No. 421, p. 822, §1.)...
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9-9-11
in the watershed and will be benefited by the proposed works of improvement if the proposed
plan includes purposes other than drainage, or is in the benefited area if the proposed plan
includes only the drainage purpose, the boundaries of the district may be so changed as to
include such lands, and such owners of additional lands shall be made parties to the proceedings;
and such notice to the owners of such additional lands shall be given by publication as provided
in this article, or by personal service, and the hearing shall be continued to a date
to be fixed by the court, upon which date the objections, if any, that are filed to the inclusion
of additional lands shall be adjudicated, and such additional lands as may be adjudged in
the benefited area shall thereupon be included within the proposed district. (b) If it further
appears that the purpose of this article would be subserved by the creation of the proposed
water management district, the court shall, after disposing of...
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