9-9-74
Section 9-9-74 Establishment of subdistricts - Jurisdiction, authority, etc.; purposes. The
county commission of any county, as a drainage district, shall have jurisdiction, power and
authority to establish drainage subdistricts as provided in this article, to promote, aid
and assist the purposes of drainage districts organized under Title 2, Sections 208 through
262 of the 1940 Alabama Code or water management districts organized under Sections 9-9-1
through 9-9-72 of this code by the development of systems for the prevention of soil erosion
and surface waters control upon lands in and contiguous to and affecting the drainage of said
district and to aid and assist land owners in providing for the prevention, elimination or
control of overflow waters and wet, swamp and overflow lands by the proper distribution of
surface waters or holding such waters upon the land from which it flows to or upon wet, swamp
and overflow lands and to prevent and deter the filling of natural or artificial...
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45-49-91
Section 45-49-91 Authority to create district. (a) This part shall apply only in Mobile County.
(b) A planning and land use control district may be created pursuant to this part in that
part of Mobile County known as the Fowl River Planning and Land Use Control District, hereinafter
referred to as the district. (c) The term district planning and land use board means the Fowl
River District Planning and Land Use Control Board, hereinafter referred to as the board.
(d) The geographic boundaries of the planning and land use control district created pursuant
to this part shall be the same boundaries as the boundaries of the Fowl River Volunteer Fire
District as recorded in the Probate Court of Mobile County. (Act 2005-75, p. 111, § 1.)...

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45-5-141.20
Section 45-5-141.20 Powers and duties; annual dues; board of trustees; referendum election.
(a) This section shall apply only in Blount County. (b) A district for the delivery of fire
and emergency medical services may be formed in any unincorporated area of the county pursuant
to this section subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified electors who vote at
a referendum election for that purpose in the proposed district and for the approval of the
mandatory annual dues of the district. (c) In order to call for a referendum election for
the formation of a district, a petition signed by not less than 20 percent of the registered
voters who reside in the proposed district shall be presented to the county commission and
the Judge of Probate of Blount County. The petition shall contain an accurate legal description
of the proposed area and shall state the name of the proposed district. The petition for the
establishment of a district shall be accompanied by a request for the...
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9-10A-5
Section 9-10A-5 Land which may be included in authority. The land area embraced in any watershed
management authority must encompass at least 50 square miles, must be contiguous and must
lie within a defined watershed. The area may include lands within any soil and water conservation
district. Such authorities may embrace lands lying in one or more soil and water conservation
districts. Two or more watersheds may be included in a watershed management authority. Provided,
however, no land may be included in more than one watershed management authority and provided
further, that no lands or facilities which are subject to the licensing jurisdiction of the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the jurisdiction of the Alabama Public Service Commission
to issue certificates of convenience and necessity shall be subject to the exercise of any
powers or authorities granted herein. (Acts 1991, No. 91-602, p. 1119, §5.)...
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9-9-5
Section 9-9-5 Establishment of district - Jurisdiction generally; purposes. (a) The court of
probate of any county of the State of Alabama shall have jurisdiction, power and authority
to establish water management districts, as provided in this article for the following purposes:
(1) To locate and establish levees, drains or canals and to cause to be constructed, straightened,
widened or deepened any ditch, drain or watercourse; (2) To construct for the purposes of
flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization or disposal of water works
of improvement, including levees, embankments, floodwater retarding structures, water storage
structures, outlets and tide gates, flood gates and pumping plants for preventing floods,
providing drainage, reducing sediment and reclaiming wet, swamp or overflowed lands and other
related works of improvement that will carry out the purposes of this article; and (3) To
provide maintenance for such installations. (b) It is hereby declared...
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9-9-57
Section 9-9-57 Dissolution. Any district organized under this article may be dissolved by the
court of probate having jurisdiction thereof whenever it shall appear to said court that the
works thereof need no further care or maintenance to preserve their efficiency and usefulness,
that the maintenance of the works are not further conducive to the public health, convenience
or welfare and that all obligations of such district have been liquidated and fulfilled; provided,
that the court shall not consider the dissolution of any district except upon the petition
of two thirds of the owners of real property owning not less than two thirds of the area taxed.
Upon the filing of such petition, the same notice shall be served and the same opportunity
shall be given for objections to the dissolution of the district as provided in this article
upon the filing of a petition for the organization of a district. (Acts 1965, No. 685, p.
1246, §58.)...
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18-1A-171
Section 18-1A-171 Reduction of compensation award because of incidental benefits from taking.
The amount of compensation to which the owners and other parties interested therein are entitled
must not be reduced or diminished because of any incidental benefits which may accrue to them
or to their remaining lands in consequence of the uses to which the lands to be taken or in
which the easement is to be acquired will be appropriated; provided, that in the condemnation
of lands for ways and rights-of-way for public highways, water or sewer lines, the commissioners
or jury may, in fixing the amount of compensation to be awarded the owner for lands taken
for this use, take into consideration the value of the enhancement to the remaining lands
of such owner that such highway, water or sewer lines may cause; and provided further, that
in proceedings instituted by water conservancy districts and water management districts, benefits
accruing to the landowner from an improvement may be...
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45-31-110.01
Section 45-31-110.01 Definitions. Unless a contrary intent appears from the context, as used
herein, the phrase county governing body means the court of county commissioners, board of
revenue, or other like governing body of any such county; the word election means any general,
special, or primary election held in the county, including a district, municipal, county,
state, or federal election; and the term voting center means any place in the county which
the county governing body designates as a place where a voting machine or voting machines
will be maintained or operated at elections. (Act 82-746, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 218, §2.)...

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45-31-140
Section 45-31-140 Failure to identify property. Any person residing in or owning property in
an unincorporated area of Geneva County who fails to identify his or her property pursuant
to the regulations or requirements of the board of commissioners of the communications district
created pursuant to Chapter 98 of Title 11 shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25). (Act
97-904, p. 289, §1.)...
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9-10A-2
Section 9-10A-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the meanings indicated unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(1) WATERSHED MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY. A governmental subdivision of this state and a public
body, corporate and politic, organized in accordance with the provisions of this chapter for
the purposes, with the powers and subject to the restrictions set forth in this chapter. (2)
DIRECTOR. One of the members of the governing body of a watershed management authority. (3)
AT LARGE DIRECTOR. A director of a watershed management authority who may reside within any
county that lies within the boundaries of the watershed management authority. (4) RESIDENT
DIRECTOR. A director of a watershed management authority who, pursuant to the requirements
of this chapter, must reside in a particular county. (5) BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The governing
body of a watershed management authority. (6) BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. The...
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