23-1-175
Section 23-1-175 Powers. The corporation shall have the following powers: (1) To have succession
by its corporate name without time limit; (2) To maintain actions and have actions maintained
against it and to prosecute and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter
and of the parties; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure;
(4) To construct, reconstruct and relocate, or to cause to be constructed, reconstructed and
relocated, public roads and bridges, including work incidental or related thereto in the State
of Alabama; (5) To receive, take and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise or otherwise real and
personal estate of every description and to manage the same; (6) To acquire by purchase, gift
or the exercise of the power of eminent domain or any other lawful means and to convey, or
cause to be conveyed, to the State of Alabama any real, personal or mixed property necessary
or convenient in connection with the construction of public...
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33-2-16
Section 33-2-16 Revocation and suspension of licenses to occupy state property. Any license
heretofore granted by the State of Alabama, either expressly or by implication permitting
the upland owner to occupy any part of the space between the high-water mark and the low-water
mark of any navigable waterway of this state or along the banks of any river, stream or waterway
now or hereafter along the waterway of this state, may be revoked by the State Docks Department
whenever the department shall determine to make use of such property for purposes contemplated
by this article or may be suspended pending investigation and decision as to whether such
use shall be made; provided, that when such property has been or shall have been already improved
by the upland owner, his license to maintain the improvement and to exercise such control
thereover as may be conferred upon him by a license from the state shall not be revoked or
suspended otherwise than by exercise of eminent domain as long as...
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41-9-253
Section 41-9-253 Cahawba Historical Site - Powers of commission; payment of expenses. The Alabama
Historical Commission may acquire title, possession, or control of such properties and also
of objects of historic interest at the Cahawba Historical Site as it may deem necessary or
proper to be maintained, preserved, and protected on behalf of the State of Alabama and may
acquire, by purchase, construction, lease, gift, condemnation, or otherwise, lands and rights
in land, including leaseholds and easements, and water rights in the rivers and lands adjacent
to or in the immediate vicinity of Cahawba. The commission's power of eminent domain may be
exercised under Title 18 and any amendments thereto, or pursuant to any other general statutory
provision enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain. The commission may mark
in suitable manner the places or locations of historic interest at such point and prepare
and publish for distribution pamphlets or other printed matter with...
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44-1-52
Section 44-1-52 Powers. The youth services board shall have the following powers: (1) To appoint
the state youth services director and to fix his salary. (2) To institute and defend legal
proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction and proper venue. (3) To contract with
any private person, organization or entity or any combination thereof capable of contracting,
if it finds such act to be in the public interest. (4) To establish and promulgate reasonable
rules, policies, orders and regulations for the carrying out of its duties and responsibilities.
(5) To purchase or lease land or to acquire property by eminent domain and to purchase, lease,
let, sell, exchange or otherwise transfer property, land or buildings in order to carry out
its duties and responsibilities under the provisions of this chapter. (Acts 1973, No. 816,
p. 1261, §§6, 15.)...
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11-19-21
Section 11-19-21 Institution of actions to prevent, correct, etc., unauthorized construction
of buildings, subdivision or use of lands, etc. In case any building or structure is erected,
constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained, or any subdivision
is established or land used in violation of this chapter or of any ordinance or other regulation
made under the authority conferred hereby, the county attorney, or other appropriate administrative
officer of the county in which the violation occurs may institute any appropriate action or
proceedings to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair,
conversion, maintenance, or subdivision of the land or use of the land to restrain, correct,
or abate such violation, or to prevent the occupancy of any such building, structure, or subdivision
of land or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business, or misuse in or upon any premises
regulated under the authority conferred by this...
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11-59-8
Section 11-59-8 Powers of corporations generally. The corporation shall have the following
powers together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary for the performance of those
hereinafter stated: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the period specified
in the certificate of incorporation unless sooner dissolved as provided in this chapter; (2)
To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend civil actions in any court having jurisdiction
of the subject matter and of the parties; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter
the same at pleasure; (4) To acquire, whether by condemnation, purchase, exchange, gift, lease,
devise or otherwise, and to construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, and furnish one
or more facilities, including all real and personal properties which the board of directors
of the corporation may deem necessary or convenient in connection therewith and regardless
of whether or not any such facilities shall then be in existence and...
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18-4-14
Section 18-4-14 Procedure for acquiring real property. Whenever real property is acquired by
a state agency in connection with any programs or projects, the acquisition shall be conducted,
to the greatest extent practicable, in accordance with the following: (1) An agency shall
make every reasonable effort to acquire, expeditiously, real property by negotiation. (2)
Real property shall be appraised before the initiation of negotiations, and the owner or his
or her designated representative shall be given an opportunity to accompany the appraiser
during his or her inspection of the property. (3) Before the initiation of negotiations for
real property, the state agency concerned shall establish an amount which it believes to be
just compensation for the property and shall make a prompt offer to acquire the property for
the full amount established. In no event shall the amount be less than the approved appraisal
of the fair market value of the property by the agency. Any decrease or...
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23-1-378
Section 23-1-378 Acquisition, construction, operation of airports, facilities, power of condemnation
generally. (a) The department may on behalf of and in the name of the state, within the limitation
of appropriations or other funds available, acquire, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation
proceedings or otherwise, property, real or personal, for the purpose of establishing and
constructing airports, restricted landing areas, and other air navigation facilities and to
acquire, own, control, establish, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate,
and police airports, restricted landing areas, and other air navigation facilities within
the state; make investigations, surveys or plans prior to any acquisition; and erect, install,
construct, and maintain at airports facilities for the servicing of aircraft and for the comfort
and accommodation of air travelers. (b) The department may not acquire, or take over any airport,
restricted landing area, or other air...
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35-4-131
Section 35-4-131 Notice of actions, etc. (a) When any civil action or proceeding shall be brought
in any court to enforce any lien upon, right to or interest in, or to recover any land, or
where an application has been made to the probate judge of any county for an order of condemnation
of land, or any interest therein, the person, corporation, or governmental body commencing
such action or proceeding or making such application shall file with the judge of probate
of each county where the land or any part thereof is situated a notice containing the names
of all of the parties to the action or proceeding, or the persons named as those having an
interest in the land in the application for an order of condemnation, a description of the
real estate and a brief statement of the nature of the lien, writ, application, or action
sought to be enforced. The judge of probate shall immediately file and record the notice in
the lis pendens record and note on it and in the record the hour and date...
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4-6-13
Section 4-6-13 Acquisition of air rights, easements, etc. In any case in which: (1) It is desired
to remove, lower or otherwise terminate a nonconforming structure or use; or (2) The approach
protection necessary cannot, because of constitutional limitations, be provided by airport
zoning regulations under this chapter; or (3) It appears advisable that the necessary approach
protection be provided by acquisition of property rights rather than by airport zoning regulations,
the political subdivision within which the property or nonconforming use is located or the
political subdivision owning the airport or served by it may acquire, by purchase, grant or
condemnation in the manner provided by the law under which political subdivisions are authorized
to acquire real property for public purposes, such air right, avigation easement or other
estates or interest in the property or nonconforming structure or use in question as may be
necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. In the...
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