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9-13-62
Section 9-13-62 Liability. Any person or entity who damages, destroys, cuts, or removes timber
or other forest products not owned by that person or without the authority of the legal owner,
and any person or entity who shall supervise any other person in so doing, regardless of whether
the act was done knowingly or intentionally, shall be jointly and severally liable to the
owner for double the fair market value of the timber or other forest products that were damaged,
destroyed, cut, or removed. However, any person or entity possessing the power of eminent
domain and any employee, agent, or contractor of the person or entity who, while clearing
a utility right-of-way or easement, mistakenly cuts, damages, destroys, or removes timber
or other forest products from lands adjacent to the utility right-of-way or easement shall
only be liable for the reasonable fair market value of the damaged timber or forest products
and no more, unless it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that...
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11-50-396
Section 11-50-396 Powers generally. Each district incorporated under this article shall have
each and all of the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary
to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession in its corporate name for
the duration of time (which may be in perpetuity) specified in the certificate of incorporation,
or until dissolved as provided in subsection (c) of Section 11-50-392. (2) To sue and be sued
and to defend civil actions against it. (3) To have and use a corporate seal and alter the
same at pleasure. (4) To acquire, purchase, construct, receive, own, operate, maintain, enlarge,
extend, and improve any one or more gas systems the operation of which is provided for in
the certificate of incorporation of the district (whether or not such system or systems were
in existence or whether or not such system or systems were privately owned or municipally
owned prior to the acquisition by such district). (5) To receive,...
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11-50-414
Section 11-50-414 Validation of proceedings to incorporate gas districts. All acts or proceedings
heretofore done or taken for the purpose of incorporating any gas district under the provisions
of this article are hereby validated and declared legal, notwithstanding that the resolution
adopted by the governing body of any municipality which is a member of such gas district authorizing
its mayor to proceed with the organization and incorporation of such gas district in purported
compliance with Section 11-50-391 does not set forth a brief description of the gas system
or systems to be owned and operated by such gas district or fails to comply in other respects
with the provisions of said Section 11-50-391, notwithstanding failure to publish any resolution
and notwithstanding that the objects for which such gas district is organized as stated in
the certificate of incorporation of such gas district, filed in the office of the judge of
probate of the county in which the principal office...
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4-6-12
Section 4-6-12 Remedies for correction, abatement, etc., of violations of regulations, etc.
In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired,
converted or maintained, or any building, structure or land is used in violation of this chapter
or of any ordinance or other regulation made under authority conferred hereby, the proper
local authorities of the municipality, in addition to other remedies, may institute any appropriate
action or proceedings to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration,
repair, conversion, maintenance or use, to restrain, correct or abate such violation, to prevent
the occupancy of such building, structure or land or to prevent any illegal act, conduct,
business or use in or about such premises. (Acts 1953, No. 730, p. 985, §11.)...
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11-14-23
Section 11-14-23 Acquisition of lands for drainage ditches, lime and stone quarries, etc. Counties
may acquire by purchase or by condemnation land necessary for drainage ditches and borrow
pits, lime and stone quarries, clay and clay pits, sand and sand pits, chert and chert pits,
gravel and gravel pits, together with any and all other materials of every character that
may be necessary or essential or desired in the construction and maintenance of highways and
bridges, and may tap and draw material from the same and acquire such road right-of-way as
may be necessary for ingress or egress to and from such material. The reasonable market value,
if any, of such land and material shall be paid for same. (Acts 1923, No. 516, p. 687; Code
1923, §6757; Code 1940, T. 12, §198.)...
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23-1-3
Section 23-1-3 Closing of public roads to traffic; acquisition of materials. The state, acting
through the State Department of Transportation and its duly authorized employees, and the
various counties of the state, acting through the county commissions and their duly authorized
employees, in the doing of public roads work shall have and exercise the right, power, and
authority, when deemed necessary or advisable to do so, to close public roads to traffic and,
when possible so to do, to make detour roads and to contract for such land as may be necessary
for such detour roads; also to acquire, by purchase, or by condemnation, land necessary for
drainage ditches and borrow pits, lime and stone quarries, clay and clay pits, sand and sand
pits and gravel and gravel pits, together with any and all other material of every character
that may be necessary or essential or desired in the construction and maintenance of highways
and bridges, and to tap and draw materials from the same to such...
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11-50-524
Section 11-50-524 Corporate powers. (a) The corporation shall be entitled to all the exemptions
provided by the general laws of Alabama and of the United States for municipal corporations.
To carry out its purposes, the corporation shall have the following specific powers, but no
enumeration of powers granted in this chapter shall be construed to impair or limit any general
grant of power contained in this chapter nor to limit any such grant to a power or powers
of the same class or classes as those enumerated: (1) To have succession by its corporate
name perpetually unless dissolved and unless a shorter period of time shall be specified in
the certificate; (2) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend; (3) To have and to use
a corporate seal and to alter the same at will; (4) To acquire by purchase or lease and to
operate, maintain, extend, and improve any utility within the power district, including any
real and personal properties and any contract and franchise rights in...
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11-99A-21
Section 11-99A-21 Failure to pay assessments. If the owner of any land within the district
fails to pay an assessment when due, time being of the essence, the board may commence proceedings
to foreclose on the land as follows: (1) The board shall send a letter, certified mail, return
receipt requested, United States first class mail to the last known address of the owner.
The address of the owner as shown in the tax assessment records of the tax assessor or revenue
commissioner for the county in which the property is located shall be sufficient. (2) The
letter shall specify that if payment is not made within 10 days of the date of the letter,
foreclosure proceedings may be commenced. (3) Any late payment received within the 10-day
period will accrue a late fee of the greater of five percent of the payment or fifty dollars
($50). (4) If payment is not made within the 10-day period, the entire assessment shall become
immediately due and payable, and the board may do either of the...
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9-16-128
Section 9-16-128 Landowners' actions; review by director; prior right of purchase; review by
court. (a) Any landowner adversely affected by the action of the director under Section 9-16-127
of this article may institute proceedings to have the action reviewed in the circuit court
in the county where the property or a part thereof affected by the action is located, provided
that such proceedings are filed in said court within 30 days following the date of such action.
The court may grant such relief as it deems necessary, including but not limited to injunctive
relief pending a hearing on the matter. (b) Any landowner who has received notice of acquisition
from the director under Section 9-16-127 of this article may, within 15 days following such
notice, make written application to the director for a review as to the actual need or advisability
for such acquisition. The director shall hear the landowner's grievance within 15 days following
the written application for a hearing and shall...
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11-99A-2
Section 11-99A-2 Definitions. In this chapter the following words shall have the following
meanings: (1) APPOINTING GOVERNMENT. The municipality or county that approves the creation
of a district and appoints members to the board. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of a district.
(3) CONTIGUOUS. Two tracts of land if touching for a continuous distance of not less than
200 feet. The term includes tracts of land divided by bodies of water, streets, railroad,
or utility rights-of-way, or by land owned by any public person. In determining whether land
is contiguous with a municipality, (i) land separated by bodies of water, streets, or railroad,
or utility rights-of-way is contiguous even though the bodies of water, streets, or rights-of-way
are within the city limits of another municipality and (ii) land separated by land owned by
a public person is not contiguous if the land owned by the public person is within the city
limits of another municipality. (4) COUNCIL. The governing body of a...
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