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11-19-1
Section 11-19-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
unless otherwise clearly indicated shall have the following meanings: (1) COUNTY GOVERNING
BODY. The county commission of each county in this state. (2) FLOOD or FLOODING. The general
and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas: a. From
the overflow of streams, rivers, and other inland waters, or b. From tidal surges, abnormally
high tidal waters, tidal waves, or rising coastal waters resulting from tsunamis, hurricanes,
or other severe storms. (3) FLOOD-PRONE AREA. Any area with a frequency of inundation of once
in 100 years as defined by qualified hydrologists or engineers using methods that are generally
accepted by persons engaged in the field of hydrology and engineering. (4) LAND-USE AND CONTROL
MEASURES. Zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes, health regulations,
and other applications and extensions of the normal police...
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34-2-31
Section 34-2-31 Declaration of policy; chapter liberally construed; compliance with chapter
required. Architects and the practice of architecture are hereby declared to affect the public
health, safety, and welfare and to be subject to regulation and control in the public interest.
It is further declared to be a matter of public interest and concern that the architectural
profession merit and receive the confidence of the public and that only qualified architects
be permitted to practice architecture in the State of Alabama. All provisions of this chapter
relating to the practice of architecture shall be liberally construed to carry out these objects
and purposes. In order to safeguard life, health and property, and to promote the public welfare,
no person shall practice architecture in this state, or use the title "architect"
or any title, sign, card, or device to indicate that such person is practicing architecture
or is an architect unless such person shall thereafter comply with...
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45-37A-56.30
Section 45-37A-56.30 Operation or leasing of parking facilities. (a) As used in this section,
the word person means a natural person, a corporation, a partnership, or unincorporated association.
(b) It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state, with respect to each parking
facility, that upon an authority's acquiring a parking facility the authority shall carefully
consider and decide, whether it is in the public interest that the authority itself operate
such facility, enter into a contract with some person to operate such facility for the authority,
or lease such facility. Among the factors the authority shall consider in making such decision
are the following: (1) The relative efficiency of the alternate operations. (2) The relative
economy of the three alternate operations. (3) The overall advantage and benefit to the authority
and the public of the alternate operations. (c) In order to make the foregoing determination
the authority shall ascertain the following: The...
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9-8A-2
Section 9-8A-2 Legislative findings and declaration of purpose. It is hereby found and declared
to be the policy of the state to provide for the restoration and conservation of the soil
resources of this state, to provide for the improvement of water used in agriculture, and
for the control and prevention of soil erosion and for the prevention of floodwater and sediment
damages, and for the establishment or improvement of stands of forest trees, all of which
will preserve natural resources, control floods, prevent impairment of dams and reservoirs,
preserve wildlife, protect the tax base, protect public lands and promote the health, safety
and public welfare of the citizens of the state. It is further declared that at the present
time, due to cutbacks in federal soil conservation and reforestation programs there exists
an inadequate supply of funds in the state to enable the financing of much needed soil conservation,
agricultural water quality and forestry improvement programs; that...
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10A-1-7.35
Section 10A-1-7.35 Out of state business or property of foreign entity not subject to control
or regulation. (a) The public interest lying in the promotion of business and industry in
this state, it is the intent of the Legislature and declared to be the policy of the State
of Alabama by passage of this section to promote and encourage industry and business in Alabama
and specifically to induce the location within this state of the principal administrative
office, principal distribution or manufacturing plant or principal place of business of foreign
entities engaged in manufacturing, industrial, commercial, business, transportation, utility,
public service, and research enterprises. This section shall be liberally construed in conformity
with this intention. (b) When a foreign entity that transacts only a portion of its business
in this state has located, or is in the process of locating, its principal administrative
office, its principal distribution or manufacturing plant or its...
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22-2-2
Section 22-2-2 State Board of Health - Authority and jurisdiction. The State Board of Health
shall have authority and jurisdiction: (1) To exercise general control over the enforcement
of the laws relating to public health. (2) To investigate the causes, modes or propagation
and means of prevention of diseases. (3) To investigate the influence of localities and employment
on the health of the people. (4) To inspect all schools, hospitals, asylums, jails, theatres,
opera houses, courthouses, churches, public halls, prisons, stockades where convicts are kept,
markets, dairies, milk depots, slaughter pens or houses, railroad depots, railroad cars, street
railroad cars, lines of railroads and street railroads (including the territory contiguous
to said lines), industrial and manufacturing establishments, offices, stores, banks, club
houses, hotels, rooming houses, residences and other places of like character, and whenever
insanitary conditions in any of these places, institutions or...
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24-1-21
Section 24-1-21 Legislative findings and declaration of necessity. It is hereby declared that
unsanitary or unsafe dwelling and public school accommodations exist in various cities of
the state and that such unsafe or unsanitary conditions arise from overcrowding and concentration
of population, the obsolete and poor condition of the buildings, improper planning, excessive
land coverage, lack of proper light, air and space, unsanitary design and arrangement, lack
of proper facilities, and the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire
and other causes; that in all such cities persons of low income are forced to reside in unsanitary
or unsafe dwelling accommodations; that in various cities of the state there is a lack of
safe or sanitary dwelling and public school accommodations available to all the inhabitants
thereof and that consequently persons of low income are forced to occupy overcrowded and congested
dwelling accommodations; that these conditions cause an...
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24-1-60
Section 24-1-60 Legislative findings and declaration of necessity. It is hereby declared that
unsanitary or unsafe dwelling and public school accommodations exist in various counties of
the state and that such unsafe or unsanitary conditions arise from overcrowding and concentration
of population, the obsolete and poor condition of the buildings, improper planning, excessive
land coverage, lack of proper light, air and space, unsanitary design and arrangement, lack
of proper facilities, and the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire
and other causes; that in all such counties persons of low income are forced to reside in
unsanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations; that in various counties of the state there
is a lack of safe or sanitary dwelling and public school accommodations available to all the
inhabitants thereof and that consequently persons of low income are forced to occupy overcrowded
and congested dwelling accommodations; that these conditions cause...
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28-4-285
Section 28-4-285 Conveyances, vehicles of transportation or animals used for illegal conveyance
of prohibited liquors and beverages declared contraband and forfeited to state; seizure of
said conveyances, etc., and reporting thereof by sheriffs, etc., finding same; confiscation
and condemnation generally. All conveyances and vehicles of transportation of any kind, whether
on the waters of the state, under the waters, on land or in the air, including any animals
that may be used in such transportation, whether hitched or not hitched to any vehicle so
illegally used, together with all harness and other accessories employed in such illegal transportation,
which have been or are used for the illegal conveying of any prohibited liquors or beverages
into this state or from one point in the state to another point within the state shall be
contraband and shall be forfeited to the State of Alabama, and shall be seized by any sheriff
or any other person acting under authority of law in the...
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9-8-25
Section 9-8-25 Powers and duties of districts; performance of work on private lands; acquisition,
etc., of land by public bodies; exemption from taxation. (a) A soil and water conservation
district organized under this article shall constitute a governmental subdivision of this
state and a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public powers, and such district
and the supervisors thereof shall have the following powers, in addition to others granted
in other sections of this article: (1) To carry out preventive and control measures within
the district including, but not limited to, engineering operations, methods of cultivation,
the growing of vegetation, changes in use of land, and other erosion control measures on lands
owned or controlled by this state or any of its agencies with the consent and cooperation
of the agency administering and having jurisdiction thereof and on any other lands within
the district upon obtaining the consent of the owner of such lands or the...
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