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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18-1B-2
Section 18-1B-2 Limitations on condemnation. (a) Neither the State of Alabama, nor any of its departments, divisions, agencies, commissions, corporations, boards, authorities, or other entities, nor any agency, corporation, district, board, or other entity organized by or under the control of any municipality or county in the state and vested by law to any extent whatsoever with the power of eminent domain may condemn property for the purpose of nongovernmental retail, office, commercial, residential, or industrial development or use or to primarily condemn a mortgage or deed of trust; provided, however, the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the exercise of the powers of eminent domain by any county, municipality, housing authority, or other public entity based upon a finding of blight in an area covered by any redevelopment plan or urban renewal plan pursuant to Chapters 2 and 3 of Title 24, provided the purpose of the exercise of the powers of eminent domain...
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37-5-1
Section 37-5-1 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) MUNICIPAL POWER DISTRICT, POWER DISTRICT or DISTRICT. A municipal power district organized under this chapter, either as originally organized or as the same may be from time to time altered or amended. (2) MUNICIPALITY. Any city or town. (3) GOVERNING BODY. Whenever used in relation to any municipality, the body or board, by whatsoever name known, having charge of the governing of a municipality and shall be held to include the mayor or other chief executive officers of such municipality in any case wherein the concurrence or approval of such officer is required by the law governing such municipality for the adoption of any municipal ordinance or resolution or other municipal act provided for in this chapter. (4) BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DIRECTORS or BOARD. The board of directors of a municipal power...
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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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9-9-72
Section 9-9-72 Counties declared drainage districts; county commission to act as and exercise powers of drainage or water management commissioners. For the purpose heretofore expressed and the execution of the powers provided in this article, each county of the state is hereby declared to be and is hereby created a drainage district. The county commission with the judge of probate as chairman shall act as and exercise the powers of a board of drainage commissioners, or board of water management commissioners, and shall have control of the affairs of the district. This shall in no way affect drainage districts or water management 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 9-9-58. (Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 127, p. 83, §4; Code 1940, T. 2, §265.)...
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11-89-32
Section 11-89-32 Procedure to form special corporation. (a) In order to provide for operation and financing of one or more, but not all, of its authorized services under Chapter 89, Title 11, by following the procedures set out in this article, any district may establish a separate public corporation and grant to it the power to finance and operate any, but not all, of the authorized services of the district. If any district may, by its certificate of incorporation, provide more than one of fire protection service, sewer service, or water service in its service area, it may provide that any one or more of the services, but not all of them, may be operated and financed through a special corporation organized pursuant to this article. The procedure to organize a special corporation is as follows: The board shall adopt a resolution specifying that it is necessary or expedient that a special corporation be organized pursuant to this article to operate and finance one or more, but not all,...
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9-8-20
Section 9-8-20 Definitions. Wherever used or referred to in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) DISTRICT or SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT. A governmental subdivision of this state and a public body corporate and politic organized in accordance with the provisions of this article for the purposes, with the powers and subject to the restrictions set forth in this article. (2) SUPERVISOR. One of the members of the governing body of a district appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article. (3) COMMITTEE or STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE. The agency created in Section 9-8-22. (4) PETITION. A petition filed under the provisions of subsection (a) of Section 9-8-23 for the creation of a district. (5) STATE. The State of Alabama. (6) AGENCY OF THIS STATE. Such term includes the government of this state and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the government of this state. (7) UNITED...
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10A-20-15.01
Section 10A-20-15.01 Rights, powers, and authority. All corporations organized under the general laws of this state, or heretofore under a special act of the Legislature, and all corporations organized under the laws of any other of the United States which have complied with the Constitution and laws of the State of Alabama as to foreign corporations and which by their charter have the right to manufacture, supply, and sell to the public power produced by water as a motive force, shall, after acquiring by purchase, or otherwise than by condemnation, a dam site or power site comprising not less than one acre of land upon each and opposite sides of any watercourse or after acquiring by purchase, or otherwise than by condemnation, a dam site comprising not less than one acre of land upon one side of any watercourse and, where the dam site on the other side of the watercourse is owned or controlled by the United States, shall have acquired the permission of the United States to attach to...
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37-4-1
Section 37-4-1 Definitions. Unless otherwise specified, when used in this article, these terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Alabama Public Service Commission. (2) COMMISSIONER. A member of the commission. (3) MUNICIPALITY. Any municipal corporation organized under the laws of this state. (4) PERSON. Such term shall mean and include individuals, associations of individuals, firms, partnerships, companies, corporations, municipalities, governmental agencies, their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, in the singular number as well as in the plural. (5) NONUTILITY. Any federal agency, instrumentality, or corporation, owned by the United States, and any corporation or joint stock company in which the United States or any of its departments, establishments, or agencies, owns more than 50 percent of the voting shares of stock of such corporation or joint stock company. (6) SECURITIES. Such term shall mean and include stock, stock...
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22-23B-2
Section 22-23B-2 Definitions. The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall have the following respective meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: AUTHORITY. The corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter as a public corporation, agency and instrumentality of the state and known as the "Alabama Drinking Water Finance Authority." AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. A resolution, order or other proceedings adopted by the board of directors of the authority authorizing the issuance of bonds, agreements and related matters. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The board of directors of the authority. BOND PROCEEDS. The net proceeds of sale of bonds or notes, and the income derived from the investment of such proceeds. BONDS. The bonds, notes or obligations or other evidences of indebtedness issued by the authority under the provisions of this chapter. DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management or any successor. FEDERAL ACT. The Act of...
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