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9-16-77
Section 9-16-77 Division of Hearings and Appeals. (a) There is created a Division of Hearings
and Appeals within the Alabama Surface Mining Commission to enforce this article. The division
shall have such powers and authority as required by law and as delegated by the director.
(b) The commission may hire or contract with hearing officers to hear and determine appeals
from regulatory, enforcement, or other activities of the commission. A hearing officer shall
be a member of and in good standing with the Alabama State Bar. (c) No person shall serve
as a hearing officer who has any direct or indirect financial interest in an underground or
surface coal mining operation or who has been employed by or represented any coal mine operator
within the previous 24 months. (Acts 1981, No. 81-435, p. 682, §8; Act 2010-498, p. 768,
§1.)...
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9-16-12
Section 9-16-12 Disposition of fees and penalties. (a) All fees and penalties collected under
the provisions of this article shall be deposited in the General Fund of the State Treasury.
(b) All funds received from the forfeiture of bonds, sureties, cash, or governmental securities
shall be placed in the State Treasury and credited to a special agency account created and
designated as the Surface Mining Reclamation Fund. The department shall, for each bond, surety,
or deposit of cash or securities forfeited, utilize the proceeds of the forfeiture for the
reclamation of affected lands. The director may establish and carry out a systematic schedule
for the reclamation and revegetation of lands which have been affected by strip mining operations
and to which there is no obligation on any person to reclaim or revegetate. The department
may cause the reclamation work to be done by employees of other governmental agencies or through
contracts with qualified vendors. The department and any...
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9-16-130
Section 9-16-130 Filling voids, sealing tunnels, shafts, etc. (a) The Governor may request
the Secretary of Interior to authorize the director to fill voids, seal open or abandoned
tunnels, shafts, and entryways, and reclaim surface impacts of underground or surface mining
of minerals other than coal which the secretary determines could endanger life and property,
constitute a hazard to public health and safety, or degrade the environment. The director
is authorized and required to carry out such work pursuant to the request therefor by the
secretary. (b) Funds available for use in carrying out the purpose of this section shall be
limited to those funds which must be allocated to the state under the provisions of subsection
402(g) of Public Law 95-87. (c) In those instances where mine waste piles are being reworked
for conservation purposes, the incremental costs of disposing of the wastes from such operations
by filling voids and sealing tunnels may be eligible for funding providing...
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9-17-6
Section 9-17-6 Oil and Gas Board - Powers and duties generally. (a) The board shall have jurisdiction
and authority over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce effectively
the provisions of this article and all other articles relating to the conservation of oil
and gas. (b) The board shall have the authority and it shall be its duty to make such inquiries
as it may think proper to determine whether or not waste, over which it has jurisdiction,
exists or is imminent. In the exercise of such power the board shall have the authority to
perform the following: (1) Collect data. (2) Make investigation and inspection. (3) Examine
properties, leases, papers, books, and records, including drilling records, logs, and other
geological and geophysical data. (4) Examine, check, test, and gauge oil and gas wells, tanks,
plants, processing facilities, structures, natural gas pipelines and gathering lines, and
storage and transportation equipment and facilities, and other modes...
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45-29-90.11
Section 45-29-90.11 Regulation of zoning, planning, and construction. For the purpose of promoting
the health, safety, morals, convenience, environment order, prosperity, and general welfare,
all power and authority regarding zoning and planning within the management area is hereby
vested in the board of directors of the authority. As described herein, no regulated activity
shall commence without the applicant having first obtained a land use certificate as issued
by the authority. (1) The board is authorized to regulate the planning, zoning, and construction
within the management area of all activity involving public streets, public roads, subdivisions,
drainage structures in subdivisions, mobile home parks, residential and commercial developments,
apartments, recreation parks, coal mining, gas/oil and methane exploration and development,
excavation, and logging. The board is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce such ordinances
as shall be necessary to implement any development...
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9-16-125
Section 9-16-125 Reclamation program. (a) The Department of Labor, State Programs Division,
shall establish and maintain a state reclamation program for abandoned mines which complies
with Title IV of Public Law 95-87. The state reclamation program plan shall generally identify
the areas to be reclaimed, the purposes for which the reclamation is proposed, the relationship
of the lands to be reclaimed and the proposed reclamation to surrounding areas, the specific
criteria for ranking and identifying projects to be funded, and the legal authority and programmatic
capability to perform such work in conformance with the provisions of the federal act. (b)
The director shall annually submit to the secretary, an application for the support of the
state program and implementation of specific reclamation projects. Such requests shall include,
but shall not be limited to: (1) A general description of each proposed project; (2) A priority
evaluation of each proposed project; (3) A statement of...
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9-8-26
Section 9-8-26 Land-use regulations - Procedure for adoption; amendment, repeal, etc.; contents;
publication, etc. (a) The supervisors of any district shall have authority to formulate regulations
governing the use of lands within the district in the interest of conserving soil and soil
resources and preventing and controlling soil erosion. The supervisors may conduct such public
meetings and public hearings upon tentative regulations as may be necessary to assist them
in this work. The supervisors shall not have authority to enact such land-use regulations
into law until after they shall have caused due notice to be given of their intention to conduct
a referendum for submission of such regulations to the owners of lands lying within the boundaries
of the district for their indication of approval or disapproval of such proposed regulations
and until after the supervisors have considered the result of such referendum. The proposed
regulations shall be embodied in a proposed ordinance....
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25-9-84
Section 25-9-84 Coursing of air. (a) Two available openings to the surface are required from
each seam or stratum of coal worked. In drift or slope mines, such openings provided after
August 12, 1949, must be separated by not less than 40 feet of natural strata, and all crosscuts
between them shall be closed with stoppings of fireproof material. In shaft mines, such openings
provided after August 12, 1949, must be separated by not less than 200 feet of natural strata.
The second opening may be made through an adjoining mine. Until these provisions are met,
not over five men in a drift, 10 men in a slope, and 20 men in a shaft shall work in the mine
at one time, and no additional development shall be permitted until the connection is made
to the second opening. In mines wherein final pillar robbing operations necessitate closing
the second opening, the above limitations as to the number of men permitted to work will apply
until the mine is worked out and abandoned. (b) Both openings...
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41-20-3
Section 41-20-3 Specification of termination dates for certain agencies; date and procedure
generally for termination of agencies not designated; committee's right to review and make
recommendations. (a) The following agencies shall automatically terminate on the dates specified,
unless a bill is passed that they be continued, modified or reestablished: (1) October 1,
1981 shall be the termination date for: a. State Board of Auctioneers - created by Section
34-4-50. b. Alabama Board of Cosmetology - created by Section 34-7-40. c. Examining Board
for Professional Entomologists, Horticulturists, Plant Pathologists, Floriculturists and Tree
Surgeons - created by Section 2-28-2. d. Alabama Board of Funeral Service - created by Section
34-13-20. e. State Pilotage Commission - created by Section 33-4-1. f. Polygraphic Examiners
Board - created by Section 34-25-4. g. Alabama Board of Examiners for Speech Pathology and
Audiology - created by Section 34-28A-40. h. State Board of Veterinary...
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9-8-31
Section 9-8-31 Discontinuance. (a) At any time after three years after the organization of
a district under the provisions of this article, any 25 owners of land lying within the boundaries
of such district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee
praying that the operations of the district be terminated and the existence of the district
discontinued. The committee may conduct such public meetings and public hearings upon such
petition as may be necessary to assist it in consideration thereof. Within 60 days after such
a petition has been received by the committee, it shall give due notice of the holding of
a referendum and shall supervise such referendum and issue appropriate regulations governing
the conduct thereof, the question to be submitted by ballots upon which the words "For
terminating the existence of the _____ (name of the soil conservation district to be here
inserted)" and "Against terminating the existence of the _____ (name of the soil...
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