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22-22-9
Section 22-22-9 Powers and duties; enforcement of orders; permits; civil penalties for violations.
(a) It shall be the duty of the commission to control pollution in the waters of the state,
and it shall specifically have the following powers: (1) To study and investigate all problems
concerned with the improvement and conservation of the waters of the state; (2) To conduct,
independently and in cooperation with others, studies, investigation and research and to prepare,
or in cooperation with others prepare, a program or programs, any or all of which shall pertain
to the purity and conservation of the waters of the state or to the treatment and disposal
of pollutants or other wastes, which studies, investigations, research and program or programs
shall be intended to result in the reduction of pollution of the waters of the state according
to the conditions and particular circumstances existing in the various communities throughout
the state; and (3) To propose remedial measures...
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11-92C-2
Section 11-92C-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words have the
following meanings: (1) APPLICANT. A natural person who files a written application with the
governing body of any authorizing subdivision in accordance with Section 11-92C-3. (2) AUTHORITY.
Any local redevelopment authority organized pursuant to this chapter. (3) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION.
A resolution adopted by the governing body of any authorizing subdivision in accordance with
Section 11-92C-3, which authorizes the incorporation of the authority. (4) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION.
Any county or municipality that has adopted an authorizing resolution. (5) BOARD. The board
of directors of an authority. (6) BONDS. Any bonds, notes, certificates, or any other form
of indebtedness representing an obligation to pay money. (7) CONTIGUOUS. Two or more tracts
of land if touching for a continuous distance of not less than 200 feet. The term shall include
tracts of land divided by bodies of water, streets,...
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41-29-501
Section 41-29-501 Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this article, the following words and
phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AUTHORITY. The public corporation organized
pursuant to the provisions of Sections 41-10-20 through 41-10-32. (2) AUTHORIZED PURPOSE.
Any one or more of the purposes for which grants are herein authorized to be made as specified
in Section 41-29-503(a). (3) BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The board of directors of the authority.
(4) BOND. The bonds issued under the provisions of this article. (5) CAPITAL COSTS. All costs
and expenses incurred by one or more investing companies in connection with the acquisition,
construction, installation, and equipping of a qualifying project during the period commencing
with the date on which such acquisition, construction, installation, and equipping commences
and ending on the date on which the qualifying project is placed in service, including, without
limitation of all of the following: a. The costs of acquiring,...
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22-27-9
Section 22-27-9 Authority of Department of Environmental Management and Department of Public
Health. (a) The Department of Environmental Management shall be the agency with primary regulatory
authority over the management of solid waste in the state, except for the collection and transportation
of nonhazardous and nonmedical solid waste. The department may exercise the regulatory authority
over the permitting and operation of solid waste management facilities necessary to enforce
the requirement and purposes of this article. (b) The Alabama Department of Public Health
shall have primary regulatory authority over the collection and transportation of solid waste,
excluding medical waste and hazardous waste, the management of sanitary waste in septic tanks,
excluding landfill disposal, and the management of collection activities including, but not
limited to, the provision of collection services by county and municipal governing bodies,
participation in local collection systems, the...
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22-28-2
Section 22-28-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AIR POLLUTION. The presence
in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in such quantities and duration
as are, or tend to be, injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life or property
or would interfere with the enjoyment of life or property throughout the state and in such
territories of the state as shall be affected thereby. (2) AIR CONTAMINANT. Any solid, liquid
or gaseous matter, any odor or any combination thereof, from whatever source. (3) COMMISSION.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (4) PERSON. Any and all persons, natural
or artificial, including, but not limited to, any individual, partnership, association, society,
joint stock company, firm, company, corporation, institution, trust, estate, or other legal
or other business organization or any governmental entity, and any...
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22-24-1
Section 22-24-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) BOARD. The Alabama Department
of Environmental Management. (2) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management. (3) DRILL. To drill or redrill, bore, auger, dig or otherwise construct a water
well. (4) DRILLER. Any person who manages or supervises the drilling of a water well. (5)
LOG. A record of the type of material or rock penetrated in the drilling of a water well.
(6) PERSON. Any individual, organization, group, association, partnership, corporation or
any combination of them operating a business to drill water wells. (7) SAMPLE. Cuttings or
other fragments of rock or soil materials removed from the well. (8) WELL. A hole drilled
for the production of water. (Acts 1971, No. 1516, p. 2630, §1; Acts 1982, No. 82-612, p.
1111, §11(d).)...
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22-28A-3
Section 22-28A-3 Regulations, commitments relating to reduction of greenhouse gases. (a) Effective
immediately, the Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management shall refrain
from proposing or promulgating any new regulations intended in whole or in part to reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol, from the residential,
commercial, industrial, electric utility, or transportation sectors unless such reductions
are required under existing statutes. (b) In the absence of a resolution or other act of the
Legislature of the State of Alabama approving same, the Director of the Alabama Department
of Environmental Management shall not submit to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or
to any other agency of the federal government any legally enforceable commitments related
to the reduction of greenhouse gases, as such gases are defined by the Kyoto Protocol unless
such reductions are required under existing statutes. (Act...
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35-19-2
Section 35-19-2 Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ACTIVITY
AND USE LIMITATIONS. Restrictions or obligations created under this chapter with respect to
real property. (2) AGENCY or DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
(3) COMMON INTEREST COMMUNITY. A condominium, cooperative, or other real property with respect
to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a parcel of real property, is obligated
to pay property taxes or insurance premiums, or for maintenance, or improvement of other real
property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community. (4)
DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management or his or her
designated representative. (5) ENVIRONMENTAL COVENANT. A servitude arising under an environmental
response project that imposes activity and use limitations. (6) ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE PROJECT.
A plan or work performed for environmental remediation...
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41-22-3
Section 41-22-3 Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except when the context otherwise
requires: (1) AGENCY. Every board, bureau, commission, department, officer, or other administrative
office or unit of the state, including the Alabama Department of Environmental Management,
other than the Legislature and its agencies, the Alabama State Port Authority, the courts,
the Alabama Public Service Commission, or the State Banking Department, whose administrative
procedures are governed by Sections 5-2A-8 and 5-2A-9. The term does not include boards of
trustees of postsecondary institutions, boards of plans administered by public pension systems,
counties, municipalities, or any agencies of local governmental units, unless they are expressly
made subject to this chapter by general or special law. (2) COMMITTEE. The Joint Committee
on Administrative Rule Review, comprised of the members of...
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22-22A-7
Section 22-22A-7 Hearings and procedures before commission; appeal and review. (a) Beginning
October 1, 1982, the Environmental Management Commission, in addition to any other authority
which may be conferred upon it by law, shall have the power to: (1) Develop and prescribe
its own hearing procedures, unless otherwise specified by law; and (2) Administer oaths, certify
to official acts, take and cause to be taken depositions of witnesses, issue subpoenas, and
compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, payrolls,
documents and records. In the event of failure of any person to comply with any subpoena lawfully
issued, or on the refusal of any witness to produce evidence or to testify as to any matter
regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, it shall be the duty of any court of competent
jurisdiction or of the judge thereof, upon the application of the Environmental Management
Commission or its designee, to compel obedience by contempt...
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