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37-11B-5
Section 37-11B-5 Actions in accordance with State Rail Plan or studies. (a)(1) Based on information
gathered in the State Rail Plan or any studies conducted pursuant to subdivision (5) of Section
37-11B-4, ADECA with the assistance of the commission for purposes of promoting passenger
or freight rail service, or both, may do all of the following: a. Select or recommend routes
and locations, perform preliminary engineering and surveying, acquire necessary rights-of-way
and property, perform site improvements, and otherwise plan, develop, construct, and own a
rail line, or portion thereof, that connects to the rail line of a railroad corporation. b.
Take any action described in subdivision (1) for the purpose of assisting a railroad corporation
or other entity in developing, constructing, improving, and owning a rail line, or portion
thereof, for any other purpose as approved by ADECA that promotes economic development associated
with rail infrastructure or passenger or freight rail...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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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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37-9-2
Section 37-9-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) AIR CARRIER. This term includes both a common carrier by aircraft and a contract carrier
by aircraft. (2) AIR COMMERCE. The carriage by aircraft of persons or property, or any class
or classes thereof, for compensation or hire in intrastate commerce in this state, including
such aircraft operations of carriers by rail, water or motor vehicle, and/or express or forwarding
companies, except pilot training, flight instruction, sale of property and services for aircraft,
engines and accessories. (3) AIRCRAFT. Any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used,
or designed for navigation of or flight in the air. (4) BROKER. Any person not included in
the term "air carrier" and not a bona fide employee or agent of any such carrier,
who or which, as principal or agent, sells or offers for sale any transportation subject to
this chapter, or negotiates for or holds himself, or itself, out by...
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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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37-11B-6
Section 37-11B-6 Railroad Revitalization Fund development of State Rail Plan. (a) There is
established in the State Treasury a revolving fund to be designated as the Railroad Revitalization
Fund. Monies, including interest earnings, in this fund shall be expended either separately
or in combination with any available federal funds for railroad research, railroad planning,
and railroad administration costs incurred by ADECA directly attributable to railroad revitalization
projects; assistance to railroads for the rehabilitation or improvement of rail lines; and
construction, improvement, or rehabilitation of railroad facilities. (b) ADECA with the assistance
of the commission, in conjunction with the railroads operating in the State of Alabama, shall
develop the State Rail Plan, which shall be a comprehensive plan that coordinates all aspects
of the improvements to rail infrastructure within the state and includes distinct freight
and passenger components, as described in subdivisions...
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37-2-1
Section 37-2-1 "Transportation company" defined. The term "transportation company"
shall mean and include every person not engaged solely in interstate commerce or business
that now or may hereafter own, operate, lease, manage or control, as common carriers or for
hire: Any railroad or part of a railroad in this state or any cars or other equipment used
thereon, or bridges, terminals or sidetracks used in connection therewith, whether owned by
such railroad or otherwise; any express companies; any car companies; any sleeping car companies;
any steamboat or steam packet company or common carrier for hire by water regardless of the
propelling power used; any railroad depot or terminal station; any telegraph line; any telephone
line; any pipeline for the transportation of oil or other commodity, whether the transportation
is by pipeline or partly by pipeline and partly by rail, truck or water. This term shall also
mean and include two or more transportation companies rendering joint...
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10A-21-2.12
Section 10A-21-2.12 Aiding of another corporation in railroad construction or entering into
line arrangements. (a) Any railroad corporation and any mining, manufacturing, or quarrying
corporation may, at any time, by means of subscription to the capital stock of any other corporation
or company or otherwise, aid the corporation or company in the construction of its railroad
for the purpose of forming a connection with the railroad or the principal place of business
or works of the corporation furnishing the aid. (b) Any corporation may purchase at judicial
sale, or otherwise hold and use or lease any part or all of the railroad constructed by another
corporation or company, together with its franchises, rights, and property, or may acquire,
hold, and use all or any part of the capital stock of another corporation chartered under
the laws of this state or any other state, if the railroad or railroads so purchased connect
with, or will, when completed, connect with the railroad works,...
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37-13-1
Section 37-13-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, unless the context plainly indicates
otherwise, the present tense shall include the future tense, the singular shall include the
plural, the plural shall include the singular and the following words and phrases shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section. (1) ADDITIONAL RAIL SERVICE AREA.
Any territory that is outside the boundaries or corporate limits, as the case may be, of any
of its authorizing subdivisions and that the governing body of the county, and of any city
or town, in which such territory is located has by resolution designated as an area in which
the authority may render rail transportation service. (2) AUTHORITY. Any public corporation
organized pursuant to this chapter or any law amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.
(3) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. Any county, city, or town in this state in which there are located
railroad properties and facilities and whose governing body receives an...
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9-15-82
Section 9-15-82 Article not to apply to certain transfers, reversions, sales, etc. (a) This
article shall not apply to the transfers of real property between departments, boards, bureaus,
commissions, institutions, corporations, or agencies of the state. These transfers may be
made by mutual agreements between the chief executive officers of the respective departments
with the approval of the Governor. This article shall not apply to the leasing or sale of
timber from unused lands under Section 9-15-1 et seq.; to the leasing or sale of timber from
school lands and swamp and overflowed lands under Section 9-15-30 et seq.; to the leasing
of oil, gas, and other minerals under Section 9-17-60 et seq.; real property sold by the Department
of Revenue under tax sales and redemptions; to the sale of property by the Alabama Historical
Commission under Section 41-9-249(7); to reversions made under Section 31-4-18; to the sale
or conveyance of real property by the Alabama Housing Finance...
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