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9-16-91
Section 9-16-91 Surface effects of underground coal mining; requirements; remedies. (a) The
regulatory authority shall promulgate rules and regulations directed toward the surface effects
of underground coal mining operations, and embodying the following requirements. In adopting
any rules and regulations, the regulatory authority shall consider all distinct differences
between surface coal mining and underground coal mining. (b) Each permit issued pursuant to
this article and relating to underground coal mining shall require the operator to: (1) Adopt
measures consistent with available technology in order to prevent subsidence causing material
damage to the extent technologically and economically feasible, maximize mine stability, and
maintain the value and reasonably foreseeable use of such surface lands, except in those instances
where the mining methods used requires planned subsidence in a predictable and controlled
manner. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit...
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22-35-10
Section 22-35-10 Rules and regulations; department may require owner or operator to provide
information. (a) Rules and regulations pertaining to this chapter shall be adopted by the
commission in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. The commission shall not
adopt any rules or regulations pertaining to underground or aboveground storage tanks under
the provisions of this chapter that are more stringent than those provided by federal rules
or regulations. (b) The department may require the owner or operator of an aboveground storage
tank to provide to the department information concerning the aboveground storage tank which
may include, but is not limited to the name of the owner, the name of the operator, the location,
and description of the facility at which the aboveground storage tank is located, regulated
substances and quantities of regulated substances used or stored. (Acts 1988, No. 88-378,
p. 557, §10; Acts 1993, No. 93-628, p. 1062, §10.)...
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40-20-22
Section 40-20-22 Applicability; payment of and liability for taxes; reporting. (a) The tax
levied by this chapter and computed pursuant to Section 40-20-21 applies to all offshore production
produced from depths greater than 8,000 feet below mean sea level, regardless of the method
or place or timing of delivery or sale, or the manner or place of processing, or to whom sold,
or by whom used, or the fact that the delivery, sale, or storage may be made at points outside
the state, or the fact that processing or other preparation for sale, storage, or use occurs
outside the state. It is the intent of this chapter that the tax is to be computed on the
production of all offshore oil or gas in this state from depths greater than 8,000 feet below
mean sea level, however the tax shall be computed only once on any given volume of such offshore
production. (b) Natural gas produced by offshore production in the State of Alabama that is
lawfully injected into oil or gas pools or reservoirs in the...
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37-15-10.1
Section 37-15-10.1 Underground Damage Prevention Authority. (a) The Underground Damage Prevention
Authority is created for the purpose of enforcing this chapter and for reviewing penalty provisions
and the adequacy of the enforcement process. It is the intent of the Legislature that the
authority and its enforcement activities not be funded by appropriations from the state budget.
(b) The authority shall utilize the services of the Alabama Public Service Commission to provide
administrative support for the authority, subject to the concurrence by the authority board.
The Public Service Commission shall charge the expenses associated with the administrative
duties of the authority back to the authority, subject to the concurrence of the authority
board. The administrative support provided by the Alabama Public Service Commission to the
authority is in an administrative capacity only and nothing in this chapter shall expand the
jurisdiction of the Alabama Public Service Commission in any...
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45-2-262
Section 45-2-262 Regulation of wind generated energy production facilities or equipment in
unincorporated areas. (a) This section shall apply within all unincorporated areas of Baldwin
County. (b) The county commission shall have zoning authority and the power to establish and
adopt ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, and procedures to regulate the permitting,
construction, placement, and operation of wind turbines, windmills, wind farms, and any other
wind-generated energy production facilities or equipment operated, in whole or in part, by
wind, sometimes referred to collectively as "wind-generated energy production facilities,"
also including, but not limited to, regulations regarding the size, location, and noise generated
by wind-generated energy production facilities. The regulations shall be adopted by ordinance
or resolution of the county commission at a regularly scheduled meeting of the commission.
(c) The county commission shall have zoning authority and the power...
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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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11-65-32
Section 11-65-32 Televised simulcast programming of racing events. (a) A commission shall have
the power to adopt rules and regulations specifying the conditions under which an operator,
as part of its licensed activity, may cause televised simulcast programming of racing events,
including both horse racing and greyhound racing, held at racetracks located outside the state
to be transmitted for public viewing to a racetrack facility within the sponsoring municipality
which is under the jurisdiction of such commission and there made the subject of pari-mutuel
wagering. Any provision of this chapter or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding,
no racing events, including both horse racing and greyhound racing, held at any location in
the state (including a location in the sponsoring municipality) shall be televised to a racing
facility subject to this chapter and made the subject of pari-mutuel wagering at such racing
facility; provided, however, that an operator may use closed...
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22-30-16
Section 22-30-16 Responsibilities of hazardous waste storage and treatment facility and hazardous
waste disposal site operators. (a) The department, acting through the commission, is authorized
to promulgate rules and regulations establishing such standards, applicable to owners and
operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facilities as may be necessary
to protect human health or the environment. In establishing such standards, the department
may, where appropriate, distinguish in such standards between requirements appropriate for
new facilities and for facilities in existence on the date of promulgation of such regulations.
Such standards shall include but not be limited to the following: (1) Unless exempted from
regulation by this chapter or rules promulgated under authority of this chapter, obtaining
a permit from the department or interim status for each treatment, storage or disposal facility;
(2) Assuring that all hazardous wastes are stored, treated or...
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9-17-154
Section 9-17-154 Eminent domain. (a) Any storage operator is hereby empowered, after obtaining
approval of the board as herein required, to exercise the right of eminent domain in the manner
provided by law, to acquire all surface and subsurface rights and interests necessary or useful
for the purpose of operating the storage facility (including easements and rights-of-way across
lands for transporting, by pipeline or otherwise, gas to and from said facility) and to exercise
eminent domain rights to acquire any hydrocarbons therein, pursuant to the provisions hereof.
Such power shall be exercised under the procedure provided by Chapter 1A, Title 18. (b) No
rights or interests in storage facilities acquired for the injection, storage and withdrawal
of gas by a party who has eminent domain rights under this act and who has obtained an order
from the board under the provisions of Section 9-17-152, shall be subject to the exercise
of any eminent domain rights; and no portion of any salt...
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22-35-4
Section 22-35-4 Alabama Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Trust Fund. There is hereby
created the Alabama Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Trust Fund, hereinafter referred
to as the "fund," to be administered by the Secretary-Treasurer of the Retirement
Systems of Alabama. The fund shall be used by the department as a revolving fund for carrying
out the purposes of this chapter. The fund is not an insurance company and the laws relating
to the conduct of business in this state by an insurance company do not apply to the fund.
A decision that underground or aboveground storage tanks are ineligible for benefits under
the fund does not expose the fund, the director, department, or commission to a claim of bad
faith as such terms are used in general insurance law. Further, in no event shall combined
claims against the fund for payment of response actions and third-party claims exceed the
per occurrence indemnification limit set by the commission. Under no circumstances shall...
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