41-18-1
Section 41-18-1 Text. Article I. Findings and Purposes. (a) The party states find that the South has a sense of community based on common social, cultural and economic needs and fostered by a regional tradition. There are vast potentialities for mutual improvement of each state in the region by cooperative planning for the development, conservation and efficient utilization of human and natural resources in a geographic area large enough to afford a high degree of flexibility in identifying and taking maximum advantage of opportunities for healthy and beneficial growth. The independence of each state and the special needs of subregions are recognized and are to be safeguarded. Accordingly, the cooperation resulting from this agreement is intended to assist the states in meeting their own problems by enhancing their abilities to recognize and analyze regional opportunities and take account of regional influences in planning and implementing their public policies. (b) The purposes of...
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31-9-40
Section 31-9-40 Compact adopted and enacted. The Emergency Management Assistance Compact is enacted into law and entered with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT Article I - Purpose and Authorities. This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member states which enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purpose of this agreement, the term "states" is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions. The purpose of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the affected state or states, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources shortages, community disorders,...
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9-13-200
Section 9-13-200 Authorized; form. The governor on behalf of this state is hereby authorized to execute a compact in substantially the following form with any one or more of the states of Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, and the Legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification of such compact, which compact is as follows: SOUTHEASTERN INTERSTATE FOREST FIRE PROTECTION COMPACT Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote effective prevention and control of forest fires in the Southeastern region of the United States by the development of integrated forest fire plans, by the maintenance of adequate forest fire fighting services by the member states, by providing for mutual aid in fighting forest fires among the compacting states of the region and with states which are party to other regional forest fire protection compacts or agreements, and for more adequate forest protection....
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45-9-91.20
Section 45-9-91.20 Establishment and designation; services; regulation of industrial parks. (a) Subject to the written approval of the owners of 100 percent in interest based on assessed value for ad valorem tax purposes of each 10 acres, or the part thereof to be included in the proposed industrial park, the County Commission of Chambers County in the State of Alabama may establish industrial parks composed of territory wholly within the county boundaries and without the boundaries of any municipality. Any person, firm, or corporation who desires to obtain a designation of an area as an industrial park shall file a petition with the county commission of the county wherein the property is located requesting that the county commission designate the area proposed as an industrial park, and include with such petition the consent of the land owners as above required. The consent of each consenting owner shall be acknowledged before a notary public or other person authorized to take...
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23-8-5
Section 23-8-5 Program purposes; annual report. (a) The net tax proceeds allocated to ALDOT in subsection (c) of Section 40-17-371 shall be used for the following program purposes, and ALDOT shall annually report the results of the programs and itemize the specific projects to the Permanent Joint Transportation Committee of the Alabama Legislature in compliance with such procedures established by or for the committee: (1) Congestion Relief Program - The purpose of this program is to add capacity to state, U.S., and Interstate routes in highly congested areas of the state. ALDOT shall develop an assessment and prioritization plan to allocate funds for congestion relief projects on the state's transportation infrastructure. (2) Economic Development Roads Program - The purpose of this program is to develop and improve transportation infrastructure to enhance economic development efforts in the State of Alabama. ALDOT shall develop an assessment and prioritization plan to allocate funds...
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11-47-14.1
Section 11-47-14.1 Construction of port facilities by Class 1 municipalities; bonds and other contributions. (a) Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama finds that the Tombigbee Waterway will soon be completed, and the transportation opportunities afforded thereby must be fully utilized if Alabama is to benefit from economic growth and job development potential afforded by this project, and that local governments need broader authorization to participate in the development of river port facilities necessary to accomplish this purpose. (b) Municipalities authorized to construct port facilities; limitations thereon. The council or other governing body of any Class 1 municipality may alter and change the channel of any watercourse within 25 miles of such municipality and may construct and maintain wharves and construct buildings and other improvements on and near wharves and wharf sites, within such municipality or within 25 miles of the limits thereof, and may collect wharfage...
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23-8-2
Section 23-8-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds all of the following: (a) That consistent with the constitutional mandate that navigable waterways are public highways, the Legislature hereby finds as a fact that a portion of the gasoline and diesel fuel sold in this state is used for marine purposes to propel vessels on coastal and inland waterways of this state. (b) That it is the policy of this state to use a portion of the funds derived from the additional excise tax levied by the Rebuild Alabama Act on each net gallon of gasoline and diesel fuel for the programs and activities of the Alabama State Port Authority. (c) That the development and growth of electric vehicle transportation infrastructure are considerations in the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of a modern-day public road, highway, and bridge system in this state. (d) That the State Department of Transportation is the appropriate agency to initiate the comprehensive planning and...
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37-3-19
Section 37-3-19 Duty of common carrier to provide service, equipment, and facilities; rates and charges generally; rules, regulations, and practices; other remedies not extinguished. (a) It shall be the duty of every common carrier of passengers by motor vehicle to establish and provide safe and adequate service, equipment and facilities for the intrastate transportation of passengers in the State of Alabama; to establish, observe and enforce just and reasonable individual and joint rates, fares and charges and just and reasonable regulations and practices resulting thereto, and to the issuance, form and substance of tickets and the carrying of personal sample and excess baggage, the facilities for the transportation, and all other matters relating to or connected with the intrastate transportation of passengers in the State of Alabama; and, in case of such joint rates, fares and charges, to establish just, reasonable and equitable divisions thereof as between the carriers...
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33-2-16
Section 33-2-16 Revocation and suspension of licenses to occupy state property. Any license heretofore granted by the State of Alabama, either expressly or by implication permitting the upland owner to occupy any part of the space between the high-water mark and the low-water mark of any navigable waterway of this state or along the banks of any river, stream or waterway now or hereafter along the waterway of this state, may be revoked by the State Docks Department whenever the department shall determine to make use of such property for purposes contemplated by this article or may be suspended pending investigation and decision as to whether such use shall be made; provided, that when such property has been or shall have been already improved by the upland owner, his license to maintain the improvement and to exercise such control thereover as may be conferred upon him by a license from the state shall not be revoked or suspended otherwise than by exercise of eminent domain as long as...
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40-17-371
Section 40-17-371 Cost of collection; distribution of tax proceeds. (a) The Alabama Department of Revenue shall retain one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the tax proceeds, less any refunds, from this additional excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel for its cost of collection. The department may adopt rules and such forms as may be necessary for the administration of the excise tax provided for in this article. (b) Each month, prior to the remaining payments provided in this article, up to $750,000 of the tax proceeds from the additional excise tax on gasoline and up to $230,000 of the tax proceeds from the additional excise tax on diesel fuel shall be distributed first to the Alabama Highway Finance Corporation for the payment of the principal of and interest on bonds to be issued by it to finance improvements to the ship channel providing access to the facilities of the Alabama State Docks, to the extent necessary for such purpose. The amount distributed pursuant to this section...
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