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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11-3A-2
Section 11-3A-2 Powers for public welfare, health, and safety; authorization; scope. (a) Except where otherwise specifically prohibited or provided for either heretofore or hereafter by general law or the constitution of this state and subject to the procedures and limitations set out in this chapter, the county commission of a county may provide for its property and affairs; and for the public welfare, health, and safety of the citizens throughout the unincorporated areas of the county by exercising certain powers for the protection of the county and public property under its control. The powers granted herein to provide for the public welfare, health, and safety of its citizens shall only include the following: (1) Abatement of weeds as a public nuisance as defined in Section 11-67-60. (2) Subject to the provisions of Section 6-5-127, control of animals and animal nuisances. (3) Control of litter as defined in subsection (b) of Section 13A-7-29, or rubbish as defined in subdivision...
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11-89C-9
Section 11-89C-9 Powers of governing bodies. (a) A governing body shall proceed under this chapter as a participant in the public corporation or individually, to adopt upon reasonable public notice and following public hearing all necessary rules and regulations by resolution or ordinance to implement this chapter and to specifically regulate and control storm water discharges and eliminate the discharge of pollutants to its municipal separate storm sewers. Provided, however, that all discharges originating from any lands or facilities owned or operated by one or more entities under the jurisdiction and supervision of the Alabama Public Service Commission are exempted from regulation under any local storm water management program and shall be regulated exclusively by ADEM. Further, any commission non-jurisdictional electric supplier, as defined by Section 37-4-140, whose service area extends beyond the boundaries of a single municipal or county jurisdiction shall be exempted from the...
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23-1-80.1
Section 23-1-80.1 County commissions - Use of county roads in conducting timber operations. (a) A county commission, by ordinance or resolution, may require all persons or firms that own timber in any unincorporated area of the county which plan to utilize county roads for delivery of pulpwood, logs, poles, posts, or wood chips to any wood yard or processing plant to provide notice of their intent to utilize the county roads to the county commission. For purposes of this section, the term timber owner means any person or firm that has entered into a contract with a landowner for the purposes of severing that timber and delivering pulpwood, logs, poles, posts, or wood chips to any wood yard or processing plant. In the case where the landowner harvests his or her own timber and delivers pulpwood, logs, poles, posts, or wood chips to any wood yard or processing plant, the landowner is the timber owner. The term timber owner is intended to mean the person or firm who has legal title to the...
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22-32-1
Section 22-32-1 Enactment of Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as follows: SOUTHEAST INTERSTATE LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACT Article I. Policy and Purpose There is hereby created the Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact. The party states recognize and declare that each state is responsible for providing for the availability of capacity either within or outside the state for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste generated within its borders, except for waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities. They also recognize that the management of low-level radioactive waste is handled most...
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22-27-5
Section 22-27-5 Authority of localities to establish charges, fees, etc., and enter into mutual agreements or contracts; approval of department; licensing of private or corporate agencies; permits and bonds; nonpayment of fees, etc. (a) Fees, etc.; mutual agreements or contracts. The county commission or municipality undertaking the responsibility for providing services to the public under this article may establish fees, charges and rates and may collect and disburse funds within cooperating areas or districts, inside or outside the corporate limits of municipalities or inside or outside of county boundaries, for the specific purpose of administering this article and providing and operating a solid waste program. Also, said county commission or public authority may enter into mutual agreements or contracts with the government bodies of other counties, municipalities, corporations or individuals, where deemed to be mutually economical and feasible, to jointly or individually collect,...
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22-28-23
Section 22-28-23 Local air pollution control programs. (a) Except as provided in this section, it is the intention of this chapter to occupy by preemption the field of air pollution control within all areas of the State of Alabama. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or abrogate any private remedies now available to any person for the alleviation, abatement, control, correction, or prevention of air pollution or restitution for damage resulting therefrom. (b) Subject to the provisions of this section, each municipal governing body which had municipal ordinances in effect on, or before, July 1, 1969, which pertain to air pollution control and which provide for the creation and establishment of an air pollution control board and each county board of health shall have the authority to establish, and thereafter administer, within their jurisdictions, a local air pollution control program which: (1) Provides, subject to subsection (d) of this section, by ordinance,...
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45-10-170.20
Section 45-10-170.20 Creation; composition; powers; advisory committee. (a) For purposes of this section, the term "decentralized wastewater system" is defined as a system for collection, treatment, and dispersal or reuse of wastewater from clusters of homes and businesses near the point of origin of wastewater generation, in which solids, greases, and oils are collected in an interceptor tank. (b)(1) There is created the Cherokee County Decentralized Wastewater System Authority to oversee the construction, maintenance, and operation of decentralized wastewater systems in Cherokee County. The jurisdiction of the authority shall include the unincorporated areas of Cherokee County. Any municipality in Cherokee County may elect to come under the jurisdiction of the Decentralized Wastewater Authority upon the adoption of a resolution and, once under the jurisdiction, may remove itself from the jurisdiction of the authority upon the adoption of a resolution. (2) The authority shall consist...
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11-44B-25
Section 11-44B-25 Procedures to reduce or delete areas from police jurisdiction. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any Class 4 municipality that is organized pursuant to this article may from time to time reduce or delete various portions and areas from the territorial limits of its respective police jurisdiction or its planning jurisdiction or both as established by law, including, but not limited to, Sections 11-40-10 and 11-52-30, Act 76-594 and as amended by Act 94-539, the reduction and deletion shall be pursuant to the following procedure: (1) INITIATION. The governing body of the municipality shall adopt a resolution calling for public hearings to consider the adoption of an ordinance or ordinances for the purpose of deleting a portion or portions of territory from its respective police jurisdiction or planning jurisdiction, or both, as the case may be. The resolution shall state the time, date, and place of all public hearings in regard to the ordinance and a reasonably...
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11-65-10
Section 11-65-10 Powers and duties of commission. When authorized by one or more elections as provided in Section 11-65-4, a commission shall have the powers and duties necessary to license, regulate, and supervise horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon and greyhound racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon within the commission municipal jurisdiction, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the powers and duties hereinafter set forth in this section or in other sections of this chapter. (1) A commission shall have succession in perpetuity, subject only to the provisions of this chapter as it may be amended from time to time. (2) A commission shall have the power to sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions and to defend suits against it. (3) A commission shall have the power to adopt and make use of an official seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (4) A commission shall have the power to adopt, alter, and repeal bylaws, regulations and...
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