8-17-242
Section 8-17-242 Rules and regulations; orders; employment of personnel and purchasing of equipment. (a) In addition to any other legal powers, the State Fire Marshal may adopt, amend, suspend, repeal, and enforce reasonably necessary rules and regulations governing the use of explosives in the blasting of stone, rock, or any other natural formation, or in any construction, quarry work, or demolition of man-made structures. The rules and regulations adopted shall not be more stringent than those promulgated by federal law, rule, or regulation to control surface coal mining operations. The rules and regulations may apply to the state as a whole or may vary from area to area in order to take into account varying local conditions. (b) The authority granted to the State Fire Marshal shall not extend to surface coal mining operations, which shall continue to be regulated by the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, pursuant to the Alabama Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act [Chapter 16...
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9-10B-16
Section 9-10B-16 Duties of commission. The commission shall have the following duties: (1) To advise the Governor and the presiding officers of the Senate and House, as necessary or as requested, on all matters related to the waters of the state as provided in this chapter; (2) To provide guidance to the director and the division chief on all matters within the commission's scope of authority; (3) To advise in the formulation of policies, plans, and programs of the Office of Water Resources in the performance of its functions and duties; (4) To establish, adopt, promulgate, modify, repeal, and suspend any rules or regulations authorized pursuant to this chapter which may be applicable to the state as a whole or any of its geographical parts and to consider the adoption of any rule or regulation recommended by the division chief; (5) To advise the Office of Water Resources to implement policies, plans, and programs governing the waters of the state; and (6) To hear and determine appeals...
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9-15-56
Section 9-15-56 Application for beach project; issuance of permit. (a) Upon application by a coastal municipality, the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, acting through the Lands Division of the department, shall issue a permit for the construction and maintenance of a beach project by the coastal municipality under the authority of Article 11 of Chapter 47 of Title 11, provided all of the requirements of this section shall have been satisfied. (b) The application for a beach project shall contain, at a minimum, all of the following: (1) A detailed description of the location, dimensions, and design features of the proposed beach project. (2) A copy of the survey, map, metes and bounds description, or plane coordinate references adopted by the governing body of the coastal municipality as identifying the location of the mean high tide line and the locations of the limits of the landward and seaward extensions of the proposed beach project relative to...
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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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9-7-15
Section 9-7-15 Coastal Area Board - Development of coastal area management program. The board shall provide for the development of a comprehensive coastal area management program. The program shall be prepared in cooperation with local, regional, state and federal interests. The inland boundaries of the coastal area subject to the management program are described as follows: begin at the southernmost point on the Mississippi-Alabama state line where the land surface elevation reaches 10 feet above mean sea level and continue in a general easterly direction along the 10-foot contour to the proximity of Mobile Bay; continue in a northerly direction on the 10-foot contour along the western shore of Mobile Bay and the Mobile River delta to the north line of Mobile County; thence southeastward along the north line of Mobile County to the intersection with the Baldwin County lines in the Mobile River; thence along the west and north lines of Baldwin County in the Mobile and Alabama Rivers to...
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11-88-1
Section 11-88-1 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) APPLICANT. A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of any county in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-88-3. (2) AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this article. (3) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority. (4) BONDS. Bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. (5) CONCISE LEGAL DESCRIPTION. A reasonably concise description of a particular geographic area which may be by metes and bounds or by reference to government surveys, recorded maps and plats, municipal, county, or state boundary lines, well-defined landmarks and other monuments, or any combination of the foregoing. (6) COUNTY. Any county in the state. (7) DETERMINING COUNTY. Any county the governing body of which shall have made...
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18-1B-2
Section 18-1B-2 Limitations on condemnation. (a) Neither the State of Alabama, nor any of its departments, divisions, agencies, commissions, corporations, boards, authorities, or other entities, nor any agency, corporation, district, board, or other entity organized by or under the control of any municipality or county in the state and vested by law to any extent whatsoever with the power of eminent domain may condemn property for the purpose of nongovernmental retail, office, commercial, residential, or industrial development or use or to primarily condemn a mortgage or deed of trust; provided, however, the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the exercise of the powers of eminent domain by any county, municipality, housing authority, or other public entity based upon a finding of blight in an area covered by any redevelopment plan or urban renewal plan pursuant to Chapters 2 and 3 of Title 24, provided the purpose of the exercise of the powers of eminent domain...
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45-30-250.02
Section 45-30-250.02 Franklin County Water Service Authority - Incorporation. (a) Three applicants shall be appointed to incorporate the Franklin County Water Service Authority by filing for record in the office of the judge of probate of the county a certificate of incorporation that shall comply in form and substance with the requirements of this section and shall be executed in the manner provided in this section. The applicants shall be appointed as follows: One applicant shall be appointed by the state senator who represents the senatorial district in which Franklin County is located; one applicant shall be appointed by the member of the House of Representatives representing Franklin County; and one applicant shall be appointed by the Franklin County Commission. (b) The certificate of incorporation of the authority shall include the following: (1) The names and residences of the persons forming the authority, and a statement that each is a qualified elector of the county, a...
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9-16-84
Section 9-16-84 Reclamation plans; contents. (a) Each reclamation plan submitted as part of a permit application pursuant to the provisions of this article shall include, in the degree of detail necessary to demonstrate that reclamation required can be accomplished, a statement of: (1) The identification of the lands subject to surface coal mining operations over the estimated life of those operations and the size, sequence, and timing of the sub-areas for which it is anticipated that individual permits for mining will be sought; (2) The condition of the land to be covered by the permit prior to any mining including: a. The uses existing at the time of the application, and if the land has a history of previous mining, the uses which preceded any mining; and b. The capability of the land prior to any mining to support a variety of uses giving consideration to soil and foundation characteristics, topography, and vegetative cover, and, if applicable, a soil survey prepared pursuant to...
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9-8-23
Section 9-8-23 Creation and incorporation of districts; increase or decrease in boundaries; reorganization; change of name. (a) Any 25 owners of land lying within the limits of the territory proposed to be organized into a district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee asking that a soil and water conservation district be organized to function in the territory described in the petition. Such petition shall set forth: (1) The proposed name of said district; (2) That there is need in the interest of the public health, safety and welfare for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory described in the petition; (3) A description of the territory proposed to be organized as a district, which description shall not be required to be given by metes and bounds or by legal subdivisions but shall be deemed sufficient if generally accurate; and (4) A request that the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee duly define the boundaries...
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