9-11-391
Section 9-11-391 Definitions. Wherever used in this article, unless a different meaning clearly
appears in the context, the following terms shall be given the following respective meanings:
(1) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
of the State of Alabama. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
of the State of Alabama. (3) CONSERVATION and MANAGEMENT. The collection and application of
biological information for the purposes of increasing and maintaining the number of animals
within species and populations of marine mammals at the optimum carrying capacity of their
habitat. Such terms include the entire scope of activities that constitute a modern scientific
resources program, including, but not limited to, research, census law enforcement and habitat
acquisition and improvement. Also included within these terms, when and where appropriate,
is the periodic or total protection of species or populations as well...
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9-13-271
Section 9-13-271 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the
application of prescribed burning is a landowner property right and a land management tool
that benefits the safety of the public, the environment, the natural resources, and the economy
of Alabama. Therefore, the Legislature finds that: (1) Prescribed burning reduces naturally
occurring vegetative fuels within wildland areas. The reduction of the fuel load reduces the
risk and severity of major catastrophic wildfire, thereby reducing the threat of loss of life
and property, particularly in urbanizing areas. (2) Many of Alabama's natural communities
require periodic fire for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Prescribed burning is
essential to the perpetuation, restoration, and management of many plant and animal communities.
Significant loss of the state's biological diversity will occur if fire is excluded from fire-dependent
ecosystems. (3) Forest lands constitute significant...
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9-2-122
Section 9-2-122 Deposits into State Lands Fund authorized; use of funds. All funds and fees
accruing from the management of lands by the Lands Division of the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources which are received or retained pursuant to Sections 9-15-15, 9-15-16,
9-15-39, 9-15-40, and 9-15-52, and Section 9-2-123, shall be deposited into the State Lands
Fund, and shall be used only for the preservation, management, protection, and improvement
of the lands. (Acts 1993, No. 93-631, p. 1077, §1.)...
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27-17A-47
Section 27-17A-47 Establishment and management of endowment care fund. (a) Every cemetery authority
operating an endowment care cemetery shall establish an endowment care fund which shall be
placed with and held by a bank, trust company, savings and loan association, or other financial
institution authorized to provide trust services under Title 5, as amended, or under the applicable
laws of the United States or any other state, or a board of trustees, consisting of at least
three members, who shall reside in the State of Alabama, one of whom is engaged in outside
cemetery management, and each of whom shall be bonded to honestly perform the duties of trustee
under a formal trust agreement. (b) Except as specifically provided in this subsection, commencing
on July 1, 2014, a person serving on a board of trustees or cemetery authority may not also
serve as a trustee of an endowment care fund for the cemetery authority. A board of trustees
in existence on July 1, 2014, may continue to...
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33-6A-5
Section 33-6A-5 Pump-out stations at marinas. An owner, operator, employee, or agent of a marina
which does not provide a pump-out station or other approved means of properly disposing of
sewage from recreational vessels, shall not, except in the case of safety emergency, permit
a recreational vessel with a Type III marine sanitation device to moor, anchor, dock, or be
stored at the marina. The department may, in cooperation with the Alabama Department of Economic
and Community Affairs, Department of Public Health, and the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management, establish by regulation in accordance with the Alabama Administrative Procedure
Act, a program for financial assistance to marina facilities for the establishment of pump-out
stations or other approved means of disposing of sewage from such vessels. (Act 2002-59, p.
145, §5.)...
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35-2-23
Section 35-2-23 Functions and duties of chief of division generally. The chief of the division
of land surveys shall carry out the routine functions and duties of the division, as prescribed
herein. He shall recommend for employment, including their compensation, such assistants,
and employees as are required for the performance of the work of the division, within the
provisions of the Merit System Act and the limits of the funds appropriated. Subject to approval
of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources and through authorized personnel,
he shall actively conduct such land surveys or geodetic or leveling surveys as may be necessary
to properly locate section corners and boundaries, geodetic or Alabama coordinate horizontal
control points or stations or precise level net bench mark stations and other monuments necessary
to a proper and accurate description in real estate conveyancing. He shall cause to be placed
permanent markers for all corners, bench marks, stations,...
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9-10B-26
Section 9-10B-26 Effect of chapter on other state departments and agencies. Nothing in this
chapter shall be interpreted as negating, destroying, impairing, preempting, or superseding
any statutory, common law, or other legal right, duty, power, or authority of the Alabama
Department of Environmental Management, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources, the Alabama Department of Public Health, the Geological Survey of Alabama or any
other agency or department of this state. (Acts 1993, No. 93-44, p. 78, §27.)...
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9-11-305
Section 9-11-305 When dogs permitted in areas; liability of owners of dogs at large in areas.
No dog shall be permitted except on leash within any wildlife management area except
in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Conservation
and Natural Resources, and whoever shall be the owner of any dog at large within any wildlife
management area shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Acts 1939, No. 668, p. 1061, §6; Code
1940, T. 8, §110(6).)...
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9-11-49.1
Section 9-11-49.1 Establishment of bag limits, etc., for certain nonresidents. Notwithstanding
any rule, regulation or law to the contrary, the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources with consent of the conservation advisory board is hereby authorized
to establish bag limits, lengths of seasons and license fees for nonresidents who reside in
those states which have entered into reciprocal agreements as to the aforementioned with the
State of Alabama. But under no circumstance shall the annual all game license be less than
$99.00 nor the trip all game license less than $50.00. (Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-777,
p. 619, §2.)...
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9-15-37
Section 9-15-37 Institution of civil actions to clear title to school lands, etc.; cruising
of timber, surveying of lands, investigation of claims to lands, etc. The Commissioner of
Conservation and Natural Resources is hereby authorized and empowered to present civil actions
in the name of the State of Alabama to clear title to school lands or for any other purposes
for the protection of such lands. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall
be further empowered to have the timber on school lands cruised, the land surveyed, claims
to said lands investigated, the title cleared in any legal manner which he may deem advisable
and to do such other things regarding school lands which in his opinion shall be for the best
interests of said lands in the supervision and management of them. (Acts 1939, No. 581, p.
949, §4; Code 1940, T. 8, §237.)...
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