9-15-14
Section 9-15-14 Duty to determine best use for which unused lands may be adapted; use of same
for purpose for which suited. It shall be the duty of the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources as to all unused lands owned by the State of Alabama or any institution or department
thereof to determine the best use to which said lands may be adapted and, thereafter, at the
request of the department or institution having title to or an interest in or charged by law
with the management of such lands and with the approval of the Governor, the Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources then shall have authority to use such lands for the
purpose for which they are suited, and said lands shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction,
management and control of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources; provided,
that the lands donated to or purchased by the state to be used as the Fort Morgan Parkway
from Fort Morgan to Gulf Shores, now a part of the Dixie Graves Highway,...
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9-15-15
Section 9-15-15 Disposition of revenues from unused lands managed by department; charges for
administration, protection, mapping, etc. Any revenues that shall accrue from the lands so
managed by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources subject to costs of administration
shall be the property of the department or institution to which the lands belong or in which
the department or institution shall own the beneficial interest. If the land shall be owned
absolutely by the State of Alabama, and shall consist of submerged land, the revenue from
the use of the land, with the exception of offshore oil and gas capital payments and sand
and gravel royalties, shall become a part of the State Lands Fund of the Lands Division of
the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of the State of Alabama. In all other
cases, however, the reasonable cost of administering, managing, protecting, mapping, surveying,
cruising, or developing any unused lands shall be a charge against the...
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9-15-17
Section 9-15-17 Fund for management, etc., of unused lands. All funds which shall be retained
by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources as charges against the income from
any lands administered by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources under authority
of this article shall be delivered to the State Treasurer by the Commissioner of Conservation
and Natural Resources, and the State Treasurer shall keep said funds in a special fund, which
fund shall be used only for the preservation, management, protection and improvement of unused
lands and shall be paid out upon the requisition of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural
Resources. Any balance remaining in said fund at the end of any fiscal year shall not revert
to the General Funds of the state but shall be allowed to accumulate to the end that a fund
may be provided for the management, protection, development and improvement of unused lands;
provided, that no funds shall be withdrawn nor expended for...
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9-15-18
Section 9-15-18 Sale of timber, minerals, etc., from lands; lease, exchange or sale of lands,
etc. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is hereby empowered to sell or
cause to be sold timber or minerals or other natural resources from all lands managed or controlled
under authority of this article when in his opinion he deems such timber or minerals or other
natural resources to be merchantable quantity and quality. All lands or any interest therein
over which the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall exercise management
and control by virtue of this article may be leased, exchanged or sold by the Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources with the approval of the managing head of the department
or institution to which said lands belong and the approval of the Governor of Alabama. (Acts
1945, No. 341, p. 554, §11.)...
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9-15-30
Section 9-15-30 Title to swamp and overflowed lands and swamp and overflowed indemnity lands
patented to state by federal government; utilization, disposition, etc., of same generally.
(a) Title to all lands of the swamp and overflowed category or swamp and overflowed indemnity
lands, which are, subsequent to September 5, 1951, patented to the State of Alabama by the
federal government and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, shall be vested in
the Division of Lands of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (b) The Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources shall utilize such lands for the purpose or purposes
which he deems to be most expedient and beneficial. He is hereby authorized to practice forestry
upon such lands and may lease such lands for the exploration or extraction of oil, gas or
other minerals. Said land shall be supervised and managed in the same manner as other lands
which are under the supervision of the Department of Conservation...
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9-15-8
Section 9-15-8 Filing of lists of used and unused lands by state departments and institutions;
filing of lists of improvements made on said lands; disposition of lists. It shall be the
duty of each state department or institution of the State of Alabama which holds the legal
title to or any interest in any lands in the State of Alabama and any department charged by
law with the administration, control or management of any state department or institutional
lands to file in the office of the Land Agent within the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources a complete list of all lands of whatsoever kind to which it holds the legal title
or in which it claims any interest. If any land is held by any person, firm, corporation,
department or institution of the State of Alabama for the use and benefit of any institution
or department of the State of Alabama, such land shall also be included in such list to be
filed in the office of the Land Agent, Department of Conservation and Natural...
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9-15-82
Section 9-15-82 Article not to apply to certain transfers, reversions, sales, etc. (a) This
article shall not apply to the transfers of real property between departments, boards, bureaus,
commissions, institutions, corporations, or agencies of the state. These transfers may be
made by mutual agreements between the chief executive officers of the respective departments
with the approval of the Governor. This article shall not apply to the leasing or sale of
timber from unused lands under Section 9-15-1 et seq.; to the leasing or sale of timber from
school lands and swamp and overflowed lands under Section 9-15-30 et seq.; to the leasing
of oil, gas, and other minerals under Section 9-17-60 et seq.; real property sold by the Department
of Revenue under tax sales and redemptions; to the sale of property by the Alabama Historical
Commission under Section 41-9-249(7); to reversions made under Section 31-4-18; to the sale
or conveyance of real property by the Alabama Housing Finance...
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9-15-10
Section 9-15-10 Notice, etc., of change in status, disposition or acquisition of used and unused
lands. (a) If at any future time any institution or department of the State of Alabama shall
deem it advisable to make use of any unused land owned by it, it shall notify the Land Agent,
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, who shall place said land on the "used
land" list, and should any institution or department of the State of Alabama abandon
the use to which any "used land" is then being put, it shall notify the Land Agent,
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, of such abandonment and the land shall be
reclassified on records in the office of the Land Agent, Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources, as "unused land." (b) Should any land owned by any institution or department
of the State of Alabama be leased, sold or otherwise disposed of by any institution or department
of the State of Alabama owning same, such institution or department shall...
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9-11-300
Section 9-11-300 Establishment. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, through
the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, is hereby authorized and directed
to establish by proclamation such wildlife management areas as may be in the public interest
and to enter into agreements with the United States Forest Service, the United States Bureau
of Biological Survey, the Tennessee Valley Authority or other owners, lessees or administrators
of such lands as may be necessary and suitable for the purpose of establishing wildlife management
areas. Such agreements shall provide for the fixing and demarcation of the boundaries of said
area or areas, define the responsibilities of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
and the cooperating party or parties for restocking of wildlife species, the planting and
cultivation of game and fish foods, the protection of such areas from predatory animals and
unauthorized hunting or fishing and any other work necessary...
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9-15-2
Section 9-15-2 Jurisdiction and control of unused lands; recommendations as to policy generally.
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall have jurisdiction over and control
of all unused lands, so long as they remain such, and shall look after and protect such lands
from depredation so far as may be possible and shall recommend to the Governor or to the department
or institution to which the use of said lands is devoted, from time to time, the policy to
be adopted in regard to said lands, which in its opinion will be most conducive to the interests
of the state or of the department or institution to which said lands belong or pertain. (Acts
1927, No. 635, p. 725, §5; Code 1940, T. 8, §223.)...
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