9-15-44
Section 9-15-44 Exchanges of school lands. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is hereby authorized to exchange school lands for other lands of equal value, with the approval of the Governor and the State Superintendent of Education. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall have the title to the land to be received by the state examined; and, if in his opinion said title is without defect, he shall so certify to the Governor and, provided the Governor and the State Superintendent of Education approve, the Governor shall cause patents to be issued to those exchanging said lands. Such patent shall vest a fee simple title in the grantee named therein. The title to the land received in exchange for school land shall be in the State of Alabama in trust for the use of schools and shall be classified as school land as defined by law. (Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §12; Code 1940, T. 8, §244.)...
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9-15-41
Section 9-15-41 Sales of school lands - Authorized. School land, as defined by Section 16-20-1, may be sold or exchanged for other lands by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources with the approval of the Governor and the State Superintendent of Education under the terms and conditions provided for in this article. (Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §10; Code 1940, T. 8, §242.)...
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9-15-42
Section 9-15-42 Sales of school lands - Issuance of patents to purchasers. All persons purchasing said lands shall be entitled to a patent to said lands, and the Governor of Alabama, if he deems advisable, when presented with the approval of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources and the State Superintendent of Education shall cause patents to be issued to those purchasing said lands. Such patent shall vest a fee simple title in the grantee named therein. (Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §11; Code 1940, T. 8, §243.)...
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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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16-20-6
Section 16-20-6 When title acquired by adverse possession. When a person is in possession of any sixteenth section lands under color of title, and has been in such possession for more than 20 years prior to the first day of May, 1908, and neither the state, nor any department thereof, holds any note, bond, obligation or other contract of anyone for the purchase money of such land, and the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Director of Finance shall so certify, and the Attorney General shall certify that proof of adverse possession, by the person now in possession, or coupled with his predecessor in possession, for 20 years prior to May 1, 1908, under color of title, has been made, which proof is satisfactory to the Attorney General. The Governor must cause a patent to issue to said land under the seal of the state to the person entitled thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, if the Attorney General is satisfied with...
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40-10-137
Section 40-10-137 Conveyance to Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of land bid in by state - Procedure. Any lands which have been bid in by the state at tax sale shall, after three years have elapsed from the date of sale to the state and no person having any interest therein having redeemed same from tax sale, be subject to conveyance to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the manner hereinafter provided: (1) Whenever the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall determine any lands which have been bid in by the state at tax sale and the title to which has not passed out of the state, to be suitable or desirable for the use of the said Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, either for the purpose of being used as a state park, state forest, or for the purpose of exchange for other lands of equal value, which are determined to be suitable for said purposes, or for any other use or disposition which the Department of Conservation...
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36-14-11
Section 36-14-11 Acts and resolutions of Legislature - Distribution to departments, officers, courts, etc.; electronic storage and distribution. (a) The Secretary of State shall retain for the use of the executive offices and the two houses of the Legislature the number of copies of all volumes of the acts and resolutions of each session necessary to provide for distribution pursuant to law. The Secretary of State shall transmit to the Department of State of the United States two copies of each volume, and distribute to the Governor, Treasurer, Auditor, Superintendent of Education, Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, State Health Officer, Adjutant General, the Department of Corrections, President and each Associate Commissioner of the Public Service Commission, Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, Department of Revenue, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives two copies of each volume, to the Attorney General...
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9-2-3
Section 9-2-3 Powers and duties as to state parks and parkways, etc. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, for the purpose of establishing, developing and maintaining state parks and parkways, may acquire land by donation, purchase, condemnation or lease and for these purposes may use such funds as may be available to it and not otherwise obligated and may enter into agreements with the federal government or other agencies for acquiring by lease, purchase or otherwise such lands as in its judgment are desirable for state parks or parkways. As to the purchase of lands, such agreements may provide for a division of the payments over a period of years, in which case the payments may be secured by mortgage; provided, that no liability shall attach to the State of Alabama or any of its departments, boards, bureaus or commissions or any member or official thereof if the security specifically given in any such mortgage is insufficient to pay said mortgage at a forced sale or...
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40-10-138
Section 40-10-138 Conveyance to Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of land bid in by state - Deed to department. When lands are required to be conveyed to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, as hereinabove provided, the Land Commissioner, in behalf of the state, with the approval of the Governor, shall execute to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, a deed, duly acknowledged, without warranty or covenant of any kind on the part of the state, express or implied, conveying to the said Department of Conservation and Natural Resources all the right, title, and interest of the state in and to the lands so conveyed. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall thereafter have all the right, title, and interest of the state in and to such lands and shall be held and treated as the assignee of all the taxes due upon such lands or for which they were sold and the penalties and all of the taxes that should have been under the law...
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40-10-139
Section 40-10-139 Conveyance to Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of land bid in by state - Notice to former owner of intended conveyance. Whenever it is determined by the Land Commissioner that it is to the best interest of the state to convey to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources the title of any lands which have been bid in at tax sale and which remain unredeemed, he may, on his own motion and without application being filed by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, issue notice to the former owner or some person having an interest in such land, in the same manner as heretofore provided for in cases where application for conveyance has been filed by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; and, if such lands are not redeemed within the time so fixed, the same shall, upon approval of the Governor, be conveyed to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the same manner as if application for such conveyance had...
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