9-15-46
Section 9-15-46 Issuance of patents to purchasers of swamp and overflowed lands. All persons
purchasing said lands shall be entitled to a patent to said lands, and the Governor of Alabama,
when presented with the approval of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources
and State Department of Mental Health, 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, §15; Code 1940, T. 8, §247.)...
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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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9-15-48
Section 9-15-48 Claims of title to swamp and overflowed lands. All persons claiming title to
any swamp and overflowed lands in this state under any alleged purchase or through any chain
of title may submit their claims to the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources
together with such evidence of purchase or claim, whereupon the Commissioner of Conservation
and Natural Resources shall have such claim examined and investigated as he may see fit; and,
if it is found that the state has parted with its title to such lands in a legal and effective
way, the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall so determine and shall certify
same to the Governor and the State Department of Mental Health; but, if the Commissioner of
Conservation and Natural Resources shall determine that the state has not parted with its
title to such lands in a legal or effective way but that equity and justice shall be better
served by a settlement with the claimant, he is hereby empowered to...
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33-1-18
Section 33-1-18 Sales of submerged lands and made lands lying under or abutting tidal waters.
(a) The Director of the Alabama State Port Authority is vested with power and authority to
obtain and negotiate a sale of any submerged lands and made lands claimed or owned by the
state, which lands are under or were formerly under any of the tidal waters of the State of
Alabama, or which lands abut such tidal waters; provided, however, that if such lands abut
or adjoin in whole or in part any uplands then no such sale shall be made to any purchaser
other than the owner of such uplands, except a sale of so much of said land as may be used
and occupied by such purchaser without interfering with the riparian rights appurtenant to
such uplands, unless the owner of such uplands relinquishes such rights by appropriate instrument
made in connection with such sale; and except that such sales may be made to a public body
of the submerged or made land upon which docks or wharves have been constructed...
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9-15-31
Section 9-15-31 Management and supervision of school lands, swamp and overflowed lands, etc.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is hereby expressly authorized and
empowered to have complete management of, and supervision over lands which are known as school
lands, as defined by Section 16-20-1, which lands are vested in or which may hereafter be
vested in the State of Alabama in trust for the use of schools, lands which are known as swamp
and overflowed lands, which are now or which may hereafter be owned by the State of Alabama,
the Salt Springs Lands reservation and any lands that may have been or may be deeded to the
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources by the Director of the Department of Revenue
and of all papers, documents and records relating thereto, except those which are required
by law to be kept in the office of the Secretary of State. (Acts 1915, No. 76, p. 217, §1;
Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §1; Code 1940, T. 8, §232.)...
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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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9-15-30
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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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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9-15-45
Section 9-15-45 Leases, exchanges or sales of swamp and overflowed lands. Swamp and overflowed
lands may be leased, exchanged or sold by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources
with the approval of the State Department of Mental Health. (Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §14;
Code 1940, T. 8, §246.)...
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9-15-47
Section 9-15-47 Disposition of revenue from sales, etc., of swamp and overflowed lands. Any
revenue derived from the sale or adjustment of any swamp and overflowed lands as provided
in this article shall be paid by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources to
the State Department of Mental Health. (Acts 1939, No. 581, p. 949, §17; Code 1940, T. 8,
§249.)...
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