9-2-2
Section 9-2-2 Powers and duties generally. The general functions and duties of the Department
of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be as follows: (1) To protect, conserve, and increase
the wildlife of the state and to administer all laws relating to wildlife and the protection,
conservation, and increase thereof. (2) To make exploration, surveys, studies, and reports
concerning the wildlife, state parks and monuments and historical sites in the state and to
publish such thereof as will be of general interest. (3) To maintain, supervise, operate,
and control all state parks, monuments and historical sites, except Mound State Monument and
the First White House of the Confederacy; the serving and employing of attendants for all
monuments and historical sites located on state-owned property in the City of Montgomery shall
be performed by the Department of Finance. (4) To maintain, supervise, operate, and control
all state lands other than those specifically committed to the use or...
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9-12-113
Section 9-12-113 Licenses or permits for commercial fishing; net or seine permits. (a) Each
license or permit issued by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources or his
or her authorized agent shall state the name of the applicant. (1) If the applicant is a resident
of the State of Alabama, the applicant shall pay the following fees: a. One hundred dollars
($100) for commercial fishing. b. Three hundred dollars ($300) on each net or seine permit,
plus an additional five hundred dollars ($500) per permit for the taking of Roe Mullet and
Spanish Mackerel, as defined by regulation of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
c. One thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) for each purse seine license. (2) Nonresidents
shall pay the following fees: a. Two hundred dollars ($200) for commercial fishing. b. One
thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) for each net or seine permit, plus an additional two
thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per permit for the taking of...
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9-2-150
Section 9-2-150 Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board; oyster aquaculture leasing program. (a)
For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD.
The Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources. (3) OYSTER AQUACULTURE. The cultivation and harvesting of hatchery-spawned
oysters for commercial purposes. (b) There is created the Shellfish Aquaculture Review Board,
which shall be responsible for developing a shellfish aquaculture policy and implementing
a sustainable program for leasing land in the coastal waters of Alabama for oyster aquaculture.
For administrative purposes, the board shall be an administrative unit within the department.
(c) The board shall consist of the following members: (1) The Commissioner of the Alabama
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or his or her designee. (2) The Commissioner
of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries or his or her...
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9-2-4
Section 9-2-4 Powers and duties as to seafoods, etc. (a) The Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources shall have full jurisdiction and control of all seafoods existing or living
in the waters of Alabama and of all public and natural oyster reefs and oyster bottoms of
the State of Alabama, and it shall ordain, promulgate and enforce all rules, regulations and
orders deemed by it to be necessary for the protection, propagation or conservation of the
same. (b) The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources may by order duly made and
published prescribe the manner of taking or catching, the time when and designate the places
from which seafoods may or may not be taken or caught during certain periods of the year,
or entirely, as it may deem to be for the best interest of the seafood industry. (c) It shall
have full authority to prohibit the catching or taking of oysters from reefs designated by
it by order duly made and promulgated during the entire open season or any part...
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9-2-5
Section 9-2-5 Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Qualifications, appointment,
term of office, oath, and bond. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall
be headed by and shall be under the direction, supervision and control of an officer who shall
be known and designated as the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources. The Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be the advisor of the Governor and the Legislature
in matters relating to the wildlife and other natural resources and the state parks and monument
and historical sites of the State of Alabama and the discovery, development, protection and
conservation thereof. He shall be responsible to the Governor for the administration of the
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural
Resources shall be appointed and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor. Vacancies
for any reason shall be filled in the same manner as...
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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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9-15-37
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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9-15-54
Section 9-15-54 Release of sand for use in beach project. Notwithstanding any other provision
of this title, in the event a beach project to be undertaken by a coastal municipality as
permitted by the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources pursuant
to Section 9-15-56 requires the use of sand from the public water bottoms of the State of
Alabama, spoil sand from state-owned spoil sites, or spoil sand otherwise owned by the state,
or any combination of the sands, the commissioner, acting through the Lands Division of the
department, shall release to the coastal municipality for use in the beach project without
fee, cost, or charge those quantities of sand from those specified public water bottoms of
the State of Alabama, of spoil sand from those specified state-owned spoil sites, and of spoil
sand otherwise owned by the state as are identified in the beach project permit of the commissioner
issued pursuant to Section 9-15-56. No such sand shall be released,...
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9-17-61
Section 9-17-61 Authorization for leasing of certain state lands for exploration, development
and production - Lands of other state departments, institutions or agencies. The Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources, on behalf of the state, is hereby authorized, upon
the written request of the head of any state department, institution or agency, to lease any
land or interest therein owned by such department, institution or agency or in which such
department, institution or agency has the beneficial interest for the exploration, development
and production of oil, gas and other minerals or any one or more of them, on, in and under
such lands. (Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 158, p. 224, §2.)...
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9-2-120
Section 9-2-120 Supervision and development of certain state-owned islands. (a) It shall be
the duty and responsibility of the Division of Lands of the Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources to protect, develop and supervise all state-owned islands now existing or
which may appear in the future on the waters of this state which are not used by any department
or agency of the state government. The Division of Lands is authorized and empowered to develop
said islands in such manner as may be in the best interest of the state and is further empowered,
with the approval of the Governor, to sell or cause to be sold timber, minerals, sand and
gravel from said islands; provided, that such sales shall be only upon a competitive bid basis.
(b) On September 12, 1969, title to all islands as defined in subsection (a) of this section
shall be vested in the Division of Lands of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources,
and all revenues derived therefrom shall be deposited in...
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