9-17-6
Section 9-17-6 Oil and Gas Board - Powers and duties generally. (a) The board shall have jurisdiction
and authority over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce effectively
the provisions of this article and all other articles relating to the conservation of oil
and gas. (b) The board shall have the authority and it shall be its duty to make such inquiries
as it may think proper to determine whether or not waste, over which it has jurisdiction,
exists or is imminent. In the exercise of such power the board shall have the authority to
perform the following: (1) Collect data. (2) Make investigation and inspection. (3) Examine
properties, leases, papers, books, and records, including drilling records, logs, and other
geological and geophysical data. (4) Examine, check, test, and gauge oil and gas wells, tanks,
plants, processing facilities, structures, natural gas pipelines and gathering lines, and
storage and transportation equipment and facilities, and other modes...
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40-20-12
Section 40-20-12 Exemption from ad valorem taxes. (a) All oil or gas produced, all leases in
production, including mineral rights in producing properties, and all oil or gas under the
ground on producing properties within the State of Alabama shall be exempt from all ad valorem
taxes now levied or hereafter levied by the State of Alabama or by any county or municipality.
No additional assessment shall be added to the surface value of such lands by the presence
of oil or gas thereunder or its production therefrom. (b) For the purpose of this article,
the area of a lease or leases, including oil and gas rights considered to be in production,
or the area of any other producing property considered to be in production, shall include
an oil or gas drilling unit as established by the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama and shall
be exempt from ad valorem taxation because of production from any one well. (Acts 1945, No.
2, p. 20, §12; Acts 1957, No. 600, p. 859.)...
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9-11-190
Section 9-11-190 Catching of nongame fish from public waters by use of wire baskets - When,
where and how permitted. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is hereby
authorized and empowered to promulgate rules and regulations authorizing the taking, catching
or killing of nongame fish from the public waters of this state by the use of wire baskets
having a mesh of one inch or more; provided, however, that the Commissioner of Conservation
and Natural Resources shall only promulgate such a regulation upon the written petition of
all of the state representatives and state senators from the county or counties in which said
regulation or regulations shall be effective. Petitions from state representatives and state
senators as provided for above shall specify whether the wire baskets they desire shall have
a mesh of one inch or two inches. No regulation shall be promulgated allowing the use of wire
baskets in Lewis M. Smith reservoir on the Sipsey fork of the Warrior River...
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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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9-17-152
Section 9-17-152 Board approval; recordation of order; certificate of effectiveness; dissolution
of fields and units; determination of commercial reserves; creation of cavities. (a) The use
of an underground reservoir as a storage facility for gas is hereby authorized, provided that
the board shall first enter an order, after notice and hearing pursuant to the provisions
of Sections 9-17-3 to 9-17-8, inclusive, approving such proposed underground storage of gas
and designating the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the storage facility, such boundaries
to include within them any necessary or reasonable buffer zone for the purpose of insuring
the safe operation of the storage facility and to protect the storage facility against pollution,
invasion, and escape or migration of gas therefrom, upon finding as follows: (1) That the
storage facility is suitable and feasible for the injection, storage and withdrawal of gas
and has a greater value or utility for the storage of gas than for...
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9-2-130
Section 9-2-130 Created; appointment and duties of agent. Within the Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources and under the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, there
is hereby created the office of Land Agent, whose duties will be to compile a record of all
lands owned by the State of Alabama or any department or institution of the state. The said
agent shall be selected by said Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources as other
employees of his department are selected. (Acts 1945, No. 341, p. 554, §1.)...
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9-2-8
Section 9-2-8 Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Promulgation of rules and
regulations as to game, fish and seafood; publication and distribution of laws, etc. The Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources is authorized to make and promulgate such reasonable
rules and regulations not in conflict with the provisions of the game and fish laws as he
may deem for the best interest of the conservation, protection and propagation of wild game,
birds, animals, fish and seafoods, which rules and regulations shall have the effect of law;
provided, that the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall not have the right
to make or promulgate any rules or regulations which will hamper industry or which will interfere
with the operation of any industrial plant or plants or any industrial operation. The Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources shall not have the right to make or promulgate any rules
or regulations which will hamper or interfere with...
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11-50-212
Section 11-50-212 Implementation of article. Each municipality and public gas corporation is
hereby further authorized to enter into any agreements and to execute any instruments which
their respective governing bodies may deem necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate
the transfer and conveyance of a gas system pursuant to the provisions of this article. (Acts
1975, No. 1212, §3.)...
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40-17-152
Section 40-17-152 Authority of commissioner to adopt rules and regulations. The commissioner
is hereby authorized to adopt, promulgate, and enforce reasonable rules and regulations as
herein before provided for and such other reasonable rules and regulations relating to the
administration and enforcement of the provisions of this article, not in conflict with the
specific provisions hereof, as he may deem advisable. (Acts 1961, No. 674, p. 925, §14.)...

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