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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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9-12-22
Section 9-12-22 Right of owners of land fronting public waters to plant and gather oysters.
All the beds and bottoms of the rivers, bayous, lagoons, lakes, bays, sounds and inlets within
the jurisdiction of the State of Alabama are the property of the State of Alabama to be held
in trust for the people thereof, but the owners of land fronting on such waters where oysters
may be grown shall have the right to plant and gather same in the waters in front of their
land to the distance of 600 yards from the shore measured from the average low water mark,
but where the distance from shore to shore is less than 1,200 yards, the owners of either
shore may plant and gather to a line equidistant between the two shores, but no person shall
plant in any natural channel so as to interfere with navigation. The respective owners shall
plant within lines extended into the water from points where the boundaries intersect the
shore, as nearly as practicable, with a mean width corresponding with their...
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2-6B-3
Section 2-6B-3 Nuisance exception requirements; evidence of nuisance. (a) A farm or farm operation
shall not be deemed to be or become a public or private nuisance for purposes of Section 6-5-127,
or any other law, or be deemed in violation of any municipal or county ordinance or resolution
heretofore or hereafter adopted declaring any farm or farm operation a public or private nuisance
other than zoning ordinances applicable thereto, if the farm or farm operation meets all of
the following requirements: (1) The owner of the land or a partner, officer, director, or
other principal thereof, does not act in a careless or wrongful manner, engage in the improper
operation of any farm or farm operation, or fail to act or perform a legal obligation. (2)
The owner of the land, or a partner, officer, director, or other principal thereof, resides
on the farm or actively participates in the operation of the farm, or leases the farm to a
person who resides on the farm or actively participates in...
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9-3-4
Section 9-3-4 Powers and duties generally. The functions and duties of the commission shall
be as follows: (1) To protect, conserve and increase the timber and forest resources of this
state and to administer all laws relating to timber and forestry and the protection, conservation
and increase of such resources; (2) To make exploration, surveys, studies and reports concerning
the timber and forest resources and to publish such thereof as will be of general interest;
(3) To maintain, supervise, operate and control all state forests; (4) To cooperate with and
enter into cooperative agreements and stipulations with the Secretary of Agriculture of the
United States or any other federal officer or department, board, bureau, commission, agency
or office thereunto authorized with respect to the protection of timbered and forest-producing
land from fire, insects and disease, the acquisition of forest lands to be developed, administered
and managed as state forests, the production, procurement...
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38-2-6
Section 38-2-6 Duties, powers, and responsibilities of state department. The aim of the state
department shall be the promotion of a unified development of welfare activities and agencies
of the state and of the local governments so that each agency and each governmental institution
shall function as an integral part of a general system. In order to carry out effectively
these aims, it shall be the duty and responsibility of the state department to: (1) Administer
or supervise all forms of public assistance including general home relief, outdoor and indoor
care for persons in need of assistance, also including those duties that have to do primarily
with the determination of need and authorization of relief. (2) Exercise all the powers, duties,
and responsibilities previously vested by law in the State Child Welfare Department. (3) Provide
services to county or municipal governments including the organization and supervision of
counties for the effective carrying out of welfare...
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22-22-9
Section 22-22-9 Powers and duties; enforcement of orders; permits; civil penalties for violations.
(a) It shall be the duty of the commission to control pollution in the waters of the state,
and it shall specifically have the following powers: (1) To study and investigate all problems
concerned with the improvement and conservation of the waters of the state; (2) To conduct,
independently and in cooperation with others, studies, investigation and research and to prepare,
or in cooperation with others prepare, a program or programs, any or all of which shall pertain
to the purity and conservation of the waters of the state or to the treatment and disposal
of pollutants or other wastes, which studies, investigations, research and program or programs
shall be intended to result in the reduction of pollution of the waters of the state according
to the conditions and particular circumstances existing in the various communities throughout
the state; and (3) To propose remedial measures...
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22-30-3
Section 22-30-3 Definitions. When used in this chapter and except where the context prohibits,
the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMISSION. The Environmental
Management Commission of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management as created by
Section 22-22A-6. (2) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management as created
by Section 22-22A-4. (3) DIRECTOR. The Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management. (4) DISPOSAL. The discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or
placing of any hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such hazardous waste or
any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged
into any waters, including ground waters. (5) HAZARDOUS WASTE. A solid waste, or combination
of solid wastes, which, because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious
characteristics may: a. Cause, or significantly contribute to,...
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33-12-5
Section 33-12-5 Powers, duties and functions. The powers, duties and functions of the agency
shall be as follows: (1) GENERALLY. The agency a. Shall have perpetual succession in its corporate
name. b. May sue and be sued in its corporate name. c. May adopt, use and alter a corporate
seal, which shall be judicially noticed. d. May enter into such contracts and cooperative
agreements with the federal, state and local governments, with agencies of such governments,
with private individuals, corporations, associations, trusts and other organizations as the
board may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purposes of this chapter,
including the planned, orderly residential development of the area. e. May adopt, amend and
repeal bylaws. f. May appoint such managers, officers, employees, attorneys and agents as
the board deems necessary for the transaction of its business, fix their compensation, define
their duties, require bonds of such of them as the board may...
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9-8-25
Section 9-8-25 Powers and duties of districts; performance of work on private lands; acquisition,
etc., of land by public bodies; exemption from taxation. (a) A soil and water conservation
district organized under this article shall constitute a governmental subdivision of this
state and a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public powers, and such district
and the supervisors thereof shall have the following powers, in addition to others granted
in other sections of this article: (1) To carry out preventive and control measures within
the district including, but not limited to, engineering operations, methods of cultivation,
the growing of vegetation, changes in use of land, and other erosion control measures on lands
owned or controlled by this state or any of its agencies with the consent and cooperation
of the agency administering and having jurisdiction thereof and on any other lands within
the district upon obtaining the consent of the owner of such lands or the...
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41-23-82
Section 41-23-82 Creation; composition; purpose; supervision. (a) The Alabama Energy and Residential
Codes Board is established. (b) The board shall consist of 15 members appointed by the Governor
and two additional members, numbered 16 and 17, appointed by the Chair of the Permanent Joint
Legislative Committee on Energy Policy. The members appointed by the Governor shall be legal
residents of the state, and shall be selected on the basis of their representation of the
following organizations, industries, entities, and professions: (1) One member shall represent
the Home Builders Association. (2) One member shall represent the Board of General Contractors.
(3) One member shall represent the State Board of Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration.
(4) One member shall represent the private, investor-owned, electric utility industry. (5)
One member shall represent the rural electric cooperative industry. (6) One member shall represent
the natural gas industry. (7) One member shall be...
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