45-29-90.11
Section 45-29-90.11 Regulation of zoning, planning, and construction. For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, environment order, prosperity, and general welfare, all power and authority regarding zoning and planning within the management area is hereby vested in the board of directors of the authority. As described herein, no regulated activity shall commence without the applicant having first obtained a land use certificate as issued by the authority. (1) The board is authorized to regulate the planning, zoning, and construction within the management area of all activity involving public streets, public roads, subdivisions, drainage structures in subdivisions, mobile home parks, residential and commercial developments, apartments, recreation parks, coal mining, gas/oil and methane exploration and development, excavation, and logging. The board is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce such ordinances as shall be necessary to implement any development...
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11-48-16
Section 11-48-16 Manner of assessment of costs of improvements generally - Sewers, swamp drainage, seawalls, levees, etc. (a) When the improvement consists of a sanitary or storm water sewer or sewers or a sanitary or storm water sewer system, including sewage treatment or sewage disposal plants, the cost of any part thereof may be assessed in fair proportion against the frontage of the property drained by said sewer system or against all the lots or parcels of land lying within the district drained, served, or benefited, but the assessment shall not exceed the increased value of such property by reason of the special benefits derived from the improvement. (b) When the improvement consists of the draining of swamps or the elevating, filling, reclamation, or draining of submerged, inundated, or overflowed land, then the council shall have the power and authority, after the completion and acceptance of such improvement, to assess the cost thereof or any part thereof upon or against the...
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22-38-2
Section 22-38-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meaning: (1) COMMITTEE. The Alabama State Soil and Water Conservation Committee. (2) COST-SHARE FUNDS or COST-SHARE GRANTS. Any federal financial assistance for landusers received by the department or other state agencies to support implementation of agricultural nonpoint source pollution control. Such funds shall include federal match and nonfederal match funds. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management. (4) LANDUSER. Any person, individual, partnership, company, corporation or other legal entity who qualifies for the receipt of cost-share funds from the Alabama state soil and water conservation committee in accordance with all applicable rules, regulations or practices. (5) PLAN. The state nonpoint source management program for the control of discharges of pollution from nonpoint sources to waters of the state and for improving the quality of...
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9-8-21
Section 9-8-21 Legislative findings; declaration of policy. (a) It is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination: (1) That the farm, forest and grazing lands of the State of Alabama are among the basic assets of the state and that the preservation of these lands is necessary to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of its people; (2) That improper land-use practices have caused and have contributed to, and are now causing and contributing to, a progressively more serious erosion of the farm, forest and grazing lands of this state by wind and water; (3) That the consequences of such soil erosion are the silting and sedimentation of stream channels, reservoirs, dams, ditches and harbors, the loss of fertile soil material, the reduction in productivity or outright ruin of rich bottom lands by overwash of poor subsoil material, sand and gravel and the deterioration of soil and its fertility; and (4) That to conserve soil resources and control and prevent...
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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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9-10B-5
Section 9-10B-5 Functions and duties of Office of Water Resources. The general functions and duties of the Office of Water Resources shall be as follows: (1) To develop long-term strategic plans for the use of the waters of the state by conducting and participating in water resource studies and by administering the laws established by this chapter and regulations promulgated hereunder; (2) Acting through the commission, to adopt and promulgate rules, regulations, and standards for the purposes of this chapter, and to develop policy for the state regarding the waters of the state; (3) To implement quantitative water resource programs and projects for the coordination, conservation, development, management, use, and understanding of the waters of the state; (4) To serve as a repository for data regarding the waters of the state; (5) To, at its discretion, study, analyze, and evaluate in coordination with, or with the assistance of, other agencies of the state, the federal government, any...
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33-15-6
Section 33-15-6 Powers, duties and functions generally. The general powers, duties and functions of the authority shall be as follows: (1) GENERAL. The authority: a. Shall have perpetual succession in its corporate name; b. May bring civil actions and have civil actions brought against it 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 federal, state and local governments, with agencies of such governments and with private individuals, corporations, associations and other organizations, including the Bear Creek Watershed Association, Inc., whether organized under the laws of Alabama or of another state, as the board may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purposes of this article, which authorization shall include without limitation contracts and cooperative arrangements with any of the several states and with counties and municipalities in...
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45-9-91.20
Section 45-9-91.20 Establishment and designation; services; regulation of industrial parks. (a) Subject to the written approval of the owners of 100 percent in interest based on assessed value for ad valorem tax purposes of each 10 acres, or the part thereof to be included in the proposed industrial park, the County Commission of Chambers County in the State of Alabama may establish industrial parks composed of territory wholly within the county boundaries and without the boundaries of any municipality. Any person, firm, or corporation who desires to obtain a designation of an area as an industrial park shall file a petition with the county commission of the county wherein the property is located requesting that the county commission designate the area proposed as an industrial park, and include with such petition the consent of the land owners as above required. The consent of each consenting owner shall be acknowledged before a notary public or other person authorized to take...
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11-48-4
Section 11-48-4 General powers of municipalities as to public improvements. All cities or towns in this state may design or cause to be designed, contract for and execute or cause to be executed a contract for the construction of the following named improvements or reimprovements to the streets or any portions thereof and the following named sewers or sewer systems and the following named water and gas mains and service connections. All cities or towns in this state having a population of 60,000 inhabitants or more according to the most recent federal census may design or cause to be designed, contract for and execute or cause to be executed a contract for the construction of the following named drainage improvements or drainage systems or reclamation systems and the filling in of swamps or inundated or overflowed or submerged lands within the limits of such municipality. All cities or towns in this state may design or cause to be designed, contract for and execute or cause to be...
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22-27-47
Section 22-27-47 Local plans required. (a) Each county and any municipality as described below shall submit to the department, within one and one-half years of May 16, 1989, a plan for the management of solid waste generated within its boundaries. A county's plan shall include the municipal jurisdictions within its boundaries except that any municipality may choose to submit its own solid waste management plan intended for implementation within its city limits and thereby be excluded from its county plan. Cities which do not choose to exclude themselves from their county's plan shall be responsible to share in the county's costs proportionately on a per capita basis. The content of all plans shall be consistent with the requirements of this article and every plan shall not become final until it has been officially adopted and approved pursuant to the requirements of this article. In the event a county or city does not submit a required plan or if said plan does not meet the minimum...
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