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9-17-24
Section 9-17-24 Notification requirement; hearing; fees; Alabama Oil and Gas Board Special
Fund. (a) Any person desiring or proposing to drill any well in search of oil or gas or any
person proposing to drill a Class II injection well as defined in the Federal Safe Drinking
Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300f et seq., before commencing the drilling of any such well, shall
notify the State Oil and Gas Supervisor upon the form as the State Oil and Gas Supervisor
may prescribe and shall pay to the State Treasurer a fee of three hundred dollars ($300) for
each well. The drilling of any well is hereby prohibited until notice is given and the fee
has been paid as herein provided. The State Oil and Gas Supervisor shall have the power and
authority to prescribe that the form indicate the exact location of the well, the name and
address of the owner, operator, contractor, driller, and any other person responsible for
the conduct of drilling operations, the proposed depth of the well, the elevation of...
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9-8A-7
Section 9-8A-7 Eligible soil and water conservation practices. The following soil and water
conservation practices shall be eligible for cost-share grants of the allocated funds: (1)
REDUCED TILLAGE SYSTEMS. Reduced tillage practices, used in conjunction with row crop production
to reduce sediment damage and soil depletion caused by wind or water, including planting of
seasonal noncash cover crops. (2) NO-TILL SYSTEMS. A form of noninversion tillage that retains
protective amounts of residue on the surface throughout the year. (3) CRITICAL AREA PLANTINGS.
stablishment of vegetative planting to control sediment movement from severely eroding areas
by stabilizing the soil. These plantings would include vegetation such as trees, shrubs, vines,
grasses or legumes. (4) DIVERSIONS. A channel with a supporting ridge on the lower side constructed
across the slope to conduct excess runoff water to a suitable outlet. (5) FIELD WINDBREAKS.
A strip or belt of trees or shrubs established within or...
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25-9-84
Section 25-9-84 Coursing of air. (a) Two available openings to the surface are required from
each seam or stratum of coal worked. In drift or slope mines, such openings provided after
August 12, 1949, must be separated by not less than 40 feet of natural strata, and all crosscuts
between them shall be closed with stoppings of fireproof material. In shaft mines, such openings
provided after August 12, 1949, must be separated by not less than 200 feet of natural strata.
The second opening may be made through an adjoining mine. Until these provisions are met,
not over five men in a drift, 10 men in a slope, and 20 men in a shaft shall work in the mine
at one time, and no additional development shall be permitted until the connection is made
to the second opening. In mines wherein final pillar robbing operations necessitate closing
the second opening, the above limitations as to the number of men permitted to work will apply
until the mine is worked out and abandoned. (b) Both openings...
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25-9-230
Section 25-9-230 Face equipment. (a) The cutter chains of mining machines shall be locked securely
at all times except when the machine is cutting, the chain is being oiled or tested after
repairs, or when the chain is moved to spot bits. (1) When the chain is being oiled or tested
after repairs, an operator must be at the controls ready to stop movement of the chain instantly.
When the chain is being oiled, the bar must be free of the kerf and of material that might
cause it to deflect, the person oiling must position himself before the chain is started,
the chain must run in reverse and slowly and must be stopped and the lock replaced immediately
after oiling is completed. Oiling devices or other methods that do not expose a workman to
hazard from the moving chain may be used. (2) When the chain is moved to spot bits, all persons
must be in the clear of the bar and the lock must be replaced after the chain is moved and
before the bits are spotted. (3) When the chain is operated to...
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11-51-90.2
Section 11-51-90.2 Purchase of business license; classification of taxpayers; vehicle decals;
determination of gross receipts; construction with other provisions. (a) Every taxpayer required
to purchase a business license under this chapter shall: (1) Purchase a business license for
each location at which it does business in the municipality, except as otherwise provided
by the municipality. (2) Except as provided in Section 11-51-193, with respect to taxpayers
subject to state licensing board oversight, be classified into one or more of the following
2002 North American Industrial Classification System ("NAICS") sectors and applicable
sub-sectors, industry groups, industries, and U.S. industries thereunder: SECTOR NAICS TITLE
SUGGESTED BUSINESS LICENSE CODE GROUPING BY SAMPLE TOPIC OR CATEGORY BASIS FOR LICENSE CALCULATION
111 Crop Production Agriculture, farming, nursery, fruit, growers Gross Receipts and/or Flat
Rate 112 Animal Production Animal, dairy, cattle, ranching, sheep,...
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9-16-106
Section 9-16-106 Provisions cumulative; certain laws not repealed. This article is cumulative
and is intended to preempt local, municipal, county and state regulation of surface coal mining
operations and to supplement existing state law and no part hereof shall be construed to repeal
or supersede an existing state law specifically enacted for the control, abatement or prevention
of water or air pollution. The Alabama Surface Mining Act of 1969 (Act 399, Regular Session
1969) now appearing as Sections 9-16-1 through 9-16-15, is not repealed as to the regulation
of the surface mining of clay, sand, gravel, ores, limestone, marble, dolomite, and other
minerals. The Little River Canyon Preservation Acts, Act 227, H. 49 and Act 524, H. 1225 of
the 1976 Regular Session (Acts of Alabama pages 243 and 669 respectively) are not repealed.
All other laws or parts of laws which are inconsistent with this article are hereby repealed.
(Acts 1981, No. 81-435, p. 682, §38.)...
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9-16-88
Section 9-16-88 Permits - Review and appeal of applications. (a) At the time of submission
of an application for a surface coal mining and reclamation permit, or revision of an existing
permit, pursuant to the provisions of this article, the applicant shall submit to the regulatory
authority a copy of his advertisement of the ownership, precise location, and boundaries of
the land to be affected. At the time of submission such advertisement shall be placed by the
applicant in a local newspaper of general circulation in the locality of the proposed surface
mine at least once a week for four consecutive weeks. The regulatory authority shall notify
various local governmental bodies, planning agencies, and sewage and water treatment authorities
or water companies in the locality in which the proposed surface mining will take place, notifying
them of the operator's intention to surface mine a particularly described tract of land and
indicating the application's permit number and where a...
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9-16-97
Section 9-16-97 Water rights. (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed as affecting in
any way the right of any person to enforce or protect, under applicable law, his interest
in water resources affected by a surface coal mining operation. (b) The operator of a surface
coal mine shall replace the water supply of an owner of interest in real property who obtains
all or part of his supply of water for domestic, agricultural, industrial, or other legitimate
use from an underground or surface source where such supply has been affected by contamination,
diminution, or interruption proximately resulting from such surface coal mine operation. (Acts
1981, No. 81-435, p. 682, §29.)...
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40-13-82
Section 40-13-82 (Repealed effective August 1, 2019) Levy and collection of tax; disposition
of funds; penalties. (a) There is levied an additional excise and privilege tax on every person
severing coal or lignite in this state in the amount of two and one-half cents ($0.025) per
ton of coal or lignite severed by underground mining, and five cents ($0.05) per ton of coal
or lignite severed by surface mining, except the maximum tonnage on which the severance tax
is levied against a person and a person's affiliates shall not in the aggregate exceed two
million tons per year. (b) The tax levied by this section shall be collected by the State
Department of Revenue and shall be deposited in a special fund in the State Treasury to be
used exclusively for the operation of the Surface Mining Commission. Monies in the fund are
continuously appropriated to the commission and no money in the fund shall revert to the State
Treasury at the end of a fiscal year. (c) Any person who fails to comply...
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9-16-122
Section 9-16-122 Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund. (a) There is hereby created in the State
Treasury a special fund to be called the State Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund which shall
receive all state and federal appropriations, grants and donations, and all other moneys available
for the purposes of this article, and such funds are hereby appropriated and made exclusively
available to be used as provided by this article and for the purposes herein stated. All fund
sources shall be separately accounted for. (b) Moneys in the fund may be used for the following
purposes: (1) Reclamation and restoration of land and water resources adversely affected by
past coal mining, including but not limited to reclamation and restoration of abandoned surface
mine areas, abandoned coal processing areas, and abandoned coal refuse disposal areas; sealing
and filling abandoned deep mine entries and voids, planting of land adversely affected by
past coal mining to prevent erosion and sedimentation;...
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