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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9-15-15
Section 9-15-15 Disposition of revenues from unused lands managed by department; charges for
administration, protection, mapping, etc. Any revenues that shall accrue from the lands so
managed by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources subject to costs of administration
shall be the property of the department or institution to which the lands belong or in which
the department or institution shall own the beneficial interest. If the land shall be owned
absolutely by the State of Alabama, and shall consist of submerged land, the revenue from
the use of the land, with the exception of offshore oil and gas capital payments and sand
and gravel royalties, shall become a part of the State Lands Fund of the Lands Division of
the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of the State of Alabama. In all other
cases, however, the reasonable cost of administering, managing, protecting, mapping, surveying,
cruising, or developing any unused lands shall be a charge against the...
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9-15-72
Section 9-15-72 Lands Division responsible for selling or leasing property. Each department,
board, bureau, commission, institution, corporation, or agency which holds real property shall
notify the Lands Division of the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources of
its desire and intention to sell or lease any of the real property and shall provide such
information as may be specified by the Lands Division. The Lands Division shall be responsible
for obtaining the appraisal, deed, and other documents needed for selling or leasing the property
under this article and for handling the closing of the sale or lease. No sale or lease involving
an amount of more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) shall be divided into smaller parcels
involving less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for avoiding the requirements of this
article. (Acts 1995, No. 95-280, p. 507, §3; Act 2000-685, p. 1390, §1.)...
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9-15-77
Section 9-15-77 Payment of expenses by department, board, bureau, etc., selling or leasing
property; payment of fee to Lands Division. The expenses of the appraisal and contemplated
sale or lease shall be paid by the department, board, bureau, commission, institution, corporation,
or agency offering the property for sale. The Lands Division of the state Department of Conservation
and Natural Resources shall receive a fee in reimbursement of its actual expenses for administering
the sale of real property under this article. The fee shall be disbursed to the Lands Division
in the final disposition of the funds received from the sale of the property. (Acts 1995,
No. 95-280, p. 507, §8.)...
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9-15-10
Section 9-15-10 Notice, etc., of change in status, disposition or acquisition of used and unused
lands. (a) If at any future time any institution or department of the State of Alabama shall
deem it advisable to make use of any unused land owned by it, it shall notify the Land Agent,
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, who shall place said land on the "used
land" list, and should any institution or department of the State of Alabama abandon
the use to which any "used land" is then being put, it shall notify the Land Agent,
Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, of such abandonment and the land shall be
reclassified on records in the office of the Land Agent, Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources, as "unused land." (b) Should any land owned by any institution or department
of the State of Alabama be leased, sold or otherwise disposed of by any institution or department
of the State of Alabama owning same, such institution or department shall...
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9-15-14
Section 9-15-14 Duty to determine best use for which unused lands may be adapted; use of same
for purpose for which suited. It shall be the duty of the Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources as to all unused lands owned by the State of Alabama or any institution or department
thereof to determine the best use to which said lands may be adapted and, thereafter, at the
request of the department or institution having title to or an interest in or charged by law
with the management of such lands and with the approval of the Governor, the Commissioner
of Conservation and Natural Resources then shall have authority to use such lands for the
purpose for which they are suited, and said lands shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction,
management and control of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources; provided,
that the lands donated to or purchased by the state to be used as the Fort Morgan Parkway
from Fort Morgan to Gulf Shores, now a part of the Dixie Graves Highway,...
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9-14-4
Section 9-14-4 Construction, maintenance, etc., of roads leading from state highways to lands
in state park system. The State Department of Transportation is hereby authorized and empowered
upon the request of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources to construct, reconstruct
and maintain roads leading from a state highway to any land included in the state park system.
The State Director of Transportation shall confer with the Commissioner of Conservation and
Natural Resources before deciding upon the location and character of any such improvement.
The State Department of Transportation is hereby authorized and empowered, upon the request
of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, to construct, reconstruct and maintain
roads within the boundary of any land or lands included in the state park system. The construction
and reconstruction of such roads shall be in accordance with the development plan for the
said land or lands as approved by the Commissioner...
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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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9-15-78
Section 9-15-78 Bids to be publicly taken by director; notice; bids to become public record.
The bids shall be publicly taken or opened in Montgomery or such other place as may be designated
by the Lands Division, in case of sealed bids, by the Director of the Lands Division of the
state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources or his or her designee and the department,
board, bureau, commission, institution, corporation, or agency selling the property may have
a representative present. When a sale or lease is to be made, notice shall be given to the
highest bidder within 30 days after taking the bids of the state's acceptance of his or her
bid and of the state's intention to sell or lease the property to him or her. The bid of the
successful bidder so marked, as well as the bids of the unsuccessful bidders in the case of
sealed bids, shall be placed on file open to public inspection and shall become matters of
public record. (Acts 1995, No. 95-280, p. 507, §9.)...
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9-17-68
Section 9-17-68 Revenues from leases - Disposition. The revenues that shall accrue under the
provisions of this division from rentals, royalties and all other sources subject to the cost
of administration shall be the property of the department or institution to which said lands
belong or in which said department or institution shall own the beneficial interest. All revenue
accruing from the lease of the bed of any navigable streams, waterways, bays, estuaries, lagoons,
bayous, lakes and any submerged lands in the Gulf of Mexico within the historic seaward boundary
of this state, subject to the cost of administration, shall be paid by the Commissioner of
Conservation and Natural Resources to the State Treasurer to become a part of the General
Funds of the State of Alabama. The Division of Lands of the Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources shall be entitled to 10 percent of all revenues, including royalty, bonus
and rentals, derived under the provisions of this division as...
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