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9-16-91
Section 9-16-91 Surface effects of underground coal mining; requirements; remedies. (a) The
regulatory authority shall promulgate rules and regulations directed toward the surface effects
of underground coal mining operations, and embodying the following requirements. In adopting
any rules and regulations, the regulatory authority shall consider all distinct differences
between surface coal mining and underground coal mining. (b) Each permit issued pursuant to
this article and relating to underground coal mining shall require the operator to: (1) Adopt
measures consistent with available technology in order to prevent subsidence causing material
damage to the extent technologically and economically feasible, maximize mine stability, and
maintain the value and reasonably foreseeable use of such surface lands, except in those instances
where the mining methods used requires planned subsidence in a predictable and controlled
manner. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit...
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9-9-5
Section 9-9-5 Establishment of district - Jurisdiction generally; purposes. (a) The court of
probate of any county of the State of Alabama shall have jurisdiction, power and authority
to establish water management districts, as provided in this article for the following purposes:
(1) To locate and establish levees, drains or canals and to cause to be constructed, straightened,
widened or deepened any ditch, drain or watercourse; (2) To construct for the purposes of
flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization or disposal of water works
of improvement, including levees, embankments, floodwater retarding structures, water storage
structures, outlets and tide gates, flood gates and pumping plants for preventing floods,
providing drainage, reducing sediment and reclaiming wet, swamp or overflowed lands and other
related works of improvement that will carry out the purposes of this article; and (3) To
provide maintenance for such installations. (b) It is hereby declared...
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9-16-84
Section 9-16-84 Reclamation plans; contents. (a) Each reclamation plan submitted as part of
a permit application pursuant to the provisions of this article shall include, in the degree
of detail necessary to demonstrate that reclamation required can be accomplished, a statement
of: (1) The identification of the lands subject to surface coal mining operations over the
estimated life of those operations and the size, sequence, and timing of the sub-areas for
which it is anticipated that individual permits for mining will be sought; (2) The condition
of the land to be covered by the permit prior to any mining including: a. The uses existing
at the time of the application, and if the land has a history of previous mining, the uses
which preceded any mining; and b. The capability of the land prior to any mining to support
a variety of uses giving consideration to soil and foundation characteristics, topography,
and vegetative cover, and, if applicable, a soil survey prepared pursuant to...
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22-30D-3
Section 22-30D-3 Definitions. Unless otherwise defined in this chapter, the definitions of
terms included in Section 22-30-3 shall be applicable to this chapter. For the purposes of
this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) ABANDONED DRYCLEANING FACILITY.
Any real property premises or individual leasehold space located in this state owned by any
person in which a drycleaning facility or wholesale distribution facility formerly operated;
provided, however, that any owner or operator or wholesale distributor who shall have elected
not to be covered by the provisions of this chapter shall not be considered a person owning
or leasing such a facility for the purposes of this chapter. (2) ADJACENT LAND OWNER. Any
owner, lessor, or mortgagee of any real property onto which contamination from a drycleaning
facility, abandoned drycleaning facility, or wholesale distribution facility of any owner
or operator or wholesale distributor who shall have elected to be covered...
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33-18-1
Section 33-18-1 Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees
to the following interstate compact known as the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact:
Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact The States of Alabama and Georgia and the United
States of America hereby agree to the following compact which shall become effective upon
enactment of concurrent legislation by each respective state legislature and the Congress
of the United States. Short Title This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa
River Basin Compact" and shall be referred to hereafter in this document as the "ACT
Compact" or "compact." Article I Compact Purposes This compact among the States
of Alabama and Georgia and the United States of America has been entered into for the purposes
of promoting interstate comity, removing causes of present and future controversies, equitably
apportioning the surface waters of the ACT, engaging in water planning,...
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33-19-1
Section 33-19-1 Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact. The State of Alabama
hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint
River Basin Compact: Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact The States of Alabama,
Florida and Georgia and the United States of America hereby agree to the following compact
which shall become effective upon enactment of concurrent legislation by each respective state
legislature and the Congress of the United States. Short Title This Act shall be known and
may be cited as the "Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact" and shall
be referred to hereafter in this document as the "ACF Compact" or "compact."
Article I Compact Purposes This compact among the States of Alabama, Florida and Georgia and
the United States of America has been entered into for the purposes of promoting interstate
comity, removing causes of present and future controversies, equitably apportioning the...
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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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34-32-2
Section 34-32-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears
from the context, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. Alabama
Soil and Water Conservation Committee for the Registration of Professional Soil Classifiers.
(2) REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL SOIL CLASSIFIER. A person entitled under this chapter to take
and use the title. (3) SOIL CLASSIFICATION. The soil science evaluation of the nature, physio-chemical
properties, formation, taxonomic classification, and general land use suitability on the basis
of these parameters within a soil management criteria; it shall specifically include the mapping
and identification of surficial and subsurface soil profiles, and the soil management interpretation
of these data. Soil classification centers on soils as the biochemically weathered part of
the earth's crust, the collection of natural bodies on the earth's surface, supporting plants,
with a lower limit at the deeper of either the...
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9-10-5
Section 9-10-5 Powers and duties generally. The corporation organized and established under
this article shall have the following powers, subject only to the limitations described hereinafter:
(1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (2)
To adopt, use and alter a corporate seal which shall be judicially noticed; (3) To maintain
a principal office at a place named in its papers of incorporation and a suboffice or suboffices
at such places as it may deem necessary; (4) To enter into such contracts and cooperative
agreements with federal, state and local governments, with agencies of such governments, with
private individuals, corporations and associations and other organizations to do any act necessary
or incidental to the performance of its duties and execution of its powers under this article;
(5) To sue and be sued in its own name; (6) To enter into agreements with the United States
government or its agencies or political subdivisions...
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9-8-26
Section 9-8-26 Land-use regulations - Procedure for adoption; amendment, repeal, etc.; contents;
publication, etc. (a) The supervisors of any district shall have authority to formulate regulations
governing the use of lands within the district in the interest of conserving soil and soil
resources and preventing and controlling soil erosion. The supervisors may conduct such public
meetings and public hearings upon tentative regulations as may be necessary to assist them
in this work. The supervisors shall not have authority to enact such land-use regulations
into law until after they shall have caused due notice to be given of their intention to conduct
a referendum for submission of such regulations to the owners of lands lying within the boundaries
of the district for their indication of approval or disapproval of such proposed regulations
and until after the supervisors have considered the result of such referendum. The proposed
regulations shall be embodied in a proposed ordinance....
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