9-10A-6
Section 9-10A-6 Petition to form authority. When 25 or more residents, who are 18 years of
age or older, within each county located on a defined watershed desire to form a watershed
management authority, said residents shall file a petition with the board of supervisors of
the soil and water conservation district in which said proposed authority lies. Such petition
shall define the boundaries of the proposed watershed management authority, the number of
acres of land involved, reasons for requesting creation of such authority, the proposed name
for such watershed management authority and other information pertinent to such proposal.
The proposed name of a proposed watershed management authority shall not be the same as, or
deceptively similar to, the name of any other watershed management authority. The proposed
name shall include references to the geographic features of the area encompassing the watershed
management authority. (Acts 1991, No. 91-602, p. 1119, §6.)...
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9-8A-3
Section 9-8A-3 Commission - Members and officers; terms of office; vacancies; compensation
and expenses; meetings; quorum; record of proceedings; copies of proceedings as evidence;
members and officers not personally liable. (a) The members of the commission shall consist
of the Governor; the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries; the President of the Alabama
Farmers Federation; the President of the Alabama Cattlemen's Association; the Chair of the
State Soil and Water Conservation Committee; a member of the Alabama Forestry Commission designated
by the Governor; the President of the Alabama Association of Conservation Districts; and two
citizens of the state of good reputation who are active farmers or timberland owners or involved
in environmental protection appointed by the Governor. Each voting member of the commission,
except the two citizens appointed by the Governor, may appoint a designee to represent him
or her at all commission meetings. The members of the commission may...
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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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9-10-1
Section 9-10-1 Establishment of state agency authorized and directed. In the interest of water
conservation and land irrigation in that portion of Alabama known as the State of Alabama
and for purposes of cooperation with any water authority or agency or any river area development
authority or agency heretofore or hereafter created, there is hereby authorized and shall
be established as provided in this article a state development agency constituting an irrigation
district or districts for the State of Alabama. The agency, when incorporated in accordance
with this article, shall be an instrumentality of the State of Alabama. (Acts 1965, No. 827,
p. 1549, §1.)...
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9-10A-9
Section 9-10A-9 Creation of board of directors; terms of office; vacancies. If the board of
supervisors determines the authority is needed, it shall determine the number of directors
who shall comprise the board of directors of the watershed management authority. The board
of directors of the watershed management authority shall include at least one resident from
each county located within the boundaries of the authority. The board of supervisors of a
soil and water conservation district in which is situated a county or a portion of a county
that is in a watershed management authority, shall determine if the member of the original
board of directors of the watershed management authority, who, pursuant to this chapter must
reside in said county, shall be appointed or elected. For the purposes of this chapter said
directors shall be referred to as "resident directors." The method of selection
chosen shall be proclaimed by resolution. If the original member of the board of directors
is to...
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9-5-3
Section 9-5-3 Powers and duties generally; public hearings; implementation of recommendations.
The major function of the Minerals Resource Management Committee is to maximize the income
realized by the state from oil, gas and other mineral resources owned by the state. In order
to fulfill this function, the Minerals Resource Management Committee is hereby empowered and
authorized to coordinate the activities of all state departments and agencies, but particularly
the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the State Oil and Gas Board relating
to the development of the mineral resources owned by the state. All such state departments
and agencies shall cooperate fully with the committee in providing information requested by
the committee. The Minerals Resource Management Committee shall, from time to time, hold public
hearings when the chairman deems it in the public interest to do so. All recommendations made
by the Minerals Resource Management Committee and approved by the...
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9-8A-4.1
Section 9-8A-4.1 Commission - Revolving fund established; expenditure of funds; appropriation
of funds to commission. (a) There is hereby established the Alabama Agricultural and Conservation
Development Commission Revolving Fund to consist of all moneys received by the commission
from legislative appropriations or from any other source, including any and all interest earned
from such funds. Any funds remaining in the Alabama Agricultural and Conservation Development
Commission Fund at the end of any fiscal year shall remain in said fund and is hereby reappropriated
to the commission in each subsequent year. (b) The state Budget Officer shall allocate to
the commission its entire state appropriation for any fiscal year prior to January 2 of that
fiscal year. (c) The commission is hereby authorized to expend funds in the Alabama Agricultural
and Conservation Development Commission Revolving Fund to pay expenses of the commission,
to pay salaries of any personnel employed or contracted...
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9-9-22
Section 9-9-22 Right of commissioners, etc., to enter lands to make surveys, etc.; liability
for damages; obstruction of entrance. The board of water management commissioners of any district
organized under this article or its employees or agents or cooperating state and federal agencies,
including contractors and their employees, and the engineer and members of the board of viewers
and their assistants may enter upon the lands within or without the district in order to make
surveys and examinations to accomplish the necessary preliminary purposes of the district
or to have access to the work, being liable, however, for actual damage done. Any person or
corporation preventing such entrance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Acts 1965, No. 685,
p. 1246, §15.)...
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9-9-32
Section 9-9-32 Levy of annual installment of tax; form of certificate and order directing collection
of tax; preparation of tax record; proceedings as to delinquencies. (a) The said board of
water management commissioners shall each year thereafter determine, order and levy the amount
of the annual installment of the total taxes under Section 9-9-31, which shall become due
and be collected during said year at the same time that state and county taxes are due and
collected and which shall be evidenced and certified by the said board as provided in this
section. Prior to the first Monday in October of each year, one copy of the water management
tax book shall be delivered to the tax collector of each county in which benefited lands and
other benefited property of said district are situated after the judge of the court of probate
of the county in which the district was organized has affixed his signature to the certificate
and order directing the collection of said tax, and said tax shall...
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9-9-43
Section 9-9-43 Construction of improvements under water management plan - Duties of water management
engineer; payment of contractor. The water management engineer shall have charge of the construction
of the plan of water management. He shall make monthly estimates of the amount of work done
and shall furnish one copy to the contractor and file the other with the secretary of the
board of commissioners, and the commissioners shall within five days after the filing of such
estimates meet and direct the secretary to draw a warrant in favor of such contractor for
not more than 90 percent of the work done according to the specifications and contract; and,
upon the presentation of such warrant, properly signed by the president and secretary, to
the treasurer of the district, he shall pay the amount due thereon. When the work is fully
completed and accepted by the water management engineer, he shall make an estimate for the
whole amount due, including the amounts withheld on previous...
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