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9-8-31
Section 9-8-31 Discontinuance. (a) At any time after three years after the organization of
a district under the provisions of this article, any 25 owners of land lying within the boundaries
of such district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee
praying that the operations of the district be terminated and the existence of the district
discontinued. The committee may conduct such public meetings and public hearings upon such
petition as may be necessary to assist it in consideration thereof. Within 60 days after such
a petition has been received by the committee, it shall give due notice of the holding of
a referendum and shall supervise such referendum and issue appropriate regulations governing
the conduct thereof, the question to be submitted by ballots upon which the words "For
terminating the existence of the _____ (name of the soil conservation district to be here
inserted)" and "Against terminating the existence of the _____ (name of the soil...
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9-8A-10
Section 9-8A-10 Designing of proposed soil and water conservation practices. A qualified technician
of, or technician designated by, the soil and water conservation district in which a particular
project is located shall design and lay out proposed soil and water conservation practices
for which allocated funds have been obligated. Such technician shall be responsible for determining
compliance with applicable design standards and specifications. (Acts 1985, 1st Ex. Sess.,
No. 85-123, p. 169, §12; Acts 1986, No. 86-426, p. 775, §11.)...
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9-8-22
Section 9-8-22 State Soil and Water Conservation Committee. (a) There is hereby established,
to serve as an agency of the state and to perform the functions conferred upon it in this
article, the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee. (b) This committee shall consist
of nine persons: The Director of the State Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service, the
Director of the State Agricultural Experiment Station, the Supervisor of Vocational Agricultural
Education and six members who are soil and water conservation district supervisors, to be
appointed by the Governor, one such appointive member from each of the six major geographical
areas of the state as such areas are designated on January 1, 1972, by the State Association
of Soil and Water Conservation district supervisors. The appointive members of the committee
shall hold office for a term of three years and until their successors are appointed. Such
members shall be appointed by the Governor from a list containing the names...
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35-2-80
Section 35-2-80 Duty of probate judges to record aerial photographs or maps; manner of recordation
and maintenance. In order to facilitate acquirement of easements by watershed associations,
water conservancy associations or districts and any other lawful entity engaged in water and
soil conservation work, the probate judges of the several counties of the State of Alabama
shall receive and record aerial photographs or maps of land areas in their respective counties.
These maps or photographs shall be recorded, kept, and maintained in substantially the same
manner as prescribed in Section 35-2-51. Before being recorded, such a map or photograph may
have drawn or inscribed thereon its source of origin, the approximate scale of the map, section
and township lines, property lines, high-water marks for channels and storage areas for water,
and soil conservation tract or parcel numbers and boundaries and all such other indicia or
information as may be appropriate for identification of the...
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9-8A-6
Section 9-8A-6 Application for cost-share grant. In order to qualify for a cost-share grant,
an eligible person shall file, accompanied by the applications specified in this section,
a conservation plan approved by the soil and water conservation district in which the eligible
person's eligible land is located. Cost-share grants shall be available only with respect
to those soil and water conservation practices determined to be needed by the soil conservation
district to reduce erosion, improve agricultural water quality and improve forest resources
in the district. Such determination of need shall be made by a qualified soil and water conservation
or forestry technician. All application forms and agreements for allocated funds shall be
available from and completed forms shall be submitted to the local soil and water conservation
district office located in the county where such practices are proposed to be implemented.
If an applicant's land is in more than one soil and water...
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9-10A-5
Section 9-10A-5 Land which may be included in authority. The land area embraced in any watershed
management authority must encompass at least 50 square miles, must be contiguous and must
lie within a defined watershed. The area may include lands within any soil and water conservation
district. Such authorities may embrace lands lying in one or more soil and water conservation
districts. Two or more watersheds may be included in a watershed management authority. Provided,
however, no land may be included in more than one watershed management authority and provided
further, that no lands or facilities which are subject to the licensing jurisdiction of the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the jurisdiction of the Alabama Public Service Commission
to issue certificates of convenience and necessity shall be subject to the exercise of any
powers or authorities granted herein. (Acts 1991, No. 91-602, p. 1119, §5.)...
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9-10A-16
Section 9-10A-16 Petition for discontinuance of authority. (a) At any time, a watershed management
authority's board of directors may file a petition with the Secretary of State, the joint
boards of supervisors who authorized the establishment of the authority and the State Soil
and Water Conservation Committee praying that the existence of the authority be discontinued.
The petition shall state the reasons for discontinuance. (b) The Examiners of Public Accounts
shall specify as a part of said petition that all obligations of the authority can be properly
satisfied by the use of the existing assets of the authority. (c) If any watershed management
authority petitions for discontinuance, the Director of the state Department of Finance or
his designee shall have the same powers regarding the watershed management authority's assets,
liabilities and functions as the board of directors of said watershed management authority.
The state shall not be required to assume any debts or...
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9-8-20
Section 9-8-20 Definitions. Wherever used or referred to in this article, unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) DISTRICT or SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT.
A governmental subdivision of this state and a public body corporate and politic organized
in accordance with the provisions of this article for the purposes, with the powers and subject
to the restrictions set forth in this article. (2) SUPERVISOR. One of the members of the governing
body of a district appointed in accordance with the provisions of this article. (3) COMMITTEE
or STATE SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION COMMITTEE. The agency created in Section 9-8-22. (4)
PETITION. A petition filed under the provisions of subsection (a) of Section 9-8-23 for the
creation of a district. (5) STATE. The State of Alabama. (6) AGENCY OF THIS STATE. Such term
includes the government of this state and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate
or otherwise, of the government of this state. (7) UNITED...
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9-8-55
Section 9-8-55 Hearing upon petition; denial or approval of petition. (a) Within 30 days after
such petition has been filed with the board of supervisors, it shall cause due notice to be
given of a proposed hearing upon the practicability and feasibility of creating such water
conservancy district. All interested parties shall have the right to attend such hearing and
be heard. If it shall appear at the hearing that other lands should be included or that lands
included in the petition should be excluded, the board of supervisors may permit such inclusion
or exclusion, provided the land area involved still meets the requirements of Section 9-8-52.
(b) If it appears upon the hearing that it may be desirable to include within the proposed
district territory outside of the area within which due notice of the hearing has been given,
the hearing shall be adjourned and due notice of a further hearing shall be given throughout
the entire area considered for inclusion in the district and a...
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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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