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9-9-10
Section 9-9-10 Establishment of district - Presentation of opinion by representative of state
committee. On the day appointed for the hearing, a representative of the State Soil and Water
Conservation Committee may appear and by verbal or written statement advise the court of his
opinion of the need of establishing the proposed water management district. (Acts 1965, No.
685, p. 1246, ยง8.)...
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9-9-11
Section 9-9-11 Establishment of district - Filing of objections to organization of district;
hearing and proceedings upon petition and objections; issuance of order declaring organization
of district; dismissal of petition and issuance of itemized bill of costs and expenses. (a)
Any owner of real property affected by said proposed district who wishes to object to the
organization and incorporation of said district shall, on or before 12:00 noon of the day
set for the causes to be heard, file his objection in writing stating why such district should
not be organized and incorporated. On the day appointed for the hearing, the court shall hear
and determine in a summary manner any objection that may be offered to the sufficiency of
the petition or to the report of the engineer or plan submitted by petitioners. If it appears
that there is any land within the proposed district that is not in the watershed, if the proposed
plan includes purposes other than drainage or is not in the benefited...
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9-10A-10
Section 9-10A-10 Election of directors. If an original director who is required to reside in
a particular county is to be selected by means of an election, the board of supervisors who
determined that an election would be the method of selection shall call the election. Said
election shall be held, within 30 days after need for a watershed management authority has
been determined, as provided in Section 9-10A-8. Due notice shall be required prior to said
election. All residents of the county where the director must reside who also reside within
the boundaries of the authority shall be eligible to vote in said election, and only said
residents shall be eligible to vote. Said residents shall be 18 years of age or older. Each
person who is qualified to vote for a resident director who desires to be elected a resident
director of the watershed management authority shall file not later than 10 days prior to
the date set for an election a nominating petition with the board of supervisors who...
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9-16-90
Section 9-16-90 Environmental protection performance standards. (a) Any permit issued pursuant
to this article to conduct surface mining operations shall require that such surface coal
mining operations will meet all applicable performance standards of this article, and such
other requirements as the regulatory authority shall promulgate. (b) General performance standards
shall be applicable to all surface coal mining and reclamation operations and shall require
the operation as a minimum to: (1) Conduct surface coal mining operations so as to maximize
the utilization and conservation of the solid fuel resource being recovered so that reaffecting
the land in the future through surface coal mining can be minimized; (2) Restore the land
affected to a condition capable of supporting the uses which it was capable of supporting
prior to any mining, or higher or better uses of which there is reasonable likelihood, so
long as such use or uses do not present any actual or probable hazard to...
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9-8A-5
Section 9-8A-5 Allocation of funds to soil and water conservation districts. (a) Funds allocated
to the soil and water conservation districts by the commission shall be used only to pay the
costs of installing soil and water conservation practices of the types listed in Section 9-8A-7.
Soil and water conservation district supervisors shall designate which soil and water conservation
practices will be eligible for cost-share grants in their district, subject to approval by
the Agricultural and Conservation Development Commission. The commission, through the State
Soil and Water Conservation Committee, may allocate any available appropriations and other
moneys received by the commission for cost-share grants to the soil and water conservation
districts in steps identified as original allocation, reversion of allocated funds, and reallocation
of reverted funds. (b) Original allocation. The commission may allocate funds to the state's
soil and water conservation districts at the beginning...
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9-8-25
Section 9-8-25 Powers and duties of districts; performance of work on private lands; acquisition,
etc., of land by public bodies; exemption from taxation. (a) A soil and water conservation
district organized under this article shall constitute a governmental subdivision of this
state and a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public powers, and such district
and the supervisors thereof shall have the following powers, in addition to others granted
in other sections of this article: (1) To carry out preventive and control measures within
the district including, but not limited to, engineering operations, methods of cultivation,
the growing of vegetation, changes in use of land, and other erosion control measures on lands
owned or controlled by this state or any of its agencies with the consent and cooperation
of the agency administering and having jurisdiction thereof and on any other lands within
the district upon obtaining the consent of the owner of such lands or the...
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9-8A-9
Section 9-8A-9 Cost-share grant processing procedures. Applicants for cost-share grants for
soil and water conservation practices shall complete and submit an application for allocated
funds as described herein to the soil and water conservation district office located in their
counties. Assistance in completing the form shall be made available from technical personnel
of the soil and water conservation district office. Applicants shall specify the anticipated
total cost of the practice to be implemented and the percentage, if any, of such cost which
the applicant proposes to bear, which percentage shall not be less than the minimum specified
by the commission for cost-share grants to assist in implementation of the particular practice.
Applications for allocated funds which are denied by the soil and water conservation district
supervisors shall be retained in the district to the end of the program year. Written notification
of the denial shall be provided to the applicant along with...
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9-8-56
Section 9-8-56 Referendum upon creation of district - Notice of referendum; appointment of
polling superintendent, etc. After the board of supervisors has made and recorded a determination
that there is need in the interest of the public health, safety and welfare for creation of
the proposed watershed conservancy district, it shall consider the question whether the operation
of a district within the proposed boundaries with the powers conferred upon such districts
in Section 9-8-61 is administratively practicable and feasible. To assist the board of supervisors
in this determination the board shall, within a reasonable time after entry of the finding
that there is need for the organization of the district and the determination of the boundaries
of the district, hold a referendum within the proposed district upon the proposition of the
creation of the district and to cause due notice of such referendum to be given. Such notice
shall state the date of holding the referendum, the hours...
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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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9-8A-1
Section 9-8A-1 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others
evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein
otherwise, have the following respective meanings: (1) ALLOCATED FUNDS. That portion of the
funds appropriated to the commission that are allocated by the commission to the soil and
water conservation district in each county of the state. (2) AUTHORIZED INVESTMENTS. Bonds
or other obligations of, or guaranteed by, the United States of America or the state, or interest
bearing bank and savings and loan association deposits or obligations, obligations of any
agency of the United States of America, any obligations in which a state chartered savings
and loan association may invest its funds, any agreement to repurchase any of the foregoing,
or any thereof. (3) COMMISSION. The Alabama Agricultural and Conservation Development Commission
organized pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of Alabama...
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