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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9-9-27
Section 9-9-27 Viewing and assessment of lands by board of viewers; report of findings. (a)
Within 30 days after qualifying, the board of viewers shall begin its duties, and it may at
any time call upon the attorney of the district for legal advice and information relative
to its duties. Said viewers shall proceed to view the premises and determine the value of
all land and other property within or without the district to be acquired and used for rights-of-way
or other works of drainage, leveeing, reclamation, flood prevention or for the conservation,
development, utilization and disposal of water as set out in the water management plan. They
shall assess the amount of benefits and the amount of damages, if any, that will accrue to
each tract of 40 acres or less, according to the legal or recognized subdivisions of land
according to ownership, to public highways, railroad and other rights-of-way, railroads, roadways
and other property from carrying out and putting into effect the plan...
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9-9-74
Section 9-9-74 Establishment of subdistricts - Jurisdiction, authority, etc.; purposes. The
county commission of any county, as a drainage district, shall have jurisdiction, power and
authority to establish drainage subdistricts as provided in this article, to promote, aid
and assist the purposes of drainage districts organized under Title 2, Sections 208 through
262 of the 1940 Alabama Code or water management districts organized under Sections 9-9-1
through 9-9-72 of this code by the development of systems for the prevention of soil erosion
and surface waters control upon lands in and contiguous to and affecting the drainage of said
district and to aid and assist land owners in providing for the prevention, elimination or
control of overflow waters and wet, swamp and overflow lands by the proper distribution of
surface waters or holding such waters upon the land from which it flows to or upon wet, swamp
and overflow lands and to prevent and deter the filling of natural or artificial...
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9-9-7
Section 9-9-7 Establishment of district - Filing of petition for organization of district;
appointment, etc., of engineer; report of engineer. (a) Whenever a petition praying for the
organization of a water management district and signed by a majority of the landowners owning
more than one third of the land in acreage in a proposed district or by at least one third
of the persons owning more than one half of the land in the proposed district shall be filed
with the court of probate of such county in which such lands are located or, if such lands
are composed of tracts or parcels situated in two or more counties, then in the office of
the court of probate of the county in which there is situated more of said lands than in any
other county, said petition setting forth the specific body or district of land in the county
or county and adjoining counties described in such a way as to convey an intelligent idea
as to location of such land and stating that the public benefit or utility or the...
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9-9-23
Section 9-9-23 Appointment of district engineer, etc.; preparation, adoption, etc., of report
and water management plan for improvements in district. (a) Within 60 days after the district
is established, it shall be the duty of the board of water management commissioners to appoint
as district engineer a competent civil or agricultural engineer of good standing in his profession
who is familiar with the type of project involved if said engineer is needed or required by
the district. Such services of an engineer may not be required if engineering services are
furnished by a federal, state or local agency. (b) In case an engineer is needed or required,
it shall be the duty of the court of probate to refer the report of the preliminary survey
or other plans to the district engineer, who shall make a survey of the district and shall
prepare a report with plans for improvements for the district. Such report shall include maps,
profiles, specifications, estimates of cost and other data and...
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41-18-1
Section 41-18-1 Text. Article I. Findings and Purposes. (a) The party states find that the
South has a sense of community based on common social, cultural and economic needs and fostered
by a regional tradition. There are vast potentialities for mutual improvement of each state
in the region by cooperative planning for the development, conservation and efficient utilization
of human and natural resources in a geographic area large enough to afford a high degree of
flexibility in identifying and taking maximum advantage of opportunities for healthy and beneficial
growth. The independence of each state and the special needs of subregions are recognized
and are to be safeguarded. Accordingly, the cooperation resulting from this agreement is intended
to assist the states in meeting their own problems by enhancing their abilities to recognize
and analyze regional opportunities and take account of regional influences in planning and
implementing their public policies. (b) The purposes of...
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9-12-180
Section 9-12-180 Authorized; form. The Governor of this state is hereby authorized and directed
to execute a compact on behalf of the State of Alabama with any one or more of the states
of Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, and with such other states as may enter into
the compact legally therein in the form substantially as follows: GULF STATES MARINE FISHERIES
COMPACT The contracting states solemnly agree: Article I Whereas the Gulf Coast States have
the proprietary interest in and jurisdiction over fisheries in the waters within their respective
boundaries, it is the purpose of this compact to promote the better utilization of the fisheries,
marine, shell and anadromous, of the seaboard of the Gulf of Mexico, by the development of
a joint program for the promotion and protection of such fisheries and the prevention of the
physical waste of the fisheries from any cause. Article II This compact shall become operative
immediately as to those states ratifying it whenever any two...
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9-16-71
Section 9-16-71 Declaration of public policy and legislative intent; all land surface mined
under this article shall be reclaimed. (a) The objective of this article is to provide for
the safe, responsible and reasonable reclamation of lands upon which surface disturbances
will be created by surface mining and the surface effects of underground mining so as to protect
the taxable value of property and preserve natural resources within the state and protect
and promote the health and safety of the people of this state, consistent with the protection
of property and with maximum employment and the economic and industrial well-being of the
state. The Legislature finds and declares that the extraction of coal by surface mining provides
a major present and future source of energy and is an essential and necessary activity which
contributes to the economic and material well-being of the state. (b) The Legislature finds
that the unregulated or irresponsible surface mining of coal may cause...
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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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9-9-3
Section 9-9-3 Declaration of benefits of drainage, etc.; duty of Soil and Water Conservation
Committee. The establishing of proper works of improvement for the drainage of wet, swamp
and overflowed lands of the state and for flood prevention or the conservation, development,
utilization and disposal of water within the state is declared to promote the public health,
to aid agriculture and to be in the interest of the public welfare and convenience. The State
Soil and Water Conservation Committee is hereby charged with the duty of cooperating with
persons desiring to form water management districts and of aiding and advising in such development.
(Acts 1965, No. 685, p. 1246, §2.)...
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