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AL Code § 9-3-10.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-10.1 - Emergency Forest Fire, Insect and Disease Fund; Creation; Annual Automatic Appropriation; Ceiling on Amount; Expenditures; Replenishment; Governor's Approval.

Section 9-3-10.1Emergency Forest Fire, Insect and Disease Fund; creation; annual automatic appropriation; ceiling on amount; expenditures; replenishment; Governor's approval. (a) There is hereby established an Emergency Forest Fire, Insect and Disease Fund into which there is automatically appropriated two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) annually at the beginning of each state fiscal year. The state Comptroller shall transfer moneys from the General Fund to the emergency fund annually at the beginning of each state fiscal year. The emergency fund shall not exceed a total accumulated amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000). The moneys in the fund may be expended from time to time to meet emergency forest fire, insect, and disease needs as deemed necessary by the State Forester and Governor. The moneys expended from the fund for the emergency needs shall be automatically replenished and are hereby appropriated from the General Fund annually to the extent of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) per year at the beginning of each state fiscal year until the two million dollars ($2,000,000) ceiling is reached. The state Comptroller shall make the transfer to replenish the funds within a period of one week following the commencement of each state fiscal year. (b) The moneys appropriated herein may be expended for salaries, capital expenditures, or any other category of expenditures deemed necessary by the State Forester for emergency forest fire, insect, and disease suppression and control. All moneys appropriated under this section shall be conditional and subject to approval of the Governor. (Acts 1979, No. 79-830, p. 1566, §§1, 2; Acts 1987, No. 87-821, §1; Act 2018-266, §1.)
AL Code § 9-3-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-11 - Steering Committee to Represent Rural Community Fire Departments - Creation.

Section 9-3-11Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Creation. The State Forester is hereby authorized and required to create a steering committee to represent rural community fire departments. (Acts 1978, No. 515, p. 569, §1.)
AL Code § 9-3-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-12 - Steering Committee to Represent Rural Community Fire Departments - Membership; Appointment, Qualifications and Term of Office of Members; Filling of Vacancies in Office.

Section 9-3-12Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Membership; appointment, qualifications and term of office of members; filling of vacancies in office. Said steering committee shall be composed of 13 members; one from each of the 10 administrative districts of the Alabama Forestry Commission, one member from the Alabama Association of Volunteer Fire Departments, one member from the Alabama Association of Fire Chiefs and one member from the Alabama Firemen's Association. The President of the Alabama Association of Fire Chiefs shall appoint one member of his association to serve on the committee, the President of the Alabama Association of Volunteer Fire Departments shall appoint one member of his association to serve on the committee, and the President of the Alabama Firemen's Association shall appoint a member of his association to serve on the committee. The State Forester shall appoint the remaining committee members from each administrative district of the Alabama Forestry Commission, with each such member being a volunteer fireman. All members shall serve at the pleasure of their appointing authority. Vacancies on the committee shall be filled by the same appointing authority who appointed the vacating member. (Acts 1978, No. 515, p. 569, §3; Acts 1984, No. 84-474, p. 1095, §1.)
AL Code § 9-3-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-13 - Steering Committee to Represent Rural Community Fire Departments - Recommendations to State Forester.

Section 9-3-13Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Recommendations to State Forester. The steering committee shall make recommendations to the State Forester regarding how to improve the rural community fire program and how to solve immediate problems including parts exchange, training and financial assistance through federal grants. (Acts 1978, No. 515, p. 569, §2.)
AL Code § 9-3-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-14 - Steering Committee to Represent Rural Community Fire Departments - Meetings; Quorum.

Section 9-3-14Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Meetings; quorum. The committee shall meet semiannually, with the members of the committee setting the date. The State Forester shall have the authority to call special meetings. A majority of members shall constitute a quorum. (Acts 1978, No. 515, p. 569, §4.)
AL Code § 9-3-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-15 - Steering Committee to Represent Rural Community Fire Departments - Compensation and Expenses of Members.

Section 9-3-15Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Compensation and expenses of members. Members of the committee shall not be compensated for their services, but each shall be entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses in the same manner and amount that state employees are reimbursed. Such expenses shall be paid out of Forestry Commission funds. (Acts 1978, No. 515, p. 569, §5.)
AL Code § 9-3-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-16 - Advisory Committee on General Forestry Matters.

Section 9-3-16Advisory committee on general forestry matters. The State Forester is further authorized to establish a committee and call meetings of such committee to advise him on general forestry matters in Alabama. It shall consist of not more than 15 members. Section 9-3-15 shall apply in its entirety to this committee. (Acts 1978, No. 515, p. 569, §6.)
AL Code § 9-3-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-18 - Public Governmental Entities, Political Subdivisions, etc., Authorized to Make Donations to Organizations Deemed Public in Nature.

Section 9-3-18Public governmental entities, political subdivisions, etc., authorized to make donations to organizations deemed public in nature. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that this section provides assistance to organized volunteer fire departments and organized search, air, and rescue squads including South Alabama Air Rescue, Incorporated, and other nonprofit organizations which provide search, air, or rescue services to the public. The Legislature deems these organizations public in nature, as they protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. (b) The state and any department, office, or agency of the state, and any county, any municipality, any fire, water, sewer, garbage, or school district, or any other public governmental entity or political subdivision may donate money, property, equipment, or other thing of value to those organizations deemed public in nature as specified in subsection (a). Unless the donating agency or entity specifies otherwise at the time of donation, the organization receiving the donation may dispose of any property received under this section pursuant to Article 6, Sections 41-16-120 to 41-16-125, inclusive, of Chapter 16, Title 41. (Acts 1981, No. 81-555, p. 935, §§1, 2; Acts 1996, No. 96-612, p. 965, §1; Act 2012-555, p. 1635, §1; Act 2013-413, p. 1567, §1.)
AL Code § 9-3-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-19 - Donation of Fire Control Property.

Section 9-3-19Donation of fire control property. (a) As used in this section, the term "fire control or fire rescue equipment" includes, but is not limited to, a motor vehicle, fire fighting tools, protective gear, breathing equipment, and other vehicles, supplies, and tools used in fire fighting or fire rescue. (b) Any person, corporation, partnership, association, or governmental entity may donate or give away used or obsolete fire control or fire rescue equipment to the Alabama Forestry Commission for its use or for distribution to certified volunteer fire departments. Any person, corporation, partnership, association, or governmental entity that donates fire control or fire rescue equipment shall not be liable for civil damages for personal injury, property damage, or death resulting from a defect in the equipment, if the property was donated in good faith and the defect was unknown to the person making the donation. The Alabama Forestry Commission and its commissioners and other officers and employees shall not be liable for civil damages for personal injury, property damage, or death resulting from a defect in equipment sold, loaned, donated, or otherwise made available in good faith by the commission to certified volunteer fire departments pursuant to this section. A breathing apparatus that is donated to the commission shall be recertified to the manufacturer's specifications by a technician certified by the manufacturer before it is made available to a volunteer fire department. Any cost incurred by the commission in recertifying a breathing apparatus shall be reimbursed to the commission by the volunteer fire department which received the breathing apparatus. (Act 98-291, p. 477, §1.)
AL Code § 9-3-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission.|Section 9-3-20 - Exemption of Timber Lands From Local Fire District Service Charges and Fees; Jurisdiction of Alabama Forestry Commission.

Section 9-3-20Exemption of timber lands from local fire district service charges and fees; jurisdiction of Alabama Forestry Commission. (a) A local fire district may not assess any type of fees or dues upon forest land that is treated as timber land for ad valorem tax purposes. (b) The authority and responsibility for the control and coordination of fire prevention, fire protection, and fire fighting services on land treated as timber land for ad valorem tax purposes shall be under the jurisdiction of the Alabama Forestry Commission. (c) Nothing in this section shall preclude a forest land owner from voluntarily entering into an agreement with a local fire district to provide fire protection services for a negotiated fee. (d) Nothing in this section shall invalidate a negotiated dues structure implemented by resolution by a fire district prior to June 10, 2019. (Act 2019-466, §1.)
AL Code § 9-4-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-1 - State Geologist - Qualifications, Appointment and Term of Office; Vacancies.

Section 9-4-1State Geologist - Qualifications, appointment and term of office; vacancies. There shall be a State Geologist. In the event of a vacancy in the office of State Geologist from any cause, the most competent geologist available, either from the staff of the Geological Survey of Alabama or elsewhere, to be designated by the President of the University of Alabama with the approval of the Governor, shall be the State Geologist, whose term of office shall be at the will of the appointing powers. Whenever a vacancy shall subsequently occur, said vacancy shall be filled in a like manner, and the tenure of office shall be determined as aforesaid. (Code 1896, §2241; Code 1907, §689; Acts 1923, No. 512, p. 683; Code 1923, §1033; Acts 1927, No. 386, p. 456; Code 1940, T. 55, §245.)
AL Code § 9-4-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-2 - State Geologist - Duties Generally.

Section 9-4-2State Geologist - Duties generally. (a) It shall be the duty of the State Geologist to devote his entire time to the administrative duties of his office and to making explorations and examinations of the mineral, agricultural, biological and other natural resources of the state so as to determine accurately the quality and character of its soils and their adaptation to agricultural purposes and especially to the occurrence and quality of phosphates, marls, gypsum and other natural fertilizers, its mineral resources and their locations, character and capacity for development, its water powers and their capacity, its forest trees and their utilities and distribution and its other plant and animal forms useful or noxious; and it shall be the duty of him and his assistants, whenever they discover any deposits of ores or other resources of value, to notify immediately the owners of the land on which such deposits occur, but no individual or firm or corporation shall have the right to call upon or require the State Geologist to enter upon any special survey for his or its individual benefit. The survey is to proceed upon a settled plan for the benefit of the public and prospectors and investors in general. (b) He shall also make to the Legislature at each of its regular sessions a report of the progress of his explorations and examinations together with such analyses of soils or of minerals, mineral waters, etc., with maps and charts as may be needed for illustrations, which report shall be printed and shall be the exclusive property of the state. (c) He shall also make collections of specimens illustrative of the geological, agricultural and other natural resources of the state which, after they shall have served the immediate purposes of the survey, shall be placed in the museum of the survey in Smith Hall at the University of Alabama as a permanent exhibit, except that duplicates of these specimens and excess material may be distributed by the State Geologist to educational institutions of the state which may request them and have use for them. (d) He shall also from time to time prepare or cause to be prepared monographs, special reports or bulletins of the geology and varied resources of the state which shall be printed and published under the provisions of Article 5, Chapter 4 of Title 41. (Code 1896, §2242; Code 1907, §690; Acts 1923, No. 512, p. 683; Code 1923, §1034; Acts 1927, No. 386, p. 456; Code 1940, T. 55, §246.)
AL Code § 9-4-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-4 - State Geologist and Assistant State Geologist May Teach at University of Alabama.

Section 9-4-4State Geologist and Assistant State Geologist may teach at University of Alabama. The State Geologist and the Assistant State Geologist of the State Geological Survey of Alabama during their course of employment as such officials and under the conditions hereinafter set forth in Sections 9-4-4 through 9-4-7 shall be permitted to teach graduate or undergraduate courses at the University of Alabama which are connected with or related to the study of geology or affiliated or associated subjects. (Acts 1961, No. 717, p. 1024, §1.)
AL Code § 9-4-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-3 - State Geologist - Appointment of Assistants.

Section 9-4-3State Geologist - Appointment of assistants. Subject to the provisions of the Merit System, the State Geologist may appoint, with the approval of the Governor, such assistants, including a competent chemist, for such periods and with such compensation as he may deem necessary to the best interests of the survey; provided, that said assistants shall devote their entire time to the work of the survey, and no part of the funds available to the survey shall be expended for the salary or compensation in whole or in part of any member of the teaching staff or other employee of the University of Alabama, provided that not more than one of the present employees doing joint service may be retained, the object of this provision being to secure the services of full-time employees and to preclude the payment of salaries or other compensation of teachers or other employees of the university, thereby guaranteeing an entire separation of the work of the survey from that of the university. (Code 1896, §2243; Code 1907, §691; Acts 1923, No. 512, p. 683; Code 1923, §1035; Acts 1927, No. 386, p. 456; Code 1940, T. 55, §247.)
AL Code § 9-4-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-5 - Limitations Upon Teaching by State Geologist and Assistant State Geologist.

Section 9-4-5Limitations upon teaching by State Geologist and Assistant State Geologist. The teaching of courses connected with or related to the study of geology or affiliated or associated subjects by the State Geologist or Assistant State Geologist shall be permitted only during such time as will not unduly interfere with their employment with the State Geological Survey of Alabama or with the State Oil and Gas Board and such teaching shall be limited to courses which require not more than an aggregate of six hours of resident classroom teaching per week. Such teaching shall be permitted during regular scholastic terms, summer school courses or classes for special students as provided by the curricula of the University of Alabama. (Acts 1961, No. 717, p. 1024, §2.)
AL Code § 9-4-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-6 - Compensation for Teaching.

Section 9-4-6Compensation for teaching. The State Geologist and the Assistant State Geologist shall receive as compensation for teaching classes under the conditions provided for in Sections 9-4-4 through 9-4-7, in addition to the compensation which they receive for acting in their official capacities as State Geologist and Assistant State Geologist of the State Geological Survey of Alabama, an amount set by the President of the University of Alabama. This amount of compensation shall be consistent with the salary schedule of the University of Alabama for payment of similar services by regular professors or teachers whose services are engaged by the University of Alabama to teach courses of study therein. The compensation for such teaching services shall be paid out of such funds of the University of Alabama which are provided for payment to the teachers of classes at the University of Alabama. The payments for such teaching services shall be made at the same time and in the same manner and under the same conditions as other professors and teachers of the University of Alabama are paid for the same or similar services. (Acts 1961, No. 717, p. 1024, §3.)
AL Code § 9-4-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-7 - State Geologist and Assistant State Geologist Not to Participate in Teachers' Retirement System.

Section 9-4-7State Geologist and Assistant State Geologist not to participate in Teachers' Retirement System. The act of teaching by the State Geologist or the Assistant State Geologist as specified and permitted under the terms of Sections 9-4-4 through 9-4-7 shall not entitle either of such officials to participate as members of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama or to enjoy the privileges or benefits of such membership, nor shall the act of teaching by such officials be deemed to alter or enhance in any way their status as such officials except as may be expressly set forth in such sections. (Acts 1961, No. 717, p. 1024, §4.)
AL Code § 9-4-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-8 - Expenditures From Annual Appropriation.

Section 9-4-8Expenditures from annual appropriation. The annual appropriation shall be devoted, so far as may be necessary to execute the purposes of this chapter, to the discharge of the expenses of the survey, including the compensation of all temporary and permanent assistants, traveling expenses of the geologist and geological corps, in and out of the state, purchase of apparatus and materials for making chemical analysis, other expenditures for outfit, expenses incurred in providing for the transportation, arrangement and proper exhibition of the geological and other collections made on the authority of this chapter and the engraving of maps and sections, etc., to illustrate the quadrennial reports of progress; provided, however, that no payment shall be made by the survey to the university on account of rent or permanent improvements, nor shall the university make use of the survey's apparatus and materials for making chemical analysis nor share in expenditures for outfit referred to herein. (Code 1896, §2246; Code 1907, §694; Acts 1923, No. 512, p. 683; Code 1923, §1038; Acts 1927, No. 386, p. 456; Code 1940, T. 55, §250.)
AL Code § 9-4-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-9 - Disbursements.

Section 9-4-9Disbursements. Upon the requisition of the State Geologist, when approved by the Governor, the Comptroller shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the amount appropriated in such sums as may be needed from time to time for the purposes provided for in this chapter. For all expenditures made under the provisions of this chapter, except for the salary of the State Geologist, the approval of the Governor must be obtained and the vouchers of the State Geologist for all such expenditures must be filed quarterly with the Comptroller, and a statement of his receipts and expenditures shall accompany each quadrennial report of the State Geologist. (Code 1896, §2244; Code 1907, §692; Acts 1923, No. 512, p. 683; Code 1923, §1036; Acts 1927, No. 386, p. 456; Code 1940, T. 55, §248.)
AL Code § 9-4-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-10 - Bulletins or Reports of State Geologist.

Section 9-4-10Bulletins or reports of State Geologist. Whenever the State Geologist has in hand, ready for publication, material for a bulletin or any other report of his surveys and investigations of the mineral, agricultural or other natural resources of the state, he shall report the same to the Governor, and a committee consisting of the Governor, Secretary of State and State Geologist shall then determine the number of such bulletin or report which shall be printed and published. (Code 1907, §695; Acts 1923, No. 512, p. 683; Code 1923, §1039; Acts 1927, No. 386, p. 456; Code 1940, T. 55, §251.)
AL Code § 9-4-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 4 - Geological Survey.|Section 9-4-11 - Execution of Topographic Survey of State; Establishment of Permanent Bench Marks Along Highways, Etc.

Section 9-4-11Execution of topographic survey of state; establishment of permanent bench marks along highways, etc. The State Geologist is hereby empowered and directed to cooperate with the United States Geological Survey in the execution of the topographic surveys of the State of Alabama in a manner sufficiently elaborate to prepare maps on scales which may be agreed upon for different localities exhibiting the land and water features, relief, roads, buildings and all civil boundary lines as marked on the ground at the time field surveys are executed and to establish permanent bench marks along highways and other routes of travel marked with elevations based on mean sea level. (Acts 1911, No. 367, p. 407, §1; Acts 1923, No. 511, p. 682, §1; Code 1923, §1042; Code 1940, T. 55, §252.)