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AL Code § 9-13-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-9 - Forest Fire Wardens - Compensation.

Section 9-13-9Forest fire wardens - Compensation. The State Forester, with the approval of the state merit board, shall have the power to provide for the compensation to be received by such forest fire wardens if, in his judgment, he deems such compensation necessary; provided, that they shall receive compensation only for such hours as are spent on fire fighting and for any actual expenses incurred by them in the performance of such duties. (Acts 1955, No. 366, p. 886, §4.)
AL Code § 9-13-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-10 - Powers of State Forestry Commission Employees as to Enforcement of Laws, Prevention and Suppression of Forest Fires, Etc.

Section 9-13-10Powers of State Forestry Commission employees as to enforcement of laws, prevention and suppression of forest fires, etc. All employees of the State Forestry Commission appointed as forest law enforcement officers by the State Forester are hereby constituted peace officers of the State of Alabama with full police power and may exercise such powers anywhere within the state. They are hereby authorized to carry firearms or other weapons when they are actually in the discharge of their duties as such officers as provided by law. They shall be clothed with the power to arrest with or without warrant any person who shall violate any of the laws of the State of Alabama or any rule or regulation of the Alabama Forestry Commission and take him before a proper court for trial. All employees of the State Forestry Commission and all duly appointed officers of the United States whose duty it is to prevent and suppress forest fires are empowered to enter any lands and to construct thereon fire lines, fire lanes or fire breaks, to set back fires thereon if necessary to prevent the further spread of fire then actually burning and to do all other work necessary in the performance of their duties, including the right to enter any lands for the purpose of making investigations for the cause or causes of fires, without liability for trespass or damage therefrom. (Acts 1939, No. 492, p. 711, § 3; Code 1940, T. 8, §206; Acts 1967, No. 724, p. 1560, § 1; Acts 1980, No. 80-507, p. 786, § 1.)
AL Code § 9-13-10.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-10.1 - Assistance of State Forestry Commission in Control and Suppression of Wildfires by Other State Agencies.

Section 9-13-10.1Assistance of State Forestry Commission in control and suppression of wildfires by other state agencies. All state agencies, in the performance of their duties and responsibilities to the people of Alabama, are authorized to aid and assist the State Forestry Commission in the control and suppression of wildfires, on request of the Governor of Alabama, with such requested resources that are reasonably available and needed to cope with the specific situation. (Acts 1976, No. 102, p. 98.)
AL Code § 9-13-10.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-10.2 - Rulemaking Authority; Violations; Enforement.

Section 9-13-10.2Rulemaking authority; violations; enforement. (a)(1) The State Forestry Commission may adopt, alter, amend, or repeal rules governing the preservation, protection, and use of state forests and any other lands owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the commission. (2) Any person who violates a rule adopted pursuant to this section shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each offense, and may be required to pay all costs of the proceedings. (3) When collected, all fines shall be paid to the Office of the State Forester to be delivered to the State Treasurer and placed in the Alabama Forestry Commission Fund. (b) The State Forester and any employee of the State Forestry Commission so designated by the State Forester shall have and is vested with the authority to prefer charges and issue a citation against a person for violating a rule adopted pursuant to this section or for the violation of any other provision of this article. (Act 2018-462, §1.)
AL Code § 9-13-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-12 - Uncontrolled Fires Declared Public Nuisances; Liability for Refusal or Neglect to Control or Extinguish Same.

Section 9-13-12Uncontrolled fires declared public nuisances; liability for refusal or neglect to control or extinguish same. Any fire burning uncontrolled on any forested, cutover, brushland or grassland area is hereby declared to be a public nuisance by reason of its menace to life and property. Any person, firm, association or corporation responsible either for the starting or the existence of such fire is hereby required to make a reasonable effort to control or extinguish it as soon as he has knowledge thereof, and if such person, firm, association or corporation shall refuse or neglect to do so, any organized fire suppression force may suppress the nuisance thus constituted by controlling and extinguishing the fire, and the cost thereof may be recovered from said person, firm, association or corporation responsible for the starting or existence of such fire. (Acts 1939, No. 429, p. 711, § 2; Code 1940, T. 8, §205.)
AL Code § 9-13-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-13 - Setting on Fire, etc., of Woods, etc., Without Written Notice to Adjacent Landowners.

Section 9-13-13Setting on fire, etc., of woods, etc., without written notice to adjacent landowners. Any person or corporation who shall set fire to or procure another to set fire to any woods, logs, brush, weeds, grass or clearing upon his or its own land without giving adjacent landowners five days' written notice of such intention to do so, unless he or it shall have taken all possible care and precaution against the spread of such fire, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638, § 12; Code 1923, §4114; Code 1940, T. 8, §207.)
AL Code § 9-13-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-14 - Equipping of Locomotives, etc., With Appliances to Prevent Escape of Fire.

Section 9-13-14Equipping of locomotives, etc., with appliances to prevent escape of fire. Logging and railroad locomotives, donkey and threshing engines and other engines and boilers operated in, through and near forest or brush which do not burn oil as fuel shall be provided with appliances to prevent the escape of fire and sparks from the smoke stacks thereof and with devices to prevent the escape of fire from ashpans and fire boxes. Failure to comply with the requirements of this section shall be a misdemeanor punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00 for each and every offense thus committed; but the escape of fire accidentally from engines equipped with the standard appliances to prevent the escape of fire shall not constitute an offense against the section. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638; Code 1923, §4115; Code 1940, T. 8, §208.)
AL Code § 9-13-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-15 - Attachment of Wires, etc., to Trees in Towns or Cities by Lighting or Power Companies.

Section 9-13-15Attachment of wires, etc., to trees in towns or cities by lighting or power companies. No electric lighting or power company shall attach any wires or other lighting appliances to any trees along any street of any town or city in this state. In towns and cities where such wires and lighting appliances are already attached to trees, the persons, firms or corporations owning the same shall remove the same. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00 for each and every offense so committed. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638; Code 1923, §4118; Code 1940, T. 8, §211.)
AL Code § 9-13-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-22 - District Attorneys to Prosecute Violators of Provisions of Chapter.

Section 9-13-22District attorneys to prosecute violators of provisions of chapter. The district attorneys of the several counties shall prosecute all violators of the provisions of this chapter. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638; Code 1923, §4117; Code 1940, T. 8, §210.)
AL Code § 9-13-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-23 - Jurisdiction of Prosecutions Under Chapter.

Section 9-13-23Jurisdiction of prosecutions under chapter. The district courts of this state shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all cases and prosecutions originating under the provisions of this chapter and shall impose and collect fines not exceeding the amount of $100.00, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638; Code 1923, §4116; Code 1940, T. 8, §209.)
AL Code § 9-13-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-24 - Fees of Arresting Officers, etc.; Informers' Fees.

Section 9-13-24Fees of arresting officers, etc.; informers' fees. When an arrest for a violation of the provisions of the forestry laws is made by a salaried officer or salaried employee of the State Forestry Commission and the defendant is convicted, there shall be taxed as costs the same fee as the sheriff in this state is entitled to for similar services and, if collected from the defendant, shall be immediately remitted by the trial court directly to the State Forester, and said fee shall be used for the purpose of the administration of the State Forestry Commission. If the person making the arrest shall be a nonsalaried officer or not an employee of the State Forestry Commission and if said fee is collected from the defendant, such person shall be entitled to said fee and shall receive in addition thereto an informer's fee of one-half the fine in each case where the information furnished by him results in a conviction and the fine is collected and paid into court; provided, however, that in no case shall the amount paid to the informant or party making the affidavit as to the commission of any offense embraced in this chapter exceed the sum of $25.00. All amounts in excess of $25.00 shall be remitted to the State Forester as provided in this section. No fee shall be allowed in cases of acquittal. (Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 161, p. 183, § 1; Code 1940, T. 8, §218; Acts 1951, No. 984, p. 1659, § 1.)
AL Code § 9-13-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-13-25 - Forestry Study Committee Established; Membership; Meetings; Duties; Powers; Expenses; Reports.

Section 9-13-25Forestry Study Committee established; membership; meetings; duties; powers; expenses; reports. REPEALED IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2018-152 EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (Acts 1979, No. 79-711, p. 1264, § 1.)
AL Code § 9-13-40 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 2 - Auxiliary State Forests.|Section 9-13-40 - Declaration of Public Policy; Deferred Taxation of Timber on Lands Designated as Auxiliary State Forests Authorized and Directed.

Section 9-13-40Declaration of public policy; deferred taxation of timber on lands designated as auxiliary state forests authorized and directed. It is the declared policy of the state to encourage reforestation of cutover lands and timber culture generally; and to that end and in consideration of the public benefits arising therefrom, the timber growing on lands which shall hereafter be designated by the State Forestry Commission as auxiliary state forests under the provision of this article shall not be taxable or assessed for taxation by any authority from the time that said lands are so designated until they are withdrawn as auxiliary state forests, and only the land on which said timber grows may be taxed or assessed for taxation as if the ownership of the timber growing thereon had been severed from the ownership of the land, and the valuation of the timber growing on auxiliary state forests shall not be included in the valuation of the shares of stock in any domestic corporation owning such timber in arriving at the valuation of the shares of stock of such corporation for taxation; provided, that said land shall be appraised jointly by the Department of Revenue and the State Forestry Commission with view to its use for timber production purposes, such appraisal being made with due regard to the fact that the timber yields from such lands require a considerable period of years for maturing and that the valuation determined by such appraisal for the purposes of taxation of the land independently of the timber shall not be increased during the continuance of such land as auxiliary state forests; and provided further, that when the land embraced within an auxiliary state forest does not exceed 160 acres, the land shall not be taxed or assessed for taxation. (Code 1923, §992; Acts 1935, No. 23, p. 38, §1; Acts 1935, No. 500, p. 1078, §1; Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 14, p. 7, §1; Code 1940, T. 8, §189.)
AL Code § 9-13-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 2 - Auxiliary State Forests.|Section 9-13-41 - Designation of Lands as Auxiliary State Forests - Applications.

Section 9-13-41Designation of lands as auxiliary state forests - Applications. Any owner of lands desiring to devote the same to forest culture and to have the same designated as auxiliary state forests shall file with the State Forestry Commission an application in writing, which shall be signed by such owner, describing the lands which said owner desires to have designated as auxiliary state forests, stating his willingness to enter into the contract provided for in this article and such other information as the State Forestry Commission may require and praying that such lands shall be designated by the State Forestry Commission as auxiliary state forests. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638, §8; Code 1923, §997; Code 1940, T. 8, §194.)
AL Code § 9-13-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 2 - Auxiliary State Forests.|Section 9-13-42 - Designation of Lands as Auxiliary State Forests - When Abstract of Title, etc., Required; Release of Dower or Homestead Rights.

Section 9-13-42Designation of lands as auxiliary state forests - When abstract of title, etc., required; release of dower or homestead rights. The State Forestry Commission may, in its discretion, require the applicant to furnish an abstract of title of said lands showing him to be the owner in fee thereof or other satisfactory proof of title, and all rights of dower or homestead in said lands, as against the operation of said contract, shall be released before the same is approved. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638, §8; Code 1923, §1000; Code 1940, T. 8, §197.)
AL Code § 9-13-43 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 2 - Auxiliary State Forests.|Section 9-13-43 - Designation of Lands as Auxiliary State Forests - Inspection of Lands; Drafting and Execution of Contracts.

Section 9-13-43Designation of lands as auxiliary state forests - Inspection of lands; drafting and execution of contracts. Upon the filing of such application, the State Forestry Commission shall, as soon as practicable, inspect the said land or cause the same to be inspected by the State Forester or some other competent and suitable person; and, if the State Forestry Commission shall find said lands to be suited for forest culture, it shall certify that fact, together with a copy of said application to the Governor, who shall, if he deems it advisable to do so, thereupon cause the contract provided for in this article to be drawn by the Attorney General, and, upon the execution of the same, by the owner of the land, the Governor shall execute the same for and on behalf of and in the name of the State of Alabama. Said contract shall be executed in quadruplicate. One copy shall be filed with the State Forestry Commission and one with the Department of Revenue or body exercising its jurisdiction and powers. One copy shall be delivered to the owner of the land, and the fourth shall be filed by the State Forester for record in the probate office of the county or counties in which said land is situated, at the cost of the owner. The Attorney General shall approve the execution of said contracts. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638, §8; Code 1923, §§998, 999; Code 1940, T. 8, §§195, 196.)
AL Code § 9-13-45 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 2 - Auxiliary State Forests.|Section 9-13-45 - Abrogation of Contracts.

Section 9-13-45Abrogation of contracts. If any owner or the successor in title of any such owner shall violate the provisions of his contract, the Governor may, in his discretion, abrogate the same by a written order to be filed with the Department of Revenue, the State Forestry Commission and the said owner or his successor in title. Upon such abrogation, the privilege tax provided for in this article shall at once become due and payable in all respects as if said lands had been legally withdrawn as auxiliary state forests. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638; Code 1923, §1003; Code 1940, T. 8, §200.)
AL Code § 9-13-46 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 2 - Auxiliary State Forests.|Section 9-13-46 - Withdrawing of Lands as Auxiliary State Forests; Harvesting or Use of Timber Without Withdrawing of Lands; Payment of Privilege Tax Generally.

Section 9-13-46Withdrawing of lands as auxiliary state forests; harvesting or use of timber without withdrawing of lands; payment of privilege tax generally. (a) Any owner of land designated as auxiliary state forests may, after the lapse of five years from the designation of the said lands as such, file with the State Forestry Commission an application in writing to withdraw the same or any part thereof, and thereupon the value of the timber on the land desired to be withdrawn shall be appraised and the privilege tax thereon computed as provided for in this article; and, on the payment of said privilege tax, the State Forestry Commission shall make an order withdrawing the same as an auxiliary state forest, a copy of which shall be filed with the Department of Revenue, a copy entered in a book to be kept for that purpose by the State Forestry Commission, a copy delivered to the said owner and a copy filed by the State Forestry Commission at the cost of the owner in the probate office in the county or counties in which said land is situated. (b) The owner of such lands shall have the right to harvest or otherwise use parts of said timber without withdrawing the land under the rules which said State Forestry Commission is directed to make. (c) In either event, the privilege tax provided for in this article shall be paid on the value of the timber withdrawn or harvested at the time of said withdrawal or harvesting. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638, §9; Code 1923, §1001; Code 1940, T. 8, §198.)
AL Code § 9-13-47 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 2 - Auxiliary State Forests.|Section 9-13-47 - Appraisal of Timber Upon Withdrawal of Lands as State Harvests, etc.; Privilege Tax.

Section 9-13-47Appraisal of timber upon withdrawal of lands as state harvests, etc.; privilege tax. Upon withdrawal of said lands or any part thereof as auxiliary state forests or harvesting or other use of parts of timber on said land without withdrawing the land, the value of the timber thereon shall be appraised separately in each county where such timber is located by the Department of Revenue and the State Forestry Commission as of the date of such withdrawal or harvesting, whereupon the owner of such timber shall pay as a privilege tax for the entry and withdrawal of such lands as auxiliary state forests or for the harvesting of the timber on such lands a sum of money equal to eight percent of the appraised value of the timber. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638, §1; Code 1923, §995; Acts 1935, No. 23, p. 38, §1; Acts 1935, No. 500, p. 1078, §1; Code 1940, T. 8, §192; Acts 1945, No. 131, p. 132, §1.)
AL Code § 9-13-48 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 2 - Auxiliary State Forests.|Section 9-13-48 - Lien on Timber for Payment of Privilege Taxes; Collection of Other Taxes, Etc.

Section 9-13-48Lien on timber for payment of privilege taxes; collection of other taxes, etc. The state shall have a lien upon the timber on land designated as auxiliary state forests for the payment of the privilege tax provided for in this article, and no other privilege or other tax, except that provided for in this section, shall be collected by or for the state or any subdivision thereof. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638, §9; Code 1923, §1002; Code 1940, T. 8, §199.)
AL Code § 9-13-49 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 13 - Forests and Forest Products.|Article 2 - Auxiliary State Forests.|Section 9-13-49 - Disposition of Privilege Taxes.

Section 9-13-49Disposition of privilege taxes. Said privilege tax shall be paid to the State Forestry Commission and by it reported to the Comptroller and paid into the Treasury, whereupon the Comptroller shall draw and transmit to the tax collector of each county wherein such timber has been appraised and with respect to which such tax has been paid a warrant payable to such tax collector for the full amount of tax paid as to such county. Thereupon the tax collector shall treat and consider the payments so made to himself as if he had collected the same for and on account of state and county taxes duly assessed by the tax assessor upon the timber appraised as provided in this article and shall proceed to apportion, distribute and pay the same as if such taxes were ad valorem taxes assessed against the owner of the timber, after deducting therefrom for himself a commission of two percent upon the amount of such taxes and paying also the tax assessor a commission of two percent thereon. In all counties in which officials are paid on a salary basis, the commissions authorized in this section shall by said officials be paid into the treasury of said county. (Acts 1923, No. 486, p. 638, §7; Code 1923, §996; Code 1940, T. 8, §193; Acts 1945, No. 131, p. 132, §1.)