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AL Code § 8-26B-59 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 26B - Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act.|Article 3 - Compensation of Student Athletes.|Section 8-26B-59 - Employment Status of Student Athlete With a Postsecondary Education Institution.

Section 8-26B-59Employment status of student athlete with a postsecondary education institution. Nothing in this article or rule of the commission shall affect the employment status of a student athlete with a postsecondary education institution. A student athlete shall not be considered an employee of a postsecondary education institution based on participation in an intercollegiate sport. (Act 2021-227, §10.)
AL Code § 8-26B-60 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 26B - Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act.|Article 3 - Compensation of Student Athletes.|Section 8-26B-60 - Applicability to Constitutionally Created Boards of Trustees of Postsecondary Educational Institutions.

Section 8-26B-60Applicability to constitutionally created boards of trustees of postsecondary educational institutions. It is the intent of the Legislature that constitutionally created boards of trustees of postsecondary educational institutions comply with the requirement of this article. (Act 2021-227, §11.)
AL Code § 8-26B-61 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 8 - Commercial Law and Consumer Protection.|Chapter 26B - Revised Uniform Athlete Agents Act.|Article 3 - Compensation of Student Athletes.|Section 8-26B-61 - Violations.

Section 8-26B-61Violations. (a) An individual other than a student athlete who violates subsection (c), (d), or (e) of Section 8-26B-51 or who grants compensation to a student athlete in a manner that causes the student athlete to violate Section 8-26B-57 shall be guilty of a Class C felony. (b) (1) Compliance with this article and the rules adopted by the Alabama Collegiate Athletics Commission shall be monitored by the Alabama Athlete Agents Commission.  (2) If any officer, employee, or agent of a postsecondary educational institution, any athlete agent, any licensed attorney, or any student athlete witnesses a potential violation of this article or the rules adopted by the Alabama Collegiate Athletics Commission pursuant to this article, that person shall report the potential violation to the postsecondary educational institution at which the student athlete at issue participates or participated in intercollegiate sports. The postsecondary educational institution shall investigate the report. If the institution determines a violation has occurred, the institution, within 14 days, shall report the matter to the Alabama Athlete Agents Commission, which shall review the matter. The Alabama Athlete Agents Commission shall work with appropriate law enforcement as necessary to investigate and address credible reports received from an institution under this subdivision. (Act 2021-227, §12.)
AL Code § 9-2-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-1 - Created; Seal.

Section 9-2-1Created; seal. There shall be a Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which shall be an executive and administrative department in order to enable the Governor to exercise a direct and effective control over the natural resources, state parks and historical sites of the state and in order to bring together in one department for purposes of economy and efficiency all matters pertaining to the natural resources, state parks and monuments and historical sites of the state. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall have a seal, which shall be affixed to official acts and deeds of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources by him. (Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, § 1; Code 1940, T. 8, §1.)
AL Code § 9-2-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-2 - Powers and Duties Generally.

Section 9-2-2Powers and duties generally. The general functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be as follows: (1) To protect, conserve, and increase the wildlife of the state and to administer all laws relating to wildlife and the protection, conservation, and increase thereof. (2) To make exploration, surveys, studies, and reports concerning the wildlife, state parks and monuments and historical sites in the state and to publish such thereof as will be of general interest. (3) To maintain, supervise, operate, and control all state parks, monuments and historical sites, except Mound State Monument and the First White House of the Confederacy; the serving and employing of attendants for all monuments and historical sites located on state-owned property in the City of Montgomery shall be performed by the Department of Finance. (4) To maintain, supervise, operate, and control all state lands other than those specifically committed to the use or control of some other department, board, bureau, commission, agency, office, or institution of the state. (5) To cooperate with and enter into cooperative agreements and stipulations with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, other states, or any other federal or state officer or department, board, bureau, commission, agency, or office thereunto authorized with respect to wildlife restoration projects, the carrying on of an educational program in connection therewith, the collection and publication of data with respect to wildlife, state parks and the monuments and historical sites or any other matters committed to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources by this title or otherwise by law and to make and enforce all regulations and restrictions required for such cooperation, agreements, or stipulations. (6) To carry on a program of education and public enlightenment with respect to the wildlife and other natural resources, state parks and the monuments and historical sites of Alabama. (7) To make an annual report to the Governor concerning the activities and accomplishments of the department for the preceding fiscal year. (8) To recommend to the Legislature such legislation as may be needed further to protect, conserve, increase, or to make available or useful the wildlife and other natural resources, state parks and the monuments and historical sites of Alabama. (Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, §3; Code 1940, T. 8, §2; Act 2009-724, p. 2165, §1.)
AL Code § 9-2-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-5 - Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Qualifications, Appointment, Term of Office, Oath, and Bond.

Section 9-2-5Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Qualifications, appointment, term of office, oath, and bond. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be headed by and shall be under the direction, supervision and control of an officer who shall be known and designated as the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be the advisor of the Governor and the Legislature in matters relating to the wildlife and other natural resources and the state parks and monument and historical sites of the State of Alabama and the discovery, development, protection and conservation thereof. He shall be responsible to the Governor for the administration of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be appointed and shall hold office at the pleasure of the Governor. Vacancies for any reason shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments are made. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall take the constitutional oath of office and shall give bond in such penalty as may be fixed by the Governor, but such penalty shall not be less than $10,000.00 conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties. The premiums on such bond shall be paid out of the State Treasury. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall devote full time to his office and shall not hold another office under the government of the United States or under any other state or of this state or any political subdivision thereof during his incumbency in such office, and shall not hold any position of trust or profit or engage in any occupation or business the conduct of which shall interfere or be inconsistent with his duties as Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources under the provisions of this title. (Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, §6; Code 1940, T. 8, §5; Acts 1951, Ex. Sess., No. 9, p. 175, §1.)
AL Code § 9-2-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-6 - Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Powers and Duties Generally.

Section 9-2-6Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Powers and duties generally. All functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be exercised by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources acting by himself or by and through such administrative divisions or such officers or employees as he may designate. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall have all power and authority necessary or convenient to carry out the functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. In the performance of such functions and duties and in the exercise of such powers and authorities, the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources and all other officers and employees of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources shall, however, be subject to all legal restrictions, limitations and conditions and penalties, civil and criminal, with respect to the performance of such functions and duties and the exercise of such powers and authorities. (Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, § 7; Code 1940, T. 8, §6.)
AL Code § 9-2-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-7 - Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Powers and Duties as to Game, Fish and Seafood Generally.

Section 9-2-7Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Powers and duties as to game, fish and seafood generally. (a) The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may enforce and administer all laws providing for the preservation, protection, propagation, and development of wild birds, wild fur-bearing animals, game fish, saltwater fish, shrimp, oysters and other shellfish, crustaceans and all other species of wildlife within the state or within the territorial jurisdiction of the state which have not been reduced to private ownership, except as otherwise provided. (b) The commissioner is empowered to do all of the following: (1) To formulate a state wildlife policy. (2) To fix open seasons during which game birds, game, and fur-bearing animals may be taken. (3) To fix daily and season bag limits on game birds and game animals. (4) To designate by name what species of fish shall be game fish. (5) To fix daily creel limits on game fish. (6) To regulate the manner, means, and devices for catching or taking game fishes, game birds, game, and fur-bearing animals and the manner, means, and devices for catching or taking all other species of fish not designated as game fish. (7) To close the season of any species of game in any county or area when, upon a survey by the department, it is found necessary to the conservation and perpetuation of such species and to reopen such closed season when it is deemed advisable. (8) To designate by name what animals shall be classed as game or fur-bearing animals and the time, manner, means, and devices for taking same. (9) To introduce desirable species of game, fish, and birds. (10) To suspend, revoke, or reinstate, pursuant to the terms of any agreements entered into pursuant to subdivision (5) of Section 9-2-2, a hunting, fishing, trapping, or other license or privilege, issued or regulated by the department. (Acts 1935, No. 240, p. 632, §§11, 14; Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, §11; Code 1940, T. 8, §17; Act 2009-724, p. 2165, §1.)
AL Code § 9-2-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-8 - Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations as to Game, Fish and Seafood; Publication and Distribution of Laws, Etc.

Section 9-2-8Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Promulgation of rules and regulations as to game, fish and seafood; publication and distribution of laws, etc. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is authorized to make and promulgate such reasonable rules and regulations not in conflict with the provisions of the game and fish laws as he may deem for the best interest of the conservation, protection and propagation of wild game, birds, animals, fish and seafoods, which rules and regulations shall have the effect of law; provided, that the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall not have the right to make or promulgate any rules or regulations which will hamper industry or which will interfere with the operation of any industrial plant or plants or any industrial operation. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall not have the right to make or promulgate any rules or regulations which will hamper or interfere with the construction of dams built for impounding private waters as defined by the legislature or which will hamper or interfere with the catching, the marketing, the sale or resale or buying of the fish crop or any fish caught or taken from private waters as defined by the Legislature or which will in any way hamper or interfere with the maximum development of private waters as a source of food, farm income and recreation in the State of Alabama. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall publish in pamphlet form for general distribution all laws together with such rules and regulations relating to game, birds, fish, fur bearers, seafoods and other matters over which such Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources has authority or supervision. Such pamphlet so published shall be received in evidence without further proof of such rules and regulations in any court of this state. (Acts 1935, No. 240, p. 632, §§ 20, 23; Code 1940, T. 8, §21; Acts 1943, No. 531, p. 505, § 1.)
AL Code § 9-2-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-10 - Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Duties as to Preservation, Maintenance, etc., of State Parks, Etc.

Section 9-2-10Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Duties as to preservation, maintenance, etc., of state parks, etc. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, acting through the Division of Parks, to preserve, improve, protect and maintain all parks, parkways, monuments and historic sites now owned or hereafter acquired or established by the State of Alabama except Mound State Monument, the first White House of the Confederacy and all monuments and historic sites now located on state-owned land in the City of Montgomery. (Acts 1939, No. 556, p. 877, § 2; Code 1940, T. 8, §180.)
AL Code § 9-2-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-11 - Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Creation of Additional Divisions in Department; Appointment of Directors of Divisions.

Section 9-2-11Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Creation of additional divisions in department; appointment of directors of divisions. With the approval of the Governor, the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may create and establish such additional division or divisions as may be determined to be necessary or convenient in the efficient and expeditious performance of the functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and may assign functions and duties to such division or divisions, and he may transfer functions and duties from and to existing divisions from time to time. Directors of such divisions shall be appointed by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources with the approval of the Governor. (Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, §14; Code 1940, T. 8, §10.)
AL Code § 9-2-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-12 - Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations for Department.

Section 9-2-12Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Promulgation of rules and regulations for department. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall have and exercise all rule-making powers of any division of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources subject to the provisions of Section 9-2-15. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall have power and authority to establish and promulgate rules and regulations, including amendments and repeals thereof, with respect to the manner of performance of all functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, which rules and regulations shall be reasonably calculated to effect the expeditious and efficient performance of such functions and duties and shall not be in conflict with applicable statutes. The rule-making power of the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall not be delegated, except as otherwise expressly provided. (Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, § 8; Code 1940, T. 8, §7.)
AL Code § 9-2-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-13 - Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Authority to Prohibit Importation of Birds, Animals, Fish, Etc.

Section 9-2-13Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Authority to prohibit importation of birds, animals, fish, etc. (a) The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may prohibit by duly promulgated regulation the importation of any bird, animal, reptile, amphibian, or fish when the importation of the animal, bird, reptile, amphibian, or fish would not be in the best interest of the state. (b) This section does not apply to birds, animals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish used for display purposes for carnivals, zoos, circuses, and other like shows and exhibits where ample provision is made so the birds, animals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish will not escape or be released in this state. (c) Any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association who or which imports, brings, or causes to be brought or imported into the State of Alabama any bird, animal, reptile, amphibian, or fish, the importation of which has been forbidden by duly promulgated regulation of the commissioner, shall be in violation of this section and upon conviction thereof shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor, except that the punishment for each offense shall be a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 30 days, or both. (Acts 1969, No. 414, p. 813, §§1-3; Act 2002-510, p. 1314, §1.)
AL Code § 9-2-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-15 - Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources - Powers and Duties.

Section 9-2-15Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources - Powers and duties. The functions and duties of the Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources shall be as follows: (1) To assist in formulating the policies of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the performance of its functions and duties; (2) To examine all rules and regulations made or promulgated by the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, to recommend amendments or repeals thereof or additional rules or regulations and by a two-thirds vote of those present at any meeting and with the approval of the Governor to amend or repeal such rules and regulations or to make and promulgate additional rules or regulations; (3) To advise with the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources concerning any matter relating to the functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; and (4) To assist in giving publicity to the wildlife and other natural resources, the state parks and monuments and historical sites of the state and the work of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in connection therewith. (Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, § 10; Code 1940, T. 8, §9.)
AL Code § 9-2-15.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-15.1 - Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources; Promulgation of Rules and Regulations; Prohibition of Airboat; Penalty.

Section 9-2-15.1Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources; promulgation of rules and regulations; prohibition of airboat; penalty. (a) The conservation advisory board shall have the power to promulgate rules and regulations having the force and effect of law to regulate, including the authority to prohibit, the use of an airboat on any of the public waters of this state that are subject to an ebb and flow of the tide of at least two inches. (b) Any person violating the provisions of the rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of this section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. (Acts 1981, No. 81-425, p. 671, § 1.)
AL Code § 9-2-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-16 - Director of Irrigation.

Section 9-2-16Director of Irrigation. Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015. (Acts 1965, No. 828, p. 1556, §§ 1,2.)
AL Code § 9-2-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 9 - Conservation and Natural Resources.|Chapter 2 - Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 9-2-17 - Employees Generally.

Section 9-2-17Employees generally. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources shall, with the approval of the Governor and subject to the provisions of the Merit System, determine the number of employees needed for the efficient and economical performance of the functions and duties of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (Acts 1939, No. 162, p. 255, § 19; Code 1940, T. 8, §11.)