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AL Code § 11-19-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-8 - County Planning Commission - Creation; Composition; Qualifications, Appointment, Terms of Office, Removal and Compensation of Members; Vacancies.

Section 11-19-8County planning commission - Creation; composition; qualifications, appointment, terms of office, removal and compensation of members; vacancies. The county commission may, by resolution or ordinance, create a county planning commission for the purpose of enforcing this chapter. The county commission shall appoint not less than five nor more than 11 members to the commission. The probate judge, chairman, or similar presiding officer of the county governing body shall be an ex officio member of said commission and shall vote only in case of a tie vote at a meeting wherein the entire membership is present and has voted. Members of the county commission may serve as members of the planning commission notwithstanding the provisions of Section 11-3-2, or any other provisions limiting the offices such governing officials may hold. The term of the ex officio member shall correspond to his official tenure. The terms of each appointive member shall be four years; provided, that, in the initial appointments to the commission, a majority, but not exceeding three fifths of the total membership of the commission, shall be appointed for two years and the remaining members for four years; and provided further, that any members of the county commission appointed to the planning commission for a term exceeding their official tenure as a member of the county commission shall, notwithstanding, continue to be a member of the said commission until the expiration of their appointment as such unless otherwise removed as subsequently provided in this section. Any vacancy in the membership of the planning commission shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment. Any appointed member of the commission shall be subject to removal by the county commission for cause after written notice. All members of the county planning commission shall serve as such without compensation. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §8.)
AL Code § 11-19-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-9 - County Planning Commission - Adoption of Bylaws; Maintenance of Record of Transactions, etc.; Officers; Meetings; Appointment of Employees and Staff; Acceptance and Expenditure of Funds.

Section 11-19-9County planning commission - Adoption of bylaws; maintenance of record of transactions, etc.; officers; meetings; appointment of employees and staff; acceptance and expenditure of funds. The county planning commission shall adopt bylaws for the transaction of business and shall keep a record of its transactions, resolutions, findings, and determinations, which record shall be a public record. The county planning commission shall elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from among the appointed members who shall serve for one year with eligibility for reelection. The county planning commission shall appoint a secretary who may be an officer or an employee of the county commission or a member of the county planning commission. The county planning commission shall meet at least once each month at the call of the chairman and at such other times as the chairman or county planning commission may determine. The county planning commission may appoint such employees and staff as it may deem necessary for its work. In the performance of its duties, the county planning commission may cooperate with, contract with, or accept funds from federal, state or local public or semipublic agencies or private individuals or corporations, may expend such funds, and may carry out such cooperative undertakings and contracts. It may make expenditures for the purchase of required equipment and supplies. The expenditures of the county planning commission, exclusive of gifts, grants, or contract receipts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by the county commission. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §9.)
AL Code § 11-19-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-10 - Powers and Duties of Planning Commission Generally; Special Surveys or Studies; Right of Entry Upon Lands for Preparation of Examinations and Surveys.

Section 11-19-10Powers and duties of planning commission generally; special surveys or studies; right of entry upon lands for preparation of examinations and surveys. (a) It shall be the function and duty of the county planning commission to make and maintain comprehensive surveys and studies of existing conditions and probable future developments in the flood-prone area of the county and to prepare comprehensive plans for physical, social, and economic growth as will best promote the public health, safety, morals, convenience, prosperity, or the general welfare as well as efficiency and economy in the development of the flood-prone area of the county. The county planning commission shall have the authority to: (1) Promote public interest and understanding of the economic and social necessity for long-term, coordinated county planning. (2) Confer and cooperate with the federal, state, municipal, and other county and regional authorities regarding matters pertaining to or affecting the planning or development of said county, or vice versa, for the purpose of assuring proper coordination of county development with that of other political subdivisions. (3) Prepare and recommend for adoption to the appropriate county commission or authorities a zoning ordinance and map for the flood-prone area of the county. (4) Prepare and recommend for adoption to the appropriate county commission or authorities regulations for the subdivision of land within the flood-prone areas of the county jurisdiction and administer the regulations that they may be adopted. (b) Upon request of the county planning commission, the county commission may, from time to time, for the purpose of special surveys under the direction of the county planning commission, assign to the county planning commission members of the staff or the personnel of any county administrative department, bureau, or agency or may direct any such department, bureau, or agency to make special surveys or studies for the county planning commission. All public officials, departments, and agencies may upon request furnish the county planning commission within a reasonable time with such available information as it may require for its work. The county planning commission, its members, officers, and employees, in the performance of their functions may enter upon any land and make necessary examinations and surveys. In general, the commission shall have such powers as may be appropriate to enable it to fulfill its functions and duties. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §10.)
AL Code § 11-19-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-11 - Subdivision Regulations - Procedure for Adoption; Certification of Adopted Regulations to Probate Judge.

Section 11-19-11Subdivision regulations - Procedure for adoption; certification of adopted regulations to probate judge. The county commission is hereby authorized to enact an ordinance regulating the platting and recording of any subdivision of land as defined by this chapter lying within the flood-prone area of the county. The county planning commission shall have the authority to prepare and submit to the county commission for its consideration and adoption regulations governing the subdivision of land within its jurisdiction. Before the county commission may adopt subdivision regulations or any amendment thereto under the provisions of this chapter, the said county commission shall hold a public hearing on the proposed regulations. A notice of said public hearing shall be given once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, and a copy of the proposed subdivision regulations shall be made available to any interested person before said public hearing. A copy of the subdivision regulations as adopted shall be certified to the office of the judge of probate. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §11.)
AL Code § 11-19-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-12 - Subdivision Regulations - Scope and Contents.

Section 11-19-12Subdivision regulations - Scope and contents. In exercising the powers granted to it by this chapter, the county planning commission shall prepare and recommend to the county commission for adoption regulations governing the subdivision of land within the flood-prone area of the county. Such regulations may provide for the harmonious development of the flood-prone area of the county; for the coordination of streets within subdivisions with other existing or planned streets; for the size of blocks and lots; for the dedication or reservation of land for streets, school sites, and recreation areas and of easements for utilities and other public services and facilities; and, for a distribution of population and traffic which will tend to create conditions favorable to health, safety, convenience, prosperity, or general welfare. Such regulations may include requirements as to the extent to which and the manner in which streets shall be graded, surfaced, and improved, and water, sewers, septic tanks, as required by state health regulations, and other utility mains, piping, connections, or other facilities shall be installed as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat. Such regulations may provide that, in lieu of the completion of such work and installations previous to the final approval of a plat, the county commission may accept a bond in any amount and surety and conditions satisfactory to it, providing for and securing to the county the actual construction and installations of such improvements and utilities within a period specified by the county planning commission and expressed in the bond, and the county is hereby granted the power to enforce such bonds by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §13.)
AL Code § 11-19-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-13 - Approval of Plats of Subdivision Before Recordation - When Required.

Section 11-19-13Approval of plats of subdivision before recordation - When required. Whenever subdivision regulations have been adopted by the county commission as provided in Section 11-19-11, then no plat of a subdivision that lies within the flood-prone area of the county shall be filed or recorded in the office of the judge of probate of the county until it shall have been submitted to and approved by the county planning commission and such approval entered in writing on the plat by the chairman and secretary of the county planning commission. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §12.)
AL Code § 11-19-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-14 - Approval of Plats of Subdivision Before Recordation - Procedure for Approval, Etc.

Section 11-19-14Approval of plats of subdivision before recordation - Procedure for approval, etc. The county planning commission shall act to approve or disapprove a subdivision plat within 30 days after its submission; otherwise, such plat shall be deemed to have been approved and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the county planning commission on demand; provided, however, that the applicant for the commission's approval may waive this requirement and consent to an extension of such period. The grounds for disapproval of any plat shall be stated upon the records of the county planning commission. Any plat submitted to the county planning commission shall contain the name and address of a person to whom notice of a hearing shall be sent, and no plat shall be acted on by the commission without a public hearing thereon. Notice shall be sent to the said address by registered or certified mail of the time and place of such hearing not less than five days before the date fixed therefor. Similar notice shall be mailed to the owners of land immediately adjoining the platted land as their names appear upon the plats in the county tax assessor's office or on the tax records of the county. Approval of a plat shall not be deemed to constitute or effect an acceptance by the public of any street or other open space shown upon the plat. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §14.)
AL Code § 11-19-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-15 - Transferring, Sale, etc., of Lands in Subdivision Prior to Approval of Plat.

Section 11-19-15Transferring, sale, etc., of lands in subdivision prior to approval of plat. Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision within the flood-prone areas transfers or sells or agrees to sell or negotiates to sell any land by reference to, or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision before such plat has been approved by the county planning commission and recorded or filed in the office of the judge of probate shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided by law, and the description of such lot or parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or conveyance or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from the penalties or remedies provided in this chapter. The county commission may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction brought in any court of equity jurisdiction or may recover the same penalty by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §15.)
AL Code § 11-19-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-16 - Grant of Zoning Powers; Scope of Powers.

Section 11-19-16Grant of zoning powers; scope of powers. For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the state and counties, any county commission is hereby empowered to divide the portion of the county within the flood-prone area of the county into districts of such number, shape, and area as may be found best suited to carry out the purposes of this chapter and to provide within such districts for standards relating to the location, bulk, height, minimum elevation, number of stories, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot which may be occupied, the sizes of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density and distribution of population, the uses of buildings and structures and of land for trade, residence, recreation, agriculture, forestry, conservation, water supply, sanitation, floodways, public activities, and other purposes. Such provisions shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan of the flood-prone area and shall be designed to lessen congestion in the streets and highways; to secure safety from fire, flood, panic, and other dangers; to promote health and the general welfare; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of population; and to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water supply, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public requirements. Such provisions shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things, of the character of the land and district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses and with a view of promoting desirable living conditions, sustaining the stability of neighborhoods, protecting property against blight and depreciation, securing economy in governmental expenditures, conserving the value of buildings, and encouraging the most appropriate use of land and of buildings and structures throughout the flood-prone area of the county. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §16.)
AL Code § 11-19-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-17 - Manner in Which Territory Zoned.

Section 11-19-17Manner in which territory zoned. For the purpose of providing for the division of the territory into districts, consonant with the conditions provided in this section, the county planning commission may make and certify to the county commission a single zoning plan for all the territory of the area which lies within the jurisdiction of the county planning commission or may make and certify separate and successive zoning plans for parts of the flood-prone area for which technical information is available or which for other reasons it deems to have appropriate territorial unity for a zoning plan, and correspondingly any zoning ordinance or resolution enacted by the county commission may cover and include the whole territory lying within its jurisdiction or such territory as the county commission deems to be an appropriate territorial unit for a zoning plan; provided, that no resolution governing more or less than the entire area shall be enacted or put into effect until it is first submitted to the county planning commission for additional review and comment. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §17.)
AL Code § 11-19-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-18 - Procedure for Preparation, Adoption, Amendment, etc., of Zoning Ordinance and Map.

Section 11-19-18Procedure for preparation, adoption, amendment, etc., of zoning ordinance and map. (a) The planning commission shall have the duty of preparing a zoning plan, including both the written provisions of the ordinance and a map or maps showing the district boundaries. The commission may hold such public hearings as it deems necessary concerning the zoning ordinance. It shall certify the zoning ordinance and map to the county commission. On receipt of a zoning ordinance and map from the county planning commission, the county commission shall hold a public hearing thereon, after which it may adopt the zoning ordinance and map as recommended, adopt it with modifications, or reject it. (b) The zoning ordinance, including the map or maps, may from time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed. No amendment shall become effective unless it first is submitted to the county planning commission for its recommendations; failure of the county planning commission to make recommendations for a period of 30 days after the amendment has been referred to it shall constitute a favorable recommendation. No amendment may be adopted until after a public hearing thereon as prescribed above. (c) A notice of any public hearing required by this section shall be given once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the county or, if there be no newspaper published in the county, by posting such notice at four public places in the county, said notice to be published the first time or posted not less than 15 days prior to the date fixed for said hearing. Said notice of public hearing shall include: (1) Date of hearing; (2) Location of hearing; (3) Location where proposed amendment may be reviewed by the public; and, (4) Time of public hearing. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §18.)
AL Code § 11-19-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-20 - Appeals From Final Judgment of Board of Adjustment.

Section 11-19-20Appeals from final judgment of board of adjustment. Any party aggrieved by any final judgment or decision of a board of adjustment established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may within 15 days thereafter appeal therefrom to the court having jurisdiction within the county wherein the affected property of the aggrieved party is located by filing with such board a written notice of appeal specifying the judgment or decision from which appeal is taken. In case of such appeal, such board shall cause a transcript of the proceedings in the action to be certified to the court to which the appeal is taken and the action in such court shall be tried de novo. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §21.)
AL Code § 11-19-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-21 - Institution of Actions to Prevent, Correct, etc., Unauthorized Construction of Buildings, Subdivision or Use of Lands, Etc.

Section 11-19-21Institution of actions to prevent, correct, etc., unauthorized construction of buildings, subdivision or use of lands, etc. In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained, or any subdivision is established or land used in violation of this chapter or of any ordinance or other regulation made under the authority conferred hereby, the county attorney, or other appropriate administrative officer of the county in which the violation occurs may institute any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, conversion, maintenance, or subdivision of the land or use of the land to restrain, correct, or abate such violation, or to prevent the occupancy of any such building, structure, or subdivision of land or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business, or misuse in or upon any premises regulated under the authority conferred by this chapter. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §20.)
AL Code § 11-19-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 19 - Comprehensive Land-Use Management in Flood-Prone Areas.|Section 11-19-22 - Penalties for Violations of Provisions of Chapter, Ordinances, Etc.

Section 11-19-22Penalties for violations of provisions of chapter, ordinances, etc. Any person, firm, corporation or agency who, in violation of this chapter, fails to obtain the permit required herein or who violates any provision of the building code or zoning ordinances or other regulation, ordinance, or code shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, may be fined not more than $500.00, or may be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than one year or may be both fined and imprisoned. (Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, p. 4346, §23.)