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AL Code § 33-7-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 1 - In General.|Section 33-7-11 - Mobile Harbor - Injuring Ship Channel, Beacon Light, Etc.

Section 33-7-11Mobile Harbor - Injuring ship channel, beacon light, etc. Any person who knowingly or wilfully causes, or is concerned in causing, any damage or injury to any part of the dredged channel as it now exists or may hereafter exist, at any point or points between the upper or northern limits of the Port of Mobile and the lower part of the Bay of Mobile, or to any beacon light, stake, piling or other matter or thing which is or may be intended to be used, or used in connection with such dredged channel for the better navigation of the same, is liable to indictment in the circuit court of Mobile county or any other court of competent jurisdiction and, on conviction, shall be fined not more than $10,000.00, and may also be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not more than 20 years. (Code 1886, §4138; Code 1896, §5407; Code 1907, §7870; Code 1923, §5605; Code 1940, T. 38, §113.)
AL Code § 33-7-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 1 - In General.|Section 33-7-12 - Mobile Harbor - Master of Vessel Drawing More Than 12 Feet Passing Channel Without Permit, Etc.

Section 33-7-12Mobile Harbor - Master of vessel drawing more than 12 feet passing channel without permit, etc. Any master or person in charge of any vessel drawing more than 12 feet of water which may enter into the dredged channel between the upper limits of the Port of Mobile and the outer bar of the Bay or Harbor of Mobile without a permit from the harbor master, or in violation of the rules and regulations of the State Pilotage Commission of the Port and Harbor of Mobile, is liable to indictment in the circuit court of Mobile County or any other court of competent jurisdiction, and shall, on conviction, be fined not more than $10,000.00, and may also be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not more than 10 years. (Code 1886, §4139; Code 1896, §5408; Code 1907, §7871; Code 1923, §5606; Code 1940, T. 38, §114.)
AL Code § 33-7-30 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 2 - Dams on Navigable Rivers.|Section 33-7-30 - Easement and Right to Construct Dams Across Navigable Rivers.

Section 33-7-30Easement and right to construct dams across navigable rivers. Any person, firm or corporation organized for the purpose of improving the navigation upon a navigable river in the State of Alabama, and of developing in connection therewith a water power thereof by a dam and lock, or a system of dams and locks, and electrically transmitting and distributing such power for the use of the public, which shall have acquired the necessary lands upon both sides of said river to the extent of at least one more than half of the necessary abutment sites for the said dam or system of dams, and lock or system of locks and shall have been organized or incorporated for the specific and particular purpose of improving the navigation of and developing water power in connection with a particular and specified river, and has prepared plans for the construction of a dam or system of dams and a lock or system of locks appertaining thereto, and filed a copy of said plans in the office of the Secretary of State of Alabama, together with a certified copy of its articles of incorporation (if a corporation), which provide both for the improvement of navigation of such river, and for the developing of the full water power of the same over the stretch of river thus to be improved, shall have authority to construct a dam or system of dams, with a lock or system of locks appertaining thereto in such river, for the improvement of navigation of said river by one or more slack water pools, due to the construction of said dam or dams and the development of water power in connection therewith, and to that end and in consideration of the benefits to the public by reason of the improvement of navigation of such river and the development of water power thereof, as herein provided, is granted an easement for power purposes to and in the waters and bed of the river in which dam or system of dams, and lock or system of locks are to be constructed, for the full area covered by the slack water pool or pools which will be created by the construction of the said dam or system of dams, to the extent necessary for developing the full power of said river over that length of same upon which navigation is to be improved as provided herein, and for providing suitable and convenient sites for the said dam or system of dams, locks, power houses and other features appurtenant thereto and necessary for navigation and power purposes, or for either of them, and to the extent made necessary by the impounding, diversion and conversion of the said waters as the same may be caused by the construction of the said dam or system of dams, or by any other change from the normal state of the said river, due to said construction, and necessary for the purpose of deriving the energy therefrom. (Code 1907, §6148; Code 1923, §10570; Code 1940, T. 38, §116.)
AL Code § 33-7-31 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 2 - Dams on Navigable Rivers.|Section 33-7-31 - Eminent Domain; Improvement of Navigation.

Section 33-7-31Eminent domain; improvement of navigation. Any such person, firm or corporation may exercise the power of eminent domain, for the purpose of acquiring such lands as it may be necessary or convenient to flood or otherwise utilize in order to improve navigation as provided in this article, such lands to include as well as all the area submerged a strip of land 50 feet in width bordering upon the margins of the slack water pool or pools as the same may be defined at the highest stage of the river at any time after the completion of the improvements herein provided for; and the right hereby conferred to exercise such power of eminent domain is cumulative. No person, firm or corporation shall acquire the rights granted by this article, unless the dam or system of dams, and lock or system of locks, to be constructed by such person, firm or corporation are so planned as, when constructed, will by the operation thereof improve the navigation of the river in which the dam or system of dams, lock or system of locks, are to be built, and will develop the full power of such river over the length of same upon which navigation is to be improved, as provided in this article. Such person, firm or corporation shall commence work upon said dam or system of dams, lock or system of locks, within five years from the date of securing the consent of the federal government to do so, and shall complete the same within the time prescribed by the United States government. No foreign corporation shall acquire the rights granted under this article until it has complied with the laws of Alabama with reference to foreign corporations. (Code 1907, §6149; Code 1923, §10571; Code 1940, T. 38, §117.)
AL Code § 33-7-32 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 2 - Dams on Navigable Rivers.|Section 33-7-32 - Prior Rights.

Section 33-7-32Prior rights. The person, firm or corporation which first, in point of time, shall have complied with the provisions of this article shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges herein granted. The operation of this section shall be retroactive. (Code 1907, §6150; Code 1923, §10572; Code 1940, T. 38, §118.)
AL Code § 33-7-50 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 3 - Rights of Riparian Owners.|Section 33-7-50 - Installing, etc., Wharves, Docks, etc.; Charging Tolls.

Section 33-7-50Installing, etc., wharves, docks, etc.; charging tolls. The owner of riparian lands upon navigable waters in the State of Alabama may install in front of their respective riparian lands wharves, docks, warehouses, sheds, tipples, chutes, elevators, conveyors and the like for receiving, discharging, storing, protecting, transferring, loading and unloading freight and commodities of commerce to and from vessels and carriers, and may use their riparian lands in connection therewith and dredge out and deepen the approaches thereto, and may charge and collect reasonable tolls for the use thereof. All such structures are to be subject to such lines and limitations as may at the time of making such improvements be laid or placed by any authority of the United States, or of the State of Alabama, who may have authority to control harbor and pier lines. (Acts 1915, No. 589, p. 639; Code 1923, §10573; Code 1940, T. 38, §119.)
AL Code § 33-7-51 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 3 - Rights of Riparian Owners.|Section 33-7-51 - Structures Not to Obstruct Navigation, etc.; Restriction on Tolls; Repossession by Legislature.

Section 33-7-51Structures not to obstruct navigation, etc.; restriction on tolls; repossession by Legislature. No such structure shall be built or maintained upon or over the lands of the state or lands underlying the navigable waters of the state so as to in any wise unreasonably obstruct navigation, or the freedom of the use of the navigable waters of the state for commerce and navigation, or for harbor purposes; nor shall any charge be exacted of any vessel, barge, boat or raft, either singly or in fleets, for anchoring, mooring or tying up or remaining on the navigable waters, presumptive or established, either or both of them, alongside of or on the lands of the state abutting thereon or thereunder, not then occupied by the structures and improvements placed thereon or therein pursuant hereto; or in the waters in front of said wharves and other structures so long as the reasonable use of said wharves and other structures occupying the lands of the state, or the aforesaid navigable waters of the state or the use of the approaches to said walls and other structures, or the coaling of vessels using same, is not unreasonably restricted, interfered with or prevented thereby; subject, however, to the further reservation and right of the Legislature or other authority constituted by it for such purpose, to vacate or cause to be vacated and repossess or cause to be repossessed by the state so much of said riparian lands belonging to it, as may be at any time necessary for use by the state or federal government in aid of navigation and commence or for harbor purposes, or to insure the freedom and safety of navigation or the public or the property abutting upon the navigable waters of the state, but not otherwise, and to that end may proceed under its right of eminent domain as to any structures thereon, so that the right of the state and the public may be preserved and insured under Section 24 of Article 1 of the Constitution of Alabama. (Acts 1915, No. 589, p. 639; Code 1923, §10574; Code 1940, T. 38, §120.)
AL Code § 33-7-52 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 3 - Rights of Riparian Owners.|Section 33-7-52 - Tolls, etc., Charged Subject to Regulation by Legislature.

Section 33-7-52Tolls, etc., charged subject to regulation by Legislature. All tolls, imposts, charges and duties authorized hereunder for the use of said wharves and other structures occupying the lands of the state or connected therewith, at all times hereafter, shall be subject to regulation and revision by the Legislature or other authority now existing or hereafter created by it for such purpose, together with the right and authority of the Legislature to fix and define or to delegate to an authority constituted by it the right and power to fix, define and prescribe reasonable tolls, imposts, charges and duties for the use of said wharves and other structures, and to prevent unjust discriminations with respect thereto. (Acts 1915, No. 589, p. 639; Code 1923, §10575; Code 1940, T. 38, §121.)
AL Code § 33-7-53 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 3 - Rights of Riparian Owners.|Section 33-7-53 - Development and Relief Work Upon and Abutting on Tidelands.

Section 33-7-53Development and relief work upon and abutting on tidelands. In order to encourage the building of bridges, causeways and other development work and relief work, the owner of any lands in the State of Alabama abutting on tidelands, the title to which or control of which may now or hereafter be vested in the State of Alabama, which shall not have been improved by or under valid public authority and shall not be otherwise devoted to public use, shall be authorized to acquire such tidelands and to fill, reclaim or otherwise improve same and to fill in, reclaim or otherwise improve the abutting submerged land and to own, use, mortgage and convey the lands so reclaimed, filled or improved, and any improvements thereon, under and subject to the conditions and approval herein stated. Any such improvement shall conform to any harbor line established at the time of such improvement by state or federal authority having jurisdiction over such matters, or if not then already established, same shall conform to any harbor line stipulated by any such authority having jurisdiction on application by such riparian owner. If such land shall be used for a bridge, road or causeway over navigable waters, or for bridgehead or approach thereto or for terminal facilities, depots, storage or sale yards, stores, warehouses or wharves abutting on such bridge or road or causeway, the plans for such bridge, road or causeway shall be approved by the United States engineer officers or other federal authority having jurisdiction, and by the director of the State Docks Department and the Governor of Alabama, and when so approved and when improved pursuant to such approval the title to the said lands and the entire improvements thereon shall vest in such riparian owner without further approval when the bridge, road or causeway shall be constructed pursuant to the plans so approved. If such improvement constructed or proposed shall not consist of a bridge, bridgehead, road or causeway, approach or related improvement included within this section, title shall not pass to the riparian owner making or proposing such improvement unless and until the riparian owner shall have obtained the approval of the county commission of the county in which the land is situated, and of the director of the State Docks Department and the Governor of Alabama, on application of such owner made after publication of 10 days' notice thereof by a single publication in a newspaper published in the county in which the land is situated and shall have filed for record in the county a certificate of such approval executed and acknowledged by the presiding officer of said respective authorities. (Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 147, p. 167; Code 1940, T. 38, §122.)
AL Code § 33-7-54 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.|Article 3 - Rights of Riparian Owners.|Section 33-7-54 - Dredging or Cleaning Creeks, etc., Running Through Property Permitted; Limitations on Right.

Section 33-7-54Dredging or cleaning creeks, etc., running through property permitted; limitations on right. Any law, or any rule or regulation promulgated by a state agency, to the contrary notwithstanding, any property owner shall have the authority to clean out or dredge a creek or stream running through his property. However, such person shall only be authorized to maintain any stream or creek which runs through or onto his property and no other. Provided, further, that such cleaning or dredging shall not adversely affect the rights of property owners either upstream or downstream from the site of such cleaning or dredging work, nor shall it change the natural course of said stream. (Acts 1979, No. 79-762, p. 1363.)
AL Code § 34-3-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 3 - Attorney-at-Law.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-3-1 - Unlawful Practice of Law.

Section 34-3-1Unlawful practice of law. If any person shall, without having become duly licensed to practice, or whose license to practice shall have expired either by disbarment, failure to pay his license fee within 30 days after the day it becomes due, or otherwise, practice or assume to act or hold himself or herself out to the public as a person qualified to practice or carry on the calling of a lawyer, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not to exceed $500, or be imprisoned for a period not to exceed six months, or both. (Acts 1923, No. 133, p. 100; Code 1923, §3318; Acts 1931, No. 241, p. 284; Code 1940, T. 46, §31.)
AL Code § 34-3-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 3 - Attorney-at-Law.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-3-2 - Board of Examiners.

Section 34-3-2Board of Examiners. The Board of Commissioners of the State Bar shall have the following powers and authority in addition to the powers and authority heretofore conferred upon or vested in the board: The board shall provide for a Board of Examiners on Admission to the State Bar and may prescribe rules and regulations governing the selection of examiners, their number, tenure, compensation, and authority, the subjects upon which candidates for admission shall be examined, the conduct of examiners, the time and place of meetings, and the certification of persons found to be qualified. The board shall prescribe necessary rules and regulations to ensure that the membership of the Board of Examiners on Admission to the State Bar is inclusive and reflects the racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state and that each member of the board of examiners is a citizen of this state. (Acts 1949, No. 436, p. 632, §1; Act 2003-140, p. 438, §3; Act 2011-170, p. 329, §3.)
AL Code § 34-3-2.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 3 - Attorney-at-Law.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-3-2.1 - Certified Graduates of Certain Law Schools Authorized to Take Bar Exam.

Section 34-3-2.1Certified graduates of certain law schools authorized to take bar exam. So long as the Birmingham School of Law, Miles College School of Law, and Jones School of Law maintain a four-year curriculum of law courses for resident law students each consisting of 30 weeks of classes or of one year more than the full-time program at the state university law school, namely the University of Alabama Law School, and with the curriculum covering basic law courses, covering all bar exam courses, and other elective courses sufficient for a four-year program, which courses are taught by licensed attorneys or judges, then, upon satisfactory completion of the courses, the graduates certified by the deans of the institutions shall be deemed to have sufficient legal training to take the bar exam offered by the State of Alabama or any of its agents as prescribed by law. If they have other qualifying criteria, they have full rights to sit for the bar exam as any other applicant from any other schools. This approval is given for as long as the schools operate and without reservation of powers to act further unless this section is anyway abrogated. (Acts 1983, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 83-823, p. 39, §1; Acts 1991, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 91-790, p. 184, §1.)
AL Code § 34-3-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 3 - Attorney-at-Law.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-3-3 - Admission Fee Paid by Applicants.

Section 34-3-3Admission fee paid by applicants. Applicants for admission to the bar not required by law to take an examination shall pay a fee to be set by the Board of Commissioners, but not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500); applicants for admission who are bona fide residents of the State of Alabama who are required to be examined by the Board of Bar Examiners shall pay a fee to be determined by the Board of Commissioners not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), and applicants for admission who are not bona fide residents of the State of Alabama who are required to be examined by the Board of Bar Examiners shall pay the same fee set for residence examinees, plus an additional sum to be determined by the Board of Commissioners not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). The Board of Commissioners shall not have the authority to increase the fee provided for in this paragraph for applicants who are bona fide residents of the State of Alabama or the additional fee for applicants who are not bona fide residents of the State of Alabama by more than one hundred dollars ($100) in any one calendar year. Such fees shall be paid to the Secretary of the Board of Bar Commissioners. Twenty-five dollars ($25) of each fee generated pursuant to this section shall be distributed by the secretary to the Alabama Lawyer Assistance Foundation. (Code 1923, §6229; Acts 1939, No. 551, p. 871, §1; Code 1940, T. 46, §29; Acts 1951, No. 127, p. 355, §1; Acts 1971, No. 229, p. 533, §1; Acts 1979, No. 79-251, p. 383, §1; Acts 1991, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 91-791, p. 185, §1; Act 2009-661, p. 2028, §1.)
AL Code § 34-3-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 3 - Attorney-at-Law.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-3-4 - Disposition of Admission and License Fees.

Section 34-3-4Disposition of admission and license fees. All fees and licenses paid by applicants for admission as provided in this chapter and attorneys' annual license fee levied by the revenue law shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Alabama State Bar and constitute a separate fund to be disbursed as provided in Section 34-3-44. (Code 1923, §6230; Acts 1939, No. 551, p. 871, §1; Code 1940, T. 46, §30; Acts 1951, No. 127, p. 355, §1; Acts 1951, No. 827, p. 1459, §1.)
AL Code § 34-3-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 3 - Attorney-at-Law.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-3-5 - Effect of Default in License Payment.

Section 34-3-5Effect of default in license payment. No attorney who is in default in the payment of such annual license shall be recognized in the courts of Alabama or in the voting or transacting of business by the State Bar as being in good standing until he or she has paid the required annual license fee. (Code 1923, §6230; Acts 1939, No. 551, p. 871, §1; Code 1940, T. 46, §30; Acts 1951, No. 127, p. 355, §1; Acts 1951, No. 827, p. 1459, §1.)
AL Code § 34-3-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 3 - Attorney-at-Law.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 34-3-7 - Penalty for Practicing Law Without License or Conspiring, Aiding, or Abetting in Violation.

Section 34-3-7Penalty for practicing law without license or conspiring, aiding, or abetting in violation. Any person, firm or corporation who is not a regularly licensed attorney who does an act defined in this article to be an act of practicing law is guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, must be punished as provided by law. Any person, firm or corporation who conspires with, aids and abets another person, firm or corporation in the commission of such misdemeanor must, on conviction, be punished as provided by law. (Code 1852, §729; Code 1867, §816; Code 1876, §780; Code 1886, §853; Code 1896, §579; Code 1907, §2983; Code 1923, §6248; Acts 1927, No. 573, p. 669, §1; Acts 1931, No. 493, p. 606, §3; Code 1940, T. 46, §42; Acts 1949, No. 167, p. 194, §1.)