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AL Code § 33-1-1.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-1.1 - Definitions.

Section 33-1-1.1Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The Board of Directors of the Alabama State Port Authority. (2) DIRECTOR. The Chief Executive Officer of the Alabama State Port Authority. (3) DOCKS. Alabama state docks. (4) PORT AUTHORITY. The Alabama State Port Authority. (5) STATE ETHICS ACT. Chapter 25, commencing with Section 36-25-1, of Title 36. (Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §1.)
AL Code § 33-1-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-2 - Alabama State Port Authority.

Section 33-1-2Alabama State Port Authority. There shall be a state agency known as the Alabama State Port Authority, hereinafter sometimes referred to as the port authority. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever any act, section of this code, or any other provision of law refers to the Alabama State Docks Department, it shall be deemed a reference to the Alabama State Port Authority. The port authority shall promote, supervise, control, manage, and direct the state docks and all other state lands included within the jurisdiction of this chapter. The port authority shall be constituted as provided in this chapter, and it shall maintain and operate all the improvements and facilities authorized by this chapter.  (Acts 1955, No. 103, p. 345, § 1; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, § 2.)
AL Code § 33-1-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-3 - Director.

Section 33-1-3Director. The chief executive officer of the port authority shall be known as the Director of the Alabama State Port Authority. The director may not have any financial interest in any harbor facilities or property that the port authority or its predecessors have acquired or may acquire or manage, and may not have any financial or personal interest in any business or enterprise of any sort which interferes or is inconsistent with his or her duties as director. The duties of the director shall be as follows: (1) Exercise the chief executive authority of the port authority, and exercise, consistent with this chapter and other applicable law, all the powers, authority, and duties vested by this chapter or other applicable law in the port authority. (2) Appoint, with the advice and consent of the board of directors of the port authority, no more than 11 individuals as executive level employees. These individuals shall be non-merit system employees and may replace current Merit System executive level employees who retire or otherwise leave the employment of the port authority. The director shall fix the salaries of these non-merit system executive level employees giving due consideration to the salaries of comparable positions in other states and in private industries. These non-merit system executive level employees, though not participants in the classified service of the state under the Merit System Act, shall be entitled to the other benefits, including, but not limited to, retirement, sick and annual leave, and insurance benefits afforded other state employees, except that the board of directors of the port authority may provide and fund an alternate benefit package for them. (3) Employ, with the advice and consent of the board of directors of the port authority, all individuals necessary to the efficient operation of the Alabama State Port Authority, including a secretary-treasurer, fix their conditions of employment and tenure in office, and be responsible for the efficient discharge of their duties. (Acts 1943, No. 122, p. 123, §1; Acts 1955, No. 103, p. 345, §§2, 7; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 208, p. 2190, §1; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 302, p. 2362, §1; Acts 1987, No. 87-592, p. 1030, §1; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §2; Act 2007-384, p. 766, §1; Act 2021-184, §1.)
AL Code § 33-1-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-4 - Assistant Directors.

Section 33-1-4Assistant directors. Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000. (Acts 1955, No. 103, p. 345, §6; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 302, p. 2362, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-5 - Officers and Employees; Employee Compensation Plan.

Section 33-1-5Officers and employees; employee compensation plan. (a) All employees and officers of the Alabama State Port Authority, except the director, executive level employees hired pursuant to Section 33-1-3, and those exempt under Section 36-26-10, shall be subject to the provisions of the state Merit System law with respect to the method of selection, classification, and compensation of state employees. Sections 33-1-5.1 and 33-1-5.2 shall apply to the director and the non-merit system executive level employees, including their spouses and dependents; however, nothing in Act 2000-598 shall be construed to alter or modify Sections 33-1-5.1 and 33-1-5.2. (b) Persons employed by the Alabama State Docks Department on August 1, 2000, shall continue to have precisely the same rights and benefits as they now have under the Merit System and under the State Employees' Retirement System and all other benefits that they had on August 1, 2000. (c) The Alabama State Port Authority may employ port police officers at the Port of Mobile, who shall be employed pursuant to the state Merit System. Port police officers employed pursuant to this subsection are constituted peace officers of the State of Alabama with full police power and jurisdiction to enforce the laws of the state and the rules and regulations which may be promulgated by the port authority on property owned by or otherwise within the jurisdiction of the Alabama State Port Authority and the approaches thereto. Port police officers shall meet the minimum standards for law enforcement officers provided by law. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the board of directors of the port authority shall have the authority to adopt and implement an employee compensation plan applicable to the director, the non-merit system executive level employees, and those employees employed pursuant to the state Merit System that provides for compensation to the employees solely out of funds of the Alabama State Port Authority in addition to any other compensation payable to any employees under existing law as an incentive for achieving goals specified by the plan. The employee compensation plan may compensate Merit System employees in excess of, and in addition to, the normal compensation received by the Merit System employee. The compensation plan shall complement the existing pay plan applicable to Merit System employees. Nothing in this section shall be construed to change, alter, diminish, or amend the state Merit System laws or regulations which shall continue to apply to all Merit System employees employed by the port authority. (Acts 1955, No. 103, p. 345, §6; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 302, p. 2362, §2; Act 2000-458, p. 857, §1; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §2; Act 2007-384, p. 766, §1.)
AL Code § 33-1-5.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-5.2 - Life and Health Insurance for Certain Salaried Officers and Employees of State Docks.

Section 33-1-5.2Life and health insurance for certain salaried officers and employees of state docks. (a) The Alabama State Port Authority is hereby authorized to provide and establish a plan of life and health insurance for the salaried officers and employees of Alabama state docks who work full time for the Alabama state docks and receive their compensation on a bi-weekly basis and also a plan of health insurance for the spouses and dependent children of such officers and employees and to pay the costs and premiums of such life and health insurance from the revenues of the Alabama State Port Authority. (b) Such health insurance plan may provide for group hospitalization, surgical, medical and dental insurance against the financial costs of hospitalization, surgical, medical and dental treatment and care, and may also include, among other things, prescribed drugs, medicines, prosthetic appliances, hospital in-patient and out-patient service benefits, including major medical benefits, or such other coverage or benefits as may be deemed appropriate and desirable by the port authority. The life insurance plan shall be a group plan with the face amount of such life insurance coverage on such salaried officers and employees limited to such amounts as may be deemed appropriate and desirable by the port authority. (c) The port authority is hereby authorized to execute a contract or contracts to provide the benefits under the life and health insurance coverage provided by this section. Such contract or contracts may be executed with one or more agents or corporations licensed to transact life and health insurance business in this state. All of the benefits to be provided under this section may be included in one or more similar contracts issued by the same or different companies. Before entering into any contract hereby authorized said port authority shall invite competitive bids from qualified insurers who wish to offer plans for the life and health insurance coverage provided by this section. (d) The benefits provided for herein shall not exceed the benefits provided to employees of the Alabama State Port Authority subject to collective bargaining agreements. (Acts 1982, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 82-674, p. 106, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-6 - Bonds Required of Certain Employees.

Section 33-1-6Bonds required of certain employees. Before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, all employees of the port authority handling money or vested with discretionary powers shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the board, in amounts to be fixed by the director of the port authority, for the faithful performance of their duties. (Acts 1943, No. 122, p. 123; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 208, p. 2190; Act 2000-598. § 2.)
AL Code § 33-1-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-7 - Functions of Secretary-Treasurer; Bond.

Section 33-1-7Functions of secretary-treasurer; bond. (a) The secretary-treasurer shall receive and disburse for the port authority, under the supervision of the director, all moneys which the port authority is authorized to receive and disburse. The secretary-treasurer shall be responsible for the safekeeping thereof and shall properly account therefor. The director shall make a monthly report to the board of the acts and doings of the secretary-treasurer. (b) Before entering upon the duties of his or her office, the secretary-treasurer shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be approved by the board, in an amount to be fixed by the director of the port authority, for the faithful performance of his or her duties. (Acts 1943, No. 122, p. 123; Acts 1955, No. 103, p. 345, §7; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 208, p. 2190; Act 2000-598, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-9 - State Docks Advisory Committee - Vice-Chairman and Secretary; Meetings; Quorum; Records.

Section 33-1-9State docks advisory committee - Vice-chairman and secretary; meetings; quorum; records. Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000. (Acts 1955, No. 103, p. 345, §5.)
AL Code § 33-1-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-10 - State Docks Advisory Committee - Committee to Act in Advisory Capacity.

Section 33-1-10State docks advisory committee - Committee to act in advisory capacity. Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000. (Acts 1955, No. 103, p. 345, §6; Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 302, p. 2362, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-11 - Jurisdiction.

Section 33-1-11Jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of the port authority in any harbor or seaport within the state shall extend over the waters and shores of a harbor and shall extend to the outer edge of the outer bar at the harbor or seaport. The jurisdiction of the port authority shall also extend over the waters and shores of all rivers and streams within the state which are navigable for commercial traffic, or which may be made so navigable at any time in the future. The jurisdiction of the port authority shall not be exclusive, however, and nothing contained herein shall be taken as a deprivation of the power of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to control, hold, lease, manage, or own the minerals, sands, gravel, or any other natural resources in the beds of navigable streams or other public waters as provided by law. (Acts 1955, No. 367, p. 887, §2; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-12 - Power to Acquire, Operate, etc., Structures, Facilities, Etc.

Section 33-1-12Power to acquire, operate, etc., structures, facilities, etc. The port authority, in engaging in the work of internal improvement, or promoting, developing, constructing, maintaining and operating harbors, seaports, and riverports within the state and its jurisdiction, may acquire, purchase, install, lease, construct, own, hold, maintain, equip, use, control, and operate, at seaports, or at any ports located on any river or stream which is navigable for commercial traffic, or which may be made so navigable at any time in the future, wharves, piers, docks, quays, grain elevators, cotton compresses, warehouses, and other water and rail terminals and other structures, and facilities needed for the convenient use of the port authority in the aid of commerce, including the dredging of approaches thereto.  (Acts 1955, No. 367, p. 887, §3; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-12.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-12.1 - Additional Powers.

Section 33-1-12.1Additional powers. In addition to the powers conferred in this chapter and by other applicable law, the port authority shall have the following powers: (1) To have and use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (2) To exercise the right of eminent domain as freely and completely, and in the same manner, as the state has that power now or at any time hereafter, and the power of eminent domain shall apply not only as to all property of private persons or corporations but also as to property already devoted to public use. (3) To acquire by purchase, gift, the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or other lawful means, sell, rent, lease, and otherwise dispose of real, personal, or mixed property in its own name, and to construct, improve, renovate, equip, and maintain the docks and its facilities. (4) To receive, take, and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise, eminent domain, or other lawful means, real and personal estate of every description in its own name, and to manage the same. (5) To appoint and employ attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, underwriters, trustees, depositories, registrars, and other advisors, agents, and independent contractors as the business of the docks may require. (6) To enter into contracts with municipalities, counties, agencies, or political subdivisions of the state or any other state, private persons, firms, corporations, and any branch of the federal government, in furtherance of its public purposes and objects, and as necessary and convenient to the exercise of its other powers and to the discharge of its duties and obligations, either relative to work done or to be done. (Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §3.)
AL Code § 33-1-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-13 - Governor May Make Additional Investigations Relative to Acquisition, etc., of Facilities.

Section 33-1-13Governor may make additional investigations relative to acquisition, etc., of facilities. Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000. (Acts 1923, No. 303, p. 330; Code 1923, §2538; Acts 1927, No. 1, p. 1; Acts 1935, No. 385, p. 821; Code 1940, T. 38, §14.)
AL Code § 33-1-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-14 - Appraisal of Real Estate; Approval of Facilities by Governor Prerequisite to Beginning Project.

Section 33-1-14Appraisal of real estate; approval of facilities by Governor prerequisite to beginning project. Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000. (Acts 1923, No. 303, p. 330; Code 1923, §2539; Acts 1927, No. 1, p. 1; Acts 1935, No. 385, p. 821; Code 1940, T. 38, §15.)
AL Code § 33-1-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-15 - Amendment of Plans.

Section 33-1-15Amendment of plans. Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000. (Acts 1927, No. 1, p. 1; Acts 1935, No. 385, p. 821; Code 1940, T. 38, §16.)
AL Code § 33-1-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-16 - Terminal Railroads.

Section 33-1-16Terminal railroads. The port authority may acquire, own, lease, locate, install, construct, hold, maintain, control, and operate at seaports a line of terminal railroads with necessary sidings, turn outs, spurs, branches, switches, yard tracks, bridges, trestles, and causeways, and in connection therewith or appurtenant thereto shall have the further right to lease, install, construct, acquire, own, maintain, control, and use any and every kind or character of motive power and conveyances or appliance necessary or proper to carry passengers, goods, wares, and merchandise over, along or upon the tracks of the railroads or other conveyances. The port authority may make agreements as to scale of wages, seniority, and working conditions with locomotive engineers, locomotive firemen, switchmen and switch engine foremen, and hostlers engaged in the operation of the terminal railroads provided for in this section, and the service and equipment pertinent thereto. Should the port authority exercise the power herein given, then it shall be the duty of the port authority to make such agreements with the employees hereinabove specified, in accordance with the act of Congress known as the Railway Labor Act, being 45 U.S.C.A. Section 151 et seq., as amended, or as hereafter amended, to the end that the agreements as to seniority and working conditions will obtain as to said employees and the standard rate of pay be provided as are in force relative to like employees of interstate railroads operating in the same territory with terminal railroads authorized hereby. The port authority may connect its terminal railroads with or cross any other railroad upon the payment of just compensation and may receive, deliver to and transport the freight, passengers, and cars of common carrier railroads as though it were an ordinary common carrier. (Acts 1923, No. 303, p. 330; Code 1923, §2540; Acts 1927, No. 1, p. 1; Acts 1935, No. 385, p. 821; Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 92, p. 57; Code 1940, T. 38, §17; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-17 - Title to Property.

Section 33-1-17Title to property. The title to all property acquired by the Alabama State Docks Department and now vested in the State of Alabama shall on August 1, 2000, be vested in the port authority. The director, with the consent and the approval of the board may dispose of, sell, or lease to others, at reasonable prices and for reasonable compensation, without a competitive advertised public auction or advertised sealed bid process any of the property, equipment, and facilities of the port authority.  (Acts 1923, No. 303, p. 330; Code 1923, §2541; Acts 1927, No. 1, p. 1; Acts 1935, No. 385, p. 821; Acts 1936, Ex. Sess., No. 92, p. 57; Code 1940, T. 38, §18; Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 96-21, p. 24, §1; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-19 - Exemption of Leases, etc., From Taxation.

Section 33-1-19Exemption of leases, etc., from taxation. All leases of real estate within the boundaries of the approved plan or within the boundaries of any amendment or extension thereof, for port or harbor improvement in and by the State of Alabama, the port authority, or its predecessors, now in effect, and also all structures and all improvements and all other permanent facilities erected, installed or located, by the lessees, or their successors or assigns, within the boundaries aforesaid, shall be free and exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxation for the period as may be stipulated in the lease now in effect. (Acts 1927, No. 1, p. 1; Acts 1935, No. 385, p. 821; Code 1940, T. 38, §19; Acts 1945, No. 40, p. 46; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-20 - Exchange of Property and Relocation of Buildings, Etc.

Section 33-1-20Exchange of property and relocation of buildings, etc. The port authority may exchange any property or properties acquired under the authority of this chapter for other property or properties usable in carrying out the powers hereby conferred, and also remove from lands needed for its purposes and reconstruct on other locations buildings, terminals, railroads, or other structures upon the payment of just compensation, if, in its judgment, it is necessary or expedient to do so in order to carry out any of its plans for port development. (Acts 1923, No. 303, p. 330; Code 1923, §2342; Code 1940, T. 38, §20; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §2.)
AL Code § 33-1-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions Relative to Harbors and Ports and State Docks Department.|Section 33-1-21 - Enforcement.

Section 33-1-21Enforcement. The port authority may bring and prosecute all civil actions and other legal proceedings proper or necessary for the enforcement of its rights growing out of any of its transactions or operations authorized by this chapter. (Code 1923, §2545; Acts 1935, No. 385, p. 821; Code 1940, T. 38, §21; Act 2000-598, p. 1199, §2.)