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 State may engage in promoting, constructing, operating, etc., harbors and ports; expenditure of funds to entertain customers, etc., authorized; audit and accounting of certain expenditures
  The State of Alabama may engage in, through the agency of the Alabama State Port Authority provided and designated by law, works of internal improvement,...
• Section 33-1-1.1 Definitions
  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....
• Section 33-1-2 Alabama 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...
• Section 33-1-3 Director
  The chief executive officer of the port authority shall be known as the Director of the Alabama State Port Authority. The director shall have no...
• Section 33-1-4 Assistant directors
  Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000.
• Section 33-1-5 Officers 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...
• Section 33-1-5.1 Retirement plans for employees of Alabama State Port Authority
  (a) The Alabama State Port Authority may establish and fund retirement plans for various employees of the Alabama State Port Authority including but not limited...
• Section 33-1-5.2 Life 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...
• Section 33-1-6 Bonds 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...
• Section 33-1-7 Functions 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...
• Section 33-1-8 Board of directors
  (a)(1) The port authority shall be governed by a board of directors, consisting of eight appointed members and one ex officio member. a. The Governor...
• Section 33-1-9 State docks advisory committee - Vice-chairman and secretary; meetings; quorum; records
  Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000.
• Section 33-1-10 State docks advisory committee - Committee to act in advisory capacity
  Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000.
• Section 33-1-11 Jurisdiction
  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...
• Section 33-1-12 Power 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...
• Section 33-1-12.1 Additional 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...
• Section 33-1-13 Governor may make additional investigations relative to acquisition, etc., of facilities
  Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000.
• Section 33-1-14 Appraisal 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.
• Section 33-1-15 Amendment of plans
  Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000.
• Section 33-1-16 Terminal 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,...
• Section 33-1-17 Title 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,...
• Section 33-1-18 Sales of submerged lands and made lands lying under or abutting tidal waters
  (a) The Director of the Alabama State Port Authority is vested with power and authority to obtain and negotiate a sale of any submerged lands...
• Section 33-1-19 Exemption 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...
• Section 33-1-20 Exchange 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...
• Section 33-1-21 Enforcement
  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...
• Section 33-1-22 Acquisition of property and rights-of-way
  For the acquiring of rights-of-way and property necessary for the construction of terminal railroads and structures, including railroad crossings, wharves, piers, docks, quays, grain elevators,...
• Section 33-1-23 To what property eminent domain applicable
  Repealed by Act 2000-598, §8, 2000 Regular Session, effective August 1, 2000.
• Section 33-1-24 Conduct of operation of harbors, ports, facilities, etc., by port authority
  The operation of all harbors and seaports within the state and the improvements and facilities hereby authorized shall be conducted in the name of the...
• Section 33-1-25 Port authority authorized to carry fire and casualty and public liability insurance
  The Alabama State Port Authority is hereby authorized to provide insurance covering loss or damage to its properties, or any properties of others in its...
• Section 33-1-26 Power of port authority to fix charges for use of state facilities; charges for use of private facilities
  In order to enable the port authority to earn funds to pay operating expenses and interest on the bonds and to create a sinking fund...
• Section 33-1-27 Exercise and evidence of authority of Governor and port authority
  The Governor and the port authority, respectively, are directed and required to exercise the power and authority by this chapter conferred upon them, respectively, to...
• Section 33-1-28 Establishment of harbor lines; grant of licenses for construction of wharves, etc
  The port authority may establish harbor lines, exterior and interior, when not in conflict with similar lines established by the United States. The port authority...
• Section 33-1-29 Revocation or suspension of upland owners' licenses
  Any license granted by the State of Alabama, either expressly or by implication, permitting the upland owner to occupy any part of the space between...
• Section 33-1-30 Establishment of foreign trade zones
  In order to comply with the laws, rules and regulations of the federal government governing the establishment of foreign trade zones, under an act of...
• Section 33-1-31 Rules and regulations; violations
  The port authority is authorized to formulate and promulgate rules and regulations for the operation of any seaport or harbor within the state. Any person,...
• Section 33-1-32 Violation of orders, etc., of director or agents
  If any master, agent, or owner of any water craft shall refuse or neglect to obey the lawful orders or directions of the director or...
• Section 33-1-33 Failure to remove dangerous vessels on order of port authority
  Any owner or any agency in control of any vessel that is anchored, moored, or made fast to the shore when the same is in...
• Section 33-1-34 Ships entering or leaving Port of Mobile to fly flag of country of registry; name of country of registry to be stated in advertising, etc
  (a) All ships entering or leaving the Port of Mobile shall fly the flag of the country in which such ship is registered and all...
• Section 33-1-35 Depositing substance that will form obstruction to navigation
  Any person who shall deposit or cause to be deposited, in the waters of the Harbor of Mobile, any substance that will sink and form...
• Section 33-1-36 Authority of Alabama State Port Authority to contract with federal government for purpose of receiving funds, supplies, facilities, etc.; regulation and promotion of projects; payment of relocation, etc., expenses of persons displaced
  (a) The State of Alabama, acting through its agency, the Alabama State Port Authority, with the consent of the Governor, is hereby authorized and empowered...
• Section 33-1-37 Safety incentive program
  The Director of the Alabama State Port Authority, to promote a safe working environment, may expend funds from fees collected by the port authority or...
• Section 33-1-38 Compliance with Railway Labor Act
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the state, acting through the Alabama State Port Authority, is hereby authorized to comply with any...
• Section 33-1-39 Contracts
  All contracts of the Alabama State Docks Department, now known as the Alabama State Port Authority, shall be in writing to precisely the same extent,...
• Section 33-1-40 Sovereign immunity
  The port authority shall have sovereign immunity from suit to precisely the same extent as the Alabama State Docks Department had on August 1, 2000.
• Section 33-1-41 Obligations
  Each and every existing obligation of the Alabama State Docks Department, now known as the Alabama State Port Authority, whether bonded indebtedness, contractual obligation, obligations...
• Section 33-1-42 Outstanding bonds
  It is the intention of the Legislature in enacting Act 2000-598 to preserve inviolate all pledges heretofore made of any portion of the revenues of...

Last modified: May 3, 2021