Code of Alabama - Title 33: Navigation and Watercourses - Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams
- Article 1 In General.
- Section 33-7-1 Navigable waters as public thoroughfares
All navigable waters in this state are public thoroughfares.
- Section 33-7-2 Opening and cleaning navigable streams
The county commission is authorized to make contracts for opening or cleaning out any navigable stream within the county, and for keeping the same free...
- Section 33-7-3 Obstructing navigable watercourse
Any person who dams up or otherwise obstructs a navigable watercourse must, on conviction, be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00.
- Section 33-7-3.1 Obstructing navigation on public waters
(a) Any person who anchors, moors, or abandons a floating pier, barge, or vessel or sunken or submerged pier, barge, or vessel that obstructs navigation...
- Section 33-7-4 Damages for diverting stream
Any person diverting any stream, whether navigable or not, from its natural channel, is liable to any party aggrieved for the damages sustained.
- Section 33-7-5 Obstructing streams used for floating timber to market
Any person who, during the season of high waters, leaves or causes to be left in any of the streams of this state used for...
- Section 33-7-6 Floating logs, timber or lumber upon watercourse without sufficient force to prevent obstruction
Any person who floats any logs, timber or lumber upon any navigable watercourse, without accompanying the same with sufficient force to prevent the obstruction of...
- Section 33-7-7 Turning logs, timber or lumber out of boom without notice to owner
Any person owning or controlling any boom in any navigable watercourse who turns adrift any logs, timber or lumber caught in such boom without giving...
- Section 33-7-8 Opening or cutting loose boom without authority
Any person who opens the boom of another for any purpose without his permission, or wilfully cuts, unties, loosens or casts off any rope, chain,...
- Section 33-7-9 Trespass after warning on booms, bulkheads or piles erected, etc., by riparian proprietors
Any person who, having been warned within the 12 months next preceding by the owner or proprietor not to do so, trespasses upon any boom,...
- Section 33-7-10 Mobile Harbor - Fastening vessels, rafts, etc., and obstructing channel in Mobile bay
Any person who makes any vessel, boat or watercraft of any description, or any raft or collection of logs, lumber or timber, fast to any...
- Section 33-7-11 Mobile 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...
- Section 33-7-12 Mobile 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...
- Article 2 Dams on Navigable Rivers.
- Article 3 Rights of Riparian Owners.
- Section 33-7-50 Installing, 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,...
- Section 33-7-51 Structures 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...
- Section 33-7-52 Tolls, 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...
- Section 33-7-53 Development 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...
- Section 33-7-54 Dredging 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...
Last modified: May 3, 2021