Code of Alabama - Title 9: Conservation and Natural Resources - Chapter 3 - State Forestry Commission

• Section 9-3-1 Created; composition; qualifications, appointment and terms of office of members
  There is hereby created and established a State Forestry Commission, hereinafter referred to as commission, which commission shall be composed of seven members to be...
• Section 9-3-2 Officers; meetings; quorum; record of proceedings; compensation and expenses of members
  The commission shall, upon its first meeting, which shall be called by the Governor within 60 days after appointment of the membership, elect from its...
• Section 9-3-3 Vacancies
  If any member of the commission fails to attend three successive meetings of the commission without good and valid cause or excuse or without a...
• Section 9-3-4 Powers and duties generally
  The functions and duties of the commission shall be as follows: (1) To protect, conserve and increase the timber and forest resources of this state...
• Section 9-3-5 State forester
  It shall be the duty of the Alabama Forestry Commission to appoint with the advice and consent of the Governor a State Forester who shall...
• Section 9-3-6 Assistant State Forester
  The commission shall also appoint, with the advice and consent of the Governor, an Assistant State Forester, who shall hold at least a bachelor degree...
• Section 9-3-7 Offices
  The commission shall have its main offices in the City of Montgomery; provided, that it may establish other district or subdistrict offices throughout the state...
• Section 9-3-8 Members of commission not eligible for certain employments
  No member of the commission, during the tenure of his office or within two years thereafter, shall be eligible for appointment as State Forester or...
• Section 9-3-9 Promulgation of rules and regulations
  The commission shall have the power to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to all phases of forestry within this state, which rules and...
• Section 9-3-10 Alabama Forestry Commission Fund
  There is hereby created a fund in the State Treasury to be known as the Alabama Forestry Commission Fund. All money derived by the commission...
• Section 9-3-10.1 Emergency Forest Fire, Insect and Disease Fund; creation; annual automatic appropriation; ceiling on amount; expenditures; replenishment; Governor's approval
  (a) There is hereby established an Emergency Forest Fire, Insect and Disease Fund into which there is automatically appropriated two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)...
• Section 9-3-11 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Creation
  The State Forester is hereby authorized and required to create a steering committee to represent rural community fire departments.
• Section 9-3-12 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Membership; appointment, qualifications and term of office of members; filling of vacancies in office
  Said steering committee shall be composed of 13 members; one from each of the 10 administrative districts of the Alabama Forestry Commission, one member from...
• Section 9-3-13 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Recommendations to State Forester
  The steering committee shall make recommendations to the State Forester regarding how to improve the rural community fire program and how to solve immediate problems...
• Section 9-3-14 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Meetings; quorum
  The committee shall meet semiannually, with the members of the committee setting the date. The State Forester shall have the authority to call special meetings....
• Section 9-3-15 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments - Compensation and expenses of members
  Members of the committee shall not be compensated for their services, but each shall be entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses in the same manner...
• Section 9-3-16 Advisory committee on general forestry matters
  The State Forester is further authorized to establish a committee and call meetings of such committee to advise him on general forestry matters in Alabama....
• Section 9-3-17 Certification as volunteer fire department
  (a) The term volunteer fire department shall apply to and be used to define an organized group of area residents who meet the following requirements...
• Section 9-3-18 Public governmental entities, political subdivisions, etc., authorized to make donations to organizations deemed public in nature
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that this section provides assistance to organized volunteer fire departments and organized search, air, and rescue squads...
• Section 9-3-19 Donation of fire control property
  (a) As used in this section, the term "fire control or fire rescue equipment" includes, but is not limited to, a motor vehicle, fire fighting...
• Section 9-3-20 Exemption of timber lands from local fire district service charges and fees; jurisdiction of Alabama Forestry Commission
  (a) A local fire district may not assess any type of fees or dues upon forest land that is treated as timber land for ad...

Last modified: May 3, 2021