Code of Alabama - Title 9: Conservation and Natural Resources - Chapter 8A - Cost-share Grants for Soil and Water Conservation

• Section 9-8A-1 Definitions
  The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein...
• Section 9-8A-2 Legislative findings and declaration of purpose
  It is hereby found and declared to be the policy of the state to provide for the restoration and conservation of the soil resources of...
• Section 9-8A-3 Commission - Members and officers; terms of office; vacancies; compensation and expenses; meetings; quorum; record of proceedings; copies of proceedings as evidence; members and officers not personally liable
  (a) The members of the commission shall consist of the Governor; the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries; the President of the Alabama Farmers Federation; the...
• Section 9-8A-4 Commission - Powers
  The commission shall have the following powers: (1) To have succession by its corporate name until it shall have been dissolved as provided herein; (2)...
• Section 9-8A-4.1 Commission - Revolving fund established; expenditure of funds; appropriation of funds to commission
  (a) There is hereby established the Alabama Agricultural and Conservation Development Commission Revolving Fund to consist of all moneys received by the commission from legislative...
• Section 9-8A-5 Allocation of funds to soil and water conservation districts
  (a) Funds allocated to the soil and water conservation districts by the commission shall be used only to pay the costs of installing soil and...
• Section 9-8A-6 Application for cost-share grant
  In order to qualify for a cost-share grant, an eligible person shall file, accompanied by the applications specified in this section, a conservation plan approved...
• Section 9-8A-7 Eligible soil and water conservation practices
  The following soil and water conservation practices shall be eligible for cost-share grants of the allocated funds: (1) REDUCED TILLAGE SYSTEMS. Reduced tillage practices, used...
• Section 9-8A-8 Ineligible lands
  Allocated funds shall not be used to reimburse other units of government for implementing soil and water conservation practices. Privately-owned land not used for agricultural...
• Section 9-8A-9 Cost-share grant processing procedures
  Applicants for cost-share grants for soil and water conservation practices shall complete and submit an application for allocated funds as described herein to the soil...
• Section 9-8A-10 Designing of proposed soil and water conservation practices
  A qualified technician of, or technician designated by, the soil and water conservation district in which a particular project is located shall design and lay...
• Section 9-8A-11 Agreement to maintain conservation practices; sale of land with respect to which agreement is in effect
  As a condition for receipt of a cost-share grant of allocated funds for soil and water conservation practices, the eligible person receiving the benefit of...
• Section 9-8A-12 Reporting and accounting by soil and water conservation districts
  Since appropriations made by the Legislature to the commission are anticipated to be made to the commission with respect to each fiscal year, each soil...
• Section 9-8A-13 Exemption of commission from taxation
  The property and income of the commission, conveyances by or to the commission, and leases, mortgages and deeds of trust or trust indentures by or...
• Section 9-8A-14 Exemption of cost-share grants from taxation
  The gross income for Alabama income tax purposes of an eligible person receiving a cost-share grant from the commission pursuant to this chapter shall not...
• Section 9-8A-15 Independence of commission; incorporation and exercise of powers; Alabama Administrative Procedure Act inapplicable
  This chapter is intended to aid the state through the furtherance of the purposes of the chapter by providing an appropriate and independent instrumentality of...
• Section 9-8A-16 Use of earnings of commission
  The commission shall be a political subdivision of the state and no part of its net earnings remaining after payment of its expenses shall inure...

Last modified: May 3, 2021