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This provision says the article does not affect local laws or general laws of local application about county land ownership, management, control, or the disposition of revenue from those lands.
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources controls unused lands while they remain unused, must protect them from depredation as far as possible, and must from time to time recommend policy for those lands to the Governor or the relevant department or institution.
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources must identify unused state-owned lands suitable for forest culture, list them, and file the list with the Department of Finance.
This section places certain swamp and overflowed lands in the Division of Lands and gives the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources power to use, lease, and dispose of them, subject to Governor approval for sales and other dispositions.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may manage and supervise specified school lands, swamp and overflowed lands, the Salt Springs Lands reservation, and related records, except records the law requires to be kept in the Secretary of State’s office.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources must appoint a land clerk, and the Governor must approve the appointment.
The Governor or Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may send the land clerk to examine certain lands or obtain evidence for their protection, and the land clerk’s actual expenses must be paid after a verified itemized statement is filed with the Director.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is empowered to manage forestry on school lands and enforce related fire and timber trespass laws.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources is empowered to manage forestry on swamp and overflowed lands and enforce related state fire and timber trespass laws.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may rent or lease school lands, but only with the Governor’s approval.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may bring civil actions and take related steps to protect school lands.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may sell certain timber or minerals from specified public lands, but notice and bidding steps are required first.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources must pay school-land revenue to the Treasurer, keep a 10% management fee in the Lands Division, and send an itemized statement to the State Superintendent of Education; the Superintendent must then immediately send a report to the Treasurer.
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources must look into whether scattered state or state-institution land ownership can be concentrated by exchanging land with individual owners.
Revenue from timber, minerals, rents, or leases on swamp and overflow land owned by the Department of Mental Health must be paid to that department, minus a 10% management fee.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may sell or exchange school land, but only with approval from the Governor and the State Superintendent of Education.
People who buy the lands are entitled to a patent, and the Governor of Alabama may cause patents to be issued when the stated approvals are presented and he considers it advisable.
School-land sale revenue must be paid to the Treasurer, and related sale reports must be sent promptly to education officials.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may exchange school lands for other lands of equal value, with approval from the Governor and the State Superintendent of Education.
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources may lease, exchange, or sell swamp and overflowed lands, but only with approval from the State Department of Mental Health.
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