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This article does not apply to several listed coal extraction activities, and the regulatory authority may waive certain requirements for small surface mining operations when reclamation will not be affected.
This section defines oil-and-gas terms such as board, developed area, drilling unit, field, gas, operator, owner, producer, pool, reasonable market demand, and waste.
The Oil and Gas Supervisor may and must employ the personnel needed to carry out this article, with the board’s concurrence. The State Oil and Gas Board must not discriminate against blacks in its employment practices.
This section defines terms used in the article, including the Alabama Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, LP-gas, a branch, a person, a red tag, and related LP-gas system terms.
This provision creates the Alabama Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, sets its membership and appointment rules, and gives the board meeting and rulemaking powers.
Board members get travel expenses and per diem for official meetings or official board business, subject to state employee rates and a one-day minimum.
The board may issue and enforce LPG safety rules, and inspectors may enter premises and shut down dangerous systems. No one may certify the accuracy of their own company-owned meters.
The board appoints and pays an administrator, may hire assistants and consultants, and the administrator and inspectors have peace-officer powers.
The board may issue LP-gas permits, and permit holders must follow insurance, training, and operating conditions.
This section sets permit fees, renewal deadlines, reporting duties, and late-payment penalties for several permit classes and certain LPG-related businesses and end users.
Applicants and permit holders must meet storage-capacity minimums, submit plans, obtain board approval before construction or use, and pay specified fees unless an exception applies.
The board or board administrator can issue a written directive order to stop LP-gas operations by a violating person, and the recipient must comply immediately.
This provision sets penalties, recordkeeping, assessment, hearing, and appeal rules for LP-gas fee-related violations, and it limits certain container-filling and service activities.
Waste of oil or gas, as defined in this article, is prohibited.
This section creates the LP-Gas Research and Education Advisory Committee, sets its membership and terms, limits compensation, lets the committee adopt needed rules, and restricts how many representatives one entity may have on the committee.
The board must set drainage or production units and special field rules for each pool, and it may grant limited exceptions and amend rules in some cases.
This section defines “LP-GAS” and “USED MANUFACTURED HOME.”
Certain listed LP-gas room heaters may be installed in specified rooms of qualifying residences, subject to heater type, BTU limits, and ventilation requirements.
This provision allows certain LP-gas room heaters to be installed in used manufactured homes if specific safety and installation conditions are met.
The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board enforces this article.
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