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If the State Geologist’s office becomes vacant, the President of the University of Alabama, with the Governor’s approval, must designate a qualified geologist to serve as State Geologist.
When the State Geologist has ready-for-publication bulletin or report material, he must report it to the Governor.
The State Geologist must work with the U.S. Geological Survey on Alabama topographic surveys, maps, and permanent bench marks.
The State Geologist may make an agreement with the Director of the United States Geological Survey, but only if the Director of Finance approves.
People employed under this chapter may enter and cross lands in the state when doing so is needed to carry out Sections 9-4-11 and 9-4-12, so long as they do not damage private property.
The State Geological Survey of Alabama and the State Oil and Gas Board may hire faculty members or students from Alabama higher-education institutions for research and related geology or oil-and-gas work.
People hired for these services must sign a written agreement, and the agreement must be approved in writing before it is binding.
The written agreement must include the terms, conditions, and work specifications for the person’s duties to the agency.
No person may be retained under Sections 9-4-14 through 9-4-19 if doing so would unduly interfere with a faculty member’s or student’s ordinary duties.
People hired or retained under a service contract are treated as independent contractors and are not subject to the state Merit System Act.
The compensation amount for retained research, experimental, promotional, and related services must be set in the written agreement, and the payment source depends on which agency signs the service contract.
The State Geologist must spend full time on office duties and resource surveys, promptly notify landowners when valuable deposits are found, report to the Legislature each regular session, keep specimens for the survey museum, and prepare reports or bulletins from time to time.
The State Geologist may appoint assistants, but only with the Governor’s approval and subject to the Merit System. Those assistants must work full time for the survey, and survey funds may not be used to pay University of Alabama teaching staff or other university employees, except that no more than one present joint-s
The State Geologist and the Assistant State Geologist may teach geology-related graduate or undergraduate courses at the University of Alabama while employed, subject to the stated conditions.
The State Geologist and Assistant State Geologist may teach geology-related courses only if the teaching does not unduly interfere with their state employment and stays within the stated teaching-hour limit.
The State Geologist and Assistant State Geologist may receive teaching compensation set by the President of the University of Alabama, subject to Sections 9-4-4 through 9-4-7.
Teaching by the State Geologist or Assistant State Geologist does not give either official Teachers’ Retirement System membership, related benefits, or a change in official status, except where Sections 9-4-4 through 9-4-7 expressly provide otherwise.
The annual appropriation may be used for survey expenses, but it cannot be used to pay the university for rent or permanent improvements, and the university cannot use the survey’s chemical-analysis apparatus and materials or share in outfit expenses.
The Comptroller may draw a warrant only after the State Geologist requests it and the Governor approves it; the State Geologist must file expenditure vouchers quarterly with the Comptroller, except for salary items, and include a receipts-and-expenditures statement with each quadrennial report.
Creates the Minerals Resource Management Committee and sets its ex officio membership and rotating chairmanship.
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