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This section creates the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee and gives it powers over meetings, records, staffing, rules, and related coordination work.
The committee can organize a soil and water conservation district only after notice, hearing, and a referendum, and the Secretary of State must file and certify the organization papers.
This section sets the district supervisors’ membership, terms, quorum, duties, reporting requirements, expense entitlement, and the committee’s removal power.
Soil and water conservation districts are given broad powers to carry out erosion-control work, acquire property, cooperate with others, and make rules, with some activities requiring consent or approval; district equipment users are also covered by a civil-liability immunity in specified conditions.
District supervisors may adopt land-use regulations for soil conservation, but only after notice and a referendum with at least four-fifths approval; landowners in the district may vote and may later petition to amend, supplement, or repeal the rules.
The supervisors may enter lands in the district to check whether land-use regulations are being followed, and they may authorize an ordinance letting an injured landowner recover damages from another landowner who violates those regulations.
If district supervisors find land-use rules are being ignored in a way that increases erosion, they may go to circuit court for an order requiring compliance; the court can also authorize cost recovery if the landowner does not comply.
Supervisors of two or more districts under this article may cooperate with each other when exercising powers given by the article.
The institute or center must conduct water-resources research and coordinate its programs with the Geological Survey of Alabama, while its results may be reported or published as the director considers appropriate.
Certain state, county, and other local agencies must cooperate with district supervisors over covered public lands, and those supervisors must be given free access to enter and work on the lands.
Landowners may petition to discontinue a district, and the committee must run the referendum and decide whether the district should continue.
The Comptroller must draw warrants on the Treasurer when ordered by the Chairman of the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee, within the appropriation and as needed.
This article says it supplements other programs and must not be used to prejudice, restrict, or duplicate them.
This section defines several terms used in the article, including watershed conservancy district, director, board of directors, supervisor, board of supervisors, landowner, and due notice.
Subdistricts of a soil and water conservation district may be formed in any watershed area for conservation-related planning and programs, and these subdistricts are called watershed conservancy districts.
Land in a watershed conservancy district must be contiguous and within a well-defined watershed.
If enough landowners want to form a watershed conservancy district, they must file a petition with the soil and water conservation district board.
If a proposed watershed conservancy district spans more than one soil and water conservation district, the petition may be filed with any one district’s board of supervisors, and all the districts’ supervisors must act together as a joint board for formation and supervision.
The board of supervisors must give notice of a proposed hearing within 30 days after a petition is filed, and interested parties may attend and be heard.
The board of supervisors must hold a referendum, give notice of it, state the referendum details in the notice, and appoint polling officers.
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