Section 9-3-1 Created; composition; qualifications, appointment and terms of office of members. There is hereby created and established a State Forestry Commission, hereinafter referred to as commission, which commission shall be composed of seven members to be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. Two members shall be appointed for […]
Section 9-3-10 Alabama Forestry Commission Fund. There is hereby created a fund in the State Treasury to be known as the Alabama Forestry Commission Fund. All money derived by the commission shall be deposited to the credit of said fund. (Acts 1969, No. 764, p. 1354, §12.)
Section 9-3-10.1 Emergency Forest Fire, Insect and Disease Fund; creation; annual automatic appropriation; ceiling on amount; expenditures; replenishment; Governor’s approval. (a) There is hereby established an Emergency Forest Fire, Insect and Disease Fund into which there is automatically appropriated two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) annually at the beginning of each state fiscal year. The […]
Section 9-3-11 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments – Creation. The State Forester is hereby authorized and required to create a steering committee to represent rural community fire departments. (Acts 1978, No. 515, p. 569, §1.)
Section 9-3-12 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments – Membership; appointment, qualifications and term of office of members; filling of vacancies in office. Said steering committee shall be composed of 13 members; one from each of the 10 administrative districts of the Alabama Forestry Commission, one member from the Alabama Association of Volunteer […]
Section 9-3-13 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments – Recommendations to State Forester. The steering committee shall make recommendations to the State Forester regarding how to improve the rural community fire program and how to solve immediate problems including parts exchange, training and financial assistance through federal grants. (Acts 1978, No. 515, p. […]
Section 9-3-14 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments – Meetings; quorum. The committee shall meet semiannually, with the members of the committee setting the date. The State Forester shall have the authority to call special meetings. A majority of members shall constitute a quorum. (Acts 1978, No. 515, p. 569, §4.)
Section 9-3-15 Steering committee to represent rural community fire departments – Compensation and expenses of members. Members of the committee shall not be compensated for their services, but each shall be entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses in the same manner and amount that state employees are reimbursed. Such expenses shall be paid out of […]
Section 9-3-16 Advisory committee on general forestry matters. The State Forester is further authorized to establish a committee and call meetings of such committee to advise him on general forestry matters in Alabama. It shall consist of not more than 15 members. Section 9-3-15 shall apply in its entirety to this committee. (Acts 1978, No. […]
Section 9-3-17 Certification as volunteer fire department. (a) The term volunteer fire department shall apply to and be used to define an organized group of area residents who meet the following requirements for personnel, training, and equipment: (1) The group shall be organized and incorporated under the laws of the State of Alabama as a […]
Section 9-3-18 Public governmental entities, political subdivisions, etc., authorized to make donations to organizations deemed public in nature. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that this section provides assistance to organized volunteer fire departments and organized search, air, and rescue squads including South Alabama Air Rescue, Incorporated, and other nonprofit organizations which provide […]
Section 9-3-19 Donation of fire control property. (a) As used in this section, the term “fire control or fire rescue equipment” includes, but is not limited to, a motor vehicle, fire fighting tools, protective gear, breathing equipment, and other vehicles, supplies, and tools used in fire fighting or fire rescue. (b) Any person, corporation, partnership, […]
Section 9-3-2 Officers; meetings; quorum; record of proceedings; compensation and expenses of members. The commission shall, upon its first meeting, which shall be called by the Governor within 60 days after appointment of the membership, elect from its membership a chairman and vice-chairman who shall serve for a period of one year. The vice-chairman shall […]
Section 9-3-20 Exemption of timber lands from local fire district service charges and fees; jurisdiction of Alabama Forestry Commission. (a) A local fire district may not assess any type of fees or dues upon forest land that is treated as timber land for ad valorem tax purposes. (b) The authority and responsibility for the control […]
Section 9-3-3 Vacancies. If any member of the commission fails to attend three successive meetings of the commission without good and valid cause or excuse or without a leave of absence from the chairman, his office shall be declared vacant by the commission, and the chairman shall notify the Governor of the vacancy, who will […]
Section 9-3-4 Powers and duties generally. The functions and duties of the commission shall be as follows: (1) To protect, conserve and increase the timber and forest resources of this state and to administer all laws relating to timber and forestry and the protection, conservation and increase of such resources; (2) To make exploration, surveys, […]
Section 9-3-5 State forester. It shall be the duty of the Alabama Forestry Commission to appoint with the advice and consent of the Governor a State Forester who shall serve as the executive secretary and administrative officer for the commission. The person so appointed as the State Forester must have earned a minimum of a […]
Section 9-3-6 Assistant State Forester. The commission shall also appoint, with the advice and consent of the Governor, an Assistant State Forester, who shall hold at least a bachelor degree in forestry with considerable forestry experience. The Assistant State Forester shall serve as the chief assistant to the State Forester. The Assistant State Forester’s salary […]
Section 9-3-7 Offices. The commission shall have its main offices in the City of Montgomery; provided, that it may establish other district or subdistrict offices throughout the state in such places as it may deem advisable or necessary. (Acts 1969, No. 764, p. 1354, §8.)
Section 9-3-8 Members of commission not eligible for certain employments. No member of the commission, during the tenure of his office or within two years thereafter, shall be eligible for appointment as State Forester or for any employment under the commission. (Acts 1969, No. 764, p. 1354, §9.)
