Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 36-13-9 (2026)
Authority to Give State Agencies Powers and Duties Required to Implement Federal Laws, Regulations, Etc.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to give, by his executive order, to existing agencies and instrumentalities of the state government, such powers and duties which are not in conflict with the Constitution of Alabama and which are not specifically prohibited by the then existing statutes as may be required to implement in Alabama any law, order, rule, regulation, program or plan promulgated by the federal government, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, for the welfare of the people of the United States, or as may be required, in his judgment, for the welfare of the people of the United States, or as may be required, in his judgment, for the welfare of the people of Alabama.
(Acts 1945, No. 60, p. 60, § 1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2010–2010 · leading case: Riley v. Cornerstone Cmty. Outreach, Inc., 57 So. 3d 704 (Ala. 2010).
Riley v. Cornerstone Cmty. Outreach, Inc., 57 So. 3d 704 (Ala. 2010). “) See Ala.Code 1975, § 36-13-9 (governor’s power to issue executive orders).”
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