Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 9-11-5 (2026)
Commissioner, Wardens, Etc., Constituted Peace Officers.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, his wardens, agents and employees shall be and are hereby constituted peace officers of the State of Alabama with full and unlimited police power and jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of the game and fish laws and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and they may exercise such power in any county of the State of Alabama or in or on any waters of the State of Alabama or within the territorial jurisdiction of the state.
(Acts 1935, No. 240, p. 632, §47; Code 1940, T. 8, §46.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1981–1987 · leading case: Holland v. Bryant, 402 So. 2d 892 (Ala. 1981).
Holland v. Bryant, 402 So. 2d 892 (Ala. 1981). “] Bryant, Holt, and Jackson concede that appellants, as employees of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, were designated by Code 1975, § 9-11-5, as peace officers and possessed the powers of arrest.”
Kelley v. White, 516 So. 2d 1386 (Ala. Civ. App. 1987). “The employees sought a declaratory judgment that they wére “state law enforcement officers,” as determined by § 9-11-5, Code 1975, and thus entitled to past and future subsistence and lump sum longevity benefits granted by the provisions of §§ 36-21-2(a) and 36-21-3(a), Code…”
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