Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 9-16-1 (2026)
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✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Alabama Surface Mining Act of 1969.”
(Acts 1969, No. 399, p. 773, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1983–2001 · leading case: Estes v. State, 650 So. 2d 616 (Ala. Crim. App. 1994).
Estes v. State, 650 So. 2d 616 (Ala. Crim. App. 1994). “See §§ 9-16-1 through -15. The penalty for a violation of § 9-16-4 is a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000.”
Apex Coal Corp. v. Alabama Surface Mining Comm'n, 843 So. 2d 170 (Ala. Civ. App. 2001). “The Alabama Surface Mining Act, § 9-16-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975, provides, in relevant part, as follows, with respect to revocation of an operator’s permit because of violations such as those found by the Commission: “If the [Commission’s] hearing officer revokes the permit, the…”
Alabama Surface Mining Reclamation Comm'n v. Cordova Clay Co., 434 So. 2d 283 (Ala. Civ. App. 1983). “Pursuant to §§ 9-16-1 to -15, Code of Alabama 1975, the operators were licensed by the Department of Industrial Relations of the State of Alabama to remove shale and clay from certain parcels of land.”
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