Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 9-16-70 (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 Control and Reclamation Act of 1981.”
(Acts 1981, No. 81-435, p. 682, §1.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 13
cases, 1984–2017 · leading case: In Re N.P. Mining Co., Inc., Debtor. Alabama Surface Mining Comm'n v. N.P. Mining Co., Inc., C. Michael Stilson, Tr., 963 F.2d 1449 (11th Cir. 1992).
In Re N.P. Mining Co., Inc., Debtor. Alabama Surface Mining Comm'n v. N.P. Mining Co., Inc., C. Michael Stilson, Tr., 963 F.2d 1449 (11th Cir. 1992). “BACKGROUND The ASMC is responsible for administering and enforcing the Alabama Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (“Alabama SMCRA”), Ala.Code §§ 9-16-70 et seq. (1975). Debtor N.”
In Re N.P. Mining Co., 124 B.R. 846 (Bankr. N.D. Ala. 1990). “Code §§ 9-16-70 et seq. (1975). The Alabama Surface Mining Commission, administrator and enforcer of the above laws, had cited the mining operation for a wide variety of environmental violations, usually in the form of Notices of Violation.”
Water Works Bd. of Birmingham v. Alabama Surface Mining Comm'n, 156 So. 3d 412 (Ala. Civ. App. 2014). “Code *414 1975, § 9-16-79, which expressly states that the procedures for appeal of a decision of the ASMC provided in the Alabama Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (“the ASMCRA”), Ala.Code 1975, § 9-16-70 et seq., “shall take precedence over the Alabama Administrative…”
Ex parte Alabama Bd. of Cosmetology & Barbering, 213 So. 3d 587 (Ala. Civ. App. 2016). “In the present case, § 34-7B-ll(b) specifically provides that appeals from a determination of the Board must be filed in the Montgomery Circuit Court.”
Citizens for Responsible Resource Dev. v. Watt, 579 F. Supp. 431 (M.D. Ala. 1984). “Code §§ 9-16-70, et seq. (Cum.Supp. 1982). Jurisdiction is vested in this Court to review the Secretary of Interior’s approval of the Alabama program by virtue of 30 U.”
Apex Coal Corp. v. Alabama Surface Mining Comm'n, 843 So. 2d 170 (Ala. Civ. App. 2001). “From April 1992 to December 1992, Van American Insurance Company and Clarendon National Insurance Company (the “sureties”) posted 14 performance bonds for the mining operations performed by Apex, pursuant to the Alabama Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (“ASMCRA”),…”
Estes v. State, 650 So. 2d 616 (Ala. Crim. App. 1994). “See §§ 9-16-70 through -107. The penalty for a violation of § 9-16-82(a) is a “fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year or both.”
Water Works Bd. of Birmingham v. Alabama Surface Mining Comm'n, 177 So. 3d 1167 (Ala. 2014). “ASMC is a State agency responsible for administering and enforcing the Alabama Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1981, § 9-16-70 et seq., Ala.Code 1975 (“the ASMC-RA”).”
Apex Coal Corp. v. Alabama Surface Mining Comm'n, 843 So. 2d 180 (Ala. 2002). “Code 1975, the citizen’s action provision of the Alabama Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1981 (“ASMCRA”), codified at §§ 9-16-70 to -170, Ala.Code 1975. The Commission and Gulf States each filed a motion for a summary judgment as to both forfeiture orders and…”
Ex Parte Van Am. Ins. Co., 843 So. 2d 180 (Ala. 2002). “Code 1975, the citizen's action provision of the Alabama Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1981 ("ASMCRA"), codified at §§ 9-16-70 to -170, Ala.Code 1975. The Commission and Gulf States each filed a motion for a summary judgment as to both forfeiture orders and…”
Sims v. Oak Grove Resources, LLC, 171 F. Supp. 3d 1240 (N.D. Ala. 2016). “It provides in part: (e) Underground coal mining operations conducted after July 1, 1998 shall comply with each of the following requirements: (1) Promptly repair or compensate for material damage to any occupied residential dwelling and related structures or any noncommercial…”
Crane v. Ala. Surface Mining Comm'n (Ex parte Ala. Surface Mining Comm'n), 254 So. 3d 904 (Ala. Civ. App. 2017). “Code 1975, a part of "The Alabama Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1981" ("the Alabama Act"), § 9-16-70 et seq., Ala. Code 1975, a petition for review of the hearing officer's decision.”
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