Code of Alabama

Ala. Code § 9-17-2 (2026)

Declaration of Public Policy; Purpose of Article.

✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section JustiaAla. Code CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

The prevention of waste of oil and gas and the protection of correlative rights are declared to be in the public interest. The purpose of this article is to prevent such waste and to protect correlative rights.

(Acts 1945, No. 1, p. 1, §1; Acts 1969, No. 1033, p. 1916, §1.)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case (1 in the last 5 years), 2023–2023 · leading case: Resource Strategies, LLC v. Escambia Operating Co., LLC (S.D. Ala. 2023).
Resource Strategies, LLC v. Escambia Operating Co., LLC (S.D. Ala. 2023). · cites it 8× “Plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint asserts various claims on behalf of the various classes and sub- classes,1 including: breach of contract (Counts 1 and 2),2 declaratory judgment (Count 3),3 accounting (Count 4),4 unjust enrichment (Count 5),5 conversion (Count 6),6 violation of…”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.