All cities and towns may make all needful provisions for the drainage of such city or town, may construct and maintain efficient sanitary and stormwater sewers or sewer systems, either within or without the corporate limits of the city or town, may construct and maintain ditches, surface drains, aqueducts, and canals and may build and construct underground sewers through private or public property, either within or without the corporate limits of such city or town, but just compensation must first be made for the private property taken, injured, or destroyed.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.
Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.
Article 3 - Acquisition, Operation, etc., of Sewers or Sewer Systems by Municipalities Generally.
Division 1 - General Provisions.
Section 11-50-51 - Condemnation of Easements, Etc.
Section 11-50-52 - Extension or Alteration of Sewer System, Etc.
Section 11-50-53 - Regulation, Installation, etc., of Drainage and Sewer Connections Generally.
Section 11-50-54 - Regulation, Installation, etc., of Drainage, Plumbing, Sewer Connections, Etc.
Section 11-50-56 - Giving of Notice Under Provisions of Division.