(a) Any person who anchors, moors, or abandons a floating pier, barge, or vessel or sunken or submerged pier, barge, or vessel that obstructs navigation on a public water, as defined in subsection (a) of Section 9-11-80, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) per day.
(b) This section does not apply to public waters used primarily for agricultural, industrial, power generation, public water supply, and sanitation purposes.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.
Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.
Section 33-7-1 - Navigable Waters as Public Thoroughfares.
Section 33-7-2 - Opening and Cleaning Navigable Streams.
Section 33-7-3 - Obstructing Navigable Watercourse.
Section 33-7-3.1 - Obstructing Navigation on Public Waters.
Section 33-7-4 - Damages for Diverting Stream.
Section 33-7-5 - Obstructing Streams Used for Floating Timber to Market.
Section 33-7-7 - Turning Logs, Timber or Lumber Out of Boom Without Notice to Owner.
Section 33-7-8 - Opening or Cutting Loose Boom Without Authority.
Section 33-7-11 - Mobile Harbor - Injuring Ship Channel, Beacon Light, Etc.