The owner of riparian lands upon navigable waters in the State of Alabama may install in front of their respective riparian lands wharves, docks, warehouses, sheds, tipples, chutes, elevators, conveyors and the like for receiving, discharging, storing, protecting, transferring, loading and unloading freight and commodities of commerce to and from vessels and carriers, and may use their riparian lands in connection therewith and dredge out and deepen the approaches thereto, and may charge and collect reasonable tolls for the use thereof. All such structures are to be subject to such lines and limitations as may at the time of making such improvements be laid or placed by any authority of the United States, or of the State of Alabama, who may have authority to control harbor and pier lines.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.
Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.
Article 3 - Rights of Riparian Owners.
Section 33-7-50 - Installing, etc., Wharves, Docks, etc.; Charging Tolls.
Section 33-7-52 - Tolls, etc., Charged Subject to Regulation by Legislature.
Section 33-7-53 - Development and Relief Work Upon and Abutting on Tidelands.