Code of Alabama
Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.
Chapter 7 - Obstructing Navigation and Dams.

Article 1 - In General.

Section 33-7-1 - Navigable Waters as Public Thoroughfares. - All navigable waters in this state are public thoroughfares.

Section 33-7-2 - Opening and Cleaning Navigable Streams. - The county commission is authorized to make contracts for opening...

Section 33-7-3 - Obstructing Navigable Watercourse. - Any person who dams up or otherwise obstructs a navigable...

Section 33-7-3.1 - Obstructing Navigation on Public Waters. - (a) Any person who anchors, moors, or abandons a floating...

Section 33-7-4 - Damages for Diverting Stream. - Any person diverting any stream, whether navigable or not, from...

Section 33-7-5 - Obstructing Streams Used for Floating Timber to Market. - Any person who, during the season of high waters, leaves...

Section 33-7-6 - Floating Logs, Timber or Lumber Upon Watercourse Without Sufficient Force to Prevent Obstruction. - Any person who floats any logs, timber or lumber upon...

Section 33-7-7 - Turning Logs, Timber or Lumber Out of Boom Without Notice to Owner. - Any person owning or controlling any boom in any navigable...

Section 33-7-8 - Opening or Cutting Loose Boom Without Authority. - Any person who opens the boom of another for any...

Section 33-7-9 - Trespass After Warning on Booms, Bulkheads or Piles Erected, etc., by Riparian Proprietors. - Any person who, having been warned within the 12 months...

Section 33-7-10 - Mobile Harbor - Fastening Vessels, Rafts, etc., and Obstructing Channel in Mobile Bay. - Any person who makes any vessel, boat or watercraft of...

Section 33-7-11 - Mobile Harbor - Injuring Ship Channel, Beacon Light, Etc. - Any person who knowingly or wilfully causes, or is concerned...

Section 33-7-12 - Mobile Harbor - Master of Vessel Drawing More Than 12 Feet Passing Channel Without Permit, Etc. - Any master or person in charge of any vessel drawing...

Article 2 - Dams on Navigable Rivers.

Section 33-7-30 - Easement and Right to Construct Dams Across Navigable Rivers. - Any person, firm or corporation organized for the purpose of...

Section 33-7-31 - Eminent Domain; Improvement of Navigation. - Any such person, firm or corporation may exercise the power...

Section 33-7-32 - Prior Rights. - The person, firm or corporation which first, in point of...

Article 3 - Rights of Riparian Owners.

Section 33-7-50 - Installing, etc., Wharves, Docks, etc.; Charging Tolls. - The owner of riparian lands upon navigable waters in the...

Section 33-7-51 - Structures Not to Obstruct Navigation, etc.; Restriction on Tolls; Repossession by Legislature. - No such structure shall be built or maintained upon or...

Section 33-7-52 - Tolls, etc., Charged Subject to Regulation by Legislature. - All tolls, imposts, charges and duties authorized hereunder for the...

Section 33-7-53 - Development and Relief Work Upon and Abutting on Tidelands. - In order to encourage the building of bridges, causeways and...

Section 33-7-54 - Dredging or Cleaning Creeks, etc., Running Through Property Permitted; Limitations on Right. - Any law, or any rule or regulation promulgated by a...