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Ameraport Offshore Harbor and Terminal Commission (Code of Alabama: Title 33 Navigation and Watercourses; Chapter 10)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
Alabama
Document type
Legislation
Date
1975 (2019)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Sea
Keyword
Harbour Institution Navigation Coastal zone management Internal trade International trade Protection of environment
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This chapter of the Code of Alabama provides for the Ameraport Offshore Harbor and Terminal Commission. It is the intent and purpose of this chapter to provide for the creation of the Ameraport Offshore Harbor and Terminal Commission to promote, plan, finance, develop, construct, control, operate, manage, maintain and modify a deep draft harbor and terminal, in order to promote the economic welfare of the citizens of the State of Alabama, and to provide the necessary facilities for docking, loading and unloading of vessels carrying liquid or dry bulk and energy cargoes, and to provide for the laying of pipelines or other forms of transportation or transmission of energy cargoes of all kinds. It is the object of this chapter to assert and protect Alabama's economic, social and environmental interests in the development of any deep draft harbor and terminal outside the State of Alabama where such development may have an impact upon the State of Alabama.

Full text
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Website
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us