Obstructing Navigation and Dams (Code of Alabama: Title 33 Navigation and Watercourses; Chapter 7) Country/Territory United States of America Territorial subdivision Alabama Document type Legislation Date 1975 (2019) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Sea, Water Keyword Navigation Enforcement/compliance Offences/penalties Coastal zone management Waterworks Inland waters Timber Property rights Expropriation Geographical area Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic Abstract This chapter of the Code of Alabama concerns obstructing navigation and dams. It provides that all navigable waters in this state are public thoroughfares. The county commission is authorized to make contracts for opening or cleaning out any navigable stream within the county, and for keeping the same free from obstructions. The chapter further provides for obstructing navigable watercourse; obstructing navigation on public waters; damages for diverting stream; obstructing streams used for floating timber to market; floating logs, timber or lumber upon watercourse without sufficient force to prevent obstruction; turning logs, timber or lumber out of boom without notice to owner; opening or cutting loose boom without authority; trespass after warning on booms, bulkheads or piles erected, etc., by riparian proprietors; dams on Navigable Rivers; easement and right to construct dams across navigable rivers; eminent domain; improvement of navigation; rights of Riparian Owners; installing, etc., wharves, docks, etc.; charging tolls; structures not to obstruct navigation, etc.; restriction on tolls; repossession by Legislature; development and relief work upon and abutting on tidelands; and dredging or cleaning creeks, etc., running through property permitted; limitations on right. Full text English Website alisondb.legislature.state.al.us