Section 33-10-18 Lease of state-owned waterbottoms. - Alabama Statutes

Section 33-10-18

Lease of state-owned waterbottoms.

To enable the commission to perform the work herein provided, the State of Alabama, acting by and through the appropriate state departments, is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to grant to the commission a lease on state-owned waterbottoms which are selected by the commission as sites for the deep draft harbor and terminal; provided, however, that the mineral rights on any and all state lands shall be reserved to the State of Alabama.

(Acts 1973, No. 1064, p. 1779, §21.)