Alabama Code 11-19-12. Subdivision regulations – Scope and contents
Terms Used In Alabama Code 11-19-12
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
In exercising the powers granted to it by this chapter, the county planning commission shall prepare and recommend to the county commission for adoption regulations governing the subdivision of land within the flood-prone area of the county. Such regulations may provide for the harmonious development of the flood-prone area of the county; for the coordination of streets within subdivisions with other existing or planned streets; for the size of blocks and lots; for the dedication or reservation of land for streets, school sites, and recreation areas and of easements for utilities and other public services and facilities; and, for a distribution of population and traffic which will tend to create conditions favorable to health, safety, convenience, prosperity, or general welfare.
Such regulations may include requirements as to the extent to which and the manner in which streets shall be graded, surfaced, and improved, and water, sewers, septic tanks, as required by state health regulations, and other utility mains, piping, connections, or other facilities shall be installed as a condition precedent to the approval of the plat. Such regulations may provide that, in lieu of the completion of such work and installations previous to the final approval of a plat, the county commission may accept a bond in any amount and surety and conditions satisfactory to it, providing for and securing to the county the actual construction and installations of such improvements and utilities within a period specified by the county planning commission and expressed in the bond, and the county is hereby granted the power to enforce such bonds by all appropriate legal and equitable remedies.