§ 45-36-171 — Abatement of Nuisances Related to Commercial Swine Farming Operations

Alabama § 45-36-171

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 45: Local Laws
• Ch. 36: Jackson County
• Art. 17: Health and Environment
• Part 2: Environment

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(a) This section shall apply only in Jackson County, Alabama.
(b) The following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) COUNTY. Jackson County.
(2) COUNTY COMMISSION. The Jackson County Commission.
(3) SWINE FARM or SWINE FARMING. Commercial concentrated animal feeding operations for swine. For purposes of this section, the term concentrated animal feeding operation for swine means an animal feeding operation defined in Title 40, Part 122, Appendix B of the Code of Federal Regulations, relating to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), or as otherwise designated by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency, and as defined and regulated by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management pursuant to Chapter 335–6–7 of the Alabama Administrative Code.
(c)(1) Upon a written complaint and request from any person residing in the county, the county commission, after a public hearing on the complaint, may order the abatement of a public nuisance in the county related to noxious odors, dead animal decomposition or animal waste, or air or water pollution, arising from swine farming.
(2) If the county commission finds sufficient evidence of the existence of a public nuisance at a hearing it may order the offending person or party to immediately cease the operation or activity constituting a public nuisance and to abate the nuisance.
(3) If the operation or activity constituting a public nuisance is not abated within 30 days following an order by the county commission, the county commission may seek injunctive relief in the Circuit Court for Jackson County to abate the nuisance.
(d) The county commission may adopt rules and regulations for implementing and administering this section.

Legislative History

(Act 99-649, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 95, §§1-4.)