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Alabama
Government
Manual
Thirteenth Edition
FOREWORD
The Alabama Law Institute is pleased to present this Thirteenth
Edition of The Alabama Government Manual. While the Manual has been
published under this title since 1959, its origin dates back to 1942, when The
University of Alabama Bureau of Public Administration first published A
Handbook of Alabama State Agencies. The first five editions were prepared
by the late Dr. Coleman B. Ransone, Jr. The Law Institute assumed the
preparation and publishing beginning with the Sixth Edition in 1982.
The Alabama Government Manual does not purport to offer an in-
depth description of each state agency or instrumentality. It is designed,
instead, as a ready reference for state and local officials, members of the
legislature, interested citizens and students, on the overall organization of
governmental agencies in Alabama.
Since publication of the Twelfth Edition in 2006, a number of
developments have taken place relating to the structure of government
agencies in Alabama. Though neither comprehensive government
reorganization legislation or a Constitutional Revision program has achieved
passage, various organizational changes have been implemented, and are
reflected in the Manual. The Legislature in 1976 created a Legislative
Sunset Committee, for the purpose of reviewing periodically the work of
existing agencies, and making recommendations for realignment curtailment
or expansion. The Committee has become one of the most active regular
units of the Alabama Legislature, and its work product to date is reflected in
the this Manual.
The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Editions were edited, organized and
revised by Dr. Richard A. Thigpen, Professor of Law, The University of
Alabama School of Law. Othni Lathram, legal research assistant of the
Alabama Law Institute, conducted the extensive editing, drafting,
communicating with the agencies, and proofing the Tenth Edition. Jini Koh,
a legal research assistant of the Alabama Law Institute, was the principal
person in researching, drafting, and editing the Eleventh Edition. Penny
Davis, Associate Director of the Alabama Law Institute, who proofed and
supervised the final production of the extensive project as Executive Editor.
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The Twelfth Edition was composed and prepared by Alison Daugherty and
Chris Sanders, a legal research assistant. They both communicated with the
state agencies to assure the information was current. Leveeda Morgan-Battle,
an Institute Fellow, proofed and edited the final product.
Finally, this Thirteenth Edition, Nancy Foster was the researcher and
editor of changes in this edition. Assistant Director Othni Lathram proofed
and edited the final product.
For their assistance in furnishing updated information on state
agencies in Alabama, and for their general cooperation, appreciation is
expressed to Executive Department and Agency heads of the State of
Alabama; Officers of the Alabama Legislature; the Office of State Examiner
of Public Accounts; the State Legislative Fiscal Office; and the Legislative
Reference Service. Gratitude also is expressed to the late Dr. Coleman
Ransone, Department of Political Science, University of AL the legacy of
quality research he initiated and remains the basis of all subsequent editions.
It should be emphasized that this publication is not an
authoritative statement on state agency organization in Alabama, nor is
it a substitute for provisions contained in the Code or Constitution or
other legal materials explanatory thereof. This publication seeks to serve
only as a guide to state agencies, boards, commissions, and state
governmental units. Users of this publication who have need of
authoritative legal statements should seek such assistance from the
appropriate legal sources.
The Alabama Law Institute is a state agency, no conclusions
concerning policies of the State of Alabama are to be drawn from this
volume. This statement is also true with respect to previous editions prepared
by the University of Alabama. The findings and conclusions of the study are
those of the editor, who takes sole responsibility for the accuracy of the study
and for any interpretations of the data presented.
Robert L. McCurley
Director
October, 2010 Alabama Law Institute
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
EXECUTIVE AND STAFF AGENCIES
Governor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Governor’s Councillor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Lieutenant Governor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Attorney General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Secretary of State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
State Auditor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
State Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Adjustment, State Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Building Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Compromise, Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
County Boards of Equalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Development Office, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Economic and Community Affairs, Alabama Department of . . . . . . . . . 35
Ethics Commission, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Film Office, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Finance, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Information Technology, Office of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Personnel Department, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Revenue, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Tourism Department, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Uniform State Laws, Commission on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Elections
Appointment of Registrars of Elections, Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Canvassers of Election Returns, Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Electronic Voting Committee, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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State Employees
Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Employees’ Health Insurance Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Flexible Employees Benefits Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
SERVICE AND REGULATORY AGENCIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Agriculture
Agriculture and Industries, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Agriculture and Industries, State Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Agricultural Center Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Agricultural Development Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Agricultural Museum Board, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Farmers Market Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Meat and Poultry Advisory Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
North Alabama Agriplex Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Veterinarian, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Business Promotion and Regulation
Aeronautics Bureau, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Banking Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Banking Department, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Broadband Initiative, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Construction Recruitment Institute, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Consumer Affairs, Office of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Credit Union Administration and Credit Union Board, Alabama . . . . . 111
Industrial Development Authority, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Insurance, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Land Bank Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Manufactured Housing Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Public Service Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Securities Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Southern Development Council, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
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Steel Council, Alabama Iron and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Supercomputer Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Workforce Planning Council, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Children
Children’s Affairs, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Children’s Trust Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Child Death Review Team, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Missing and Exploited Children, Alabama Center for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Youth Services, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Conservation and Environment
Agricultural and Conservation Development
Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Conservation and Natural Resources, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Environmental Management, Alabama Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Environmental Management Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Forestry Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Forever Wild Land Trust, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Geological Survey of Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Minerals Resource Management Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Oil and Gas Board, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Port Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Soil and Water Conservation Committee, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Surface Mining Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Trails Commission, Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Water Pollution Control Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Water Resources Research Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Water System Assistance Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
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Criminal Justice, Public Safety, and Corrections
Commercial Mobile Radio Services Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Corrections, Alabama Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Corrections Institution Finance Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Crime Victims’ Compensation Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Criminal Justice Information Center Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Emergency Management Agency, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Forensic Sciences, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Impaired Drivers Trust Fund Advisory Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Pardons and Paroles, State Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund, Board of
Commissioners of the Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Prosecution Services, Office of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Public Safety, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
State Safety Coordinating Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Education - Generally
Education, State Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Education, State Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Courses of Study Committee, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Education Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Educational Television Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Educational Television Foundation Authority, Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Institute for the Deaf and Blind, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Postsecondary Education, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Public Education Employees’ Health Insurance Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Public School and College Education Incentive Fund Council,
Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Rehabilitation Services, Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Rehabilitation Services, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Research Alliance, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Textbook Committee, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
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Education - Higher
Athlete Agents Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Higher Education, Alabama Commission on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Private Colleges and Universities Facilities Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Public School and College Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Trade School and Junior College Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Agricultural and Mechanical University, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Alabama State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Alabama System, University of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Alabama, University of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Alabama at Birmingham, University of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Alabama in Huntsville, University of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Auburn University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Auburn University Montgomery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Gadsden State Community College . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
Jacksonville State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Mining Academy, Alabama - Bevill State Community College . . . . . . 285
Montevallo, University of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
North Alabama, University of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
South Alabama, University of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Troy University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Tuskegee University, Board of Commissioners of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
West Alabama, University of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Wallace-Folsom College Saving Investment Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Dental Scholarship Awards, Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Medical Scholarship Awards, Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Optometric Scholarship Awards, Alabama Board of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304

Education - K through 12
Fine Arts, Alabama School of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
High School of Mathematics and Science, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
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Hall of Fames
Academy of Honor, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Aviation Hall of Fame Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Chiropractors’ Hall of Fame Board, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Men’s Hall of Fame Board, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Military Hall of Honor, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Motorsports Hall of Fame Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Music Hall of Fame Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Music Hall of Fame Board, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Peace Officers’ Hall of Fame Board, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Senior Citizens Hall of Fame, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Sports Hall of Fame Board, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Women’s Hall of Fame Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Health and Welfare
Anatomical Board, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Autism Coordinating Council, Alabama Interagency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Employment of People with Disabilities,
Governor’s Committee on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Family Practice Rural Health Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Family Support Program, Individual and . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Family Trust Board of Trustees, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Health Coordinating Council, Statewide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Health Planning and Development Agency, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Healthcare Data Advisory Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Human Resources, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Impaired Professionals Committee, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Indian Affairs Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Indian Housing Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Insurance Board, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Medicaid Agency, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Mental Health, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Mental Health Finance Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Mental Health Capital Outlay Oversight Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
National and Community Service, State Commission on . . . . . . . . . . . 363
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Physical Fitness, Commission on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366
Public Health Care Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Public Health, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Respite Coalition, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Senior Services, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
Women’s Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Highways
Department of Transportation, State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Federal Aid Highway Finance Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
Highway Finance Corporations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Industrial Access Road and Bridge Corporation, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . 401
Toll Road, Bridge, and Tunnel Authority, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
Labor and Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Labor, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
Libraries and Historical Agencies
Archives and History, Department of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
African American Heritage Museum of West Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . 415
Africatown, U.S.A. Historic Preservation Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Blakeley Authority, Historic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418
Cahawba Advisory Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
Council on the Arts, Alabama State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422
Fort Tombecbe Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Historical Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
Holocaust Commission, Alabama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
International Voting Rights Trail Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Ironworks Commission, Alabama Historic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Local Government Records Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
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