LawServer - Laws, Legal Information & Lawyers

Alabama Code > Title 9 > Chapter 13 > § 9-13-62 - Liability

Any person or entity who damages, destroys, cuts, or removes timber or other forest products not owned by that person or without the authority of the legal owner, and any person or entity who shall supervise any other person in so doing, regardless of whether the act was done knowingly or intentionally, shall be jointly and severally liable to the owner for double the fair market value of the timber or other forest products that were damaged, destroyed, cut, or removed. However, any person or entity possessing the power of eminent domain and any employee, agent, or contractor of the person or entity who, while clearing a utility right-of-way or easement, mistakenly cuts, damages, destroys, or removes timber or other forest products from lands adjacent to the utility right-of-way or easement shall only be liable for the reasonable fair market value of the damaged timber or forest products and no more, unless it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that the acts where done with the intent to wrongfully injure or remove the timber or forest products, in which case the entity or person shall be liable to the owner for double the fair market value of the timber or other forest products that were damaged, destroyed, cut, or removed.

________________________________________________________________________

Questions & Answers: Forestry

can a homeowner cut down a tree on a city sidewalk...

Raymond, No, a citizen cannot cut down trees on public property. Contact the city if the tree is a problem. Steve Daily, LawServer...

In Michigan, what is the definition of "Commercial Forest Preserve"? Thank you....

Alabama Laws: Forestry

U.S. Code Provisions: Forestry

U.S. Code > Title 7 > Chapter 95 - Rural Revitalization Through Forestry

U.S. Code > Title 7 > Chapter 108 - Tree Assistance Program

U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 3 - Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management

U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 4 - Protection Of Timber, And Depredations

U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 36 - Forest And Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning

U.S. Code Title 16 > Chapter 37 > Subchapter I - Youth Conservation Corps

U.S. Code Title 16 > Chapter 37 > Subchapter II - Public Lands Corps

U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 41 - Cooperative Forestry Assistance

U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 65 - International Forestry Cooperation

U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 84 - Healthy Forest Restoration

U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 86 - Southwest Forest Health And Wildfire Prevention

U.S. Code > Title 16 > Chapter 92 - Forest Landscape Restoration