Terms Used In Alabama Code 33-4A-40

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

Every bar pilot, having knowledge of the discharge of ballast, sweepings, screenings, cinders, refuse, and rubbish of any kind in the Bay of Mobile or in any river emptying into the same, contrary to the law, as soon as practicable, shall give information thereof to the district attorney having jurisdiction in the Class 2 municipality.