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11-100-2
Section 11-100-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature hereby finds and determines that: (1)
The convention industry is a vital and beneficial industry for the State of Alabama and promotes
the health, welfare, progress, and physical and economic well-being of the people of this
state. (2) Adequate facilities are essential to the proper development of the meeting and
entertainment industries. Adequate convention facilities are often not self-supporting so
as to permit their financing with revenue bonds, but generate economic activity and stimulate
business and commerce in the affected locality, and throughout the state, through increased
demand for goods and services furnished by restaurants, hotels, places of entertainment, as
well as stores, shops and other establishments, and, as a consequence, they generate additional
state and local tax revenues. (3) It is in the interest of the state and its cities and counties,
for the state to assist any city, county, and entities or...
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11-97-1
Section 11-97-1 Legislative declarations and findings. It is hereby found and declared as follows:
(1) That the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state require the provision
of certain utility services, including water and sewer services; (2) That it is necessary
for the Legislature to provide additional methods by which the cities and counties in the
state may provide new and improve existing utility services facilities; (3) That historically
a significant portion of the funding of the costs of construction of such utility services
facilities has been provided through grants from the United States of America; (4) That, in
recent years, funds available to cities and counties from the United States of America for
payment of costs of construction of utility services facilities has been substantially reduced,
and it is anticipated that, in coming years, such funds may be further reduced or eliminated;
(5) That the result of the elimination of funding from the United States...
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11-100-4
Section 11-100-4 State assistance payments; application; procedures; determination of base
number of convention delegates; appropriations; quarterly requests; amount of payments. (a)
Any city, county, or entities or authorities thereof may apply to the State Director of Finance
for state assistance payments for any eligible facilities. The city, county, or entities or
authorities thereof shall file an initial application with the Director of Finance, which
shall be in writing and shall describe: (i) the eligible facilities; (ii) the need for said
facilities or the benefit therefrom; and (iii) the financing thereof, including the principal
and interest payments for the bonds. (b) The Director of Finance shall promptly review such
initial application and shall notify the applicant of any additional information that may
be necessary. (c) After reviewing the initial application and upon reasonable notice to the
applicant, the Director of Finance shall hold a public hearing on the...
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24-7A-3
Section 24-7A-3 Powers of authority. The authority may: (1) Undertake research and studies
and analyses of housing needs in the State of Alabama, and the means by which such needs may
be met, including data with respect to population and family groups and the distribution thereof
according to income groups, the amount and quality of available housing and its distribution
according to rental and sales prices, and employment, wage, and other factors affecting the
local housing needs and the meeting thereof, and make the results and analyses available to
the public and the building, housing, and supply industries. (2) Enter into contracts with
cities, towns, counties, and other housing authorities in the state for the purpose of carrying
out this section. (3) Establish rentals and select tenants in low-income rental housing projects
under its jurisdiction. (4) Issue bonds, notes, and other evidence of indebtedness for the
purpose of financing the construction of housing for low-income...
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11-65-1
Section 11-65-1 Legislative declarations and findings. The Legislature hereby finds and declares
as follows: (1) As the basis for enacting Act No. 84-131, the Legislature found and determined
that the conduct within Class 1 municipalities in the state of horse racing events and pari-mutuel
wagering thereon will generate additional revenues for governmental and charitable purposes,
provide additional jobs for the residents of the state and benefit the businesses related
to tourism and recreation within any such municipality and throughout the surrounding areas
of the state; it is desirable to permit the qualified voters of any Class 1 municipality to
determine through referendum whether horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon will be
permitted in such municipality; and for each Class 1 municipality in which horse racing is
approved by the voters thereof, it is necessary and desirable to provide for the establishment
of a racing commission to regulate horse racing and pari-mutuel...
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45-17-91.23
Section 45-17-91.23 Creation of Shoals Economic Development Fund; purposes for which moneys
in such fund may be expended. (a) There is created the Shoals Economic Development Fund, which
shall be a special or trust fund or account of the committee, and which shall be administered
in accordance with this subpart. (b)(1) The authority may, at any time and from time to time,
request that the committee authorize and approve the expenditure or appropriation of moneys
on deposit in the Shoals Economic Development Fund, but solely for purposes authorized in
subsection (c). Any such request may specify that such moneys shall be expended by, or appropriated
directly or indirectly to, any of the following: a. The authority itself. b. Either of the
counties, or any city or town located, in whole or in part, in either of the counties. c.
Any public corporation that has been organized with the approval or consent of any one or
more of the counties, the municipalities, or any other city or town in...
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22-27-47
Section 22-27-47 Local plans required. (a) Each county and any municipality as described below
shall submit to the department, within one and one-half years of May 16, 1989, a plan for
the management of solid waste generated within its boundaries. A county's plan shall include
the municipal jurisdictions within its boundaries except that any municipality may choose
to submit its own solid waste management plan intended for implementation within its city
limits and thereby be excluded from its county plan. Cities which do not choose to exclude
themselves from their county's plan shall be responsible to share in the county's costs proportionately
on a per capita basis. The content of all plans shall be consistent with the requirements
of this article and every plan shall not become final until it has been officially adopted
and approved pursuant to the requirements of this article. In the event a county or city does
not submit a required plan or if said plan does not meet the minimum...
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40-9B-3
Section 40-9B-3 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
mean: (1) ABATE, ABATEMENT. A reduction or elimination of a taxpayer's liability for tax or
payments required to be made in lieu thereof. An abatement of transaction taxes imposed under
Chapter 23 of this title, or payments required to be made in lieu thereof, shall relieve the
seller from the obligation to collect and pay over the transaction tax as if the sale were
to a person exempt, to the extent of the abatement, from the transaction tax. (2) ALTERNATIVE
ENERGY RESOURCES. The definition given in Section 40-18-1. (3) CONSTRUCTION RELATED TRANSACTION
TAXES. The transaction taxes imposed by Chapter 23 of this title, or payments required to
be made in lieu thereof, on tangible personal property and taxable services incorporated into
an industrial development property, the cost of which may be added to capital account with
respect to the property, determined without regard to any rule which...
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41-10-590
Section 41-10-590 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: That
the State of Alabama places a high priority on the recruitment of industries to locate or
expand their operations in Alabama; that it is a vital economic development tool for the state
to be able to offer strategic incentives to such industries in the form of limited financial
commitments; that the Alabama Incentives Financing Authority has heretofore been created for
the purpose of funding such financial commitments made prior to July 20, 1995; and that by
the passage of Act 99-198 of the 1999 Regular Session it is the intention of the Legislature
to enable the authority to meet commitments made by the state to industries committing to
locate or expand in the state after such date and, further, to enable the authority to lease
or convey title to worker training facilities to the Alabama Public School and College Authority
and to the Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute. The...
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11-100-3
Section 11-100-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings respectively ascribed to them unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise: (1) BONDS. Either general obligation bonds, limited obligation, or revenue bonds,
or a combination thereof, issued after the effective date of this act by a city, county, or
entities or authorities thereof in connection with the financing, in whole or in part, of
eligible facilities. The term "bonds" shall also refer to any bonds, warrants, or
other certificates of indebtedness authorized under the laws of the State of Alabama. (2)
CITY. Any city in this state. (3) COUNTY. Any county in this state. (4) AUTHORITY. Any authority
created pursuant to Act No. 547, H. 1176, 1965 Regular Session. (5) DELEGATE. A person attending
a national or regional convention or meeting in this state. (6) ELIGIBLE FACILITIES. Any convention
facilities owned by a city, county, or entities or authorities thereof...
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