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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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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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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11-94-1
Section 11-94-1 Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter, unless the context plainly indicates
otherwise, the present term shall include the future term, the singular shall include the
plural, the plural shall include the singular, the masculine shall include the feminine, and
the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings respectively ascribed to
them by this section: (1) AUTHORITY. A nonprofit public corporation organized pursuant to
the provisions of this chapter. (2) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. Any county or municipality to
which application has been made for authority to incorporate an authority under this chapter.
(3) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority. (4) DIRECTOR. A member of the board of
directors of an authority. (5) COUNTY. Any county in this state that abuts on a navigable
river or through which a navigable river runs. (6) GOVERNING BODY. With respect to a county,
the county commission and, with respect to a municipality, the council,...
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11-92A-1
Section 11-92A-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ARTICLES.
The articles of incorporation or articles of reincorporation of an authority. (2) AUTHORITY.
A public corporation incorporated and reincorporated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(3) AUTHORIZED OPERATIONAL AREA. The county or counties in which the authority has been or
is proposed to be authorized to operate, as designated in its articles of incorporation in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter. If an authority does not designate an authorized
operational area, then such authority's authorized operational area shall be deemed for all
purposes to be solely the county of incorporation of the authority. (4) BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
The board of directors of an authority. (5) BOND OR BONDS. A bond or bonds issued under the
provisions of this chapter. (6) COUNTY OF INCORPORATION. The county...
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41-16-51
Section 41-16-51 Contracts for which competitive bidding not required. (a) Competitive bids
for entities subject to this article shall not be required for utility services, the rates
for which are fixed by law, regulation, or ordinance, and the competitive bidding requirements
of this article shall not apply to: (1) The purchase of insurance. (2) The purchase of ballots
and supplies for conducting any primary, general, special, or municipal election. (3) Contracts
for securing services of attorneys, physicians, architects, teachers, superintendents of construction,
artists, appraisers, engineers, consultants, certified public accountants, public accountants,
or other individuals possessing a high degree of professional skill where the personality
of the individual plays a decisive part. (4) Contracts of employment in the regular civil
service. (5) Contracts for fiscal or financial advice or services. (6) Purchases of products
made or manufactured by the blind or visually handicapped...
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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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11-100-6
Section 11-100-6 Termination of state assistance payments; return of moneys held. State assistance
payments to cities, counties, and entities or authorities thereof, authorized by this chapter,
shall be terminated when the bonds issued to finance said city, county, or entity's or authority's
eligible facilities are fully retired or when, in the instance the bonds are refinanced, at
the date the original issue of such bonds would have reached its final maturity. Any moneys
then held by the cities or counties or entities or authorities thereof, derived from state
assistance payments, shall be returned to the state and deposited into the account in the
State Treasury to which such funds would have otherwise originally been deposited. (Acts 1989,
No. 89-651, p. 1287, §6.)...
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45-39A-11.04
Section 45-39A-11.04 Civic Center Authority - Construction, maintenance, etc., of civic center;
powers. (a) The authority shall be authorized to construct, maintain, control, operate, and
manage a civic center in the City of Florence. The authority shall be authorized to construct,
maintain, control, operate, and manage all or any of the following to be situated in the civic
center: Buildings to provide offices to be used by the State of Alabama or by any agency,
subdivision, or public corporation thereof or by the county or by one or more municipalities
thereof for any municipal purpose otherwise authorized by law and buildings to house or accommodate
public facilities of the State of Alabama or of any agency, subdivision, or public corporation
thereof or of the county or of any one or more of the municipalities for any municipal purpose
otherwise authorized by law; streets, boulevards, walkways, parkways, and parks; monuments,
statues, and other structures beautifying the civic...
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41-10-136
Section 41-10-136 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this article and others
evidently intended as the equivalent thereof shall, in the absence of clear implication in
this article otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations: (1) APPLICANT.
A natural person who files a written application with the Governor in accordance with the
provisions of Section 41-10-138. (2) AREA OF OPERATION. The area specified in the certificate
of incorporation of an authority, within which the authority is empowered to carry on its
business and activities under this article. (3) AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized
pursuant to the provisions of this article. (4) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority.
(5) BONDS. Includes bonds, notes, debentures and certificates representing an obligation to
pay money. (6) COMMISSION. The Alabama Historical Commission, an agency of the state established
under Section 41-9-240. (7) COUNTY. Any county in this state. (8) DIRECTOR....
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