4-3-47
Section 4-3-47 Powers of authority generally. The authority shall have the following powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be
in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued in its
own name in civil actions, excepting actions in tort against the authority; (3) To adopt and
make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt and alter bylaws
for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, receive, take
and hold, whether by purchase, option to purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, property
of every description, whether real, personal or mixed, whether in one or more counties and
whether within or without the corporate limits of any authorizing subdivision, and to manage
said property and to develop any property and to sell, exchange, lease or...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/4-3-47.htm - 16K - Match Info - Similar pages

11-43-142
Section 11-43-142 Operation, etc., beyond corporate limits and police jurisdiction - Contracts
with municipalities, counties, manufacturing or industrial concerns, etc.; liability for injuries.
The governing body of any city or town may, in its discretion, authorize or require the fire
department thereof to render aid in cases of fire occurring beyond their corporate limits
and police jurisdiction, and may prescribe the conditions on which such aid may be rendered
and may enter into a contract or contracts with other cities or towns, with counties or county
boards, manufacturing or industrial concerns, or residential or business areas for rendering
aid in fire protection in such places on such terms as may be agreed upon by such governing
body and the governing body of such city or town, county or county boards, or the management
of such manufacturing or industrial concerns or the residents of such residential or business
areas, and when the fire department of any city or town is...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-43-142.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages

11-42-133
Section 11-42-133 Creation, etc., of wards; election of aldermen; division of wards into voting
precincts; rearrangement, etc., of boundaries of wards or voting precincts. (a) The council
or governing body of the annexing city or town shall create new wards (as many as may be deemed
to be necessary) regardless of any limitation in the charter of the annexing city or town
on the number of wards, or enlarge wards so as to embrace all territory embraced in the annexed
city or town and so as to afford opportunity to all persons in the territory embraced in the
annexed city or town to vote in all elections and participate in the government of the annexing
city or town, and each ward in the annexing city or town shall have the same number of aldermen,
but in no event shall there be more than 30 aldermen or representatives in the council or
governing body of the city or town. (b) The council or governing body of the city or town
shall elect aldermen for the wards, embracing all the territory...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-42-133.htm - 2K - Match Info - Similar pages

11-42-76
Section 11-42-76 Entitlement of persons in territory exempt from taxation to benefits derived
from city taxes. No person residing in territory exempt from taxation in the city shall be
entitled to receive any of the benefits derived from taxes paid to the city; except, that
as far as practicable it shall be the duty of the city to give police and fire protection
to persons and property in the exempt district. (Code 1907, §1109; Code 1923, §1803; Code
1940, T. 37, §172.)...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-42-76.htm - 792 bytes - Match Info - Similar pages

11-42-88
Section 11-42-88 Provisions of article deemed contract between city and persons, etc., in territory
exempt from taxation; conferral of other rights and powers as to exempt territory upon city;
right of persons residing in exempt territory to enforce article against city. (a) The provisions
of this article shall be held to be a contract by and between the city and persons or corporations
owning property in the territory exempt from taxation under the provisions of this article
and no amendment hereof or subsequent law shall confer upon the city other or different rights
and powers as to such territory as is exempt from taxation so long as such territory remains
exempt from taxation under the provisions of this article. (b) Any person residing in or owning
property in the territory exempt from taxation under the provisions of this article shall
have the right in any court having jurisdiction to prevent the city from exercising any other
or different powers in the territory exempt from...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-42-88.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages

11-42-123
Section 11-42-123 Ordering of election by proclamation. If the council or governing body of
each city or town confirms the agreement, then the mayor of the city or town proposed to be
annexed to the other city or town shall, by proclamation, order an election to be held on
a day fixed in the proclamation in his city or town, submitting to a vote of the qualified
electors in his city or town the following proposition: "Shall the agreement for the
annexation of (naming the city or town) to (naming the city or town) be ratified?" and
stating in such proclamation that one of the triplicates of the agreement made which is submitted
for ratification is on file in the office of the clerk of such city or town, open to the inspection
of the public. (Code 1907, §1136; Code 1923, §1831; Code 1940, T. 37, §198.)...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-42-123.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages

11-42-85
Section 11-42-85 Right of children residing in territory exempt from taxation to attend public
schools of city. The public schools of the city, to the extent that the same are supported
and maintained by revenue derived from all sources, except appropriations made from the city
treasury derived from city taxes or other source of city revenue, shall be open to children
residing in the territory exempt from taxation under the provisions of this article the same
as the schools are open to the children residing within the corporate limits of the city other
than the territory exempt from taxation. As to that portion of any term of the public schools
in the city supported and maintained by appropriations made from the city treasury derived
from city taxes or other source of city revenue, children residing in the territory which
is exempt from taxation under the provisions of this article shall have the right to attend
on the payment for the use of the city of a per capita tuition fixed (if...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-42-85.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages

6-5-127
Section 6-5-127 Nuisance exceptions; right of action for pollution of waters, etc.; relation
to municipal ordinances. (a) No agricultural, manufacturing, or other industrial plant or
establishment, farming operation facility, or any racetrack for automobiles or motorcycles,
or both, operated in conjunction with a museum that is owned by a nonprofit organization and
has a building and collection on display which together have a minimum value of at least one
million dollars ($1,000,000), or any of its appurtenances or the operation thereof shall be
or become a nuisance, private or public, by any changed conditions in and about the locality
thereof after the same has been in operation for more than one year during which such plant,
facility, establishment, farming operation facility, or racetrack, its appurtenances or the
operation thereof has not been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be a nuisance;
provided, that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply whenever a...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/6-5-127.htm - 2K - Match Info - Similar pages

11-45-2
Section 11-45-2 Style of ordinances; procedure for adoption of ordinances or resolutions generally;
manner of awarding contracts on bids. (a) The style of an ordinance of a city or town shall
be, "Be it ordained by the city (or town) council of ___ as follows:" inserting
the name of the city or town as the case may be. (b) No ordinance or resolution intended to
be of permanent operation shall be adopted by the council at the same meeting at which it
is introduced, unless unanimous consent of those present is given for the immediate consideration
of such ordinance or resolution, such consent to be shown by a vote taken by yeas and nays,
and the names of the members voting shall be entered upon the minutes, and no ordinance or
resolution intended to be of permanent operation shall become a law unless on its final passage
a majority of the members elected to said council in cities of over 12,000 inhabitants shall
vote in its favor. In all towns and in cities of less than 12,000...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-45-2.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages

11-50-142
Section 11-50-142 Passage of resolution by governing body providing for sale, lease, etc. Before
any sale, lease, or disposition of an electric light plant, gas plant, or waterworks plant
of any city or town shall be made, the board of aldermen or other governing body shall pass
a resolution declaring it to be, in the judgment of said board of aldermen or other governing
body, to the best interests of the city or town that the electric plant, gas plant, or waterworks
plant of such city or town shall be sold, leased, or disposed of and shall fix in said resolution
the minimum price at which the sale, lease, or disposition should be had. (Acts 1909, No.
212, p. 253; Code 1923, §2060; Code 1940, T. 37, §377.)...
alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/alison/CodeOfAlabama/1975/11-50-142.htm - 1K - Match Info - Similar pages