4-3-11
Section 4-3-11 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 suits and 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, 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 undeveloped property owned, leased or controlled by...
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40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence
in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with
tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to
requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer
has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among
other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal
within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of
resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and
fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those
specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing
shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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11-42-155
Section 11-42-155 Rights, powers, duties, and name of consolidated municipality; disposition
of property, obligations, and contracts of consolidating municipalities. (a) If the majority
of the votes cast in each municipality separately are in favor of consolidation, the three
municipalities and other territory included shall be consolidated into one municipality which
shall have all the rights, powers, and duties conferred by any law, general or special, of
the largest in population of the consolidating municipalities and until otherwise changed
shall bear its name. (b) The municipal property of each of the consolidating municipalities
shall vest in the consolidated municipality, and all outstanding obligations and contracts
of whatever kind shall be assumed by the consolidated municipality. (Acts 1919, No. 423, p.
547; Code 1923, §1864; Code 1940, T. 37, §223.)...
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11-42-160
Section 11-42-160 Continuation of rights of action against municipality annexed. All rights
of action existing against the city or town annexed shall be a right of action against the
city or town annexing the other city or town, and a civil action may be brought against the
annexing city or town the same as if the right of action originally existed against the annexing
city or town. (Code 1907, §1145; Code 1923, §1840; Code 1940, T. 37, §207.)...
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11-42-105
Section 11-42-105 Continuation of officers and corporate organization of municipalities; qualification
and assumption of duties of officers elected for consolidated municipalities. The officers
of the several municipalities shall continue in office, and the corporate organization of
the several municipalities shall continue unaffected until the officers of the consolidated
town or city are elected and qualified as provided for in the applicable provisions of this
title or any other applicable provisions of law, and such officers so elected shall immediately
qualify and assume the duties of their office. (Code 1907, §1131; Code 1923, §1825; Code
1940, T. 37, §193.)...
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11-42-167
Section 11-42-167 Rights, powers, duties, etc., of annexing municipality as to municipality
annexed attach upon dissolution of same. The rights, powers, duties, liabilities, and jurisdiction
of the annexing city or town over the territory embraced in the corporate limits of the city
or town annexed and over the inhabitants thereof shall attach immediately upon the dissolution
of the annexed city or town as provided in Section 11-42-166, except insofar as limited by
the terms and provisions of the agreement of annexation. (Code 1907, §1152; Code 1923, §1847;
Code 1940, T. 37, §214.)...
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11-40-4
Section 11-40-4 Property rights, rights of action, etc., preserved and enforced notwithstanding
change of name or organization. Rights of action and rights of property arising before or
existing at the time of a change of corporate organization, as directed in this title, shall
be enforced against or in favor of such city or town, and all civil actions then pending in
favor of or against municipal corporations shall continue to judgment unaffected by this title
and shall be enforced in favor of or against such city or town, as the case may be, notwithstanding
a change of name or of organization. (Code 1907, §1050; Code 1923, §1741; Code 1940, T.
37, §3.)...
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11-47-191
Section 11-47-191 Institution of actions, entry, and execution of judgments against municipalities
and other persons or corporations jointly liable. (a) The injured party, if he institutes
a civil action against the municipality for damages suffered by him, shall also join such
other person or persons or corporation so liable as defendant or defendants of the civil action,
and no judgment shall be entered against the city or town unless judgment is entered against
such other person or corporation so liable for such injury, except where a summons is returned
not found as to a defendant or when judgment is entered in his favor on some personal defense,
and if a civil action be brought against the city or town alone and it is made to appear that
any person or corporation ought to be joined as a defendant in the action according to the
provisions in Section 11-47-190, the action shall be dismissed, unless the plaintiff amends
his complaint by making such party or corporation a defendant,...
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24-1-110
Section 24-1-110 Consolidated housing authorities. If the governing body of each of two or
more municipalities by resolution declares that there is a need for one housing authority
for all of such municipalities to exercise in such municipalities the powers and other functions
prescribed for a housing authority, a public body corporate and politic, to be known as a
consolidated housing authority, with such corporate name as it selects, shall thereupon exist
for all of such municipalities and exercise its powers and other functions within its area
of operation, as defined in this section, including the power to undertake projects therein;
and, thereupon, any housing authority created for any of such municipalities shall cease to
exist except for the purpose of winding up its affairs and executing a deed of its real property
to the consolidated housing authority. The creation of a consolidated housing authority and
the finding of need therefor shall be subject to the same provisions and...
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11-46-1
Section 11-46-1 Municipalities may provide for election, compensation, bond, etc., of officers.
Cities and towns may, except as otherwise provided by law, by ordinance provide for the election
at any regular municipal election or for the appointment of such officers as are deemed needful
or proper for the good government of the city or town and the due exercise of its corporate
powers, fix their terms of office, fix their compensation and prescribe the duties of such
officers, their liabilities and powers and require them to give bond in such sum and to be
conditioned and approved as the council may prescribe. (Code 1907, §1171; Code 1923, §1887;
Code 1940, T. 37, §34.)...
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