11-47-137
Section 11-47-137 Regulation, etc., of markets and marketing of food products, etc. All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, regulate and control markets and market houses and to require and provide for the proper inspection of food products and articles offered for sale or barter within the police jurisdiction of the city or town and for the punishment of persons or corporations offering for sale unsound or unwholesome articles in markets or other places in the city or town or within the police jurisdiction thereof. Such cities and towns shall have the power to inspect all dairies and the products of the same in the county in which the city or town or any part thereof is located and the owner of which sells or disposes of milk or butter in such city or town and to regulate the same, and the council or other governing body of such city or town may fix and prescribe the payment of a reasonable fee for such inspection. Such council or other governing body...
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11-48-82
Section 11-48-82 Issuance of general obligation bonds, etc., to pay cost of improvements. Each such city shall have the same power to issue its general obligation bonds and other general obligation securities to pay the cost of public improvements constructed in the police jurisdiction of such city that it may have under any law now existing or hereafter enacted to issue general obligation bonds or other general obligation securities for payment of the cost of public improvements within the city. All such laws relating to the issuance by any such city of general obligation bonds or other general obligation securities to pay the cost of public improvements, where all or any part of such cost is assessed or to be assessed against property located within the corporate limits of the city, shall apply to and govern the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds and other general obligation securities and the making of any pledges for payment thereof to obtain money to pay the cost of...
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23-1-378
Section 23-1-378 Acquisition, construction, operation of airports, facilities, power of condemnation generally. (a) The department may on behalf of and in the name of the state, within the limitation of appropriations or other funds available, acquire, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, condemnation proceedings or otherwise, property, real or personal, for the purpose of establishing and constructing airports, restricted landing areas, and other air navigation facilities and to acquire, own, control, establish, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, and police airports, restricted landing areas, and other air navigation facilities within the state; make investigations, surveys or plans prior to any acquisition; and erect, install, construct, and maintain at airports facilities for the servicing of aircraft and for the comfort and accommodation of air travelers. (b) The department may not acquire, or take over any airport, restricted landing area, or other air...
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11-54-87
Section 11-54-87 Powers of boards generally; location and operation of projects of boards generally; meetings of board of directors. (a) The industrial development board shall have the following powers together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary for the performance of those stated in this subsection: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the period specified in the certificate of incorporation unless sooner dissolved as provided in this article; (2) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend civil actions in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To acquire, whether by purchase, construction, exchange, gift, lease, or otherwise and to improve, maintain, equip, and furnish one or more projects, including all real and personal properties which the board of directors of the board may deem necessary in connection therewith, regardless of whether or not...
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37-3-13
Section 37-3-13 Contract carrier permits - Generally. (a) No person shall engage in the business of a contract carrier by motor vehicle in intrastate commerce on any highway of this state unless there is in force with respect to such carrier a permit issued by the commission, authorizing such person to engage in such business. The application for such permit shall be decided in accordance with the procedure provided for in subsection (b) of this section, and such permit shall be issued or denied accordingly. (b) Application for such permits shall be made to the commission in writing, be verified under oath and shall be in such form and contain such information as the commission may, by regulation, require. Such application for permit shall be accompanied by such proof of service of notice of said application and the filing thereof with the commission as the commission shall by regulation require. Notice of such application by every contract carrier of passengers shall be served upon...
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45-35-243
Section 45-35-243 Levy and collection; disposition of funds. (a) This section shall only be applicable to portions of Houston County outside the corporate limits of the City of Dothan. (b) There is levied and imposed, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, a privilege or license tax upon every person, firm, or corporation engaging in the business of renting or furnishing any room or rooms, lodging, or accommodations to transients in any hotel, motel, inn, tourist camp, tourist cabin, or any other place in which rooms, lodgings, or accommodations are regularly furnished to transients for a consideration, in an amount of six percent of the charge for the room, rooms, lodgings, or accommodations, including the charge for use or rental of personal property and services furnished in the room; provided, however, that there is exempted from the tax authorized to be levied under this section any rentals or services taxed under Division 1, commencing with Section...
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28-2A-20
Section 28-2A-20 Ordinance and referendum to determine whether annexed territories should be legally wet. In addition to the procedure established pursuant to Article 1, the governing body of any Class 1, 2, or 3 municipality or any municipality having a population of 18,500 or more, which is legally wet, and which has previously annexed or hereinafter annexes territory into the municipality which lies in a county which is legally dry, shall, before the annexed territory becomes wet, pass an ordinance calling for a city-wide referendum to be held to determine whether the annexed portions of the municipality shall be legally wet as herein provided. If the governing body of the municipality adopts an ordinance determining that all of the area within the corporate limits of the municipality should be legally wet, and if this decision is approved at a subsequent referendum called to decide this issue, alcoholic beverages may be lawfully sold, distributed, and consumed within the newly...
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28-2A-1
Section 28-2A-1 Procedure for wet or dry classification option elections. (a) Any municipality having a population of 1,000 or more, may change its classification from dry to wet or wet to dry by a municipal option election, in the following manner. (b) Upon petition of 30 percent of the number of voters voting in the last preceding general election of the municipality being filed with the city or town clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body must call a municipal option election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether or not alcoholic beverages can be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for municipal option election shall contain the following: "It is petitioned that a municipal option election be held to permit the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality." On the ballot to be used for such municipal option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do...
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11-50-396
Section 11-50-396 Powers generally. Each district incorporated under this article shall have each and all of the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession in its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be in perpetuity) specified in the certificate of incorporation, or until dissolved as provided in subsection (c) of Section 11-50-392. (2) To sue and be sued and to defend civil actions against it. (3) To have and use a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure. (4) To acquire, purchase, construct, receive, own, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve any one or more gas systems the operation of which is provided for in the certificate of incorporation of the district (whether or not such system or systems were in existence or whether or not such system or systems were privately owned or municipally owned prior to the acquisition by such district). (5) To receive,...
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37-14-31
Section 37-14-31 Definitions. As used in this article the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise; (1) ELECTRIC SUPPLIER. Any municipality, municipally-owned utility or other governmental entity, any cooperative, corporation, person, firm, association or other entity engaged in the business of supplying electric service at retail; provided, however, that no person or entity, including the Tennessee Valley Authority, who may not be lawfully regulated by the state by virtue of powers granted by the laws of the United States which prevail over Alabama statutes, nor any university, college or United States agency which distributes electricity at retail shall be deemed an electric supplier for the purpose of this article. (2) ELECTRIC SERVICE AT RETAIL and RETAIL ELECTRIC SERVICE. Electric service furnished to a customer for ultimate consumption, but does not include wholesale electric service furnished by an electric...
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