11-50B-3
Section 11-50B-3 Permitted activities by public providers; lease of equipment by municipal governing bodies. In addition to all other power, rights, and authority heretofore granted by law, public providers may acquire, establish, purchase, construct, maintain, enlarge, extend, lease, improve, and operate cable systems, telecommunications equipment and telecommunications systems, and furnish cable service, interactive computer service, Internet access, other Internet services, and advanced telecommunications service, or any combination thereof, in the case of a public provider that is a municipality, to the inhabitants of the municipality and police jurisdiction, the area within the territorial jurisdiction of the municipal planning commission determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-52-30, as amended, and any area in which the municipality furnishes or sells any utility, such as electricity, gas, water, or sewer, and in the case of a public provider that is a...
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37-1-140
Section 37-1-140 Direct appeal to Supreme Court as matter of right; preferred setting of appeals; time for taking appeals; bond required when appellant is utility or person. In all cases involving controversies respecting rates and charges of telephone companies or public utilities, an appeal from any action or order of the Alabama Public Service Commission in the exercise of the jurisdiction, power and authority conferred upon it by this title, as amended and supplemented, shall lie directly to the Supreme Court of Alabama. All such appeals shall be given a preferred setting in the supreme court and shall be heard and determined by said court en banc. Nothing in this subdivision 2 shall be deemed to apply to any such cases other than those in which rates and charges are involved. All such appeals shall be taken within 30 days from the date of such action or order of the Alabama Public Service Commission and shall be granted as a matter of right and be deemed perfected by filing with...
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37-15-10.1
Section 37-15-10.1 Underground Damage Prevention Authority. (a) The Underground Damage Prevention Authority is created for the purpose of enforcing this chapter and for reviewing penalty provisions and the adequacy of the enforcement process. It is the intent of the Legislature that the authority and its enforcement activities not be funded by appropriations from the state budget. (b) The authority shall utilize the services of the Alabama Public Service Commission to provide administrative support for the authority, subject to the concurrence by the authority board. The Public Service Commission shall charge the expenses associated with the administrative duties of the authority back to the authority, subject to the concurrence of the authority board. The administrative support provided by the Alabama Public Service Commission to the authority is in an administrative capacity only and nothing in this chapter shall expand the jurisdiction of the Alabama Public Service Commission in any...
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37-4-101
Section 37-4-101 Definitions. The following words, when used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless otherwise clearly apparent from the context: (1) COMMISSION. The Public Service Commission of Alabama. (2) PERSON. Such term shall include any individual, partnerships, corporations, companies, associations, administrators, executors, trustees and receivers appointed by any court whatsoever. (3) RADIO UTILITY. Any person or organization which owns, controls, operates or manages a radio utility system; except, that such definition shall not include a telephone utility or telegraph utility regulated by the commission. (4) RADIO UTILITY SYSTEM. A system employing any facility within this state to offer a radio service on a for-hire basis to the members of the public who subscribe to such service, and which is operated under such circumstances as would require a license by the Federal Communications Commission as a miscellaneous common carrier in the domestic land mobile...
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37-5-2
Section 37-5-2 Creation; alteration; consolidation; dissolution. A municipal power district may be created as provided in this chapter and, when so created, shall be considered a municipal corporation and may exercise the powers granted in this chapter. The governing body of every municipality proposed to be included in a district shall pass a resolution declaring that the public interest or necessity demands the creation and maintenance of a municipal power district, describing the territory to be included in the proposed district, and file a certified copy thereof in duplicate with the commission. Upon receipt of the resolutions, the commission shall make an investigation of the propriety of creating the proposed district, of the character of utility feasible and economically desirable for the district and of the territory to be served. After investigation, the commission shall issue an order approving or disapproving the creation of the district and, if it approves, determining the...
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40-7-18
Section 40-7-18 Allocation of tax obligation between transferor and foreign corporate transferee of property sold for certain purposes. (a) The public interest lying in the promotion of business and industry in this state, it is the intent of the Legislature and declared to be the policy of the State of Alabama by the passage of this section to promote and encourage industry and business in Alabama and specifically to induce the location within this state of the principal administrative office, principal distribution or manufacturing plant, or principal place of business of foreign corporations engaged in manufacturing, industrial, commercial, business, transportation, utility, public service, and research enterprise. This section shall be liberally construed in conformity with the said intention. (b) When any real or personal property within this state is sold to, acquired by or transferred to any foreign corporation during any property tax year in connection with locating within this...
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11-51-104
Section 11-51-104 Licensing and taxation, etc., of amusements, athletic games, and use of public parks, etc. The council shall have power to license and tax, permit and regulate and restrain or prohibit all kinds of amusements and all athletic games and the use of public parks and places of resort within the corporate limits and within the police jurisdiction of the several cities or towns and shall prescribe the places and the manner and method of regulating and conducting all such amusements and games and fix the time when all or any of the places referred to may be opened or shall be closed, not inconsistent with the laws of the state. (Code 1907, §1347; Code 1923, §2170; Code 1940, T. 37, §757.)...
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40-21-1
Section 40-21-1 Department of Revenue to assess all property; applicability of chapter. It shall be the duty of the Department of Revenue to assess for taxation all property of all railroad companies, street and suburban railroad companies or persons or companies operating railroad or street railroads, or suburban railroads or sleeping cars in this state; all express companies, including railroad companies doing an express business and all telephone and long distance telephone and all telegraph companies, person or persons doing an express, telephone or telegraph business; all persons, firms, or corporations doing a gas business, transporting gas or furnishing gas, natural, manufactured or by-product, in or through pipes or in drums, tubes, cylinders, or by any other method; all water, electric light or power, hydroelectric power companies, steam heat, refrigerated air, dockage or cranage, toll roads, toll ferries, railroad equipment, pipelines for transporting or furnishing natural,...
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11-72-9
Section 11-72-9 Application and permission to cut, remove, trim, etc.; emergency exceptions (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no person shall cut, remove, trim, or in any way damage any tree in any street right-of-way in the Class 2 municipality or create any condition injurious to any tree without having first made a written application so to do to the commission and having obtained advance written permission from the commission. Any governmental body or utility may, by filing an application accompanied by a certificate as hereinafter provided, obtain a continuing permission to trim, cut, or remove at any time any trees in any area described in its application for such permission. The form of application shall be as established by the commission, and the commission may delegate to one or more of its members or officers the power to grant such permission in accordance with standards set by it. The commission may in its discretion hold public hearings on any application and may...
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17-5-14
Section 17-5-14 Corporate contributions or expenditures to political action committees; establishment by corporation; actions by utilities. (a) A corporation incorporated or organized under the laws of this state, or doing business in this state, may make a contribution or expenditure to or on behalf of any candidate or political action committee in the same manner that an individual is permitted to make under the laws of this state, except as otherwise expressly prohibited by subsection (c). (b) Any corporation may establish a political action committee, subject to the provisions of this section. Any corporation or any officer, employee, or agent acting on behalf of such corporation, is also permitted to give, pay, expend, or contribute money, services, or anything of value for the purposes of establishing, administering, or soliciting voluntary contributions to a separate, segregated fund to be utilized for political purposes as permitted by Section 17-5-14.1. (c) A utility regulated...
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