11-47-14
Section 11-47-14 Provision of wharves and landings and improvement of waterfronts generally. All municipal corporations which may have heretofore regularly issued bonds as provided by law for all or any of the purposes of constructing a wharf or wharves and a landing or landings and purchasing such real estate as may be necessary for such wharf or wharves and landing or landings and the equipping and furnishing of the same and improving of the waterfront for such municipalities may expend the proceeds of the sale of such bonds for all or any of the purposes of constructing a wharf or wharves and a landing or landings and acquiring such real estate as may be necessary for such wharf or wharves, landing or landings, either by purchase or condemnation proceedings in the manner provided by Title 18 of this Code, and of equipping and furnishing the same and improving the waterfront for such municipality, within its limits and outside its limits within five miles of the corporate limits of...
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11-81-51
Section 11-81-51 Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All municipalities shall have full and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds (when such issue is authorized by an election as provided in this article if such election is required by the Constitution, but without an election if an election is not so required) for the following named purposes: (1) For the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, enlarging or extending public buildings, sewers, streets, alleys, bridges and public schoolhouses and buildings and of constructing or acquiring by purchase or otherwise water, electric light, electric power and gas plants and systems or any two or more such plants or systems combined, including transmission and distribution systems, and of constructing enlargements and extensions to any such plants or systems; (2) For the purchase of real estate necessary for any improvement authorized...
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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...
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40-11-1
Section 40-11-1 Enumeration of subjects of taxation. (a) As used in this section the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein: (1) CONSTRUCTION PURPOSES. The normal and ordinary meaning of the words, except that mining activities or the transportation of materials used in or produced by mining or forestry activities shall not be construed to be included; (2) HEAVY DUTY EQUIPMENT. Any motor vehicle used primarily off the open road for construction purposes, including all road construction equipment whose gross weight exceeds 16,000 pounds, but not including inventory on hand for sale by duly licensed equipment dealers. (b) The subjects of ad valorem taxation, except as exempted by law, shall be as follows: (1) Every piece, parcel, tract, or lot of land in this state, including therein all things pertaining to such land, and all structures and other things so annexed or attached thereto as to pass to a vendee by conveyance of such land; and every separate or special...
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10A-21-2.01
Section 10A-21-2.01 Power of eminent domain in internal improvement or public utility corporations. Corporations formed for the purpose of constructing, operating, or maintaining railroads, street railroads, gas or electric works, water companies, power companies, canals, terminals, bridges, viaducts, wharves, piers, telegraph or telephone lines, pipelines, or any other work of internal improvement or public utility may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by law. (Code 1907, §3482; Code 1923, §7016; Code 1940, T. 10, §71; Acts 1973, No. 1063, p. 1777, §1; §10-5-1; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §358.)...
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4-1-1
Section 4-1-1 Authority of counties and municipalities to issue bonds for acquisition, improvement, etc., of airports and facilities therefor. In addition to all other objects and purposes for which bonds may be issued by counties and municipalities under the laws of this state, counties and municipalities in this state shall have full and continuing power and authority, within the limits and subject to the provisions of the constitution now in effect or hereinafter provided, to issue and sell bonds, which shall be general obligations of the county or municipality issuing the same, for the following purposes or any thereof: Acquiring then existing air fields and airports; acquiring real estate for the construction of air fields or airports or for constructing enlargements thereof and extensions thereto; constructing and acquiring buildings, runways and other improvements and facilities and equipment for air fields and airports on any lands now or hereafter acquired or in order to make...
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11-81-80
Section 11-81-80 Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All counties shall have full and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds, when such issue is authorized by the election provided for in this chapter, for the following named purposes: (1) To purchase and acquire or construct courthouses, jails, poorhouses, hospitals, asylums for the insane, tuberculosis sanatoriums, workhouses, houses of correction and other public buildings. (2) For the purchase of real estate for any improvement authorized by law or for the site for any building or improvement to be used for public purposes. (3) For extending, enlarging, improving, repairing, or securing the more complete use of and enjoyment of any building or improvement, owned, purchased, or constructed by the county and for equipping and furnishing the same. (4) To fund floating debt. (5) To acquire land for county parks and to improve the...
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11-99A-2
Section 11-99A-2 Definitions. In this chapter the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) APPOINTING GOVERNMENT. The municipality or county that approves the creation of a district and appoints members to the board. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of a district. (3) CONTIGUOUS. Two tracts of land if touching for a continuous distance of not less than 200 feet. The term includes tracts of land divided by bodies of water, streets, railroad, or utility rights-of-way, or by land owned by any public person. In determining whether land is contiguous with a municipality, (i) land separated by bodies of water, streets, or railroad, or utility rights-of-way is contiguous even though the bodies of water, streets, or rights-of-way are within the city limits of another municipality and (ii) land separated by land owned by a public person is not contiguous if the land owned by the public person is within the city limits of another municipality. (4) COUNCIL. The governing body of a...
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11-48-4
Section 11-48-4 General powers of municipalities as to public improvements. All cities or towns in this state may design or cause to be designed, contract for and execute or cause to be executed a contract for the construction of the following named improvements or reimprovements to the streets or any portions thereof and the following named sewers or sewer systems and the following named water and gas mains and service connections. All cities or towns in this state having a population of 60,000 inhabitants or more according to the most recent federal census may design or cause to be designed, contract for and execute or cause to be executed a contract for the construction of the following named drainage improvements or drainage systems or reclamation systems and the filling in of swamps or inundated or overflowed or submerged lands within the limits of such municipality. All cities or towns in this state may design or cause to be designed, contract for and execute or cause to be...
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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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