11-50-235
Section 11-50-235 Powers of corporation generally; provisions in mortgages, deeds of trust, or pledge agreements executed by corporation as to rights of parties thereto, etc.; exemption from taxation of property and income of corporation. (a) Each corporation formed under this division 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 or until dissolved as provided in this division; (2) To sue and be sued and to defend civil actions against it; (3) To make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To acquire, purchase, construct, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve any system or systems, the operation of which is provided for in the certificate of incorporation of such corporation (whether or not such system or systems were in...
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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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7-9A-102
Section 7-9A-102 Definitions and index of definitions. (a) Article 9A definitions. In this article: (1) "Accession" means goods that are physically united with other goods in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. (2) "Account," except as used in "account for," means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, (i) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, (ii) for services rendered or to be rendered, (iii) for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, (iv) for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, (v) for energy provided or to be provided, (vi) for the use or hire of a vessel under a charter or other contract, (vii) arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card, or (viii) as winnings in a lottery or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a State, governmental unit of a State, or...
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40-21-103
Section 40-21-103 Exclusions. The storage, use, or other consumption of utility services in the State of Alabama is hereby specifically excluded from the tax herein levied: (1) Whenever the State of Alabama is prohibited from taxing such storage, use, or consumption under the Constitution or laws of the United States of America or the Constitution of the State of Alabama; (2) Whenever any tax relating to the sale, use, storage, or consumption of said utility services shall be levied under the provisions of Article 2 of Chapter 23 of this title, or under the provisions of Sections 40-23-1 through 40-23-36 or the Alabama Transaction Tax Act of 1992 if enacted into law; (3) Whenever the purchase of said utility services shall have been at a wholesale sale; (4) Whenever electricity, natural gas, or domestic water shall have been used or consumed directly in or for the production, generation, processing, storage, delivery, or transmission of electricity, natural gas, or domestic water; (5)...
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45-17A-83.04
Section 45-17A-83.04 Authority and duties of the board. The board shall be responsible for the management, control, and operation of the electric, water, sewer, gas, or other utilities presently owned or hereafter acquired by the City of Tuscumbia, including the authority to employ, upon terms to be established by the board, and to discharge managers, cashiers, clerks, attorneys, and other employees as deemed necessary for the operation of the utility systems. The board shall have the power and authority to construct, enlarge, improve, and repair utility systems subject to the financial limitations imposed herein. The board shall have the power and authority to transfer and to distribute and to sell to any one or more customers water, gas, and electricity and to furnish services from any system operated by it, and, further, to establish and collect and alter charges for water, gas, electric, and sewer services and all services of any kind sold or furnished by it. Further, the board may...
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11-51-129
Section 11-51-129 Street railroads, electric, gas, and waterworks companies, etc. The maximum amount of privilege or license tax which the several municipalities within the state may annually assess and collect of persons operating electric or hydroelectric street railroads, electric light and power companies, gas companies, waterworks companies, pipe line companies for transporting or carrying gas, oil, gasoline, water or other commodities, gas distributing companies, whether by means of pipe lines or by tanks, drums, tubes, cylinders, or otherwise, heating companies or other public utilities, incorporated under the laws of this state or any other state or whether incorporated at all or not, except telephone and telegraph companies, railroad and sleeping car companies and express companies which are otherwise licensed shall not exceed three percent of the gross receipts of the business done by the utility in the municipality during the preceding year; and, for the first year's...
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37-4-22
Section 37-4-22 Contract rates. (a) Rates and service regulations may be established by contract between a municipality and utility for a specified term, not exceeding 30 years, but only by and with the approval of the commission to be expressed by its order. Utilities may contract with each other and with persons who are not utilities in respect of the use of their properties and facilities, the sale or exchange of water, gas, electricity or other products or commodities, otherwise than pursuant to established rates, the distribution to the public of such products and commodities jointly or singly, and the territory within which such joint or single service shall be rendered and other matters deemed to be of mutual advantage, subject, however, in all such cases, to the approval of the commission; but no person shall participate in such distribution who is not a utility. (b) Whenever any such contract shall be made, it shall, before becoming effective, be submitted to the commission....
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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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11-81-160
Section 11-81-160 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BORROWER. A county or incorporated municipality, as the case may be, exercising the powers conferred by this article. (2) GOVERNING BODY. In the case of a county, the county commission exercising the legislative functions of the county and, in the case of a municipality, the board of commissioners, the mayor and council or other similar body exercising the legislative functions of the municipality. (3) WATERWORKS SYSTEM. Facilities for the gathering, collecting, impounding, treatment, transmission and distribution, or any of them, of water for domestic use or for industrial use or both, together with all appurtenances to any such facilities. (4) SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM. Facilities for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of sewage, together with all appurtenances to any such...
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41-16-50
Section 41-16-50 Contracts for which competitive bidding required. (a) With the exception of contracts for public works whose competitive bidding requirements are governed exclusively by Title 39, all expenditure of funds of whatever nature for labor, services, work, or for the purchase of materials, equipment, supplies, or other personal property involving fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) or more, and the lease of materials, equipment, supplies, or other personal property where the lessee is, or becomes legally and contractually, bound under the terms of the lease, to pay a total amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) or more, made by or on behalf of any state trade school, state junior college, state college, or university under the supervision and control of the Alabama Community College System, the Alabama Fire College, the district boards of education of independent school districts, the county commissions, the governing bodies of the municipalities of the state, and the...
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