11-54B-3
Section 11-54B-3 Development and maintenance of self-help business improvement districts.
A municipality may, through ordinance, provide for the creation and maintenance of one or
more self-help business improvement districts pursuant to this article. This article is intended
as the exclusive procedure through which a municipality may create and maintain a self-help
business improvement district. (Acts 1994, No. 94-677, §3.)...
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11-54B-42
Section 11-54B-42 Development and maintenance of self-help business improvement districts.
A Class 2 municipality, by ordinance, may provide for the creation and maintenance of one
or more self-help business improvement districts pursuant to this article. This article is
intended as the exclusive procedure by which a Class 2 municipality may create and maintain
a self-help business improvement district. (Act 2004-382, p. 626, §3.)...
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11-54B-1
Section 11-54B-1 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature finds: (1) That patterns
of urban development have had a substantial adverse impact upon downtown and community business
districts vital to the economies of Class 1 municipalities in Alabama. (2) That the public
interest would be advanced by authorizing the creation of self-help business improvement districts
and district management corporations to assist Class 1 municipalities in promoting economic
growth in business districts. (3) That district management corporations representing real
property owners within self-help business improvement districts can assist Class 1 municipalities
in promoting economic growth and employment within business districts. (4) That Class 1 municipalities
should be authorized to create self-help business improvement districts and designate district
management corporations to execute self-help programs to improve the local business climates.
(b) The Legislature further finds that it is the public...
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11-54B-40
Section 11-54B-40 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature makes the following findings:
(1) That patterns of urban development have had substantial adverse impacts upon downtown
and community business districts vital to the economy of the State of Alabama. (2) That the
public interest would be advanced by authorizing the creation of self-help business improvement
districts and district management corporations to assist any Class 2 municipality in promoting
economic growth in business districts. (3) That the public interest would also be advanced
by authorizing the creation of self-help business districts for the promotion of tourism that
include businesses of a designated class and funding supplemental business services through
the levy of assessments on businesses of the designated class that receive benefits from those
supplemental business services. (4) That a district management corporation representing real
property owners, or in certain cases, owners of a particular class of...
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11-54B-22
Section 11-54B-22 Merger of business improvement districts. (a) Without the approval
of the governing body of the municipality or the owners of the real property located within
the geographical areas of the districts, any two or more district management corporations
located within the same municipality may merge into one of such district management corporations
pursuant to Article 5 of Chapter 3A of Title 10, as well as this section. (b) Each
district management corporation shall adopt a plan of merger in compliance with subsection
(b) of Section 10-3A-100, which plan of merger, in addition, shall designate the self-help
business improvement district ordinance which shall be applicable to the surviving corporation,
provided that such ordinance was applicable to at least one of the corporations prior to the
merger. (c) A plan of merger shall be approved pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (a)
of Section 10-3A-102. (d) The articles of merger provided in Section 10-3A-103,
shall...
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11-54B-50
Section 11-54B-50 District management corporation limits, powers, and duties. (a) District
management corporations provided for in this article shall be incorporated under the Alabama
Nonprofit Corporation Act, Chapter 3 of Title 10A, and shall exercise their powers in a manner
consistent with that law. (b) To qualify for designation by ordinance to manage a self-help
business improvement district, the articles of incorporation of a proposed district management
corporation shall provide all of the following: (1) That a board of directors shall manage
the property, business, and affairs of the corporation. (2) The names and addresses of the
initial members of the board of directors. (3) That the initial members of the board shall
be divided into three groups which are as equal in number as is possible, that those groups
will serve for initial terms of one, two, and three years respectively, and that all directors
thereafter elected by the board of directors shall serve for a term of...
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11-54B-49
Section 11-54B-49 Amendment of the self-help business improvement district ordinance.
(a) The governing body of the municipality may amend an ordinance relating to the self-help
business improvement district upon the written request of a representative group of the owners
of the nonexempt real property located within the geographical area of the district. The request
shall specify the desired amendment or amendments which should be made by the governing body
of the municipality to the self-help business improvement district ordinance. The request
shall also include the signatures of the owners of the nonexempt real property comprising
at least 60 percent of the total fair market value of all real property located in the district,
or the owners of at least 50 percent of the parcels of property located within the district;
or, alternatively with respect to a district funded by assessments against a particular class
of businesses, the signatures of the owners of businesses, consistent...
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11-54B-47
Section 11-54B-47 Costs of supplemental services. (a) The self-help business improvement
district ordinance adopted by the municipality pursuant to Section 11-54B-46 shall
provide that all costs of the supplemental services provided in a self-help business improvement
district shall be financed through the levy by the municipality of a special assessment on
the owners of the real property located within the geographical area of the district or, in
the case of a district formed to increase tourism in the municipality, on businesses of the
designated class within the geographical area of the district, and in either case shall designate
the method set forth in the plan as the method used to determine the amount of the special
assessment in a manner which fairly and equitably distributes the burden of financing the
supplemental services among the nonexempt real property owners in the district. The ordinance
shall list and describe, by lot and block numbers and by street addresses, all real...
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11-54B-43
Section 11-54B-43 Findings required for a public hearing on the adoption of a self-help
business improvement district ordinance. A public hearing on the adoption of an ordinance
creating a self-help business improvement district may be called only if the governing body
of a Class 2 municipality finds that: (1) A request for the creation of a self-help business
improvement district which satisfies the requirements of Section 11-54B-44 has been
filed with the clerk of the municipality. (2) The area described in the self-help business
improvement plan would benefit from being designated as a self-help business improvement district.
(3) The self-help business improvement district plan required by Section 11-54B-44
includes a designated district management corporation to provide administrative and other
services to benefit businesses, employees, residents, and consumers in the self-help business
improvement district. (4) The self-help business improvement district plan includes a special...

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11-54B-41
Section 11-54B-41 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meanings: (1) DISTRICT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION. An entity created
by incorporation under the Alabama Nonprofit Corporation Act, Chapter 3 of Title 10A, and
designated by ordinance by the incorporated municipality to manage a self-help business improvement
district. (2) MUNICIPALITY. Those municipalities designated as Class 2 municipalities as defined
in Section 11-40-12. (3) SELF-HELP BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT. An area within the
incorporated municipality designated by ordinance as an area in which a special assessment
may be levied on the owners of real property located within the geographical area of the district
for the purposes of providing supplemental services within the district and promoting the
economic and general welfare of the district or, alternatively with respect to a district
formed for the purpose of increasing tourism within the municipality, an area or...
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