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9-9-5
Section 9-9-5 Establishment of district - Jurisdiction generally; purposes. (a) The court of
probate of any county of the State of Alabama shall have jurisdiction, power and authority
to establish water management districts, as provided in this article for the following purposes:
(1) To locate and establish levees, drains or canals and to cause to be constructed, straightened,
widened or deepened any ditch, drain or watercourse; (2) To construct for the purposes of
flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization or disposal of water works
of improvement, including levees, embankments, floodwater retarding structures, water storage
structures, outlets and tide gates, flood gates and pumping plants for preventing floods,
providing drainage, reducing sediment and reclaiming wet, swamp or overflowed lands and other
related works of improvement that will carry out the purposes of this article; and (3) To
provide maintenance for such installations. (b) It is hereby declared...
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11-50-343
Section 11-50-343 Powers generally; publication, recordation, and authentication of resolutions
of board. (a) Each board created under the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be
a public agency or instrumentality exercising public and governmental functions to provide
for the public health and welfare, and each such board is hereby authorized and empowered:
(1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (2)
To adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure; (3) To maintain an office at such
place or places within the city as it may designate; (4) To sue and be sued in its own name;
(5) To acquire, purchase, lease as lessee, construct, reconstruct, improve, extend, operate,
and maintain any water system or part thereof or any sewer system or part thereof or any combination
thereof within or without or partly within and partly without the corporate limits of the
city, and to acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the right...
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11-80-1
Section 11-80-1 Condemnation of lands for public building sites, roads, streets, construction
materials, etc. (a) Counties and municipal corporations may condemn lands for public building
sites or additions thereto, or for enlargements of sites already owned, or for public roads
or streets or alleys, or for material for the construction of public roads or streets or for
any other public use. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a municipality or county
may not condemn property for the purposes of private retail, office, commercial, industrial,
or residential development; primarily for enhancement of tax revenue; for transfer to a person,
nongovernmental entity, public-private partnership, corporation, or other business entity;
or for the primary purpose of acquiring a mortgage or deed of trust. Provided, however, the
provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the use of eminent domain by any municipality,
housing authority, or other public entity based upon a finding...
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11-89-33
Section 11-89-33 Clarification of powers. (a) In addition to the powers granted to the special
corporation, it is provided that if the special corporation is to operate a sewer system to
provide for the collection, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of solid wastes,
such a system may include, in addition to the facilities set out in the definition of "sewer
system" in Section 11-89-1, barges, boats, towboats, transfer facilities, and such licenses,
grants, agreements, contracts, and franchises as may be necessary or desirable for the conduct
of the system. Also, the special corporation may contract with any municipality located in
whole or in part in any county in which any part of the service area of the special corporation
lies, for the collection, transfer, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal by the
special corporation of solid wastes within the municipality. (b) The certificate of incorporation
may incorporate by reference and grant to the special...
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9-9-49
Section 9-9-49 Rights of landowners as to use of drains, watercourses, etc., as outlets for
lateral drains from lands. The owner of any land that has been assessed for the cost of the
construction of any ditch, drain, watercourse or other improvement as provided in this article
shall have the right to use the ditch, drain or watercourse as an outlet for lateral drains
from said land; and, if said land is separated from the ditch, drain, watercourse or other
drainage improvement by the land of another or others and the owner thereof shall be unable
to agree with said other or others as to the terms and conditions on which he may enter their
lands and construct said drain or ditch, he may petition to condemn the same and the same
proceeding shall be had as in cases of condemnation under the right of eminent domain. When
the drain is constructed it shall become a part of the drainage system and shall be under
the control of the board of water management commissioners and be kept in repair...
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2-17-24
Section 2-17-24 Conduct of investigations and requirement of reports as to organization, business,
practices, etc., of persons, firms, etc., engaged in intrastate commerce by commissioner;
access to copying, etc., of documentary evidence; powers of commissioner as to witnesses generally;
issuance of subpoenas and orders for taking of depositions; enforcement of subpoenas and orders
of commissioner, etc., generally; fees of witnesses, etc.; witnesses not to be excused from
testifying on grounds of self-incrimination; immunity from prosecution of witnesses as to
matters, etc., upon which compelled to testify. (a) The commissioner shall also have power:
(1) To gather and compile information concerning and to investigate from time to time the
organization, business, conduct, practices and management of any person, firm or corporation
engaged in intrastate commerce and the relation thereof to other persons, firms and corporations;
(2) To require, by general or special order, persons, firms...
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33-16-8
Section 33-16-8 Powers enumerated. The authority shall have the following powers: (1) To have
succession by its corporate name without time limit; (2) To bring civil actions and have civil
actions brought against it and to prosecute and defend 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 receive, take and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise or otherwise
real and personal property of every kind and description, and to manage the same; (5) To acquire
by purchase, gift or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or any other lawful means,
and to convey or cause to be conveyed to the United States, the State of Alabama, any county
or municipality in the state, or to any agency, department or instrumentality of such political
entities, or to any public corporation, any real, personal or mixed property necessary or
convenient to the authority in the performance of its duties and...
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45-27A-32
Section 45-27A-32 Community antenna television system. (a) As used in this section the word
city shall mean the City of Brewton, Alabama, in Escambia County, a municipal corporation
organized under the laws of the State of Alabama. (b) In addition to all other powers, rights,
and authority heretofore granted by law: The city is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire,
purchase, construct, lease, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve a community antenna
television system (CATV), which may be defined, without limiting the generality, as a facility
that in whole or in part, receives directly, or indirectly, or over the air, and amplifies
or otherwise modifies the signal transmitting programs broadcast by one or more television
or radio stations from any point within this state or any other state and distributes such
signals by wire or cable or any other means to subscribing members of the public who pay for
such service. (c) For the purposes of this section, the city may...
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9-14A-6
Section 9-14A-6 Powers. The corporations created in Sections 9-14A-4 and 9-14A-5 shall each
have the following powers: (a) To have succession by its corporate name without time limit.
(b) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend, at law or in equity, in any court having
jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties. (c) To have and to use a corporate
seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (d) To receive, take and hold by sale, gift, lease,
devise or otherwise, real and personal estate of every description, and to manage the same.
(e) To exercise the right of eminent domain as freely and completely as, and in the same manner
as, the state is empowered to exercise such right. (f) To sell and issue for the state bonds
and refunding bonds as provided in this chapter. (g) To appoint and employ such attorneys,
accountants, financial advisors, underwriters, trustees, depositories, registrars and other
advisors, agents and independent contractors as the business of the...
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9-9-27
Section 9-9-27 Viewing and assessment of lands by board of viewers; report of findings. (a)
Within 30 days after qualifying, the board of viewers shall begin its duties, and it may at
any time call upon the attorney of the district for legal advice and information relative
to its duties. Said viewers shall proceed to view the premises and determine the value of
all land and other property within or without the district to be acquired and used for rights-of-way
or other works of drainage, leveeing, reclamation, flood prevention or for the conservation,
development, utilization and disposal of water as set out in the water management plan. They
shall assess the amount of benefits and the amount of damages, if any, that will accrue to
each tract of 40 acres or less, according to the legal or recognized subdivisions of land
according to ownership, to public highways, railroad and other rights-of-way, railroads, roadways
and other property from carrying out and putting into effect the plan...
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