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16-18A-4
Section 16-18A-4 Powers and duties. The purpose of the authority shall be to assist institutions
for higher education in the construction, financing and refinancing of the projects. The exercise
by the authority of the powers conferred by this chapter shall be deemed and held to be the
performance of an essential public function. For the purpose of this chapter, the authority
shall have the powers and duties set forth in this section. (1) To adopt an official seal
and alter the same at its pleasure. (2) To sue and be sued in contract and in tort and to
complain and defend in all courts of law and equity. (3) To maintain an office at such place
or places as it may designate. (4) To determine the location and character of any project
financed under this chapter, to acquire, construct, reconstruct, remodel, maintain, manage,
enlarge, alter, add to, repair, operate, lease as lessee or lessor, sell or otherwise dispose
of, any project in any manner it deems to the best advantage of the...
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37-3-2
Section 37-3-2 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, where not
in conflict with the context, shall have the following meanings: (1) BROKER. Any person not
included in the term "motor carrier" and not a bona fide employee or agent of any
such carrier, who or which, as principal or agent, sells or offers for sale any transportation
of property other than that transported by common carriers of passengers, subject to this
chapter, or negotiates for or holds itself out by solicitation, advertisement, or otherwise
as one who sells, provides, furnishes, contracts, or arranges for the transportation. (2)
CERTIFICATE. A certificate of public convenience and necessity issued under this chapter to
common carriers by motor vehicle. (3) COMMON CARRIER BY MOTOR VEHICLE. Any person who or which
undertakes, whether directly or by a lease or other arrangement, to transport passengers or
property or any class or classes of property for the general public in the State of...
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23-6-7
Section 23-6-7 Corporate powers. The corporation shall have the following powers: (1) To have
succession by its corporate name without time limit; (2) 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; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure;
(4) To construct, reconstruct, and relocate industrial access roads and bridges within the
state or to cause the same to be constructed, reconstructed, and relocated; (5) To receive,
take and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, real and personal estate of every
description, and to manage the same; (6) To acquire by purchase, gift, or the exercise of
the power of eminent domain, or any other lawful means, and to transfer, convey or cause to
be conveyed to the state, any real, personal or mixed property necessary or convenient in
connection with the construction, reconstruction, or relocation of industrial access...
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37-5-3
Section 37-5-3 Purpose and general powers. A district shall be created for the purpose of conducting
and operating a utility and, to carry out such purpose, shall have power and authority to
acquire, construct, reconstruct, operate, maintain, extend or improve any utility within or
without the district and to furnish, deliver and sell to the public and to any municipality
and to the state and any public institution heat, light and power service and any other service,
commodity or facility which may be produced or furnished in connection therewith. For said
purposes the district is granted and shall have and exercise the right freely to use and occupy
any public highway, street, way or place reasonably necessary to be used or occupied for the
maintenance and operation of such utility or any part thereof, subject to such local regulations
as may be imposed in connection therewith by any regulations of the governing body of the
municipality in which such highway, street, way or place is...
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11-65-2
Section 11-65-2 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and
others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise, have the following respective meanings: (1) ALABAMA-BRED. When this term is used
with reference to a horse, it means a horse which is registered in the registry designated
and administered by a commission in accordance with such rules concerning domicile and registration
requirements as may be established by such commission and which is either (i) foaled from
a mare domiciled in the state during the 10-year period beginning with January 1, 1991, or
(ii) sired by an Alabama stallion and foaled from a mare domiciled in the state at any time
after the expiration of such 10-year period. (2) ALABAMA STALLION. A stallion which is standing
in the state at the time he is bred to the dam of an Alabama-bred horse, which is registered
with a commission, and which is owned or leased by a resident of...
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11-99-2
Section 11-99-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) BLIGHTED OR ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED
AREA: a. An area in which the structures, buildings, or improvements, by reason of dilapidation,
deterioration, age, or obsolescence, inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation,
or open spaces, high density of population and overcrowding, or the existence of conditions
which endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors,
are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency,
or crime, and are detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare, or b. Any
area which by reason of the presence of a substantial number of substandard, slum, deteriorated,
or deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, faulty
lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness, unsanitary or unsafe
conditions, deterioration of site or other improvements,...
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32-7-2
Section 32-7-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except in those instances where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) DIRECTOR. The Director of Public Safety
of the State of Alabama. (2) JUDGMENT. Any judgment which shall have become final by expiration
without appeal of the time within which an appeal might have been perfected, or by final affirmation
on appeal rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state or of the United States,
upon a cause of action arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of any motor vehicle,
for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to
or death of any person, or for damages because of injury to or destruction of property, including
the loss of use thereof, or upon a cause of action on an agreement of settlement for those
damages. (3) LICENSE. Any license, temporary instruction...
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32-8-2
regularly engaged in the business of manufacturing, constructing, assembling, importing, or
distributing new motor vehicles, either within or without this state. (9) MOTOR VEHICLE. The
term shall include all of the following: a. Every automobile, motorcycle, mobile trailer,
semitrailer, truck, truck tractor, trailer, and other device that is self-propelled or drawn,
in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public
highway except such as is moved by animal power or used exclusively upon stationary
rails or tracks. b. Every trailer coach and travel trailer manufactured upon a chassis or
undercarriage as an integral part thereof drawn by a self-propelled vehicle. (10) NEW VEHICLE.
A motor vehicle that has never been the subject of a first sale for use by a new motor vehicle
dealer as defined in Section 40-12-390 or an equivalently licensed dealer in another state
and includes, among others, vehicles maintained in a dealer's inventory, vehicles...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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11-49B-7
Section 11-49B-7 Powers of authority. The authority shall exercise, subject to this chapter,
the following powers and duties necessary to the discharge of its powers and duties in corporate
form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time, which may be
perpetual, subject to the provisions of Section 11-49B-19 specified in its certificate of
incorporation. (2) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions and to defend
suits against it. (3) To adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the seal at pleasure.
(4) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business.
(5) To acquire, receive, and take, by purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, and to
hold property of every description, real, personal, or mixed, whether located in one or more
counties or municipalities and whether located within or outside the authorizing county. (6)
To make, enter into, and execute contracts, agreements, leases, and...
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