11-50-390
Section 11-50-390 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) MUNICIPALITY. Any incorporated city or town in the State of Alabama. (2) GOVERNING BODY. The council, commission, or other governing body of such municipality. (3) MAYOR. The mayor, president, or chairman of the commission or other chief executive officer of such municipality. (4) GAS TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. A plant and system for the manufacture, transmission, delivery, and transportation of natural or manufactured gas, together with all appurtenances thereto and all property, real, personal, or mixed, used or useful in connection therewith, including franchises and easements. Such gas transmission system shall include facilities for making sales and deliveries of gas to industrial and institutional users and to line tap residential and commercial users as well as to gas distribution systems. (5) GAS...
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11-50-392
Section 11-50-392 Contents, acknowledgment, filing, and recordation of certificate of incorporation; procedure for amendment thereof; dissolution of district and disposition of systems, etc., upon payment of indebtedness of district in full. (a) The certificate of incorporation of any gas district incorporated under this article shall state: (1) The name of the corporation, which shall be a name indicating in a general way the area or municipalities proposed to be served by the district (e.g., "The South Alabama Gas District" or "The _____ County Gas District" or "The _____, _____, and _____ (naming the municipalities which are members thereof) Gas District"); (2) The names of all the municipalities which are to be members of the district; (3) The location of the principal office of the district and its post office address; (4) The period for the duration of the corporation (if the duration is to be perpetual, this fact should be stated); and (5) The objects for which the district is...
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11-88-7
Section 11-88-7 Powers of authority generally; power of authority to acquire, operate, etc., systems, etc., outside service area; provisions in schedules of rates and charges generally; powers of authority organized to construct and operate sewer system. (a) 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, subject to the provisions of Section 11-88-18) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil actions, except as otherwise provided in this article, and to defend civil actions against it; (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, and take, by purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, and...
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11-50-16
Section 11-50-16 Employment of mayor or president of board of commissioners of certain municipalities as superintendent of light, water, sewer or gas systems, etc.; duties and compensation; validation of prior employment, etc. (a) In all incorporated municipalities organized and operating under the provisions of Articles 1, 2, and 3 of Chapter 44, of this title, which own and operate a municipal light and power system, a municipal water system, a municipal sewage system, or a municipal gas system or any of them, the board of commissioners may, by resolution duly entered in its minutes, authorize the mayor or president of the board of commissioners to act as superintendent of such system or systems and to give as much of his time thereof as the commissioners may direct; provided, that in any such municipality in which a municipal board or municipal public corporation owns or operates a municipal light and power system, a municipal water system, a municipal sewage system, or a municipal...
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11-44B-24
Section 11-44B-24 Municipalities' authority to annex certain unincorporated territory. Any Class IV incorporated municipality in this state organized in accordance with Section 11-44B-1, et seq., shall have the following power and authority: (a) To annex all or any portion of any unincorporated territory or any unincorporated territories which are enclosed within the corporate limits of the municipality and have been so enclosed for a period of one (1) year or more on April 21, 1994. The municipality shall adopt an ordinance finding and declaring that the unincorporated territory or unincorporated territories set forth and described therein is enclosed within the existing corporate limits of the municipality and has been so enclosed for a period of one (1) year or more on April 21, 1994 and that the annexation of the unincorporated territory or unincorporated territories is in the best interest of the public good and welfare of the municipality. Annexation of the unincorporated...
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40-21-53
Section 40-21-53 Electric, hydroelectric, gas, or any other public utility - License tax - Credit on electric bills for certain persons. (a) Each person, firm, or corporation, including any corporations operating an electric or hydroelectric public utility; or a gas public utility; or any privately owned and operated wastewater system as defined in Section 22-25B-1 which is required by Chapter 25B of Title 22, to be operated and maintained by a wastewater management entity certified by the Public Service Commission; or any other public or municipal utility now paying the two and two-tenths percent shall be subject to the provisions of this section and shall pay to the state a license tax equal to two and two-tenths percent on each $1 of gross receipts of such public utility for the preceding year; except, that gross receipts from the sale of electricity for resale by such electric or hydroelectric public utilities and gross receipts from the sale of electricity to the persons...
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45-2-260
Section 45-2-260 Regulation of setbacks. (a) This section shall apply only to Baldwin County. (b) The Baldwin County Commission, through the county planning and zoning commission, shall regulate the construction setback from the centerline of any state or county public road or highway located outside the corporate limits of a municipality in Baldwin County. (c) The provisions of this section do not apply to poles, facilities, structures, water, gas, sewer, electric, telephone, bill boards, or utility lines or other facilities of public utilities. (d) The construction setback from any state or county public road or highway shall vary according to the highway functional classifications submitted by the Baldwin County Commission and approved by the Federal Highway Administration for Baldwin County. (e) The functional classifications and the construction setbacks required for each classification are established as follows: (1) Principal arterials require a 125 foot setback from the...
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40-3-2
Section 40-3-2 Selection of members; terms of office. (a) This subsection shall apply to every county in the state except a county subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section. During the month of August, 1943, and during the month of August of each fourth year thereafter, the county commission of each county, the county board of education and the governing body of the largest municipality in each county shall each submit in writing to the state Commissioner of Revenue the names of three persons, and the governing body of each other incorporated municipality within the county shall, in like manner, submit the name of one person, all of whom are residents of the county, who are each owners of taxable property which is located within this state, who are each qualified electors in said county and who are, in the opinion of said nominating body, persons competent to serve as members of the county board of equalization. In those counties where there is no incorporated...
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11-41-1
Section 11-41-1 Authority; petition to probate judge for order of incorporation. When the inhabitants of an unincorporated community, which has a population of not less than 300, constituting a body of citizens whose residences are contiguous to and all of which form a homogeneous settlement or community, desire to become organized as a municipal corporation, they may apply to the judge of probate of the county in which the territory is situated, or the greater portion thereof if it is situated in two or more counties, for an order of incorporation, by a petition in writing signed by not less than 15 percent of the qualified electors residing within the limits of the proposed municipality and by the persons, firms, or corporations owning at least 60 percent of the acreage of the platted or unplatted land of the proposed municipality. No platted or unplatted territory shall be included within the boundary unless there are at least four qualified electors, according to government survey,...
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11-50-408
Section 11-50-408 When mortgages or pledges of property or revenues and liens thereof effective; properties, persons, etc., subject thereto. Any mortgage or conveyance of property and any pledge of revenues to secure the bonds of a district incorporated under this article shall be valid and binding from the time when such mortgage or conveyance is delivered or such pledge made, and the system, properties, revenue, income and moneys so mortgaged, conveyed or pledged and thereafter received by such district shall immediately be subject to the lien of such mortgage, conveyance or pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such mortgage, conveyance or pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the district, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof, from the time when a statement thereof is filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county or counties...
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