11-50-395
Section 11-50-395 Board of directors - Powers generally; resolutions. (a) The board of directors shall constitute the governing body of the district. The board shall do all things necessary or convenient in acquiring, owning, operating, developing, and improving the gas system or systems owned or to be owned by the district and shall exercise all the powers of the district including but not limited to the following powers: (1) To adopt and amend bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs and the enterprises in which it is engaged; (2) To use, with the consent of any of its member municipalities, the agents, employees, or facilities or property of such municipalities and to provide for the payment of the agreed proportion of the costs therefor; (3) To appoint officers, agents, and employees, including attorneys, and to fix their compensation; (4) To contract with any person, firm, or corporation for the entire supervision, operation, and management of any one or more...
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11-50-520
Section 11-50-520 Definitions. The following words and phrases and others importing the same meaning, where used in this chapter, shall be given the following respective interpretations and meanings: (1) THE CORPORATION. Any corporation organized under this chapter. (2) APPLICANTS. Those persons who organize the corporation. (3) POWER DISTRICT. The territory proposed to be served by the corporation as specified in its certificate of incorporation as originally filed or any amendment thereto made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (4) MUNICIPALITY or MUNICIPALITIES. Any city or town incorporated under the laws of Alabama. (5) COUNTY or COUNTIES. Any county organized under the laws of Alabama. (6) GOVERNING BODY. Whenever used in relation to any municipality, the city or town council, city commission or the body or board, by whatsoever name known, having charge of the governing of a municipality, and shall be held to include the mayor or other chief executive officer of the...
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11-89C-1
Section 11-89C-1 Legislative findings and intent. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest and the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this state and within the police power of the state, county, and municipal governments to promote effective and efficient compliance with federal and state laws, rules, regulations, and permits relating to discharges into and from municipal separate storm sewers, and to promote and authorize the discovery, control, and elimination, wherever practicable, of that discharge at the local government level. (b) It is the intention of the Legislature by passage of this chapter to assist the state in its implementation of the storm water laws, and to supplement the authority of the governing bodies of all counties and municipalities in the state to enable them to implement the storm water laws. (c) It is further the intention of the Legislature to authorize and promote the intercooperation of the governing bodies in...
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22-29-20
Section 22-29-20 Grants to local public bodies - Plan or program. The plan or program for funding the grant by the authority to a local public body for a project may be any one or more of the following, as shall be approved by the authority: (1) An appropriation by the state. (2) A grant by a corporation, foundation, fund or agency, public or private, to the state for the purpose of abating water pollution or assisting local public bodies with their projects; provided, that the state shall not receive any grant from a local public body which has received or is to receive a grant for its project from the state. (3) The undertaking by the local public body to levy, collect and pay over to the authority and to continue to levy, collect and pay over to the authority sums sufficient to pay bond service charges with respect to the bonds of the authority issued to fund a grant for such project the proceeds of any one or more of the following: a. Any sewer or waste disposal service fee or...
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45-26-142.10
Section 45-26-142.10 Powers of district; bylaws. (a) The district shall constitute a public corporation, which shall have the power to do any and all acts or things necessary and convenient for carrying out the purposes for which it is created, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) To sue and be sued. (2) To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure. (3) To acquire, hold, and dispose of property, real and personal, tangible and intangible, or interests therein and to pay therefor in cash or on credit, and to secure and procure payment of all or any part of the purchase price thereof on the terms and conditions as the board shall determine. (4) To acquire, own, operate, maintain, and improve a system or systems. (5) To pledge all or any part of its revenues, or mortgages, or otherwise encumber, all or any part of its property for the purpose of securing the payment of the principal of and interest on any of its obligations. (6) To sell, lease, mortgage, or otherwise...
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45-29-90.08
Section 45-29-90.08 Contractual powers; additional powers. The authority may: (1) Enter into contracts with the United States, with the several states, and with individuals, private corporations, associations, municipalities, and other public agencies, or political subdivisions of any kind, for the sale of water for municipal, domestic, agricultural, or industrial use, or for the sale of any other services, facilities, or commodities that the authority may be in a position to supply. (2) Acquire and develop reservoirs and shoreline lands and provide for their operation for industrial, recreational, and other uses directly or by concessionaires, licensees, lessees, or vendees of shoreline lands. (3) Sell or lease shoreline lands, or any interest therein, in connection with development of the reservoir system, for uses consistent with the authority's development plan and subject to such restrictions as the authority deems necessary for reservoir protection and subject to such...
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45-43-171
Section 45-43-171 Connection to public sewerage systems or private disposal systems. (a)(1) The Lowndes County Commission may compel the connection of existing positive outlets, privies, water closets, and septic tanks situated in the unincorporated areas of Lowndes County to any available public sewerage system, whether publicly or privately owned, within 90 days after receiving official notice to do so. (2) Where a public sewerage system is not available, the county commission, through the county health department, shall compel the connection of all existing positive outlets, privies, water closets, and septic tanks situated in the unincorporated areas of Lowndes County to private disposal systems conforming to the rules of the State Board of Health. (b) The notice required in subdivision (a)(1) shall cite this section as the authority for the actions to be taken, shall provide the name and telephone number of a person employed by the county who may be contacted regarding the notice,...
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32-1-1.1
Section 32-1-1.1 Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this title, for the purpose of this title, shall have meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except when the context otherwise requires: (1) ALLEY. A street or highway intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings in urban districts and not intended for the purpose of through vehicular traffic. (2) ARTERIAL STREET. Any United States or state numbered route, controlled-access highway, or other major radial or circumferential street or highway designated by local authorities within their respective jurisdictions as part of a major arterial system of streets or highways. (3) AUTHORIZED EMERGENCY VEHICLE. Such fire department vehicles, police vehicles, and ambulances as are publicly owned, and such other publicly or privately owned vehicles as are designated by the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency or the chief of police of an incorporated city. (4) BICYCLE....
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37-15-2
Section 37-15-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter the following words have the following meanings: (1) APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF UNDERGROUND FACILITIES. Information about an operator's underground facilities which is provided to a person by an operator and must be accurate to within 18 inches measured horizontally from the outside edge of each side of such operator's facility, or a strip of land 18 inches either side of the operator's field mark or the marked width of the facility plus 18 inches on each side of the marked width of the facility. (2) AUTHORITY. The Underground Damage Prevention Authority created under Section 37-15-10.1. (3) AUTHORITY BOARD. The Underground Damage Prevention Board created under Section 37-15-10.1. (4) BLASTING. The use of an explosive device for the excavation of earth, rock, or other material or the demolition of a structure. (5) CONTRACT LOCATOR. Any person contracted with an operator specifically to determine and mark the approximate location of the...
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45-16A-20
Section 45-16A-20 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ALARM MONITORING SERVICE. A service that uses a device located at a residence, place of business, or other fixed premises for both of the following purposes: a. To receive signals from other devices located at or about the premises regarding a possible threat at the premises to life, safety, or property, from burglary, fire, vandalism, bodily injury, or other emergency. b. To transmit a signal regarding any threat by means of transmission facilities of a municipality, municipal instrumentality, local exchange carrier, or one of its affiliates to a remote monitoring center to alert a person at the center of the need to inform the customer or another person or police, fire, rescue, security, or public safety personnel of the threat, but does not include a service that uses a medical monitoring device attached to an individual for the automatic surveillance of an ongoing...
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