45-8-90
Section 45-8-90 Economic Development Council - Creation; composition; powers and duties. (a)(1) For the purposes of promoting industry and trade and economic development and to assist Calhoun County and the municipalities located therein in their pursuits therefor and to provide for the exercise by the county and the municipalities of certain powers and authority proposed to be granted to them by an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama, the act proposing such amendment being adopted at the same session of the Legislature at which the act adding this section was adopted, there is hereby created an economic development council for Calhoun County, which council shall constitute a public corporation under the name Calhoun County Economic Development Council. (2) This section shall be liberally construed in conformity with the purposes. (b)(1) The powers and authorities of the Calhoun County Economic Development Council shall be vested in and performed by a board of directors. (2) The...
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11-92C-8
Section 11-92C-8 Powers of authority. (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 Section 11-92C-20, specified in its certificate of incorporation. (2) To sue and be sued in its own name and to prosecute and defend civil actions in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties; provided that the authority shall be deemed to be a governmental entity as defined in Chapter 93 of this title for the purpose of limiting the damages for which the authority may be liable. (3) To adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the seal at its pleasure. (4) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business. (5) To acquire, whether by purchase, construction, exchange, gift, lease, or otherwise, and to refinance existing...
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40-20-2
Section 40-20-2 Levy and amount of tax upon business of producing or severing oil or gas from soil, etc., generally. (a)(1) There is hereby levied, to be collected hereafter, as herein provided, annual privilege taxes upon every person engaging or continuing to engage within the State of Alabama in the business of producing or severing oil or gas, as defined herein, from the soil or the waters, or from beneath the soil or the waters, of the state for sale, transport, storage, profit, or for use. The amount of such tax shall be measured at the rate of eight percent of the gross value of the oil or gas at the point of production except as provided in subsequent subdivisions of this subsection. Provided, however, that the tax on offshore production, produced from depths greater than 8,000 feet below mean sea level, shall not be computed as a percentage of gross value at the point of production, as provided in this article, but shall be computed as a percentage of gross proceeds, as...
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9-16-90
Section 9-16-90 Environmental protection performance standards. (a) Any permit issued pursuant to this article to conduct surface mining operations shall require that such surface coal mining operations will meet all applicable performance standards of this article, and such other requirements as the regulatory authority shall promulgate. (b) General performance standards shall be applicable to all surface coal mining and reclamation operations and shall require the operation as a minimum to: (1) Conduct surface coal mining operations so as to maximize the utilization and conservation of the solid fuel resource being recovered so that reaffecting the land in the future through surface coal mining can be minimized; (2) Restore the land affected to a condition capable of supporting the uses which it was capable of supporting prior to any mining, or higher or better uses of which there is reasonable likelihood, so long as such use or uses do not present any actual or probable hazard to...
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11-54-1
Section 11-54-1 Definitions. The following words and phrases, wherever used in this article, shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in this section: (1) MUNICIPALITY. An incorporated city or town in the State of Alabama. (2) INDUSTRIAL PARK. Land: a. Determined by the governing body of a municipality to be suitable for use by two or more industrial enterprises for industrial purposes, and b. Acquired or proposed to be acquired by a municipality and held by it for the purpose of selling it to one or more persons for use for industrial purposes. (3) PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, or corporation, including both public and private corporations, and any other entity, either public or private, that has the power to acquire title to land. (Acts 1969, No. 737, p. 1311, §1.)...
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11-92-3
Section 11-92-3 Powers of counties and municipalities as to acquisition, development, etc., of parks generally. (a) In addition to all existing powers, a county or municipality shall have the power, by itself or together with other participants, to acquire, by purchase, gift, exchange, lease or otherwise, and to develop and dispose of one or more parcels of land as an industrial park upon compliance with the procedure set out in Section 11-92-4. (b) This power shall be subject to the following restrictions: (1) No county or municipality may acquire real property for an industrial park any part of which is located in another county which is not a participant or which is within the corporate limits of a municipality which is not a participant unless the governing body of that other county or municipality shall have adopted a resolution consenting to the acquisition of the industrial park therein; (2) No real property may be acquired or developed by a municipality as an industrial park if...
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23-1-91
Section 23-1-91 Aid for development of access roads or bridges to certain facilities by contiguous counties or municipalities. The county commission of any county or governing body of any municipality in this state is hereby authorized, upon the adoption by a majority vote of a resolution duly recorded in its minutes, to aid and participate in the development of any access roads or bridges to any project undertaken by any public athletic or recreational board for the promotion of athletics, recreation, race tracks, and related facilities in any other contiguous county or in aid of the development in any other contiguous county or any industrial site or access roads and bridges of any project undertaken pursuant to the provisions of Sections 11-54-80 through 11-54-101 or pursuant to Sections 11-54-20 through 11-54-32. In any county, including the county in which said project is located, the county commission may appropriate county funds or authorize the use of equipment and employees of...
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31-2-129
Section 31-2-129 Counties or municipalities may appropriate funds for military purposes for local National Guard and Naval Militia units. The county commission in each county and the city council, city commissioners, or other governing body of a municipality are hereby authorized and empowered, at their discretion, to appropriate such sums of money as they may deem wise and advisable, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the necessary organization and maintenance expenses, and appropriate moneys for the purpose of furnishing, by rental or purchase, armories, office furniture, and equipment, and lockers, training areas, target ranges, sheds for military vehicles, hangars for airplanes, motor vehicles and military equipment of every character, including flying fields and similar utilities, for the military purposes of each unit of the National Guard and Naval Militia located in their respective counties and municipalities, to be accounted for to the Governor by the organization receiving...
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41-9-186
Section 41-9-186 Duties. It shall be the duty of the said board to consult with the Governor and the Director of the Alabama Development Office, to advise the Governor of the industrial possibilities of the state and to furnish him with such information and studies as it deems desirable to accomplish a comprehensive program for the promotion of the commercial and industrial development of the state and the counties and municipalities thereof, and as the Governor may request. It shall also consult and advise in the facilitation of foreign investment and foreign industry location within the state, as the Governor may request. (Acts 1980, No. 80-736, p. 1498, §2.)...
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40-9-1
Section 40-9-1 Persons and property generally. The following property and persons shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation and none other: (1) All bonds of the United States and this state and all county and municipal bonds issued by counties and municipalities in this state, all property, real and personal, of the United States and this state and of county and municipal corporations in this state; all cemeteries, all property, real and personal, used exclusively for religious worship, for schools or for purposes purely charitable; provided, that property, real or personal, owned by any educational, religious or charitable institution, society or corporation let for rent or hire or for use for business purposes shall not be exempt from taxation, notwithstanding that the income from such property shall be used exclusively for education, religious or charitable purposes; all mortgages, together with the notes, debts and credits secured thereby on real and personal property situated in...
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