11-59-8
of incorporation unless sooner dissolved as provided in this chapter; (2) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend civil actions 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 acquire, whether by condemnation, purchase, exchange, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, and to construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, and furnish one or more facilities, including all real and personal properties which the board of directors of the corporation may deem necessary or convenient in connection therewith and regardless of whether or not any such facilities shall then be in existence and whether or not the same shall then be publicly or privately owned and whether or not the same shall then be used by the municipality; (5) To operate and to lease to others any or all of its facilities; (6) To fix and collect admission fees to and rents and charges for the use of its facilities...
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11-81-141
Section 11-81-141 Powers of municipalities or counties generally; provisions in instruments or deeds of trust creating pledges, mortgages, liens, etc., for payment of bonds; determination of costs of acquisition, construction, etc., of undertakings. (a) In addition to the powers which it may now have, any municipality or county shall have power under this division: (1) To acquire by gift or purchase, to construct, to reconstruct, to improve, to better or to extend any undertaking within or without the municipality or county or partially within or partially without the municipality or county; (2) To operate and maintain any undertaking for its own use and for the use of public and private consumers and users within and without the territorial boundaries of the municipality or county; (3) To lease any undertaking or portion thereof to any agency or department of the State of Alabama for a period or periods not exceeding 40 years from the completion of the construction of the work, if...
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22-51-1
Section 22-51-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) CONSTRUCTION and CONSTRUCT. Such terms include: a. The construction of new buildings and the expansion, remodeling and alteration of existing buildings, including architects' fees; and b. Equipping new buildings and existing buildings, whether or not expanded, remodeled or altered. (2) COUNTY. Any county in the state. (3) DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION. The department of the state government having that name which was created and established by Chapter 50 of this title. (4) FACILITIES. Structures, equipment and furnishings, or any part or combination thereof, which are used, useful or capable of use and the use thereof in connection with the implementing and operation of programs as defined in this section. (5) GOVERNING BODY. The county commission of a county or the council,...
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45-29-90.09
Section 45-29-90.09 Bonds authorized. The authority may: (1) Sell and issue its bonds from time to time in order to provide funds for any corporate function, use, or purpose, all such bonds to be payable solely out of the revenues derived from the facilities and other property of the authority or out of the revenues of any particular facilities and other property of the authority; and (2) Secure such bonds by a pledge of all or any of the revenues which may now or hereafter come to the authority from any source, by a mortgage or deed of trust covering the authority's land or any part thereof, or under the provisions of a trust indenture, or by a combination of one or more thereof; provided, that all obligations created or assumed and all bonds issued by the authority shall be solely and exclusively obligations of the authority and shall not create an obligation or debt of the state or of any county or municipality. (Act 91-277, p. 517, ยง10.)...
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45-37-121.21
Section 45-37-121.21 Certification of payrolls. It shall be unlawful for the fiscal officer of either a county or any municipality affected by this part to draw, sign, issue, or authorize the drawing, signing, or issuing of any warrant on the treasurer or other disbursing officer of either the municipality or the county for the payment of or for the treasurer or other disbursing officer to pay any salary or compensation to anyone holding any position subject to this part unless the estimate, payroll, warrant, or account for such salary or compensation containing the name of the person to be paid shall bear the certification of the director of personnel, that the person or persons named in the estimate, payroll, warrant, or account are holding hereunder and are legally entitled to receive the sums stated therein. Any sum paid contrary to this part or of any rule, regulation, or order thereunder may be recovered, in an action maintained in the name of the county or municipality by the...
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45-9-91.20
Section 45-9-91.20 Establishment and designation; services; regulation of industrial parks. (a) Subject to the written approval of the owners of 100 percent in interest based on assessed value for ad valorem tax purposes of each 10 acres, or the part thereof to be included in the proposed industrial park, the County Commission of Chambers County in the State of Alabama may establish industrial parks composed of territory wholly within the county boundaries and without the boundaries of any municipality. Any person, firm, or corporation who desires to obtain a designation of an area as an industrial park shall file a petition with the county commission of the county wherein the property is located requesting that the county commission designate the area proposed as an industrial park, and include with such petition the consent of the land owners as above required. The consent of each consenting owner shall be acknowledged before a notary public or other person authorized to take...
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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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11-54-52
Section 11-54-52 Powers of municipalities generally as to acquisition, leasing, etc., of projects for provision of buildings and other facilities for certain national organizations. In addition to any other powers which it may now have, each municipality shall have the following powers: (1) To acquire, whether by construction, purchase, gift, or lease, and to equip one or more projects, which shall be located within this state and may be located within or without the municipality or partially within or partially without the municipality, but which shall not be located more than 15 miles outside of the corporate limits of the municipality; (2) To improve, enlarge, expand, equip, furnish, insure, and maintain one or more projects; (3) To lease to others any or all of its projects or any part thereof for such rentals and upon such terms and conditions as the governing body may deem advisable and as shall not conflict with the provisions of this article and to grant options to renew or...
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11-56-1
Section 11-56-1 Definitions. The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall, in the absence of clear implication otherwise, have the following respective meanings: (1) CORPORATION OR THE CORPORATION. A corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of the corporation. (3) THE STATE. The State of Alabama. (4) THE MUNICIPALITY. That incorporated city or town in the state which authorized the organization of the corporation. (5) THE COUNTY. That county in which the certificate of incorporation of the corporation shall be filed for record. (6) LOCAL SUBDIVISION. The municipality or the county. (7) PUBLIC CORPORATION. a. Any public corporation (other than a corporation organized under this chapter) now or hereafter organized or created in the state pursuant to the authorization or determination by the municipality, by the municipality and one or more other cities and towns in the state, by the county, by the county...
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11-92B-7
Section 11-92B-7 Board of directors. (a) The authority shall operate under the direction of a board of directors which shall consist of voting members selected as follows: (1) One member appointed by the Governor. (2) Five members appointed by the governing body of each municipality whose corporate limits lie in whole or in part within the operational area of the authority. (3) Five members appointed by the governing body of the county of incorporation. (b) A vacancy occurring on the board for any reason shall be filled within 30 days of the vacancy by the appointing authority making the initial appointment. If the appointing authority that made the initial appointment does not fill the vacancy within 30 days, the remaining appointing authorities shall make the appointment. (c) Initial appointments to the board shall be made within 30 days following the effective date of the incorporation. The Governor's initial appointee shall serve a three-year term. Each governing body of a...
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