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16-23-16.1
Section 16-23-16.1 Creation of Professional Teachers Standards Commission; designation or development
of entry-level pre-certification examination for teacher candidates. (a) The Legislature finds
that Alabama is alone among the southern states in not testing teacher candidates before allowing
them in the classroom, and acknowledges that the need exists to establish, maintain, and enforce
minimum professional standards for teacher candidates in the State of Alabama. In response
to such need, there is hereby created a Professional Teachers Standards Commission (the commission)
for the State of Alabama. The commission shall consist of 11 members appointed by the Governor
in the following manner: The Alabama Congress of Parents and Teachers Association, Alabama
School Board Association, Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision, Alabama
Education Association, and the Alabama Association of Colleges for Teacher Education shall
each designate a representative that together...
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16-44-1
Section 16-44-1 Governor authorized to enter into compact; form of compact. The Governor of
the State of Alabama is hereby authorized to enter into the compact for education in the form
substantially as follows: COMPACT FOR EDUCATION Article I. Purpose and Policy. A. It is the
purpose of this compact to: 1. Establish and maintain close cooperation and understanding
among executive, legislative, professional education and lay leadership on a nationwide basis
at the state and local levels. 2. Provide a forum for the discussion, development, crystallization
and recommendation of public policy alternatives in the field of education. 3. Provide a clearinghouse
of information on matters relating to educational problems and how they are being met in different
places throughout the nation. 4. Facilitate the improvement of state and local educational
systems. B. It is the policy of this compact to encourage and promote local and state initiative
in the development, maintenance, improvement and...
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16-6G-4
Section 16-6G-4 Use of funds in support of Alabama Reading Initiative; literacy and reading
specialists. (a) Funds appropriated by the Legislature in support of the Alabama Reading Initiative
shall be allocated to support the following: (1) Local education agencies to support local
reading specialists. (2) The Alabama Summer Achievement Program. (3) Regional literacy specialists.
(4) Preservice and inservice teacher professional learning activities for elementary school
teachers in reading. (5) Curricula to support student interventions. (6) State administration.
(b) Funds dedicated to the Alabama Reading Initiative shall be expended on local and regional
reading specialists, professional learning activities, and administrative activities that
support all of the following activities for kindergarten through third grade students in public
K-12 schools; continued funding shall be contingent on measurable performance growth, as determined
by the task force established under subsection (a)...
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45-39-221.03
Section 45-39-221.03 Powers of tourism board. (a) The tourism board may conduct programs and
events, including, but not limited to, programs of information and publicity, sporting events,
and other public events to attract tourists and visitors to the county. The tourism board
may conduct programs or events in the state and elsewhere and expend its funds in the furtherance
of such programs and events in the state and elsewhere. (b) The tourism board may enter into
contracts with any person, firm, corporation, or association to carry out the purposes set
forth herein. No contract entered into by the tourism board shall bind either the state, the
county, or any municipality. (c) The tourism board shall have the following additional powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits
and actions against it, including suits and actions ex delicto...
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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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11-54-127
Section 11-54-127 Additional powers of boards. (a) In addition to all other powers conferred
on it by law, and subject to any express provisions of its certificate of incorporation to
the contrary, any industrial development board shall have all of the following powers, together
with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form:
(1) To create or establish one or more endowment trust funds. (2) To receive and accept from
any private source, for the account of any endowment trust fund so created or established
by it, contributions in the form of gifts of money, stocks, bonds, and other debt securities,
other personal property, whether tangible or intangible, and real property of any description,
subject, in the case of any such contribution, to any lawful condition to the use thereof
that is specified by the donor thereof and that is not inconsistent with the provisions of
this division. (3) To deposit, or to cause to be deposited, into any...
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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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13A-9-71
Section 13A-9-71 Registration of charitable organizations, professional fund raisers, and commercial
co-venturers, and professional solicitors; notification of changes; exempt persons; annual
report; prohibition against fund raising by unregistered person; contracts between professional
fund raisers and commercial co-venturers; appointment of Secretary of State as agent for service
of process; use of name of charitable organization without consent; disclosure by solicitors;
violations and penalties; injunctive relief. (a) Every charitable organization, except those
granted an exemption in subsection (f), which is physically located in this state, intends
to solicit contributions in or from this state, or to have contributions solicited in this
state, on its behalf, by other charitable organizations, paid solicitors, or commercial co-venturers
in or from this state shall, prior to any solicitation, file a registration statement with
the Attorney General upon a form prescribed by the...
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11-3-45
Section 11-3-45 Board; powers and duties; membership; terms; election of officers; compensation.
(a) The institute shall be under the direction and supervision of the Board of the Alabama
Local Government Training Institute. The board shall have the power and duty to organize,
administer, control, oversee, and advise the institute so that the institute shall be operated
pursuant to this article. (b) The board shall be composed of the following members: (1) One
representative of a four-year institution of higher education in Alabama appointed by the
Alabama Commission on Higher Education. (2) The President of the Association of County Commissions
of Alabama. (3) The Executive Director of the Association of County Commissions of Alabama.
(4) Three members who shall serve at the pleasure of and be appointed by the Board of Directors
of the Association of County Commissions of Alabama. (5) The Chair of the Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee. (6) The Chair of the Local Government...
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31-14-3
Section 31-14-3 Creation; composition; meetings; compensation; powers and duties. (a) There
is created the Alabama Job Creation and Military Stability Commission. Members of the commission
shall include a chair and two vice chairs. The chair shall be the Lieutenant Governor, or
in the absence of a Lieutenant Governor, the chair shall be the Governor, or his or her designee.
The vice chairs shall be the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, or his or her designee,
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or his or her designee. (b) The commission
shall also consist of the following members: (1) Two members of the House of Representatives
appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (2) Two members of the Senate appointed
by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. (3) The Adjutant General of the Alabama National
Guard. (4) The Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency. (5) The Secretary of
the Department of Commerce. (6) The Director of the Alabama...
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