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40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence
in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with
tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to
requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer
has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among
other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal
within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of
resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and
fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those
specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing
shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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16-1-41.1
Section 16-1-41.1 School board governance improvement. (a) This section shall
be known and may be cited as the School Board Governance Improvement Act of 2012. (b) The
Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) That the purpose of this section
is to enhance the effectiveness of public education governance in Alabama through the establishment
of training requirements, boardsmanship standards, and accountability measures that are designed
to promote informed deliberations and decisions, to revise the qualifications for serving
as a member of a local board of education, to provide for a code of conduct for each member
of a local board of education in order to better ensure that any decision or action of a local
board of education is based on the interests of students or the system, and to foster the
development and implementation of organizational practices that are designed to promote broad
support of the public schools. (2) A local board of education is the legally...
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39-2-12
Section 39-2-12 Partial and final payments of contractors by awarding authorities. (a)
As used in this section the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them
as follows: (1) CONTRACTOR. Any natural person, partnership, company, firm, corporation, association,
limited liability company, cooperative, or other legal entity licensed by the Alabama State
Licensing Board for General Contractors. (2) NONRESIDENT CONTRACTOR. A contractor which is
neither a. organized and existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, nor b. maintains
its principal place of business in the State of Alabama. A nonresident contractor which has
maintained a permanent branch office within the State of Alabama for at least five continuous
years shall not thereafter be deemed to be a nonresident contractor so long as the contractor
continues to maintain a branch office within Alabama. (3) RETAINAGE. That money belonging
to the contractor which has been retained by the awarding authority conditioned on...
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45-37-123.01
Section 45-37-123.01 Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following terms
shall have the following meanings: (1) ACT. The act adding this part, to be called the General
Retirement System for Employees of Jefferson County Act. (2) ACTIVE MEMBER. An individual
who currently is employed by the county or other entities set forth in subdivision (20) and
is making employee contributions to the system. (3) ACTUARIAL EQUIVALENT. Effective July 30,
1984, or such other dates as set forth in Exhibit A, which is maintained in the office of
the pension board, a form of benefit differing in time, period, or manner of payment from
a specific benefit provided under the plan but having the same value when computed using the
mortality tables, the interest rate, and any other assumptions last adopted by the pension
board, which assumptions shall clearly preclude any discretion in the determination of the
amount of a member's benefit. (4) ACTUARIAL GAIN. As defined in Section...
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36-25A-2
Section 36-25A-2 Definitions. As used in and for determining the applicability of this
chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings solely for the purposes of
this chapter: (1) DELIBERATION. An exchange of information or ideas among a quorum of members
of a subcommittee, committee, or full governmental body intended to arrive at or influence
a decision as to how any members of the subcommittee, committee, or full governmental body
should vote on a specific matter that, at the time of the exchange, the participating members
expect to come before the subcommittee, committee, or full body immediately following the
discussion or at a later time. (2) EXECUTIVE SESSION. That portion of a meeting of a subcommittee,
committee, or full governmental body from which the public is excluded for one or more of
the reasons prescribed in Section 36-25A-7(a). (3) GENERAL REPUTATION AND CHARACTER.
Characteristics or actions of a person directly involving good or bad ethical conduct,...
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31-9-40
Section 31-9-40 Compact adopted and enacted. The Emergency Management Assistance Compact
is enacted into law and entered with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the
form substantially as follows: THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT Article I - Purpose
and Authorities. This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member
states which enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purpose of this
agreement, the term "states" is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions. The purpose
of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this
compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the
affected state or states, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made
disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources shortages, community disorders,...
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22-21-318
Section 22-21-318 Powers of authority. (a) In addition to all other powers granted elsewhere
in this article, and subject to the express provisions of its certificate of incorporation,
an 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, specified in its certificate of
incorporation or until dissolved as provided in Section 22-21-339; (2) 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 and ex contractu, subject, however, to the provisions
of Chapter 93 of Title 11, which chapter is hereby made applicable to the authority; (3) To
adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt, alter,
amend and repeal bylaws, regulations and rules, not inconsistent with the...
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40-29-22
Section 40-29-22 Lien for taxes - Validity and priority against certain persons. (a)
Purchasers, holders of security interests, mechanic's lienors, and judgment lien creditors.
The lien imposed by Section 40-29-20 shall not be valid as against any purchaser, holder
of a security interest, mechanic's lienor, or judgment lien creditor until notice thereof
which meets the requirements of subsection (f) has been filed by the Commissioner of Revenue
or his delegate, and shall not be perfected as against any purchaser, holder of a security
interest, mechanic's lienor, or judgment lien creditor until the date such notice is filed.
(b) Protection for certain interest even though notice filed. Even though notice of a lien
imposed by Section 40-29-20 has been filed, such lien shall not be valid: (1) SECURITIES.
With respect to a security (as defined in subsection (g)(4)): a. As against a purchaser of
such security who at the time of purchase did not have actual notice or knowledge of the...
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17-5-14
Section 17-5-14 Corporate contributions or expenditures to political action committees;
establishment by corporation; actions by utilities. (a) A corporation incorporated or organized
under the laws of this state, or doing business in this state, may make a contribution or
expenditure to or on behalf of any candidate or political action committee in the same manner
that an individual is permitted to make under the laws of this state, except as otherwise
expressly prohibited by subsection (c). (b) Any corporation may establish a political action
committee, subject to the provisions of this section. Any corporation or any officer,
employee, or agent acting on behalf of such corporation, is also permitted to give, pay, expend,
or contribute money, services, or anything of value for the purposes of establishing, administering,
or soliciting voluntary contributions to a separate, segregated fund to be utilized for political
purposes as permitted by Section 17-5-14.1. (c) A utility regulated...
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17-5-15
Section 17-5-15 Contributions by one person in name of another; contributions between
political action committees, etc. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, acting for himself
or herself or on behalf of any entity, to make a contribution in the name of another person
or entity, or knowingly permit his or her name, or the entity's name, to be used to effect
such a contribution made by one person or entity in the name of another person or entity,
or for any candidate, principal campaign committee, or political action committee to knowingly
accept a contribution made by one person or entity in the name of another person or entity;
provided, however, that nothing in this chapter prohibits any person from soliciting and receiving
contributions from other persons for the purpose of making expenditures to a candidate, political
campaign committee, political action committee, or elected state or local official required
to file reports pursuant to Section 17-5-8. (b) It shall be unlawful...
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