41-10-82
Section 41-10-82 Purpose of article; construction of article generally. It is the intention
of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to empower each county in the state to authorize
the incorporation of one or more public corporations as political subdivisions of the state
for the purpose of providing products markets, exhibition halls, coliseums and buildings and
related structures where products and goods may be displayed and exhibits, contests and sporting
events conducted in order to encourage the buying and selling of products and goods, to encourage
the expansion of existing industries in Alabama, to encourage the location of new industries
in Alabama and to encourage public interest in sports and amusements and thus to promote commerce
and goodwill in the State of Alabama and to invest each corporation organized hereunder with
such powers as may be necessary or desirable to enable it to accomplish such purposes. This
article shall be liberally construed in conformity...
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41-16A-2
Section 41-16A-2 Legislative intent. It is hereby found and declared by the Legislature
of Alabama that it is in the public interest that the state, political subdivisions, agencies,
boards, commissions, and departments thereof, the various counties of the state, the various
municipal corporations within the state, county boards of education, city boards of education,
instrumentalities of any of the foregoing, and public corporations arising under or organized
pursuant to any statute of the state shall have the flexibility to finance the acquisition,
installation, equipping, and/or improvement of any eligible property that such governmental
entity otherwise is legally authorized to acquire through the use of lease, lease-purchase,
and/or installment-purchase financing. It is the intention of the Legislature by passage of
this chapter that wherever, either by express grant or by implication, a governmental entity
has the power and authority to acquire any eligible property by purchase,...
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23-6-2
Section 23-6-2 Purposes of public corporation; supervision of construction by State
Department of Transportation; department's power to assign, contract, etc., construction work;
construction of chapter. It is the intention of the Legislature to authorize the incorporation
of a public corporation for all of the following purposes: (1) To issue bonds to assure the
availability of funds for payment of the cost of constructing industrial access roads and
bridges as shall from time to time be constructed. (2) To use an annual appropriation from
the state Public Road and Bridge Fund to assure the availability of funds for the cost of
constructing industrial access roads and bridges as shall from time to time be constructed.
(3) To construct industrial access roads and bridges through a corporation to be composed
of the officials whose incorporation is hereby authorized. (4) To vest in the corporation
all powers, authorities, rights, privileges, and titles necessary to enable it to...
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9-14A-2
Section 9-14A-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that
it is necessary, desirable and in the public interest that the state parks system, public
historical sites, and public historical parks be maintained and improved. It is the intention
of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to authorize the formation of two public
corporations for the purposes of providing for the acquisition, provision, construction, improvement,
renovation, equipping, and maintenance of the state parks system, public historical sites,
and public historical parks, and to authorize the corporations to provide for payment of the
costs of accomplishing the stated purposes by implementing Amendment 617 to the Constitution
of Alabama of 1901 authorizing the issuance by the state of up to $110,000,000 in aggregate
principal amount of general obligation bonds, which amendment was proposed by Act 98-413 and
ratified by the electors of the state at the 1998 General Election, and by...
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22-21-312
Section 22-21-312 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and
declares: (1) That publicly-owned (as distinguished from investor-owned and community-nonprofit)
hospitals and other health care facilities furnish a substantial part of the indigent and
reduced-rate care and other health care services furnished to residents of the state by hospitals
and other health care facilities generally; (2) That as a result of current significant fiscal
and budgetary limitations or restrictions, the state and the various counties, municipalities,
and educational institutions therein are no longer able to provide, from taxes and other general
fund moneys, all the revenues and funds necessary to operate such publicly-owned hospitals
and other health care facilities adequately and efficiently; and (3) That to enable such publicly-owned
hospitals and other health care facilities to continue to operate adequately and efficiently,
it is necessary that the entities and agencies...
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11-89-7
Section 11-89-7 Powers of district generally; power of district to acquire, operate,
etc., systems, etc., outside service area; provisions in schedules of rates and charges generally.
(a) The district 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 perpetuity, subject to the provisions of Section
11-89-17) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued in its own
name in civil actions, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, and to defend civil actions
against it; (3) To adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure;
(4) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business;
(5) To acquire, receive, and take, by purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, and to
hold property of every description, real, personal, or mixed, whether...
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11-88-12
Section 11-88-12 Establishment and revision of rates, fees, and charges for services
rendered by authority; applicability of provisions of section to authority organized
to construct and operate sewer system. (a) Rates, fees, and charges for water service, sewer
service, and fire protection service rendered by the authority from any of its water systems,
sewer systems, or fire protection facilities shall be so fixed and from time to time revised
as at all times to provide funds at least sufficient to: (1) Pay the cost of operating, maintaining,
repairing, replacing, extending and improving the systems and facilities, or either, from
which such services are rendered; (2) Pay the principal of and the interest on all bonds issued
and obligations assumed by the authority that are payable out of the revenues derived from
operation of those systems and facilities as the said principal and interest become due and
payable; (3) Create and maintain such reserves for the foregoing purposes or any...
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11-92B-2
Section 11-92B-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature makes the following findings:
(1) That the economic development of property comprising a former military installation is
of vital importance to the life, health, and welfare of the citizens of local cities and counties
affected by the base closure and the state. (2) That it is desirable to allow for the establishment
of local reuse authorities capable of managing and promoting the reuse and economic development
of military installations after the closure of the military installations. (3) That an Alabama
court has ruled that a city and county lack legislative authority to join in any entity for
the purposes provided for in this chapter. The Legislature finds that the purpose of this
chapter is to provide such authority. (4) That in consideration of the critical need for valid
and fully authorized public entities, with community involvement and notice, to develop closed
military installations, and perform environmental restoration...
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11-81-51
Section 11-81-51 Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All municipalities shall have
full and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect
or that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds (when such issue is authorized by
an election as provided in this article if such election is required by the Constitution,
but without an election if an election is not so required) for the following named purposes:
(1) For the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, enlarging or extending public buildings,
sewers, streets, alleys, bridges and public schoolhouses and buildings and of constructing
or acquiring by purchase or otherwise water, electric light, electric power and gas plants
and systems or any two or more such plants or systems combined, including transmission and
distribution systems, and of constructing enlargements and extensions to any such plants or
systems; (2) For the purchase of real estate necessary for any improvement authorized...
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11-92C-22
Section 11-92C-22 Establishment and revision of rentals, licenses, rates, fees, and
charges for services or facilities rendered by authority. Rates, fees, charges, rentals, and
licenses for services rendered by an authority, a cooperative district of which the authority
is a member, or a private user or facilities provided by the authority, a cooperative district
of which the authority is a member, or a private user from any of their projects shall be
so fixed and, from time to time, revised as at all times to provide funds at least sufficient,
taking into account other sources for the payment thereof, to: (1) Pay the cost of operating,
maintaining, repairing, replacing, extending, and improving the project or projects of the
authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, or any private user.
(2) Pay the principal of and the interest on all bonds issued and obligations assumed by the
authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, or any...
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