11-95-1
Section 11-95-1 Legislative intent; liberal construction of chapter. It is the intent of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to promote the public health of the people of the State of Alabama by authorizing each county and any municipality located in such county to act jointly in authorizing the incorporation of one or more public corporations for the purpose of providing public hospital facilities in such county and to invest each corporation so organized with all powers that may be necessary to enable it to accomplish such purpose. This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with said intent. (Acts 1981, No. 81-338, p. 480, ยง1.)...
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23-1-331
Section 23-1-331 Definitions. Where used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BRIDGE REPLACEMENT. Bridge replacement includes the replacement of existing bridge structures and, if necessary, the realignment of the adjacent approaches. If the route is to be four-laned, it includes the construction of a new bridge for the two new lanes. (2) CONSTRUCTION, CONSTRUCT, or CONSTRUCTING. The act of completing a project. The physical building of the roadway, bridges, and appendages thereto. (3) COUNTY ROADS. All paved or unpaved public roads, including bridges, within a county on the county road system and continuing into or through the corporate limits of any city or town in a county which are not a part of the state highway system. (4) DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. That state department created by Section 23-1-20. (5) OBLIGATION LIMIT. That point in obligating or budgeting funds for projects that the Transportation Director may not exceed by approving...
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32-9-1
Section 32-9-1 Trailers. Trailers, when used in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination may be operated on the national system of interstate and defense highways and other highways upon designation by the Director of Transportation and final approval by the Governor. The Director of Transportation shall, at a minimum, designate those highways necessary to cause the State of Alabama to be in compliance with the Federal Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982. Except as provided above, no person shall operate any trailer, as defined in this title, on any highway unless such trailer is operated for the purpose of constructing highways or other facilities of the state or a political subdivision thereof. The Department of Transportation is authorized to regulate the movement of such trailers from one job to another by special permits issued in the same manner as permits are issued under Section 32-9-29. No trailer or semitrailer of any kind shall be used for the hauling of...
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33-8-1
Section 33-8-1 Authorization; provisions generally; legislative approval and ratification. The Governor on behalf of this state is hereby authorized to execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi; and the Legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification of such compact, which compact is as follows: TOMBIGBEE-TENNESSEE WATERWAY DEVELOPMENT COMPACT Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote the development of a navigable waterway connecting the Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers by way of the east fork of the Tombigbee River and Mackeys and Yellow Creeks so as to provide a nine-foot navigable channel from the junction of the Tombigbee and Warrior rivers at Demopolis in the State of Alabama to the junction of Yellow Creek with the Tennessee River at Pickwick Pool in the State of Mississippi, and to establish a joint interstate authority to assist in these efforts. Article II. This compact shall become effective...
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41-29-501
Section 41-29-501 Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) AUTHORITY. The public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of Sections 41-10-20 through 41-10-32. (2) AUTHORIZED PURPOSE. Any one or more of the purposes for which grants are herein authorized to be made as specified in Section 41-29-503(a). (3) BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The board of directors of the authority. (4) BOND. The bonds issued under the provisions of this article. (5) CAPITAL COSTS. All costs and expenses incurred by one or more investing companies in connection with the acquisition, construction, installation, and equipping of a qualifying project during the period commencing with the date on which such acquisition, construction, installation, and equipping commences and ending on the date on which the qualifying project is placed in service, including, without limitation of all of the following: a. The costs of acquiring,...
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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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11-95-2
Section 11-95-2 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations herein and shall, except where the context otherwise requires, be deemed to cover both singular and plural: (1) ALTERNATING DIRECTOR. The director initially elected by the governing body of the authorizing municipality and thereafter alternately by the governing bodies of the authorizing county and the authorizing municipality. (2) APPLICANT. A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of any county and with the governing body of any municipality located wholly or partially within such county in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-95-3. (3) AUTHORIZING COUNTY. Any county the governing body of which shall have adopted an authorizing resolution. (4) AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITY. Any municipality the...
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41-10-364
Section 41-10-364 Proceeds of bonds, other than refunding bonds; special fund to pay costs of acquisition, construction, etc., of mental health facilities; such work supervised by Building Commission; such work subject to competitive bidding; disposition of moneys remaining. The proceeds of the bonds, other than refunding bonds, remaining after paying the expenses of their sale and issuance shall be turned into the State Treasury, shall be carried in a special fund to be designated the Mental Health Facilities Building Fund, and shall be subject to be drawn on by the authority for the purpose of paying costs of acquisition, construction, improvement and equipping of mental health facilities in the state. For the purposes of this article, the improvement of a facility shall be deemed to include the renovation, modernization, remodeling, and equipment thereof and the construction of additions thereof, and the construction of a facility shall be deemed to include the acquisition of real...
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10A-2-8.24
Section 10A-2-8.24 Quorum and voting. REPEALED IN THE 2019 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2019-94 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2020. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) Unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws require a greater number, a quorum of a board of directors consists of: (1) A majority of the fixed number of directors if the corporation has a fixed board size; or (2) A majority of the fixed number of directors prescribed, or if no number is prescribed the number in office immediately before the meeting begins, if the corporation has a variable-range size board. (b) The articles of incorporation or bylaws may authorize a quorum of a board of directors to consist of no fewer than one-third of the fixed or prescribed number of directors determined under subsection (a). (c) If a quorum is present when a vote is taken, the affirmative vote of a majority of directors present is the act of the board of directors unless the articles of incorporation or bylaws require the vote of a...
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40-13-1
Section 40-13-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them by this section: (1) BONDS. Any revenue bonds or notes that may at any time be issued by the Alabama State Docks Department pursuant to authorization in Act No. 64, p. 115, of the Alabama Legislature of 1971 (First Special Session), as same may be amended from time to time, for the purpose of constructing any seaport facility. (2) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Revenue of the Department of Revenue of the State of Alabama. (3) PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or any combination thereof. (4) PRODUCER. Any person engaging in the business of severing coal from the soil within this state. (5) PURCHASER. Any person acquiring title, outright or conditionally, to any interest in severed coal. (6) SEVER. Cutting, mining, stripping, or otherwise taking or removing from the soil within Alabama. (7) SEAPORT FACILITY. Any...
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