39-7-2
Section 39-7-2 Authorization for incorporation generally. The citizens of any city or town
in the State of Alabama or the citizens of any area in the State of Alabama containing as
many as 250 qualified electors may be incorporated as an authority under this chapter. (Acts
1935, No. 40, p. 72; Code 1940, T. 50, §18.)...
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11-86A-12
Section 11-86A-12 Powers of authority generally. An authority shall have the following powers:
(1) To have succession by its corporate name until dissolved as provided in this chapter.
(2) To institute and defend legal proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction and proper
venue; provided, however, that an authority may not be sued in any court other than the courts
of the county of incorporation; provided, further, that the officers, directors, agents, and
employees of an authority may not be sued for their actions on behalf of the authority except
for actions that are known by a person to be unlawful or are performed with reckless disregard
for the lawfulness of the actions. (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the
seal at its pleasure. (4) To establish a fiscal year. (5) To anticipate by the issuance of
its bonds the receipt of any revenues that may be appropriated by or to the authority and
to pledge the proceeds of the appropriations as security for the...
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12-13-37
Section 12-13-37 Appointment of special judge when probate judge incompetent, absent, sick,
etc., generally; powers and duties of special judge and force, effect, etc., of judgments,
orders and decrees thereof. If in any matter or proceeding arising in the probate court or
in reference to which the judge thereof is required to exercise jurisdiction or authority
or to perform a duty the judge is incompetent for any legal cause or shall be absent, sick
or otherwise disqualified from acting, he or his chief clerk must certify the fact of incompetency,
absence, sickness or disqualification to the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, and
the Supreme Court shall, upon such certificate, appoint a person possessing the qualifications
of a probate judge to act as special probate judge. Such special judge in relation to such
matter or proceeding shall have the jurisdiction and authority and discharge the duties of
the probate judge, and the judgments, orders and decrees made or rendered...
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23-1-279
Section 23-1-279 Nonconforming signs - Removal and payment of compensation generally. (a) Signs
outside of business areas which are lawfully in existence on February 10, 1972, but which
do not conform to the requirements in this division, are declared nonconforming and, subject
to Sections 23-1-280, 23-1-281, and 23-1-282, shall be removed by the sign owner and/or property
owner under agreement with the director, or under the authority of the director, upon agreement
between the parties as to just compensation. In the event no agreement can be reached as to
just compensation, the sign shall be removed and payment made therefor through petition filed
in probate court in accordance with Section 23-1-282. Outdoor advertising signs, displays,
or devices with the purpose of their message being read from the main-traveled way of any
interstate highway or primary highway erected prior to April 11, 1978, outside of an urban
area and beyond 660 feet of the edge of the right-of-way of such...
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26-3-8
Section 26-3-8 Giving of new bond by conservator upon application for discharge from liability
of surety - Required; effect of failure to give bond. Upon the application in writing of any
surety or sureties upon the bond of a conservator requesting to be discharged from future
liability as such surety or sureties or upon the application in writing of the personal representative
or of an heir or devisee of a deceased surety upon such bond requesting that the estate of
such deceased surety be discharged from future liability by reason of such suretyship, it
shall be the duty of the court to give such conservator notice of such application and to
require him or her, within 15 days after the service of the notice, to make a new bond. Upon
the failure to make such bond, such conservator shall be removed and his or her letters revoked
and upon such removal he or she shall make settlement of his or her conservatorship. Any number
of persons having the right to make application under this...
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26-9-16
Section 26-9-16 Discharge of guardian. When a minor ward for whom a guardian has been appointed
shall have attained his or her majority and has not been found incompetent and when any incompetent
ward has been rated competent by the administration, a certificate of the administrator or
his or her duly authorized representative to that effect shall be prima facie evidence that
a guardian is no longer required and the court, upon the guardian filing a satisfactory final
account, may discharge such guardian upon a petition filed for that purpose. Nothing contained
in this section shall be construed to prevent a ward from filing a petition for the discharge
of his or her guardian on the ground that the ward has attained majority or is competent or
the court from acting on its own motion in such cases. (Acts 1931, No. 240, p. 280; Code 1940,
T. 21, §176.)...
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34-3-21
Section 34-3-21 Authority of attorneys in case - Generally. An attorney has authority to bind
his or her client, in any action or proceeding, by any agreement in relation to such case,
made in writing, or by an entry to be made on the minutes of the court. (Code 1852, §743;
Code 1867, §877; Code 1876, §796; Code 1886, §866; Code 1896, §592; Code 1907, §2988;
Code 1923, §6253; Code 1940, T. 46, §46.)...
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12-13-3
Section 12-13-3 When courts deemed open for granting of letters testamentary, etc., and making
of orders grantable as matter of course; limitation period for setting aside or amendment
of orders or decrees and reopening of cases. The probate court shall at all times be considered
as open, except on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, with authority to do all things needful
in relation to granting letters testamentary or of administration or guardianship and all
matters pertaining thereto and making all other necessary orders which are grantable as a
matter of course. In all cases, any order or decree may be set aside or amended and the case
reopened within 30 days after the rendition thereof by the judge of the court in which said
decree was rendered or said order was made. (Code 1852, §673; Code 1867, §795; Code 1876,
§701; Code 1886, §794; Code 1896, §3371; Code 1907, §5129; Code 1923, §9590; Acts 1932,
Ex. Sess., No. 43, p. 52; Code 1940, T. 13, §295.)...
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12-17-26
Section 12-17-26 Authority and duties generally. Circuit judges have the following authority
and duties: (1) To grant stays of proceedings and writs of certiorari, quo warranto, mandamus
and all other remedial and original writs which are grantable by judges at common law. (2)
To grant writs of injunction and ne exeat, returnable into the circuit court. (3) To administer
oaths and take acknowledgments and affidavits in all cases in which oaths and affidavits are
required by law. (4) To exercise such other powers as are or may be granted them by law. (Code
1852, §629; Code 1867, §747; Code 1876, §658; Code 1886, §758; Code 1896, §921; Code
1907, §3259; Code 1923, §6709; Code 1940, T. 13, §182.)...
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26-5-32
Section 26-5-32 Partial settlement generally - Issuance of process requiring conservator to
make partial settlement; taxing of costs. If a conservator fails to make a partial settlement
as often as such settlement is required of him or her, the court must issue process to him
or her, requiring him or her to make such settlement, and all the costs thereof and of the
process must be taxed against him or her personally and must not be charged against the ward
or his or her estate, unless he or she appears in answer to the process and shows a satisfactory
excuse for his or her failure and files his or her accounts and vouchers for such settlement.
(Code 1886, §2469; Code 1896, §2354; Code 1907, §4444; Code 1923, §8217; Code 1940, T.
21, §147; Acts 1987, No. 87-590, p. 975, §2-333(b).)...
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