6-5-701
Section 6-5-701 Reliance upon specifications. A contractor is justified ordinarily in relying upon the specifications that are contained in the contract with an awarding authority. No contractor shall be held civilly liable for work performed on a highway, road, bridge, or street including repairs, construction, or maintenance on behalf of the awarding authority unless it is shown by a preponderance of the evidence that physical injury, property damage, or death is proximately caused by any of the following: (1) A failure by the contractor to follow the plans and specifications resulting in a dangerous condition. (2) The contractor's performance of the contract in compliance with the plans and specifications creates a condition that should have appeared, to a reasonably prudent contractor, to be a dangerous condition. (3) A latent defect which creates a dangerous condition that is the result of the work of the contractor. (Act 2012-225, p. 414, ยง2.)...
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23-1-37
Section 23-1-37 Use of convict labor. The State Department of Transportation may work convicts in the construction or maintenance of public roads and bridges of Alabama, as may now or may hereafter be provided by law, or may work convicts in the construction, repairing, or maintaining public roads or bridges by contract or agreement with the Department of Corrections as to the number of convicts required to do such work; provided, that the charge for labor of such convicts shall be in accordance with the terms of the contract which shall be negotiated by and between the Director of the State Department of Transportation and the Department of Corrections, with the approval of the Governor, and no other expense incurred by the use of such convicts shall be chargeable to the State Department of Transportation, except such necessary tools and implements used in the construction, repairing, or maintaining of the public roads and bridges upon which the convicts are employed. (Code 1923,...
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39-1-1
Section 39-1-1 Bonds required of persons contracting for public works; commencement, etc., of actions upon bond by persons supplying labor, etc., to contractor; offer to accept judgment; notice of completion of project by contractor and final settlement; applicability. (a) Any person entering into a contract with an awarding authority in this state for the prosecution of any public works shall, before commencing the work, execute a performance bond, with penalty equal to 100 percent of the amount of the contract price. In addition, another bond, payable to the awarding authority letting the contract, shall be executed in an amount not less than 50 percent of the contract price, with the obligation that the contractor or contractors shall promptly make payments to all persons supplying labor, materials, or supplies for or in the prosecution of the work provided in the contract and for the payment of reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by successful claimants or plaintiffs in civil...
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22-3A-19
Section 22-3A-19 Certain public health facilities as primary obligation of authority; reimbursement to counties; refinancing or refunding of obligations. (a) As its primary obligation under this chapter, the authority shall, subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, expend the net proceeds derived from the sale of the bonds herein provided (other than refunding bonds), together with the income from the investment of such proceeds, for the purpose of paying the costs of acquiring, constructing, improving and equipping public health facilities in the following locations and in the following amounts: County Municipality or Locality Total Autauga Prattville $8,318 Baldwin Bay Minette 556,649 Baldwin Fairhope 619,694 Baldwin Foley 542,375 Barbour Clayton 122,267 Barbour Eufaula 559,930 Bibb Centreville 739,481 Blount Oneonta 383,936 Bullock Union Springs 549,960 Butler Greenville 683,291 Calhoun Anniston 2,000,000 Chambers LaFayette 531,844 Chambers Valley 170,723...
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44-2-24
Section 44-2-24 Authority to enter into agreements; commissioner of department of pensions and security to approve financial commitments or obligations. The officers and agencies of this state and its subdivisions having authority to place children are hereby empowered to enter into agreements with appropriate officers or agencies of or in other party states pursuant to paragraph (b) of Article V of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. Any such agreement which contains a financial commitment or imposes a financial obligation of this state or subdivision or agency thereof shall not be binding unless it has the approval in writing of the commissioner of the department of pensions and security or his designated agent. (Acts 1979, No. 79-675, p. 1192.)...
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22-27-5
Section 22-27-5 Authority of localities to establish charges, fees, etc., and enter into mutual agreements or contracts; approval of department; licensing of private or corporate agencies; permits and bonds; nonpayment of fees, etc. (a) Fees, etc.; mutual agreements or contracts. The county commission or municipality undertaking the responsibility for providing services to the public under this article may establish fees, charges and rates and may collect and disburse funds within cooperating areas or districts, inside or outside the corporate limits of municipalities or inside or outside of county boundaries, for the specific purpose of administering this article and providing and operating a solid waste program. Also, said county commission or public authority may enter into mutual agreements or contracts with the government bodies of other counties, municipalities, corporations or individuals, where deemed to be mutually economical and feasible, to jointly or individually collect,...
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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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24-1-33
Section 24-1-33 Powers of authority to secure payment of bonds, etc. In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of any obligation under a lease and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, the authority shall have power: (1) To pledge by resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, subject to the limitations hereinafter imposed, or other contract all or any part of its rents, fees or revenues. (2) To covenant against mortgaging all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter acquired, or against permitting or suffering any lien thereon. (3) To covenant with respect to limitations on its right to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any housing project, or any part thereof, or with respect to limitations on its right to undertake additional housing projects. (4) To covenant against pledging all or any part of its rents, fees and revenues to which its right then exists, or the right to which may thereafter come into existence, or...
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24-1-72
Section 24-1-72 Powers of authority to secure payment of bonds, etc. In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of any obligation under a lease and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, the authority shall have power: (1) To pledge by resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, subject to the limitations hereinafter imposed, or other contract all or any part of its rents, fees, or revenues. (2) To covenant against mortgaging all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter acquired, or against permitting or suffering any lien thereon. (3) To covenant with respect to limitations on its right to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of any housing project, or any part thereof, or with respect to limitations on its right to undertake additional housing projects. (4) To covenant against pledging all or any part of its rents, fees, and revenues to which its right then exists, or the right to which may thereafter come into existence, or...
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41-4-16
Section 41-4-16 Consent of department prerequisite to issuance of securities by state commissions, authorities, etc.; exceptions. No bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of any commission or authority created to construct or reconstruct highway bridges, approaches and appurtenances thereto, any state rural electrification authority, any electric membership corporation, any power district, or any improvement authority shall be issued or sold until the consent to the issuance and sale thereof shall have been given by the Department of Finance, to be evidenced by the written approval of the Director of Finance. Such consent shall be granted only after a public hearing and after a petition requesting such consent has been duly filed by the corporation, authority, district, commission, or other body seeking such consent with the department more than five days before the public hearing. The petition shall specify the plan or program of the body seeking the consent and the uses to which...
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