11-59-8
Section 11-59-8 Powers of corporations generally. The corporation shall have the following
powers together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary for the performance of those
hereinafter stated: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the period specified
in the certificate of incorporation unless sooner dissolved as provided in this chapter; (2)
To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend civil actions in any court having jurisdiction
of the subject matter and of the parties; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter
the same at pleasure; (4) To acquire, whether by condemnation, purchase, exchange, gift, lease,
devise or otherwise, and to construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, and furnish one
or more facilities, including all real and personal properties which the board of directors
of the corporation may deem necessary or convenient in connection therewith and regardless
of whether or not any such facilities shall then be in existence and...
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23-3-3
Section 23-3-3 Authority to plan, etc., facilities; regulation, etc., thereof. The Director
of Transportation, acting alone or in cooperation with counties, cities, towns or any federal,
state or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction
and maintenance of highways, is authorized to plan, designate, establish, regulate, vacate,
alter, improve, maintain, and provide controlled access facilities for public use wherever
such authority or authorities are of the opinion that traffic conditions, present or future,
will justify such special facilities; provided, that in the case of designation or vacation,
such designations or vacations must be approved by the Director of Transportation. Said authorities
may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of such controlled access facilities by the various
classes of vehicles or traffic in a manner consistent with Section 23-3-1. (Acts 1956, 1st
Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 148, §3.)...
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33-1-12.1
Section 33-1-12.1 Additional powers. In addition to the powers conferred in this chapter and
by other applicable law, the port authority shall have the following powers: (1) To have and
use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (2) To exercise the right of eminent
domain as freely and completely, and in the same manner, as the state has that power now or
at any time hereafter, and the power of eminent domain shall apply not only as to all property
of private persons or corporations but also as to property already devoted to public use.
(3) To acquire by purchase, gift, the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or other lawful
means, sell, rent, lease, and otherwise dispose of real, personal, or mixed property in its
own name, and to construct, improve, renovate, equip, and maintain the docks and its facilities.
(4) To receive, take, and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise, eminent domain, or other lawful
means, real and personal estate of every description in its own...
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45-2-243.61
Section 45-2-243.61 Scope. (a) This section shall apply to Baldwin County in the unincorporated
areas of the county. (b) In addition to the authority granted pursuant to Sections 45-2-243.50
to 45-2-243.60, inclusive, in any subdivision recorded with a plat prior to 1990, the county
commission may control, manage, supervise, regulate, maintain, and improve any type of public
improvement provided in Sections 45-2-243.50 to 45-2-243.60, inclusive, except that the county
commission may assess against the property specially served, benefited, or increased in value
all costs of the improvement including labor, equipment usage, and any direct and indirect
costs as determined by the commission upon the written petition approval of 85 percent of
the property owners. In addition, any assessment made by this section may be paid in equal
installments over a five-year period. In all other respects, the procedures for the assessment
and collection of improvement assessments pursuant to this section...
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45-49A-10.04
Section 45-49A-10.04 Powers of corporation. A corporation organized and established under this
article shall have the following powers: (1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs
and the conduct of its business. (2) To adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure.
(3) To maintain a principal office at the City of Bayou La Batre, and suboffices at such place
or places within Mobile County as it may designate. (4) To sue and be sued in its own name,
excepting actions in tort against the corporation. (5) To construct, lease, build, install,
acquire, own, operate, maintain, equip, use, and control marinas, ports, waterfront facilities,
docks, wharves, piers, berths, quays, warehouses, industrial and building sites, industrial
and factory buildings, and the necessary or convenient approaches, easements, roads, streets,
and ways leading thereto or used in conjunction therewith. (6) To own, acquire, maintain,
and control easements, rights of way, streets, approaches,...
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11-50-343
Section 11-50-343 Powers generally; publication, recordation, and authentication of resolutions
of board. (a) Each board created under the provisions of this article shall be deemed to be
a public agency or instrumentality exercising public and governmental functions to provide
for the public health and welfare, and each such board is hereby authorized and empowered:
(1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (2)
To adopt an official seal and alter the same at pleasure; (3) To maintain an office at such
place or places within the city as it may designate; (4) To sue and be sued in its own name;
(5) To acquire, purchase, lease as lessee, construct, reconstruct, improve, extend, operate,
and maintain any water system or part thereof or any sewer system or part thereof or any combination
thereof within or without or partly within and partly without the corporate limits of the
city, and to acquire by gift, purchase, or the exercise of the right...
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11-50-396
Section 11-50-396 Powers generally. Each district incorporated under this article shall have
each and all of the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary
to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession in its corporate name for
the duration of time (which may be in perpetuity) specified in the certificate of incorporation,
or until dissolved as provided in subsection (c) of Section 11-50-392. (2) To sue and be sued
and to defend civil actions against it. (3) To have and use a corporate seal and alter the
same at pleasure. (4) To acquire, purchase, construct, receive, own, operate, maintain, enlarge,
extend, and improve any one or more gas systems the operation of which is provided for in
the certificate of incorporation of the district (whether or not such system or systems were
in existence or whether or not such system or systems were privately owned or municipally
owned prior to the acquisition by such district). (5) To receive,...
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11-95-7
Section 11-95-7 Powers of corporation. In addition to all other powers granted elsewhere in
this chapter, a corporation 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 11-95-19) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued
in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits 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, construct, equip,
enlarge, improve, maintain, and operate hospital facilities in the authorizing county and
to do all things necessary to that end; (6) To receive, acquire, take and hold, whether by
purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, real and personal property...
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11-96A-3
Section 11-96A-3 Municipalities or counties empowered to take certain actions to carry out
purpose of chapter. The council or other governing body of any municipality, or governing
body of a county in furtherance of the legislative purpose stated above, is empowered to take
the following actions and to the extent necessary or desirable in its judgment to expend its
moneys to accomplish such purpose: (1) To acquire sites for, purchase, construct, own, develop,
operate, survey, subdivide, establish, maintain, refurbish, remodel, or improve single or
multi-family dwellings; (2) To receive designated funds from whatever source, federal, state,
private, or otherwise and to apply such funds for the uses and purposes described in this
chapter; (3) To sell and issue bonds or warrants in order to provide funds for any low or
moderate income single or multi-family housing purpose or to provide funds for any shelter
for the homeless purpose; (4) To purchase mortgage loans from mortgage lenders;...
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23-1-48
Section 23-1-48 Application by counties for construction or maintenance of state road or bridge.
Whenever a county commission shall desire that a state road or bridge on a state road in said
county be constructed or maintained with state aid, written application shall be made by the
county to the State Department of Transportation under such rules and regulations as the department
may prescribe. Such application, when made, shall be considered by the department and, if
approved by it, the commissioners shall direct an engineer to view said road or bridge and
cause to be made surveys, plans, specifications, and estimates of the cost of construction
or maintenance, and the State Department of Transportation may thereupon appropriate out of
the State Highway Fund such part of the estimated cost of such work as it may deem proper,
and the State Department of Transportation shall proceed to do such work by contract or with
its own force. If it deems best, the department may accept...
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