45-35-20
Section 45-35-20 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds all of the following: (1) The authority of the Legislature to enact local laws regulating the liquor traffic is preserved in Section 104 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 104 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. (2) Relying on prior judicial opinions of the federal courts, it has been clearly established that reducing the secondary effects associated with adult entertainment businesses serves and furthers a substantial governmental interest, particularly when the serving of alcohol is involved. (3) Any form of nudity and sexual conduct in establishments that serve alcohol or deal in alcoholic beverages encourages the conduct of prostitution, attempted rape, rape, murder, and assaults on police officers in and around an establishment dealing in or permitting the consumption of alcoholic beverages, and that actual and simulated nudity and sexual conduct...
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11-47-170
Section 11-47-170 Acquisition of lands, easements, etc., by municipality; limitations on condemnation. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), whenever in the judgment of the council, commission, or other governing body of a city or town it may be necessary or expedient for the carrying out and full exercise of any power granted by the applicable provisions of this title or any other applicable provision of law, the town or city shall have full power and authority to acquire by purchase the necessary lands or rights, easements, or interests therein, thereunder, or thereover or, for the purposes for which private property may be acquired by condemnation, may proceed to condemn the same in the manner provided by this article, or by the general laws of this state governing the taking of lands or the acquiring of interests therein for the uses for which private property may be taken, and such proceedings shall be governed in every respect by the general laws of this state...
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33-15-6
Section 33-15-6 Powers, duties and functions generally. The general powers, duties and functions of the authority shall be as follows: (1) GENERAL. The authority: a. Shall have perpetual succession in its corporate name; b. May bring civil actions and have civil actions brought against it in its corporate name; c. May adopt, use, and alter a corporate seal, which shall be judicially noticed; d. May enter into such contracts and cooperative agreements with federal, state and local governments, with agencies of such governments and with private individuals, corporations, associations and other organizations, including the Bear Creek Watershed Association, Inc., whether organized under the laws of Alabama or of another state, as the board may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purposes of this article, which authorization shall include without limitation contracts and cooperative arrangements with any of the several states and with counties and municipalities in...
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45-45A-40
Section 45-45A-40 Regulation and sale of alcoholic beverages. (a) Except as provided in this section, in order to provide for additional local control and regulation of the sale of alcoholic beverages in areas of the City of Madison located within Madison County, in addition to all other power and authority granted by state law, the governing body of the City of Madison is hereby authorized to regulate the days and hours of operation of establishments selling and serving alcoholic beverages, specify zones in the city in which businesses required to have retail off-premises or on-premises Alcoholic Beverage Control Board licenses may operate, issue and set fees for local business licenses for establishments selling and serving alcoholic beverages, and adopt ordinances regulating the establishments. Any authority granted herein shall not be construed to affect, modify, or amend the authority otherwise reserved to the state for the issuance and revocation of licenses for the sale of...
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11-43A-28
Section 11-43A-28 Qualifications of city manager; duties; designation or appointment of administrative officer to perform duties of manager during temporary absence or disability. The city manager shall be chosen by the council solely on the basis of his executive and administrative qualifications with special reference to his actual experience in, or his knowledge of, accepted practice in respect to the duties of his office as hereinafter set forth. At the time of his appointment, he may but need not be a resident of the municipality or state, but during his tenure of office he shall reside within the municipality. The city manager shall be the head of the administrative branch of the municipal government. He shall be responsible to the council for the proper administration of all affairs of the municipality and, subject to the provisions of any civil service or merit system law applicable to such municipality and except as otherwise provided herein, he shall have power and shall be...
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45-38-141.05
Section 45-38-141.05 Powers of authority; rates and charges. (a) The authority 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 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 part, 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 located in one or more counties and whether located within or outside the service area. (6) To make, enter into, and execute such contracts, agreements, leases, and other instruments and to take such...
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45-49-120.08
Section 45-49-120.08 Rulemaking authority. (a) The director shall recommend such rules as he or she may consider necessary, appropriate, or desirable to carry out this part, and may from time to time recommend amendments thereto. When such rules or amendments are recommended by the director, the board shall hold a public hearing thereon, and at or after such hearing shall approve or reject the recommendations of the director wholly or in part or to modify them and approve them as so modified. Rules hereunder shall be recommended by the director with or without the advice of any appointing authorities as soon as practicable after his or her appointment. The board shall have power on its own initiative to propose rules, amendments, or additions to the rules and, after holding a public hearing thereon, adopt, modify, or reject them. (b) Rules adopted under this section shall have the force and effect of law. (c) Among other things, such rules shall provide for the method of administering...
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41-22-2
Section 41-22-2 Legislative intent and purpose; effect on substantive rights; applicability; rulemaking authority. (a) This chapter is intended to provide a minimum procedural code for the operation of all state agencies when they take action affecting the rights and duties of the public. Nothing in this chapter is meant to discourage agencies from adopting procedures conferring additional rights upon the public; and, save for express provisions of this act to the contrary, nothing in this chapter is meant to abrogate in whole or in part any statute prescribing procedural duties for an agency which are in addition to those provided herein. (b)(1) The purposes of the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act are to accomplish all of the following: a. Provide legislative oversight of powers and duties delegated to administrative agencies. b. Increase public accountability of administrative agencies. c. Simplify government by assuring a uniform minimum procedure to which all agencies will be...
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45-48-40
Section 45-48-40 Branch banking authorized. (a) Any bank, incorporated under the laws of this state and having a banking office in Marshall County, and any national bank having a combined paid in capital and earned surplus of at least two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), shall have the power to establish, maintain, and operate within the limits of such county, one or more branches or branch banks, and to conduct all types of banking and trust business at such branch or branch bank as such bank is lawfully authorized to conduct at its principal office; provided that no branch may be established within the city limits of any incorporated municipality having a population of 5,000 or less in accord with the present or any subsequent federal decennial census and in which a bank is already established; and further provided that any such branch or branch bank lawfully established under this section may continue to operate if the population of the incorporated municipality in which it is...
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8-1A-2
Section 8-1A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, each of the following words have the following meanings: (1) AGREEMENT. The bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances and from rules, regulations, and procedures given the effect of agreements under laws otherwise applicable to a particular transaction. (2) AUTOMATED TRANSACTION. A transaction conducted or performed, in whole or in part, by electronic means or electronic records, in which the acts or records of one or both parties are not reviewed by an individual in the ordinary course in forming a contract, performing under an existing contract, or fulfilling an obligation required by the transaction. (3) COMPUTER PROGRAM. A set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in an information processing system in order to bring about a certain result. (4) CONSUMER. An individual who obtains, through a transaction, products or services which are used primarily...
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