45-37A-54.01
Section 45-37A-54.01 Use of property for parks, playgrounds, etc.; fees. Any such city in the State of Alabama may use for parks, playgrounds, recreational centers, and other recreational purposes and activities, any public parks or park areas of such city, or any lands or buildings, or both, owned or leased by such city; and any such city, by and through its park and recreation board, in such manner as may now or hereafter be authorized or provided by law by the acquisition of lands or buildings for public purposes by such city, may acquire or lease lands or buildings, or both, within or beyond the corporate limits of such city for parks, park areas, park boulevards, playgrounds, recreational centers, and other recreational purposes and activities, and when acquired for any such purposes such city shall have full police jurisdiction thereover, whether within or beyond the corporate limits of such city, and such police jurisdiction shall also extend over any highway or highways...
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45-37A-54.07
Section 45-37A-54.07 Petition for election in issuance of bonds. If, in the opinion of the park and recreation board of any such city, the funds available for such purposes be inadequate to provide ample, appropriate, and suitable grounds, buildings, and equipment for all the needed parks, park areas, park boulevards, playgrounds, park and playground systems, recreation centers, and other recreational facilities and activities of such city, the park and recreation board may petition the governing body of such city to call an election for the issuance of bonds on the credit of the city in an amount sufficient to provide the necessities of such city in these respects, subject to the limitations set out in the constitution of the state, and the governing body of such city shall call or cause to be called the election at the time requested in the petition. (Acts 1923, No. 529, p. 707, ยง8.)...
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11-47-210
Section 11-47-210 Definitions. When used in this article, unless the context plainly indicates otherwise, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) APPLICANT. An individual who files a written application with the governing body of any county or municipality in accordance with Section 11-47-214. (2) AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized under this article for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions set forth in this article. (3) AUTHORIZING COUNTY. With respect to an authority, any county which has a governing body that has made findings and determinations of facts pertaining to the organization of the authority in accordance with Section 11-47-214. (4) AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITY. With respect to an authority, any municipality which has a governing body that has made findings and determinations of facts pertaining to the organization of the authority in accordance with Section 11-47-214. (5)...
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45-37A-54.06
Section 45-37A-54.06 Park and recreation board - Officers; powers and duties; impeachment or removal; interests of members. The members of the park and recreation board, when such board is constituted in accordance with Section 45-37A-54.05, shall immediately meet and organize by electing one of the members thereof as president and such other officers as may be necessary. The governing body of any such city, in addition to the powers directly vested in such board by this subpart, may confer upon and delegate to the park and recreation board of such city, when established and constituted, any other power or authority conferred upon such city by the terms of this subpart or conferred upon such city by any other provision of law, with respect to or in connection with the establishment, conduct, development, improvement, equipment, and maintenance of parks, park areas, park boulevards, playgrounds, recreational centers, and recreational activities, as fully and completely as any or all...
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45-37A-54.05
Section 45-37A-54.05 Park and recreation board - Creation; composition; compensation. There shall be established and constituted in accordance with the terms of this section a park and recreation board for the city. The planning of a park system, administration, improvement, development, conduct, and supervision of the parks, park areas, park boulevards, playgrounds, recreational centers, and other recreational activities of the city shall be vested in the park and recreation board of the city, which shall be composed of five members or commissioners, who shall be residents of the city, and four of whom shall not be members of the governing body of the city. Each commissioner of the board shall receive an expense allowance in the amount of seventy-five dollars ($75) per meeting attended. The board members shall not be paid the expense allowance for more than two meetings in any month. The president of the board shall receive an expense allowance of one hundred dollars ($100) per...
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11-60-1
Section 11-60-1 Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears in the context, the following terms, whether used in the singular or plural, shall be given the following respective meanings: (1) CORPORATION. Any corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (2) MUNICIPALITY. Any incorporated city or town in this state with respect to which a corporation may be organized. (3) PROJECT. Any land and interest therein, including forests, rivers, streams, waterways, and lakes, and any buildings or other improvements thereon, and all real and personal properties deemed necessary in connection therewith, whether or not now in existence, which shall be suitable for a public park or other recreational uses and all buildings, facilities, and improvements incident thereto or useful in connection therewith, including, but without limitation, picnic areas, campsites, trailer sites, cabins, lodges, roads and trails for hiking, bicycling or...
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45-17-91.23
Section 45-17-91.23 Creation of Shoals Economic Development Fund; purposes for which moneys in such fund may be expended. (a) There is created the Shoals Economic Development Fund, which shall be a special or trust fund or account of the committee, and which shall be administered in accordance with this subpart. (b)(1) The authority may, at any time and from time to time, request that the committee authorize and approve the expenditure or appropriation of moneys on deposit in the Shoals Economic Development Fund, but solely for purposes authorized in subsection (c). Any such request may specify that such moneys shall be expended by, or appropriated directly or indirectly to, any of the following: a. The authority itself. b. Either of the counties, or any city or town located, in whole or in part, in either of the counties. c. Any public corporation that has been organized with the approval or consent of any one or more of the counties, the municipalities, or any other city or town in...
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45-39A-11.04
Section 45-39A-11.04 Civic Center Authority - Construction, maintenance, etc., of civic center; powers. (a) The authority shall be authorized to construct, maintain, control, operate, and manage a civic center in the City of Florence. The authority shall be authorized to construct, maintain, control, operate, and manage all or any of the following to be situated in the civic center: Buildings to provide offices to be used by the State of Alabama or by any agency, subdivision, or public corporation thereof or by the county or by one or more municipalities thereof for any municipal purpose otherwise authorized by law and buildings to house or accommodate public facilities of the State of Alabama or of any agency, subdivision, or public corporation thereof or of the county or of any one or more of the municipalities for any municipal purpose otherwise authorized by law; streets, boulevards, walkways, parkways, and parks; monuments, statues, and other structures beautifying the civic...
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9-2-9
Section 9-2-9 Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources - Powers and duties as to state parks, etc., generally. The Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources, acting through the Division of Parks, shall have the following powers and authorities: (1) To acquire in the name of the State of Alabama by purchase, lease, agreement, license, condemnation or otherwise land deemed necessary or desirable to be preserved, improved, protected and maintained as a part of the state park system and to accept in his discretion, in fee or otherwise, land donated, entrusted, conveyed or devised to the state for like purposes and with like discretion to accept gifts, contributions or bequests of money or other personal property of value to be used or expended for the benefit of the state park system; (2) To contract and make cooperative agreements with the federal government and with states, counties, municipalities, corporations, associations or individuals for the purpose of...
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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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