11-80-1
Section 11-80-1 Condemnation of lands for public building sites, roads, streets, construction materials, etc. (a) Counties and municipal corporations may condemn lands for public building sites or additions thereto, or for enlargements of sites already owned, or for public roads or streets or alleys, or for material for the construction of public roads or streets or for any other public use. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a municipality or county may not condemn property for the purposes of private retail, office, commercial, industrial, or residential development; primarily for enhancement of tax revenue; for transfer to a person, nongovernmental entity, public-private partnership, corporation, or other business entity; or for the primary purpose of acquiring a mortgage or deed of trust. Provided, however, the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the use of eminent domain by any municipality, housing authority, or other public entity based upon a finding...
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45-25-92.04
Section 45-25-92.04 Industrial Development Authority - Powers. The authority or its agents or employees may do the following: (1) Investigate, study, and engage in basic research relative to the natural resources of land, water, minerals, and people in the county and apply its findings in efforts to promote a sound and balanced agricultural, industrial, and economic development of the county. (2) Cooperate with municipal, regional, state, or federal planning or other industrial development authorities. (3) Publicize and advertise the industrial, commercial, and agricultural resources and opportunities in the county. (4) Collect, compile, and distribute literature concerning the facilities, advantages, and attractions of the county, the educational, historic, recreational, and scenic places of interest within the county, and the air, water, and highway transportation facilities. (5) Contract with other agencies, individuals, or corporations to promote the purposes of this part, and...
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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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11-40-19
Section 11-40-19 Operation of hotel and related facilities by Class 1 municipalities and certain public corporations - Requirements. In addition to all other powers heretofore granted by law, any Class 1 municipality that owns a civic center, or any public corporation that owns a civic center located within a Class 1 municipality, shall have the power to own and operate a hotel, together with any related restaurants, meeting rooms and other facilities and services commonly provided by hotels, subject to the requirements that (i) such hotel and such restaurants and other facilities are located within, or are located on a tract of land contiguous to, the area designated for civic center purposes by the governing body of the municipality in which such civic center is located, (ii) such hotel is of sufficient size and quality to accommodate persons attending conventions held at such civic center, and (iii) if such hotel is to be owned or operated by the Class 1 municipality, and if there...
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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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11-88-1
Section 11-88-1 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) APPLICANT. A natural person who files a written application with the governing body of any county in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-88-3. (2) AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this article. (3) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority. (4) BONDS. Bonds, notes, and certificates representing an obligation to pay money. (5) CONCISE LEGAL DESCRIPTION. A reasonably concise description of a particular geographic area which may be by metes and bounds or by reference to government surveys, recorded maps and plats, municipal, county, or state boundary lines, well-defined landmarks and other monuments, or any combination of the foregoing. (6) COUNTY. Any county in the state. (7) DETERMINING COUNTY. Any county the governing body of which shall have made...
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18-1B-2
Section 18-1B-2 Limitations on condemnation. (a) Neither the State of Alabama, nor any of its departments, divisions, agencies, commissions, corporations, boards, authorities, or other entities, nor any agency, corporation, district, board, or other entity organized by or under the control of any municipality or county in the state and vested by law to any extent whatsoever with the power of eminent domain may condemn property for the purpose of nongovernmental retail, office, commercial, residential, or industrial development or use or to primarily condemn a mortgage or deed of trust; provided, however, the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the exercise of the powers of eminent domain by any county, municipality, housing authority, or other public entity based upon a finding of blight in an area covered by any redevelopment plan or urban renewal plan pursuant to Chapters 2 and 3 of Title 24, provided the purpose of the exercise of the powers of eminent domain...
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40-18-410
Section 40-18-410 (Per Section 40-18-416, this section is repealed following the close of fiscal year 2020) Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION. A local economic development organization or a state economic development organization. (2) GROWING ALABAMA CREDIT. The credit provided for in Section 40-18-413(a). (3) INDUSTRY OR BUSINESS. An entity which would conduct at a site an activity that is primarily described in Section 40-18-372(1). (4) LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION. Organizations which are determined by the Department of Commerce to meet both of the following criteria: a. The organization is an Alabama entity not operating for a profit, including, but not limited to, a municipality or county, an industrial board or authority, a chamber of commerce, or some other foundation or Alabama nonprofit corporation charged with improving a community or region of the...
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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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45-17-92
Section 45-17-92 Colbert County Tourism and Convention Bureau. (a) This section shall apply only in Colbert County. (b) The following words and terms as used in this section, shall have the meanings hereby ascribed to them: "the bureau" means the public corporation for which this section provides; "the board" means the board of directors of the authority for which this section provides. (c)(1) There is hereby established in the county a public corporation for the purposes herein specified, which corporation shall be vested with the powers conferred upon it by this section. The public corporation is at times hereinafter referred to as "the bureau." (2) Subject to the conditions and qualifications hereinafter stated, the name of the corporation shall be the Colbert County Tourism and Convention Bureau. (d)(1) The bureau shall be authorized and empowered to conduct programs, including but not limited to programs of information and publicity designed to attract conventions and tourism to...
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