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41-18-1
Section 41-18-1 Text. Article I. Findings and Purposes. (a) The party states find that
the South has a sense of community based on common social, cultural and economic needs and
fostered by a regional tradition. There are vast potentialities for mutual improvement of
each state in the region by cooperative planning for the development, conservation and efficient
utilization of human and natural resources in a geographic area large enough to afford a high
degree of flexibility in identifying and taking maximum advantage of opportunities for healthy
and beneficial growth. The independence of each state and the special needs of subregions
are recognized and are to be safeguarded. Accordingly, the cooperation resulting from this
agreement is intended to assist the states in meeting their own problems by enhancing their
abilities to recognize and analyze regional opportunities and take account of regional influences
in planning and implementing their public policies. (b) The purposes of...
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45-8-90
Section 45-8-90 Economic Development Council - Creation; composition; powers and duties.
(a)(1) For the purposes of promoting industry and trade and economic development and to assist
Calhoun County and the municipalities located therein in their pursuits therefor and to provide
for the exercise by the county and the municipalities of certain powers and authority proposed
to be granted to them by an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama, the act proposing such
amendment being adopted at the same session of the Legislature at which the act adding this
section was adopted, there is hereby created an economic development council for Calhoun
County, which council shall constitute a public corporation under the name Calhoun County
Economic Development Council. (2) This section shall be liberally construed in conformity
with the purposes. (b)(1) The powers and authorities of the Calhoun County Economic Development
Council shall be vested in and performed by a board of directors. (2) The...
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11-62-7
Section 11-62-7 Powers of authority generally; operation of facilities by authority.
(a) Every authority shall have all of the powers necessary and convenient to carry out and
effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including, without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the following powers: (1) To have succession in its corporate name for the
duration of time (which may be in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of Section
11-62-17) 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, alter, and repeal bylaws,
regulations, and rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, for the regulation
and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, whether by gift, purchase, transfer,
foreclosure, lease, or otherwise, and to expand, improve, maintain, equip, and...
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11-97-8
Section 11-97-8 Powers of corporation; location of facilities of corporation. (a) Every
corporation shall have all of the powers necessary and convenient to carry out and effectuate
the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including (without limiting the generality of
the foregoing) the following powers: (1) To have succession in its corporate name for the
duration of time (which may be in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of Section
11-97-22 hereof) 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, alter, and repeal
bylaws, regulations, and rules, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, for
the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, whether by gift, purchase,
transfer, foreclosure, lease, or otherwise, to construct and to expand, improve, operate,...
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41-8-21
Section 41-8-21 Enactment of compact; form. The Interstate Library Compact is hereby
enacted into law and entered into by this state with all states legally joining therein in
the form substantially as follows: INTERSTATE LIBRARY COMPACT. Article I. Policy and Purpose.
Because the desire for the services provided by libraries transcends governmental boundaries
and can most effectively be satisfied by giving such services to communities and people regardless
of jurisdictional lines, it is the policy of the states party to this compact to cooperate
and share their responsibilities; to authorize cooperation and sharing with respect to those
types of library facilities and services which can be more economically or efficiently developed
and maintained on a cooperative basis and to authorize cooperation and sharing among localities,
states and others in providing joint or cooperative library services in areas where the distribution
of population or of existing and potential library...
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16-65-6
Section 16-65-6 Bonds generally. (a) Issuance of bonds. The authority is authorized
and empowered to issue its bonds from time to time for the purpose of making equipment loans
to finance equipment costs incurred or to be incurred by educational institutions. Such bonds
may be in such aggregate principal amount as the board of directors shall determine to be
necessary to pay the equipment costs included in such financing. The authority may pay from
the proceeds of the sale of its bonds all expenses, including publication and printing charges,
attorneys' fees, financial advisory fees, and other expenses which the board of directors
may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with the authorization, advertisement, sale,
execution, and issuance of its bonds or the making of equipment loans from the proceeds thereof.
(b) Source of payment. All bonds issued by the authority shall be limited obligations of the
authority payable solely from any combination of the following: (1) The...
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11-50A-1
Section 11-50A-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have
the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) AUTHORITY. Alabama
Municipal Electric Authority created pursuant to this chapter and any successor or successors
thereto. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of the authority. (3) BONDS. Any bonds issued by
the authority under the provisions of this chapter, including refunding bonds. (4) BOND ANTICIPATION
NOTES. Short term obligations issued by the authority in anticipation of the issuance of bonds.
(5) COSTS. All costs of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, equipment,
alteration, repair, or extension of any project; all costs of real and personal property required
for the purposes of any project, including any rights or undivided interest therein; all costs
of easements, franchises, water rights, fees, permits, approvals, licenses, and certificates,
and all costs of securing any permits, approvals, licenses,...
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11-94-9
Section 11-94-9 Powers of authority; location of projects. (a) An authority organized
and existing under this chapter shall have the following powers, together with all powers
incident thereto or necessary for the performance of those stated herein: (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 in the municipality
which is an authorizing subdivision and sub-offices at such other place or places within the
county which is an authorizing subdivision as its board may designate; (4) To sue and be sued
in its own name, excepting actions in tort against the authority; (5) To acquire, whether
by purchase, construction, exchange, gift, lease, or otherwise and to improve, equip, and
furnish and to own and maintain one or more projects or parts thereof, including all real
and personal properties and interests therein which its board may deem necessary in...
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11-92A-12
Section 11-92A-12 Powers of authority. An authority shall have the following powers,
which it may exercise in any county within such authority's authorized operational area: (1)
To have succession by its corporate name until dissolved as provided in this chapter; (2)
To institute and defend legal proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction and proper
venue; provided, however, that an authority may not be sued in any trial court other than
the courts of a county within the authorized operational area of the authority; provided,
further, that the officers, directors, agents, and employees of an authority may not be sued
for their actions in behalf of the authority except for actions that are known by such person
to be unlawful or are performed with reckless disregard for the lawfulness of such actions;
(3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the seal at its pleasure; (4) To establish
a fiscal year; (5) To anticipate by the issuance of its bonds the receipt of any...
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39-2-12
Section 39-2-12 Partial and final payments of contractors by awarding authorities. (a)
As used in this section the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them
as follows: (1) CONTRACTOR. Any natural person, partnership, company, firm, corporation, association,
limited liability company, cooperative, or other legal entity licensed by the Alabama State
Licensing Board for General Contractors. (2) NONRESIDENT CONTRACTOR. A contractor which is
neither a. organized and existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, nor b. maintains
its principal place of business in the State of Alabama. A nonresident contractor which has
maintained a permanent branch office within the State of Alabama for at least five continuous
years shall not thereafter be deemed to be a nonresident contractor so long as the contractor
continues to maintain a branch office within Alabama. (3) RETAINAGE. That money belonging
to the contractor which has been retained by the awarding authority conditioned on...
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