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11-41-1
Section 11-41-1 Authority; petition to probate judge for order of incorporation. When the inhabitants
of an unincorporated community, which has a population of not less than 300, constituting
a body of citizens whose residences are contiguous to and all of which form a homogeneous
settlement or community, desire to become organized as a municipal corporation, they may apply
to the judge of probate of the county in which the territory is situated, or the greater portion
thereof if it is situated in two or more counties, for an order of incorporation, by a petition
in writing signed by not less than 15 percent of the qualified electors residing within the
limits of the proposed municipality and by the persons, firms, or corporations owning at least
60 percent of the acreage of the platted or unplatted land of the proposed municipality. No
platted or unplatted territory shall be included within the boundary unless there are at least
four qualified electors, according to government survey,...
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11-89-7
Section 11-89-7 Powers of district generally; power of district to acquire, operate, etc.,
systems, etc., outside service area; provisions in schedules of rates and charges generally.
(a) The district 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
11-89-17) 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 chapter, 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...
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9-8-25
Section 9-8-25 Powers and duties of districts; performance of work on private lands; acquisition,
etc., of land by public bodies; exemption from taxation. (a) A soil and water conservation
district organized under this article shall constitute a governmental subdivision of this
state and a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public powers, and such district
and the supervisors thereof shall have the following powers, in addition to others granted
in other sections of this article: (1) To carry out preventive and control measures within
the district including, but not limited to, engineering operations, methods of cultivation,
the growing of vegetation, changes in use of land, and other erosion control measures on lands
owned or controlled by this state or any of its agencies with the consent and cooperation
of the agency administering and having jurisdiction thereof and on any other lands within
the district upon obtaining the consent of the owner of such lands or the...
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22-21-318
Section 22-21-318 Powers of authority. (a) In addition to all other powers granted elsewhere
in this article, and subject to the express provisions of its certificate of incorporation,
an 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, which may be in perpetuity, specified in its certificate of
incorporation or until dissolved as provided in Section 22-21-339; (2) To sue and be sued
in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits and actions against it, including
suits and actions ex delicto and ex contractu, subject, however, to the provisions of Chapter
93 of Title 11, which chapter is hereby made applicable to the authority; (3) To adopt and
make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt, alter, amend
and repeal bylaws, regulations and rules, not inconsistent with the...
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45-39-245.02
Section 45-39-245.02 Privilege or license tax - City of Florence. In the City of Florence,
Alabama, there is hereby levied, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed
by law, and shall be collected as herein provided, a privilege or license tax against the
person on account of the business activities and in the amount to be determined by the application
of rates against gross sales, or gross receipts, as the case may be, as follows: (1) Upon
every person, firm, or corporation, engaged or continuing within the City of Florence, Alabama,
in business of selling at retail any tangible personal property whatsoever, including merchandise
and commodities of every kind and character, not including, however, bonds or other evidences
of debts or stocks, nor sale or sales of material and supplies to any person for use in fulfilling
a contract for the painting, repair, or reconditioning of vessels, barges, ships, and other
watercraft of over 50 tons burden, an amount equal to...
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45-39-245
Section 45-39-245 Privilege or license tax - Outside City of Florence. In Lauderdale County,
Alabama, outside the city limits of Florence, there is hereby levied, in addition to all other
taxes of every kind now imposed by law, and shall be collected as herein provided, a privilege
or license tax against the person on account of the business activities and in the amount
to be determined by the application of rates against gross sales, or gross receipts, as the
case may be, as follows: (1) Upon every person, firm, or corporation, engaged, or continuing
within Lauderdale County, Alabama, outside the city limits of Florence, in business of selling
at retail any tangible personal property whatsoever, including merchandise and commodities
of every kind and character, not including, however, bonds or other evidences of debts or
stocks, nor sale or sales of material and supplies to any person for use in fulfilling contract
for the painting, repair, or reconditioning of vessels, barges, ships,...
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8-19A-4
Section 8-19A-4 Exemptions. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to: (1) A person engaging
in commercial telephone solicitation where the solicitation is an isolated transaction and
not done in the course of a pattern of repeated transactions of like nature. (2) A person
making calls for religious, charitable, political, educational, or other noncommercial purposes
or a person soliciting for a nonprofit corporation if that corporation is properly registered
with the Secretary of State and is included within the exemption of the Alabama Revenue Code
or Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or rural electric cooperatives formed under
Chapter 6 of Title 37 of the Code of Alabama or affiliates or subsidiaries thereof. (3) A
person soliciting: a. Without the intent to complete or obtain provisional acceptance of a
sale during the telephone solicitation. b. Who does not make the major sales presentation
during the telephone solicitation. c. Without the intent to complete, and...
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2-27-2
Section 2-27-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise indicated, the
following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1)
PESTICIDE. a. Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying,
repelling, attracting or mitigating any insects, rodents, nematodes, fungi, weeds or other
forms of plant or animal life and/or bacteria and viruses, except bacteria or viruses on or
in living man or other animals, which the commissioner shall declare to be a pest; and b.
Any substance or mixture of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant or
desiccant. (2) INSECTICIDE. Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,
destroying, repelling or mitigating any insects which may be present in any environment whatsoever.
(3) FUNGICIDE. Any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying,
repelling or mitigating any fungi, except those living on or in man or other...
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28-3-43
Section 28-3-43 Functions, powers, and duties of board generally; examination of board by Examiners
of Public Accounts. (a) The functions, duties and powers of the board shall be as follows:
(1) To buy, manufacture and sell alcoholic beverages and to have alcoholic beverages in its
possession for sale, as defined and enumerated in this chapter. (2) To control the possession,
sale, transportation and delivery of alcoholic beverages as enumerated and defined in this
chapter. (3) To determine the localities within which any state store shall be established
and operated and the location of such store. No store shall be established in and neither
the board nor any other person may legally buy, manufacture or sell alcoholic beverages in
any county which has voted in the negative in any election called as provided in Chapter 2
of this title for determining the said issue unless and until said county has at a subsequent
similar election voted in the affirmative. The board shall have the power...
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9-8-22
Section 9-8-22 State Soil and Water Conservation Committee. (a) There is hereby established,
to serve as an agency of the state and to perform the functions conferred upon it in this
article, the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee. (b) This committee shall consist
of nine persons: The Director of the State Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service, the
Director of the State Agricultural Experiment Station, the Supervisor of Vocational Agricultural
Education and six members who are soil and water conservation district supervisors, to be
appointed by the Governor, one such appointive member from each of the six major geographical
areas of the state as such areas are designated on January 1, 1972, by the State Association
of Soil and Water Conservation district supervisors. The appointive members of the committee
shall hold office for a term of three years and until their successors are appointed. Such
members shall be appointed by the Governor from a list containing the names...
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