11-32-7
Section 11-32-7 Powers of authority. (a) The authority shall exercise powers and duties necessary to the discharge of its powers and duties in corporate form as follows: (1) Have succession by its corporate name in perpetuity subject to Section 11-32-20. (2) Sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions and defend suits against it. (3) Adopt and make use of a corporate seal and alter the same at its pleasure. (4) Adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business. (5) Acquire, receive, take, by purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, and hold property of every description, real, personal, or mixed, whether located in one or more counties or municipalities and whether located within or outside the authorizing county. (6) Make, enter into, and execute contracts, agreements, leases, and other instruments and take other actions as may be necessary or convenient to accomplish any purpose for which the authority was organized, or exercise any...
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40-17-359
Section 40-17-359 Distribution and use of proceeds. (a) For the purpose of this section, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed below: (1) BASE ANNUAL COUNTY DISTRIBUTION. Five hundred fifty thousand dollars ($550,000). (2) COST OF COLLECTION. The amounts from the proceeds of the highway gasoline tax that may be appropriated by the Legislature to the department for its operating expenses. (3) COUNTY. Each county in the state. (4) FISCAL YEAR. The fiscal year of the state. (5) DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. The Department of Transportation of the state. (6) HIGHWAY GASOLINE TAX. Both of the following: a. The excise tax levied under subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of Section 40-17-325, with the exception of those portions of the tax levied on aviation fuel and marine gasoline. b. The excise tax levied by Sections 40-17-140 to 40-17-155, inclusive, except that portion of the tax imposed on diesel fuel. (7) LOCAL SUBDIVISIONS' SHARES OF THE NET TAX PROCEEDS. The 55 percent...
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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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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry, and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion, or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II. This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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40-23-4
Section 40-23-4 Exemptions. (a) There are exempted from the provisions of this division and from the computation of the amount of the tax levied, assessed, or payable under this division the following: (1) The gross proceeds of the sales of lubricating oil and gasoline as defined in Sections 40-17-30 and 40-17-170 and the gross proceeds from those sales of lubricating oil destined for out-of-state use which are transacted in a manner whereby an out-of-state purchaser takes delivery of such oil at a distributor's plant within this state and transports it out-of-state, which are otherwise taxed. (2) The gross proceeds of the sale, or sales, of fertilizer when used for agricultural purposes. The word "fertilizer" shall not be construed to include cottonseed meal, when not in combination with other materials. (3) The gross proceeds of the sale, or sales, of seeds for planting purposes and baby chicks and poults. Nothing herein shall be construed to exempt or exclude from the computation of...
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11-50-311
Section 11-50-311 Application for authority to incorporate; adoption of resolution by municipal governing body authorizing incorporation. Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall file with the governing body of any municipality of this state an application in writing for authority to incorporate a public corporation for the purpose of operating a water system, a sewer system, a gas system, and an electric system or any one or more of such systems, and if it shall be made to appear to such governing body that each of said persons is a duly qualified elector of and owner of property in said municipality and if the governing body of said municipality shall adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon the minutes of such governing body, wherein it shall be declared that it is wise, expedient, and necessary that such a corporation be formed and that the persons filing said application shall be authorized to proceed to form such corporation, then said...
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11-49A-6
Section 11-49A-6 Certificate of incorporation - Amendments; resolution; application; denial or approval of governing body; filing. The certificate of incorporation of any authority incorporated under the provisions of this chapter may at any time and from time to time be amended in the manner provided in this section, provided that the contents of any amendment are first approved by the municipal governing body which shall have the authority to recommend requirements with respect to either any amendment or the original certificate of incorporation. The board of directors of the authority shall first adopt a resolution proposing an amendment to the certificate of incorporation which shall be set forth in full in the said resolution and which amendment may include any matters which might have been included in the original certificate of incorporation. After the adoption by the board of a resolution proposing an amendment to the certificate of incorporation of the authority, the chairman...
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11-50A-17
Section 11-50A-17 Contracts for use of projects; purchase of electric power; payment of charges; indemnity; enforcement of performance. (a) Any municipality, if authorized by resolution or ordinance of its governing body, may contract with the authority for the payment of any rates, tolls, fees, and other charges prescribed in this section and Section 11-50A-18 by the authority for the output, capacity, use or service by the municipality of any projects or other resources of the authority or any of its facilities or undertakings. The obligations to pay the amounts contracted to be paid by the municipality to the authority under the contract or contracts entered into pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be treated as expenses of operating the electric distribution system of the municipality for the payment of which the revenues of the municipality derived from the operation of its electric distribution system (together with any other revenues that may be lawfully pledged...
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12-14-17
Section 12-14-17 Procedure for abolition of municipal courts by governing bodies of municipalities; effect of abolition generally. (a) The governing body of any municipality having a municipal court may at any time by ordinance abolish its municipal court and the jurisdiction of the court so abolished shall be transferred to the district court of the district in which the municipality is located under the conditions and effective dates provided in this section. A certified copy of the ordinance abolishing the municipal court shall be transmitted by certified mail to the clerk of the district court for the district in which the municipality is located, the presiding judge of the circuit court for the judicial circuit in which the municipality is located, the clerk of the circuit court, the Clerk of the Supreme Court, the Secretary of State and the Administrative Director of the Courts. (b) All pending cases and process in those cases which are to be acted upon by the district court...
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11-51-180
Section 11-51-180 Prerequisites for collection by Department of Revenue; exceptions; applicability. (a) The Department of Revenue shall, upon request by ordinance or resolution of the governing body of any municipality and the filing of a certified copy of the enabling ordinance or resolution with the Department of Revenue, collect all municipal privilege or license taxes in the nature of a sales or use tax levied or assessed by a municipality under the provisions of a municipal ordinance or resolution duly promulgated and adopted by the governing body of the municipality, or levied by past or future special or local acts of the Legislature. Except as set out below and as otherwise provided in this section, the levy shall parallel the corresponding state levy except for the rate of the tax and shall be subject to all definitions, exceptions, exemptions, proceedings, requirements, rules, regulations, direct pay permit and drive-out certificate procedures, provisions, statutes of...
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