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6-5-530
Section 6-5-530 Liability for damages. (a) In any civil action for personal injury, death,
or property damage caused by a product, regardless of the type of claims alleged or the theory
of liability asserted, the plaintiff must prove, among other elements, that the defendant
designed, manufactured, sold, or leased the particular product the use of which is alleged
to have caused the injury on which the claim is based, and not a similar or equivalent product.
Designers, manufacturers, sellers, or lessors of products not identified as having been used,
ingested, or encountered by an allegedly injured party may not be held liable for any alleged
injury. A person, firm, corporation, association, partnership, or other legal or business
entity whose design is copied or otherwise used by a manufacturer without the designer's express
authorization is not subject to liability for personal injury, death, or property damage caused
by the manufacturer's product, even if use of the design is...
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6-5-755
Section 6-5-755 Recovery; contribution. (a) In an action against a manufacturer and one or
more other defendants, including other manufacturers, for death or injury to person or damage
to property arising out of an accident, the right of the plaintiff to recover jointly and
severally against such defendants found liable is preserved. (b) Notwithstanding subsection
(a), in an action arising out of such accident, if the respective or comparative responsibility
of tortfeasors is an issue, then the jury shall return special verdicts, or in the absence
of a jury the court shall make special findings, allocating the percentage of responsibility
attributable to each defendant found to have proximately caused the accident. (c) Responsibility
for the accident may be allocated to a nonparty in an action under the procedure described
in subsection (b) if each of the following requirements are satisfied: (1) A defendant affirmatively
pleads the responsibility of a nonparty as a proximate cause of...
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10A-3-2.43
Section 10A-3-2.43 Power to indemnify directors or officers. Each nonprofit corporation shall
have the power to indemnify any director or officer or former director or officer of the corporation,
or any person who may have served at its request as a director or officer of another corporation,
whether profit or nonprofit, in which it owns shares of capital stock or of which it is a
creditor, against expenses actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with
the defense of any action, suit, or proceeding, civil or criminal, in which he or she is made
a party by reason of being or having been such director or officer, except in relation to
matters as to which he or she shall be adjudged in the action, suit, or proceeding to be liable
for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his or her duty; and to make any other
indemnification that shall be authorized by the governing documents of the nonprofit corporation,
vote of the board of directors, or resolution adopted...
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8-22-17
Section 8-22-17 Equity action by person injured from violation of chapter authorized; injunctive
relief; damages; attorneys fees; jurisdiction. (a) Any person injured by any violation, or
who would suffer injury from any threatened violation, of this chapter may maintain an action
in any court of equity jurisdiction to prevent, restrain, or enjoin such violation or threatened
violation. If in such action a violation or threatened violation of this chapter shall be
established, the court shall enjoin and restrain, or otherwise prohibit, such violation or
threatened violation and, in addition thereto, the court shall assess in favor of the plaintiff
and against the defendant the costs of suit, including reasonable attorney's fees. In such
action it shall not be necessary that actual damages to the plaintiff be alleged or proved,
but where alleged and proved, the plaintiff in said action, in addition to such injunctive
relief and cost of suit, including reasonable attorney's fees, shall...
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10A-4-3.02
Section 10A-4-3.02 Death or disqualification of shareholder. (a) Upon the death of a shareholder
of a domestic professional corporation, or if a shareholder of a domestic professional corporation
becomes a disqualified person, or if shares of a domestic professional corporation are transferred
by operation of law or court decree to a disqualified person, the shares of the deceased shareholder
or of the disqualified person may be transferred to a qualified person and, if not so transferred,
shall be purchased or redeemed by the domestic professional corporation to the extent of funds
which may be legally made available for the purchase. (b) If the price for the shares is not
fixed by the governing documents of the domestic professional corporation or by private agreement,
the domestic professional corporation, within six months after the death or 30 days after
the disqualification or transfer, as the case may be, shall make a written offer to pay for
the shares at a specified price...
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18-1A-54
Section 18-1A-54 Proceeding or action to recover damages caused by entry; payment of damages.
(a) A condemnor is liable for physical injury to, and for substantial interference with possession
or use of, property caused by his entry and activities upon the property. This liability may
be enforced in a subsequent condemnation proceeding filed within the period specified as a
retention period in Section 18-1A-52 or, if no such proceeding is filed within such period
of time, by civil action with the right of trial by jury on demand of either party. (b) If
funds are on deposit under Section 18-1A-52 or 18-1A-53, the owner or other person entitled
to damages under subsection (a) may apply to the circuit court for payment of his damages
from such funds. If the amount on deposit is insufficient to pay the full amount, the circuit
court shall enter judgment against the condemnor for the unpaid portion. (Acts 1985, No. 85-548,
p. 802, ยง305.)...
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45-39-221.03
Section 45-39-221.03 Powers of tourism board. (a) The tourism board may conduct programs and
events, including, but not limited to, programs of information and publicity, sporting events,
and other public events to attract tourists and visitors to the county. The tourism board
may conduct programs or events in the state and elsewhere and expend its funds in the furtherance
of such programs and events in the state and elsewhere. (b) The tourism board may enter into
contracts with any person, firm, corporation, or association to carry out the purposes set
forth herein. No contract entered into by the tourism board shall bind either the state, the
county, or any municipality. (c) The tourism board shall have the following additional powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) 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...
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22-21-358
Section 22-21-358 Powers of authorities. In addition to all other powers at any time conferred
on it by law, and subject to any express provisions of its certificate of incorporation or
certificate of reincorporation to the contrary, an authority shall (to the extent at the time
not prohibited by the Constitution of Alabama) have the following powers, together with all
powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To
participate as a shareholder in a corporation, as a joint venturer in a joint venture, as
a general or limited partner in a limited partnership or a general partnership, as a member
in a nonprofit corporation or as a member of any other lawful form of business organization,
which provides health care or engages in activities related thereto; (2) To make or arrange
for loans, contributions to capital and other debt and equity financing for the activities
of any corporation of which such authority is a shareholder, any joint venture...
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11-99B-7
Section 11-99B-7 Powers of district generally; power of district to acquire and operate projects;
provisions in schedules of rates and charges generally. Each 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 in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of Section 11-99B-15, specified in its
certificate of incorporation. (2) To sue and to be sued in its own name in civil actions,
and to defend civil actions against it; provided, that the district shall be deemed to be
a "governmental entity" as defined in Chapter 93 of this title, for the purposes
of limiting the damages for which the district and its members may be liable. (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,...
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10A-10-1.15
Section 10A-10-1.15 Merger. (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have
the respective meanings ascribed to them: (1) ALABAMA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST. A real
estate investment trust organized in compliance with the provisions of this chapter. (2) BUSINESS
TRUST. a. An entity described in Section 10A-16-1.01. b. An unincorporated trust or association,
including an Alabama real estate investment trust, a common-law trust, or a Massachusetts
trust, which is engaged in business and in which property is acquired, held, managed, administered,
controlled, invested, or disposed of for the benefit and profit of any person who may become
a holder of a transferable unit of beneficial interest in the trust. (3) DOMESTIC LIMITED
LIABILITY COMPANY. A limited liability company as defined under the Alabama Limited Liability
Company Law. (4) DOMESTIC LIMITED PARTNERSHIP. A limited partnership as defined under the
Alabama Limited Partnership Law. (5) FOREIGN BUSINESS TRUST. A...
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