11-50A-2
Section 11-50A-2 Legislative intent. The municipalities are now empowered to own and operate electric distribution systems to serve their citizens, inhabitants, and customers by providing them electricity for all purposes. To assure that the municipalities may have alternative sources of bulk electric power and energy, in addition to those presently available, to operate their electric distribution systems in a dependable, efficient, and economical manner, it is desirable that the municipalities acting through the authority be empowered to engage in joint action for the generation, transmission, and distribution of bulk electric power and energy for sale to the municipalities for resale and for the sale, purchase, exchange and transmission of bulk electric power and energy with other electric suppliers. The Legislature finds and declares that the provision of alternative sources of bulk electric power and energy to the municipalities through joint action in the fields of generation,...
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11-50A-3
Section 11-50A-3 Purpose of authority. The purpose of the authority shall be to acquire, construct, operate, and maintain or cause to be acquired, constructed, operated, and maintained projects, and to take all other necessary or desirable action, in order to provide or make available an adequate, dependable, and economical alternative supply of bulk electric power and energy and related services for wholesale sales to those municipalities which may desire such supply, and incidentally and so as to take advantage of economies of scale in the provision of economical and reliable wholesale power supply to the municipalities, to enter into interconnection arrangements with other electric suppliers having generation and transmission capabilities, which arrangements provide for sale, purchase, exchange, or transmission of bulk electric power and energy. The authority shall only be authorized, through acquisition or construction of projects, or through interconnection arrangements with...
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11-50A-8
Section 11-50A-8 Powers of the authority. In addition to other powers granted the authority by this chapter, it shall have all powers consistent with the purposes of the authority as set forth in Section 11-50A-3, which are necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following enumerated powers, which shall be exercised by the authority consistently with the provisions of Section 11-50A-3: (1) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties thereto; (2) To adopt and alter a corporate seal; (3) To make and alter at pleasure all needful bylaws, rules, and regulations for the transaction of its business and the control of its property and affairs; (4) To have the same right of eminent domain through condemnation conferred by Section 10-5-1, or any subsequent statute of similar import; provided...
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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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45-25-250.04
Section 45-25-250.04 Powers of authority. (a) The 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 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 article, 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 located in one or more counties and whether located within or outside the service area. (6) To make, enter into, and execute such contracts, agreements, leases, and other instruments and to take such other actions...
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45-29-140.05
Section 45-29-140.05 Powers of authority; rates and charges. (a) The 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 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 article, 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 located in one or more counties and whether located within or outside the service area. (6) To make, enter into, and execute such contracts, agreements, leases, and other instruments and to take...
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45-38-141.05
Section 45-38-141.05 Powers of authority; rates and charges. (a) The 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 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 part, 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 located in one or more counties and whether located within or outside the service area. (6) To make, enter into, and execute such contracts, agreements, leases, and other instruments and to take such...
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11-81-200
Section 11-81-200 Acquisition, extension, operation, etc., of power plants, power lines, electric systems, etc., by counties or municipalities authorized; acquisition of rights-of-way. (a) Any county or municipal corporation within this state is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, construction, condemnation or otherwise and to maintain, extend, improve and operate electric light plants, power plants, power lines and electric distribution systems together with the extension and the appurtenances thereto and all the property, tangible and intangible and of like or different kind to be used or useful in connection therewith, either within or without or partly within and partly without the corporate limits of such municipal corporation or the boundaries of such county, under the provisions of this article for the purpose of producing, obtaining, distributing or furnishing an adequate supply of electricity for public, industrial, business, domestic, light, power or other...
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11-50A-6
Section 11-50A-6 Board of directors; election committee; meetings; officers; compensation; recordkeeping. (a) The board of directors of the authority shall be elected by the duly designated representatives of the municipalities which are authorized and directed to designate a member of the election committee as hereinafter provided in this section. Until the first meeting of the board of directors following the meeting in 2015 of the election committee hereinafter provided for, the board of directors shall consist of nine members; thereafter, the board shall consist of the number of members equal to the number of municipalities contracting with the authority for the purchase of electric power and energy pursuant to Section 11-50A-17, which are authorized and directed to designate a member of the election committee. Members of the board of directors shall be eligible to succeed themselves. The business, affairs, and property of the authority shall be managed by its board of directors....
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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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