11-48-16
Section 11-48-16 Manner of assessment of costs of improvements generally - Sewers, swamp drainage, seawalls, levees, etc. (a) When the improvement consists of a sanitary or storm water sewer or sewers or a sanitary or storm water sewer system, including sewage treatment or sewage disposal plants, the cost of any part thereof may be assessed in fair proportion against the frontage of the property drained by said sewer system or against all the lots or parcels of land lying within the district drained, served, or benefited, but the assessment shall not exceed the increased value of such property by reason of the special benefits derived from the improvement. (b) When the improvement consists of the draining of swamps or the elevating, filling, reclamation, or draining of submerged, inundated, or overflowed land, then the council shall have the power and authority, after the completion and acceptance of such improvement, to assess the cost thereof or any part thereof upon or against the...
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11-81-110
Section 11-81-110 Issuance generally; pledge of proceeds of assessments, etc., as security for payment. (a) For the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of street and sidewalk improvements, sanitary or storm water sewers or sewer systems, including treatment and disposal plants and water service connections, or other improvements, whether of a like or any different kind, the cost of which, in whole or in part, is proposed to be assessed against the property abutting on said street or sidewalk improved or drained, serviced or benefited by such sanitary or storm water sewer or sewer system or water service connection or served, improved, increased in value or otherwise specially benefited by such improvement, for which purpose the Constitution may now or hereafter permit the issuance of bonds without an election, the governing body of any municipality may, without an election, from time to time, issue bonds of such municipality not in excess of the cost of the improvements as...
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11-48-80
Section 11-48-80 Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) STREET IMPROVEMENTS. Filling, grading, leveling, graveling, slagging, cherting, macadamizing, paving, draining, or otherwise improving any street, avenue, alley, highway, or other public place, including the construction of sidewalks, curbs, and gutters. (2) SEWER IMPROVEMENTS. Storm water sewers and storm water sewer systems and sanitary sewers, sanitary sewer systems, sewage treatment plants and sewage disposal plants, and all appurtenances to any such sewers or plants. (3) PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Street improvements and sewer improvements or either of them. (4) POLICE JURISDICTION. The territory lying outside the corporate limits of a city but within its police jurisdiction. (Acts 1955, No. 492, p. 1112, §1.)...
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11-48-24
Section 11-48-24 Contents of notice as to assessments for improvements. The notice required by Section 11-48-22 shall also state the general character of the improvements, the terminal points thereof and the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways or portions thereof along which the improvement has been constructed, and, if the improvement made consists of a sanitary or storm water sewer or sanitary or storm water sewer system, said notice shall also describe the frontage of the property drained by said sewers or the territory or area drained, served, or benefited by said sewer or sewers by naming the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways or other lines by which said district is bounded. If the improvement made consists of the draining, elevating, filling or reclaiming of swamps or overflowed, inundated, or submerged land within the limits of any municipality having a population of 60,000 or more inhabitants according to the most recent federal census, said notice shall also...
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11-89C-7
Section 11-89C-7 Public corporation to be nonprofit; dissolution. Any public corporation shall be a nonprofit corporation, and no part of its net earnings shall inure to the benefit of any individual, firm, or corporation. In the event of dissolution of a public corporation, if the board of directors of the public corporation determines that sufficient provision has been made for the full payment of the expenses and other obligations, then any net earnings thereafter existing shall be paid to the member governing bodies of the public corporation provided, such amounts so paid out shall only be used by the member governing bodies for storm water purposes and no other purpose. (Acts 1995, No. 95-775, p. 1835, §7.)...
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9-11-80
Section 9-11-80 Public and private waters defined. (a) All waters of this state are hereby declared to be public waters if such waters are natural bodies of water such as rivers, creeks, brooks, lakes, bayous, bays, channels, canals or lagoons or are dug, dredged or blasted canals and if these waters traverse, bound, flow upon or through or touch lands title to which is held by more than one person, firm or corporation. Any water impounded by the construction of any lock or dam or other impounding device placed across the channel of a navigable stream is declared a public water. All waters caused to be impounded or owned or leased by any municipality, county or other governmental unit are also declared to be public waters; likewise, all impoundments owned or operated by public utilities when such impoundments touch or bound lands title to which is held by more than one person, firm or corporation are declared to be public waters; provided, that before any person may go or be upon the...
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11-50-354
Section 11-50-354 Exemption from taxation of systems, revenue bonds, etc. As proper water and sewer facilities are essential for the health of the inhabitants of the city, and as the exercise of the powers conferred by this article to effect these purposes constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, and as these water systems and sewer systems constitute public property and are used for public purposes, the board shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any system or any part thereof, whether located within or without the corporate limits of the city. Each water system shall also be exempt from all sales and use taxes and gross receipts taxes levied by the state and any political subdivision thereof with respect to the purchase, sale, use, or consumption of property provided, nothing contained herein shall be construed to exempt each corporation from collecting and remitting the utility gross receipts tax levied in Section 40-21-80. Any revenue...
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40-21-14
Section 40-21-14 Statement of property outside state. The statement of every public utility shall include a brief description of each tract of land and the improvements thereon, and of the buildings, structures, machinery, fixtures, and appliances and all other tangible property and assets having a fixed situs outside of the state, and the location of each item of such property, the purpose for which it is used, whether or not it is specifically used in the business of the company, corporation or association, or individual in whose behalf the report is made, its true and fair value, the sum of the value at which it is assessed for taxation and the locality in which it is assessed. (Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §155.)...
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11-48-19
Section 11-48-19 Assessment of costs of improvements against railroads. If there is a street, electric, or other railroad track or tracks on any street or highway improved or reimproved under this article, the cost of such improvement, except storm water and sanitary sewers, between the tracks and the rails of the tracks and, in case there are two or more tracks, the space between such tracks and 18 inches on each side of the tracks, including switches and turnouts, shall be paid by the owner of the railroad and shall be assessed against and form a lien on said railroad and the property connected therewith and, in the event that storm water sewers are constructed which drain, serve or benefit the streets or avenues or rights-of-way on which a street, electric, or other railroad is located, whether the same is a continued or separate system, there shall be assessed against such railroad a fair and just proportion of the cost of construction of such sewer, to be determined by the...
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11-88-21
Section 11-88-21 When proceedings, notice, etc., for incorporation of authority, acquisition of property, issuance of bonds, etc., required; exemption of authority, etc., from jurisdiction and regulation of Public Service Commission, etc. Except as expressly otherwise provided in this article or Article 2 of this chapter no proceeding, notice, or approval shall be required for the incorporation of any authority or the amendment of its certificate of incorporation, the acquisition of any property, water system, sewer system, or fire protection facility or the issuance of any bonds, mortgage, and deed of trust or trust indenture. The authority, every water system, sewer system, or fire protection facility owned by the authority or leased or subleased to a determining county and the rates and charges thereof shall be exempt from all jurisdiction of and all regulation and supervision by the Alabama Public Service Commission and neither a public hearing nor the consent of the State...
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