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29-2-1
Section 29-2-1 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares as
follows: improving the efficiency, cost effectiveness and performance of all branches of government
can only be achieved with proper oversight, accountability, and transparency in government
decision making and processes for service delivery; a long-range program of highway development
and maintenance in Alabama (herein "the state") is vital to the safety of the traveling
public as well as the industrial and agricultural growth of the state; the highway system
in the state must be adequate to meet expanding needs; highway construction, maintenance,
and administration to support such a system should include long-range planning, soundness
in scope of the highway program, efficient performance, and fiscal responsibility in both
policy and planning; the use of a long-range highway program will further the judicious expenditure
of highway funds, will promote the public safety and convenience, will...
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41-10-26
Section 41-10-26 Powers of authority generally. The authority shall have the following powers:
(1) To have succession by its corporate name until dissolved as provided in this article;
(2) To institute and defend legal proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction and proper
venue; provided, that the authority may not be sued in any trial court other than the courts
of the county in which is located the principal office of the authority; provided further,
that the officers, directors, agents and employees of the authority may not be sued for actions
in behalf of the authority in any trial court other than the courts of the county in which
is located the principal office of the authority; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal
and to alter the seal at pleasure; (4) To establish a fiscal year; (5) To anticipate by the
issuance of its bonds the receipt of the revenues appropriated and pledged in this article;
(6) To pledge the proceeds of the appropriations and pledges provided for...
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41-10-590
Section 41-10-590 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: That
the State of Alabama places a high priority on the recruitment of industries to locate or
expand their operations in Alabama; that it is a vital economic development tool for the state
to be able to offer strategic incentives to such industries in the form of limited financial
commitments; that the Alabama Incentives Financing Authority has heretofore been created for
the purpose of funding such financial commitments made prior to July 20, 1995; and that by
the passage of Act 99-198 of the 1999 Regular Session it is the intention of the Legislature
to enable the authority to meet commitments made by the state to industries committing to
locate or expand in the state after such date and, further, to enable the authority to lease
or convey title to worker training facilities to the Alabama Public School and College Authority
and to the Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute. The...
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41-16A-2
Section 41-16A-2 Legislative intent. It is hereby found and declared by the Legislature of
Alabama that it is in the public interest that the state, political subdivisions, agencies,
boards, commissions, and departments thereof, the various counties of the state, the various
municipal corporations within the state, county boards of education, city boards of education,
instrumentalities of any of the foregoing, and public corporations arising under or organized
pursuant to any statute of the state shall have the flexibility to finance the acquisition,
installation, equipping, and/or improvement of any eligible property that such governmental
entity otherwise is legally authorized to acquire through the use of lease, lease-purchase,
and/or installment-purchase financing. It is the intention of the Legislature by passage of
this chapter that wherever, either by express grant or by implication, a governmental entity
has the power and authority to acquire any eligible property by purchase,...
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10A-20-15.01
Section 10A-20-15.01 Rights, powers, and authority. All corporations organized under the general
laws of this state, or heretofore under a special act of the Legislature, and all corporations
organized under the laws of any other of the United States which have complied with the Constitution
and laws of the State of Alabama as to foreign corporations and which by their charter have
the right to manufacture, supply, and sell to the public power produced by water as a motive
force, shall, after acquiring by purchase, or otherwise than by condemnation, a dam site or
power site comprising not less than one acre of land upon each and opposite sides of any watercourse
or after acquiring by purchase, or otherwise than by condemnation, a dam site comprising not
less than one acre of land upon one side of any watercourse and, where the dam site on the
other side of the watercourse is owned or controlled by the United States, shall have acquired
the permission of the United States to attach to...
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11-56-2
Section 11-56-2 Legislative intent; construction of chapter generally. (a) It is the intention
of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to empower each incorporated city and town
in the state to authorize the incorporation of one or more corporations as political subdivisions
of the state for the purpose of providing buildings and facilities for lease to and use by
the municipality, the county, or any public corporation in the performance of their respective
public functions or for lease to and use by the United States, and to invest each corporation
organized under this chapter with all powers that may be necessary to enable it to accomplish
such purchase, including the power to lease its properties and to issue interest-bearing revenue
bonds. (b) This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with the said intent. (Acts
1955, No. 493, p. 1116, §2; Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 127, p. 182, §2.)...
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41-9-200
Section 41-9-200 Legislative findings; purpose of article. (a) The Legislature finds and declares
that: (1) The people of this state have a fundamental interest in the orderly development
of the state and its regions; (2) The state has a positive interest in the preparation and
maintenance of long-term, comprehensive plans for the economic, physical and human resource
development of the whole state and of each of its regions, which plans can serve as a guide
for local governmental units and state departments and agencies; (3) The continued growth
of the state, particularly in urban areas, and the readjustment of the people to the changed
economy of the state present problems which can best be solved by overall state planning guidance
for their solution; (4) Local governmental planning and program implementation can be strengthened
when done in relation to and coordinated with the planning efforts and program implementation
of the state and of the regions of the state; and (5) Orderly...
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9-16-71
Section 9-16-71 Declaration of public policy and legislative intent; all land surface mined
under this article shall be reclaimed. (a) The objective of this article is to provide for
the safe, responsible and reasonable reclamation of lands upon which surface disturbances
will be created by surface mining and the surface effects of underground mining so as to protect
the taxable value of property and preserve natural resources within the state and protect
and promote the health and safety of the people of this state, consistent with the protection
of property and with maximum employment and the economic and industrial well-being of the
state. The Legislature finds and declares that the extraction of coal by surface mining provides
a major present and future source of energy and is an essential and necessary activity which
contributes to the economic and material well-being of the state. (b) The Legislature finds
that the unregulated or irresponsible surface mining of coal may cause...
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41-9-207
Section 41-9-207 Legislative findings and declarations; purpose of article; agencies; duties
and goals. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) The people of this state have
a fundamental interest in the orderly development of the state and its regions; (2) The state
has a positive interest in the preparation and maintenance of long-term, comprehensive plans
for the economic, physical and human resource development of the whole state and of each of
its regions which plans can serve as guides for local governmental units and state departments
and agencies; (3) The continued growth of the state and the readjustment of the people to
the changing economy of the state, present problems which can best be solved by overall state
planning guidance for their solution; (4) Local governmental planning and program implementation
can be strengthened when done in relation to and coordinated with the planning efforts and
program implementation of the state and of the regions of the state;...
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11-92-1
Section 11-92-1 Definitions. (a) The following definitions shall be applicable to this chapter,
unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) COUNTY. Each county in the
state. (2) GOVERNING BODY. The county commission or the board of commissioners, council, or
other governing body of a municipality. (3) INDUSTRIAL PARK. Land, with such improvements
as are authorized by this chapter, which has been determined by a governing body to be suitable
for use by more than one industrial or commercial enterprise for industrial or commercial
purposes and has been acquired or is proposed to be acquired by a county or a municipality
or any combination of counties and municipalities and held for the purpose of transferring
it to one or more persons for use for industrial or commercial purposes. (4) MUNICIPALITY.
A municipal corporation in the state. (5) PARTICIPANT. With respect to the acquisition and
development of an industrial park, a county or municipality which has financed...
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