40-12-240
Section 40-12-240 Definitions. (a) For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Revenue. (2) ESTABLISHED PLACE OF BUSINESS. A place actually occupied either continuously or at regular periods at or from which a business or a part thereof is transacted. (3) FARM TRACTOR. Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines, and other implements designed and used for agricultural purposes and only incidentally moved upon public highways. (4) FARMER. An individual, partnership, cooperative corporation, or other entity actively engaged in agriculture or agricultural activities as the same are circumscribed and defined in paragraphs a. and b. of Section 41-14-51(1). (5) FLEET. A group of similarly classified fleet vehicles comprised of 50 or more units or other amount as prescribed by the department. (6) FLEET OPERATOR. A person,...
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11-65-5
Section 11-65-5 Composition of commission; terms; qualifications; removal from office. (a) Every commission shall have five members, which shall constitute its governing body. All powers of a commission shall be exercised by its members or pursuant to their authorization. The mayor or other chief executive officer of the sponsoring municipality and the president or other designated presiding officer of the county commission of the host county shall each serve as a member ex officio, unless such official exercises his or her right, as provided in subsection (b), to appoint a fixed-term member to serve in lieu of such official. The service of each such official as a member shall begin with the beginning of his or her tenure in such office and shall end with the ending of such tenure or the appointment by such official of a fixed-term member to serve in lieu of his or her ex officio service. The other three members shall be appointed in the manner hereinafter prescribed as soon as may be...
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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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35-2-51
Section 35-2-51 Certification, acknowledgment, and recordation of plat or map; copies as evidence; conveyance. (a) The plat or map having been completed shall be certified by the surveyor, which certificate must also be signed by the owner, his duly authorized agent or attorney, executor, administrator, or guardian and acknowledged by such owner, agent, or attorney, in the same manner in which deeds are required to be acknowledged. The plat or map, together with the certificate of the surveyor and acknowledgment, shall be recorded in the office of the judge of probate in the county in which the lands are situated, in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose; and such acknowledgment and record shall have like effect and certified copies thereof and of such plat or map may be used in evidence to the same extent and with like effect as in the case of deeds. (b) The acknowledgment and recording of such plat or map shall be held to be a conveyance in fee simple of such portion of the...
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45-30-250.05
Section 45-30-250.05 Powers of authority. (a) The authority shall have the following corporate powers, and all incidental or necessary powers thereto, either separately or in combination with any other system, service, or facility referred to in this section: (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 act, 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, or 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 contracts, agreements,...
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9-17-152
Section 9-17-152 Board approval; recordation of order; certificate of effectiveness; dissolution of fields and units; determination of commercial reserves; creation of cavities. (a) The use of an underground reservoir as a storage facility for gas is hereby authorized, provided that the board shall first enter an order, after notice and hearing pursuant to the provisions of Sections 9-17-3 to 9-17-8, inclusive, approving such proposed underground storage of gas and designating the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the storage facility, such boundaries to include within them any necessary or reasonable buffer zone for the purpose of insuring the safe operation of the storage facility and to protect the storage facility against pollution, invasion, and escape or migration of gas therefrom, upon finding as follows: (1) That the storage facility is suitable and feasible for the injection, storage and withdrawal of gas and has a greater value or utility for the storage of gas than for...
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11-3-1
Section 11-3-1 Qualifications of candidates for county commissioner; vacancies; composition of commission; meetings. (a) Any person who is a qualified elector of the county and has resided in the county for at least one year prior to the date upon which he or she would take office is eligible to seek office as county commissioner. In counties where the county commissioners represent a certain district, any person seeking office as county commissioner shall be a qualified elector of and reside within the district which he or she seeks to represent upon election or appointment for at least one year prior to the date that he or she would take office. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the one-year residency requirement provided above shall not apply to the first election following any redistricting of county commission districts in a county. Any person serving as county commissioner, at all times while in office, shall meet the qualified elector and residency requirements set out herein, and...
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11-65-2
Section 11-65-2 Definitions. (a) The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following respective meanings: (1) ALABAMA-BRED. When this term is used with reference to a horse, it means a horse which is registered in the registry designated and administered by a commission in accordance with such rules concerning domicile and registration requirements as may be established by such commission and which is either (i) foaled from a mare domiciled in the state during the 10-year period beginning with January 1, 1991, or (ii) sired by an Alabama stallion and foaled from a mare domiciled in the state at any time after the expiration of such 10-year period. (2) ALABAMA STALLION. A stallion which is standing in the state at the time he is bred to the dam of an Alabama-bred horse, which is registered with a commission, and which is owned or leased by a resident of...
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22-21-73
Section 22-21-73 Incorporation - Certificate of incorporation - Form and contents; approval by county commission; validation of certain certificates of incorporation. (a) The certificate of incorporation shall state: (1) The name of the corporation, which shall be "_____ County Hospital Board," if such name is available for use by the corporation and, if not available, then the incorporators shall designate some other similar name that is available; provided, that if the corporate functions of the corporation are to be exercised in a portion only of the county, the corporate name of the corporation shall be a name that is appropriate for the area in which such functions are to be exercised; (2) The location of its principal office and the post office address thereof; (3) The number of directors, which number shall be a multiple of three and shall be not less than nine, except that, in counties having a population of less than 50,000 inhabitants according to the 1950 or any subsequent...
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40-21-50
Section 40-21-50 Levied generally. For each person operating a public utility, such as a street railroad or interurban railroad operated by electricity or other motive power, waterworks, gas company, pipeline company for transporting or carrying gas, oil, gasoline, water or other commodities, gas distributing companies, whether by means of pipeline or by tanks, drums, tubes, cylinders or otherwise, heating companies or other public utility, except electric, hydroelectric, telephone or telegraph companies, railroad or sleeping car companies and express companies which are otherwise licensed, shall pay to the state a license tax equal to two and two-tenths percent on each $1 of gross receipts of such public utility in this state for the preceding year. For the first year's business, where an existing public utility is taken over, such license tax payable to the state shall be equal to two and two-tenths percent on each $1 of the gross receipts for the preceding year of the public utility...
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