37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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39-7-13
Section 39-7-13 Purpose and powers of authority generally; sale, transfer and conveyance of
entire water system to public corporation authorized to conduct business of water distribution
system. (a) An authority shall be incorporated for the purpose of conducting and developing
the enterprise in which it may engage in such manner that the services afforded by such enterprise
shall be available for public uses and to all inhabitants of the municipality and the surrounding
area for domestic and industrial uses at the lowest cost consistent with sound economy and
prudent management. Every authority incorporated under this chapter is hereby vested with
all powers necessary and requisite for the accomplishment of such purpose for which such authority
is incorporated capable of being delegated by the Legislature of the State of Alabama. The
authority shall have the power to acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend, improve and maintain
and operate any plant, works, system, facilities or...
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11-88-7
Section 11-88-7 Powers of authority generally; power of authority to acquire, operate, etc.,
systems, etc., outside service area; provisions in schedules of rates and charges generally;
powers of authority organized to construct and operate sewer system. (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 (which may be in perpetuity, subject to the provisions of Section 11-88-18)
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...
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45-17-90.06
Section 45-17-90.06 Powers and duties. The authority, or its agents and employees as directed,
may do any of the following: (1) Investigate, study, and engage in basic research relative
to the natural resources of land, water, minerals, and people in the cities and counties and
apply its findings and efforts to promote a sound and balanced agricultural, industrial, and
economic development of the cities and counties. (2) Cooperate with municipal, regional, state,
or federal planning entities or other industrial and economic development boards. (3) Publicize
and advertise the industrial, commercial, and agricultural resources and growth opportunities
of the cities and counties. (4) Collect, compile, and distribute literature concerning the
facilities, advantages, and attractions of the cities and counties, the educational, historic,
recreational, and scenic places of interest within the cities and counties, and the air, water,
and highway transportation facilities. (5) Contract with...
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45-39-92.06
Section 45-39-92.06 Powers and duties. The authority, or its agents and employees as directed,
may do any of the following: (1) Investigate, study, and engage in basic research relative
to the natural resources of land, water, minerals, and people in the cities and counties and
apply its findings and efforts to promote a sound and balanced agricultural, industrial, and
economic development of the cities and counties. (2) Cooperate with municipal, regional, state,
or federal planning entities or other industrial and economic development boards. (3) Publicize
and advertise the industrial, commercial, and agricultural resources and growth opportunities
of the cities and counties. (4) Collect, compile, and distribute literature concerning the
facilities, advantages, and attractions of the cities and counties, the educational, historic,
recreational, and scenic places of interest within the cities and counties, and the air, water,
and highway transportation facilities. (5) Contract with...
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9-10-5
Section 9-10-5 Powers and duties generally. The corporation organized and established under
this article shall have the following powers, subject only to the limitations described hereinafter:
(1) To adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (2)
To adopt, use and alter a corporate seal which shall be judicially noticed; (3) To maintain
a principal office at a place named in its papers of incorporation and a suboffice or suboffices
at such places as it may deem necessary; (4) To enter into such contracts and cooperative
agreements with federal, state and local governments, with agencies of such governments, with
private individuals, corporations and associations and other organizations to do any act necessary
or incidental to the performance of its duties and execution of its powers under this article;
(5) To sue and be sued in its own name; (6) To enter into agreements with the United States
government or its agencies or political subdivisions...
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11-89-7
Section 11-89-7 Powers of district generally; power of district to acquire, operate, etc.,
systems, etc., outside service area; provisions in schedules of rates and charges generally.
(a) The 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 perpetuity, subject to the provisions of Section
11-89-17) 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 chapter, 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...
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45-17-91.23
Section 45-17-91.23 Creation of Shoals Economic Development Fund; purposes for which moneys
in such fund may be expended. (a) There is created the Shoals Economic Development Fund, which
shall be a special or trust fund or account of the committee, and which shall be administered
in accordance with this subpart. (b)(1) The authority may, at any time and from time to time,
request that the committee authorize and approve the expenditure or appropriation of moneys
on deposit in the Shoals Economic Development Fund, but solely for purposes authorized in
subsection (c). Any such request may specify that such moneys shall be expended by, or appropriated
directly or indirectly to, any of the following: a. The authority itself. b. Either of the
counties, or any city or town located, in whole or in part, in either of the counties. c.
Any public corporation that has been organized with the approval or consent of any one or
more of the counties, the municipalities, or any other city or town in...
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9-16-127
Section 9-16-127 Acquisition and disposition of lands. (a) The director, with the approval
of the Secretary of Interior, may acquire title in the name of the state to any land or interest
therein by purchase, donation, or condemnation if such land or interest is adversely affected
by past coal mining practices and upon a determination that acquisition of such land is necessary
to successful reclamation and that: (1) The acquired land after restoration, reclamation,
abatement, control or prevention of the adverse effects of past coal mining practices will
serve recreation and historical purposes, conservation and reclamation purposes or provide
open space benefits; and (2) Permanent facilities such as a treatment plant or a relocated
stream channel will be constructed on the land for restoration, reclamation, abatement, control
or prevention of the adverse effects of past coal mining practices; or (3) Acquisition of
coal refuse disposal sites and all coal refuse thereon will serve the...
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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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