45-37A-350
Section 45-37A-350 Civil action by municipality regarding condition of real property. In the City of Mountain Brook in Jefferson County, whenever by reason of the dilapidated, deteriorated, unsafe, or unhealthful condition of real property or any improvements situated thereupon, the municipality files a civil action in any court of the state to compel the owner or occupant of real property to bring the property or improvements into compliance with any statute, ordinance, or regulation establishing, governing, or regulating public health, sanitation, safety, welfare, or minimum standards of human habitability, or to abate or eliminate a public nuisance created by the conditions, the city, if it prevails in the civil action, may recover as a part of its costs in the action its actual and reasonable attorney's fees and litigation expenses incurred in connection therewith upon a showing by the city that the city afforded the defendant a reasonable opportunity to voluntarily correct or cure...
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37-6-3
Section 37-6-3 Enumerated powers. A cooperative shall have the power: (1) To sue and be sued in its corporate name. (2) To adopt a corporate seal and alter the same at its pleasure. (3) To generate, manufacture, purchase, acquire and transmit electric energy and to distribute, sell, supply and dispose of electric energy to its members, to governmental agencies and political subdivisions and to other persons; provided, however, that should a cooperative acquire any electric facilities dedicated or devoted to the public use, it may continue to serve the persons served directly from such facilities at the time of such acquisition without requiring that such persons become members, and, provided further, that such nonmembers shall have the right to become members upon nondiscriminatory terms. Cooperatives may not condition membership or provision of service on compliance by the member with requirements not directly related to the electric or other service to be provided by the cooperative....
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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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11-40-65
Section 11-40-65 Filing petition for foreclosure; form of petition; notice. (a) After a municipal code lien has been recorded with the office of the probate judge of the county in which the real property lies, the Class 2 municipality may identify those properties on which to commence a judicial in rem foreclosure in accordance with this article, except that those properties the Class 2 municipality identifies as owner occupied shall not be subject to judicial in rem foreclosure under this article. The Class 2 municipality shall not file a petition for judicial in rem foreclosure in accordance with this article for a period of six months following the date upon which the municipal code lien is recorded in the office of the probate judge. A petition for judicial in rem foreclosure may include any other municipal code lien that has been filed prior to the date the petition is filed. After enforcement proceedings have commenced in accordance with this article, the enforcement proceedings...
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11-53B-9
Section 11-53B-9 Sale of property upon default. (a) Any property owner, notwithstanding his or her default, may pay the assessment lien with interest and all costs if tendered before a sale of the property. (b) The cost of any notice and sale resulting from a default on paying an assessment shall constitute a charge against the property to be sold and shall be retained out of the proceeds of the sale. (c) The officer making the sale shall execute a deed to the purchaser, which shall convey all the rights, title, and interest which the party against whose property the assessment was made had or held in the property at the date of making the assessment or on the date of making the sale. Any surplus arising from the sale shall be paid to the city or municipal treasurer to be kept as a separate fund by the treasurer for the owner upon the responsibility of his or her official bond. The municipality may, by its agents, purchase real estate sold as provided under this chapter and, in the...
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33-15-6
Section 33-15-6 Powers, duties and functions generally. The general powers, duties and functions of the authority shall be as follows: (1) GENERAL. The authority: a. Shall have perpetual succession in its corporate name; b. May bring civil actions and have civil actions brought against it in its corporate name; c. May adopt, use, and alter a corporate seal, which shall be judicially noticed; d. May enter into such contracts and cooperative agreements with federal, state and local governments, with agencies of such governments and with private individuals, corporations, associations and other organizations, including the Bear Creek Watershed Association, Inc., whether organized under the laws of Alabama or of another state, as the board may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purposes of this article, which authorization shall include without limitation contracts and cooperative arrangements with any of the several states and with counties and municipalities in...
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11-51-20
Section 11-51-20 Sales of property for payment of taxes, etc., generally - Grounds for invalidity of sale; procedure when proceedings for sale not sufficient to pass title to property. The sale of property for taxes or assessments shall not be invalid on account of the manner of assessment for any other reason than that the taxes or assessments thereon have been paid; but, if for any reason, the proceedings in the circuit court shall not be sufficient to pass the title, the lien of the city or town for taxes or assessments shall pass to the purchaser and may be enforced by him in a civil action or may be collected by the municipality in any other civil action against the same property, and, if collected, said sum shall be paid over to such purchaser. (Code 1907, §1326; Code 1923, §2141; Code 1940, T. 37, §687.)...
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45-8-172.06
Section 45-8-172.06 Accounting of cost for abatement of nuisance; report; civil action to abate or enjoin nuisance. (a) The city or county governing body shall keep an account of the cost of abating the nuisance and render an itemized report in writing showing the cost of removing the nuisance on each separate lot, or in front thereof, or both. Before the report is submitted, a copy shall be mailed to the owner or owners of the property at least three days before the report shall be submitted. (b) In addition to the other provisions of this part, outside of the corporate limits of a municipality, this part may be enforced by the county commission by the commencement of a civil action to abate or enjoin any public nuisance as defined by this part. Prior to commencing a civil action to enforce this part, the county commission shall give reasonable notice to the owner of the land to abate any alleged nuisance and the owner of the land may request a reasonable time to abate or have abated...
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45-37A-56.29
Section 45-37A-56.29 Powers of the 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, which may be in perpetuity, specified in its certificate of incorporation. (2) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions. (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, take, and hold, whether by purchase, gift, lease, devise, eminent domain, or otherwise, property of every description, whether real, personal, or mixed, and to manage the property, and to develop any undeveloped property owned, leased, or controlled by it, provided, however, that no such authority shall acquire or lease real property located outside the boundaries of the city. (6) To...
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11-99-2
Section 11-99-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) BLIGHTED OR ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA: a. An area in which the structures, buildings, or improvements, by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age, or obsolescence, inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces, high density of population and overcrowding, or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors, are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, or crime, and are detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare, or b. Any area which by reason of the presence of a substantial number of substandard, slum, deteriorated, or deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of site or other improvements,...
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