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9-9-53
Section 9-9-53 Joint works of improvement with adjoining states. Whenever it may be desirable
to construct, widen, deepen, straighten or otherwise change any ditch, drain, watercourse,
floodwater retarding structure, levee or other works of improvement lying on or along, across
or near the boundary line between the State of Alabama and an adjoining state or whenever
it may be desirable to construct, repair or improve any works of improvement as provided for
in this article, which ditch, drain, watercourse, floodwater retarding structure or other
works of improvement cannot be constructed, repaired or improved in the best manner without
affecting lands in such adjoining state, the board of water management commissioners of the
district in which such work is located shall have authority to join with the proper officers
of such adjacent county or counties or districts of other states in the construction, widening,
deepening, straightening, repairing or improving of any such drain, ditch,...
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9-9-5
Section 9-9-5 Establishment of district - Jurisdiction generally; purposes. (a) The court of
probate of any county of the State of Alabama shall have jurisdiction, power and authority
to establish water management districts, as provided in this article for the following purposes:
(1) To locate and establish levees, drains or canals and to cause to be constructed, straightened,
widened or deepened any ditch, drain or watercourse; (2) To construct for the purposes of
flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization or disposal of water works
of improvement, including levees, embankments, floodwater retarding structures, water storage
structures, outlets and tide gates, flood gates and pumping plants for preventing floods,
providing drainage, reducing sediment and reclaiming wet, swamp or overflowed lands and other
related works of improvement that will carry out the purposes of this article; and (3) To
provide maintenance for such installations. (b) It is hereby declared...
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9-9-48
Section 9-9-48 Control and supervision of completed improvements; annual tax for repairs and
maintenance; payment of costs of repairs and maintenance; injury, damage or obstruction of
improvements. Whenever any improvement constructed under this article is completed, it shall
be under the control and supervision of the board of water management commissioners. It shall
be the duty of said board to maintain the levees, ditches, drains, watercourses, floodwater
retarding structures and any other improvements in good repair, and for this purpose the board
of water management commissioners may annually levy a tax on the lands benefited by the construction
of such improvement in the same manner as other water management taxes are levied, not to
exceed 10 percent of the assessed benefits in any one year, and the fund that is collected
shall be used for repairing and maintaining the ditches, drains, watercourses, floodwater
retarding structures and other improvements in perfect order;...
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9-6-8
Section 9-6-8 Powers and duties generally. 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 maintain civil actions and have civil
actions maintained against it in its corporate name, 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 amend its certificate of incorporation by filing
in the office of the Secretary of State a certificate signed by all of the directors of the
authority setting forth the details of the amendment, such certificate to be acknowledged
in the same manner as the certificate of incorporation; (5) To adopt and alter bylaws for
the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (6) To...
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23-1-40
Section 23-1-40 Duties and powers generally. (a) It shall be the duty of the Department of
Transportation to designate the roads to be constructed, repaired, and maintained and to construct,
standardize, repair, and maintain roads and bridges of this state; and it shall have authority
to make contracts or agreements to construct or pave the roadway only of the street or streets
which will serve to connect the state highway constructed or repaired by the department within
any municipality in the State of Alabama. (b) In such municipalities in which the Department
of Transportation has not designated the street or streets which are a part of the state highways
constructed or repaired by the department, it shall be the duty of the department to designate
such street or streets. The department may also cooperate or contract with any municipality
or county in the paving or improving of any street or streets, highway or highways, or walkway
or walkways upon which a state educational or...
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9-9-15
Section 9-9-15 Board of water management commissioners - Powers and duties generally. The board
of water management commissioners shall have the right and authority to enter into contracts
or other agreements with the United States government or any department thereof, with persons,
with railroads or other corporations, with public corporations, with the state government
of this or other states and with drainage, conservation or other improvement districts in
this or other states for cooperating or assisting in constructing, maintaining, using or operating
the works of the district or for making surveys and investigations or reports thereon and
may purchase, lease or acquire land or other property in adjoining states in order to secure
outlets or for other purposes of this article, and may let contracts for securing such outlets
or other works in adjoining states as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
article. The board shall have the authority to borrow funds from...
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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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37-7-1
Section 37-7-1 Definitions. The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this chapter,
shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(1) CORPORATION. A corporation formed under this chapter. (2) MUNICIPALITY. Any county, city
or town of this state. (3) PERSON or INHABITANT. Such term includes natural persons, firms,
associations, corporations, business trusts, partnerships and bodies politic. (4) ENERGY.
Such term includes any and all electric energy no matter how generated or produced. (5) SYSTEM.
Such term includes any plant, works, system, facilities or properties, together with all parts
thereof and appurtenances thereto, used or useful in the generation, production, transmission
or distribution of energy. (6) BONDS. Such term includes negotiable bonds, interim certificates
or receipts, notes, debentures and all other evidences of indebtedness either issued or the
payment thereof assumed by a corporation. (7) LAW. Any act or...
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27-60-2
Section 27-60-2 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact. The State of Alabama hereby
agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation
Compact: ARTICLE I. PURPOSES. The purposes of this compact are, through means of joint and
cooperative action among the compacting states: 1. To promote and protect the interest of
consumers of individual and group annuity, life insurance, disability income, and long-term
care insurance products; 2. To develop uniform standards for insurance products covered under
the compact; 3. To establish a central clearinghouse to receive and provide prompt review
of insurance products covered under the compact and, in certain cases, advertisements related
thereto, submitted by insurers authorized to do business in one or more compacting states;
4. To give appropriate regulatory approval to those product filings and advertisements satisfying
the applicable uniform standard; 5. To improve coordination of...
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11-50A-8
Section 11-50A-8 Powers of the authority. In addition to other powers granted the authority
by this chapter, it shall have all powers consistent with the purposes of the authority as
set forth in Section 11-50A-3, which are necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate
the purposes and provisions of this chapter, including, but without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the following enumerated powers, which shall be exercised by the authority
consistently with the provisions of Section 11-50A-3: (1) To sue and be sued and to prosecute
and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties thereto;
(2) To adopt and alter a corporate seal; (3) To make and alter at pleasure all needful bylaws,
rules, and regulations for the transaction of its business and the control of its property
and affairs; (4) To have the same right of eminent domain through condemnation conferred by
Section 10-5-1, or any subsequent statute of similar import; provided...
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