Ala. Code § 2-8-137 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-137
Section 2-8-137 Annual Statements by Treasurer of Organization; Bond of Treasurer
Status: in_force

If assessments are levied and collected as provided in this article, the treasurer of the organization shall, within 30 days after the end of any calendar year in which such assessments are collected, publish through the medium of the press of the state a statement of the amount or amounts so received by him under the provisions of this article. Before receiving such assessments, such treasurer shall give a bond in the amount of not less than the estimated total of such assessments as will be collected, such bond to have as surety thereon a surety company licensed to do business in the State of Alabama, and to be in the form and amount approved by the organization conducting such referendum and to be filed with the chairman or executive head of such organization.
Ala. Code § 2-15-234 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-234
Section 2-15-234 Appropriation and Expenditure of Funds by Counties for Hog Cholera Eradication Programs; Employment of Inspectors, Etc
Status: in_force

County commissions of the several counties of the State of Alabama, when such bodies desire to conduct a hog cholera eradication program, are hereby authorized to appropriate and expend county funds in such sums as they deem necessary for enforcing the provisions of this subdivision and rules and regulations promulgated under this subdivision.

Such counties may employ inspectors and other necessary employees to enforce the provisions of this subdivision. Inspectors so employed by any county of the State of Alabama shall be approved by the State Veterinarian and shall work under the direction and supervision of the State Veterinarian.
Ala. Code § 2-5A-7 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 5A / Section 2-5A-7
Section 2-5A-7 Sale of Articles Unfit for Food to Be Prohibited
Status: in_force

Whenever any farm products are found on any market in this state in such condition that they are unfit for food, it shall be the duty of the commissioner or his or her duly authorized agent to forbid the same from being sold in this state, the same as is now done with other food and feeds.
Ala. Code § 11-69-1 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 69 / Section 11-69-1
Section 11-69-1 Adoption and Implementation of Plan
Status: in_force

(a) Any Class 7 or 8 municipality in this state may adopt a rural scenic right-of-way plan for the development, improvement, and use of right-of-way along municipal roads and streets and county roads within the corporate limits and police jurisdiction of the municipality except right-of-way, highways, streets, or roads that are under exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction of the Alabama Department of Transportation. Pursuant to the plan, the municipality may designate right-of-way adjacent to a municipal road or street or a county road to be developed, improved, and used for recreational or beautification purposes. Any portion of a road designated shall continue for at least three miles in length and may not at the time of designation have an average density of two or more commercial enterprises that have an entrance or exit on the road per mile. The path of the right-of-way along a street or road included in the plan may cross another street, road, or state highway. The establishment of a rural scenic right-of-way plan and the inclusion of any right-of-way of a county road shall be subject to approval of the county commission where any road included in the plan is located. In addition, any development and improvement within the rights-of-way along any county road shall be approved by the county commission. Any municipality establishing a rural scenic right-of-way plan shall be solely responsible for the development, maintenance, and use of the right-of-way included in the plan. The county shall not be responsible for the development, maintenance, access, or use of any right-of-way included in the plan, and shall not be liable for any damages to property or persons utilizing the right-of-way. A county may contribute financially to the implementation and development of the plan. No municipality or county shall be liable for any damages to any person using any right-of-way that is a part of the plan.

(b) Nothing in this section shall in any way limit, restrict, or otherwise impact the ability of any electric supplier to maintain, repair, expand, construct, reconstruct, or relocate any facility or equipment used in the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric power or any communication service provider to maintain, repair, expand, construct, reconstruct, or relocate facilities or equipment for telecommunications, commercial mobile radio services, broadband services, or other wireless services within the public rights-of-way along, adjacent to, or surrounding any road, street, or highway included within this section; nor shall the placement of any such facilities or equipment be subject to approval by a county commission. No electric supplier or communication services provider shall be subject to increased liability resulting from the adoption by any county or municipality of a rural scenic right-of-way plan.
Ala. Code § 11-42-77 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 42 / Section 11-42-77
Section 11-42-77 Construction of Improvements or Betterments in Territory Exempt from Taxation Generally
Status: in_force

The council or governing body of the city shall have no authority or power to construct or cause to be constructed any improvements or betterments in territory which is exempt from taxation under the provisions of this article, the cost of which or any part of which is assessable against the abutting property, except as provided in this article.
Ala. Code § 11-60-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 60 / Section 11-60-4
Section 11-60-4 Certificate of Incorporation - Contents; Execution and Acknowledgment
Status: in_force

(a) The certificate of incorporation of any corporation organized under this chapter shall set forth:

(1) The names and residences of the applicants, together with a recital that each of them is an elector of and taxpayer in the municipality;

(2) The name of the corporation which shall be the Public Park and Recreation Board of the _____ of _____ (the blank spaces to be filled in with the name of the municipality, including the proper designation thereof as a city or town), if such name shall be available for use by the corporation and, if not available, then the incorporators shall designate some other similar name that is available;

(3) A recital that permission to organize the corporation has been granted by a resolution duly adopted by the governing body of the municipality and the date of the adoption of such resolution;

(4) The location of the principal office of the corporation (which shall be in the municipality);

(5) The purposes for which the corporation is proposed to be organized, which purposes shall be those set forth in the application for authority to incorporate;

(6) The number of directors of the corporation;

(7) The period for the duration of the corporation (if the duration is perpetual, the fact should be stated); and

(8) Any other matter which the applicants may choose to insert therein which shall not be inconsistent with this chapter or with the laws of the State of Alabama.

(b) The certificate of incorporation shall be subscribed and acknowledged by each of the applicants before an officer authorized by the laws of Alabama to take acknowledgments to deeds.
Ala. Code § 22-50-41 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 22-50-41
Section 22-50-41 Personnel Policies - Inclusion or Continuation of Positions Under Merit System
Status: in_force

Personnel policies may be established so as to include under the State Merit System certain positions in the Department of Mental Health and so as to exclude other positions; however, employees of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and positions in such department which were under a Merit System on September 30, 1965, or which are placed under a Merit System by law after October 29, 1965, shall continue under such Merit System unless any such position is abolished by the Alabama Department of Mental Health.
Ala. Code § 11-44E-97 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44E / Section 11-44E-97
Section 11-44E-97 Eligibility and Participation in City Retirement and Insurance Plans
Status: in_force

The city manager shall be eligible and may participate in the retirement system and the group insurance plan of the city.
Ala. Code § 11-67B-7 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 67B / Section 11-67B-7
Section 11-67B-7 Liability
Status: in_force

The municipality and no official or employee of the municipality shall be liable for action taken in good faith pursuant to or in furtherance of the objectives of this chapter.
Ala. Code § 2-15-86 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-86
Section 2-15-86 Construction of Division
Status: in_force

The provisions of this division shall not be construed to repeal any other laws or parts of laws unless such laws or parts of laws are in direct conflict with the provisions of this division as it is intended that the provisions of this division are cumulative or supplemental to other requirements imposed by law upon livestock markets and livestock dealers.
Ala. Code § 2-15-119 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-119
Section 2-15-119 Creation of Public Livestock Board; Membership and Duties of Board; Chairman; Ex Officio Members
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2017-226, §2, effective August 1, 2017.
Ala. Code § 11-42-151 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 42 / Section 11-42-151
Section 11-42-151 Councils to Define Boundaries of Territory to Be Incorporated in Consolidated Municipality Upon Receipt of Petition Requesting Election as to Consolidation
Status: in_force

When 10 percent in numbers of the qualified voters according to the last municipal election of each of the municipalities to be consolidated shall sign a petition addressed to their respective municipal councils, requesting that an election be held to determine whether the three municipalities be consolidated, said councils of the municipalities between which outside territory to be incorporated in the consolidated municipality lies shall define the boundaries of such territory.
Ala. Code § 22-53-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 53 / Section 22-53-4
Section 22-53-4 Monthly Bill; Changes; Judgments
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 98-322, §1, effective April 16, 1998.
Ala. Code § 11-46-129 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 46 / Section 11-46-129
Section 11-46-129 Absentee Ballots - Marking, Posting, Etc., of Lists of Applicants for Absentee Ballots
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2016-295, §1(a), effective May 10, 2016.
Ala. Code § 11-50A-5 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50A / Section 11-50A-5
Section 11-50A-5 Issuance and Recording of Certificate of Incorporation; No Fees to Be Paid
Status: in_force

When the application has been made, filed, and recorded as herein provided, the applicants shall constitute a public corporation under the name proposed in the application, and the Secretary of State shall make and issue to the applicants a certificate of incorporation pursuant to this chapter, under the Great Seal of the State, and shall record the certificate with the application. There shall be no fees paid to the Secretary of State for any work done in connection with the incorporation of the authority.
Ala. Code § 11-50-506 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-506
Section 11-50-506 Effect of Chapter on Existing Laws, Etc
Status: in_force

The authority granted municipalities under the provisions of this chapter shall not be construed so as to repeal, restrict, modify, or otherwise limit any authority now conferred on any municipality by any existing general, local, or special law or to affect any such board created or existing by virtue of a local act.
Ala. Code § 11-47-73 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-73
Section 11-47-73 Payment of Expenses of Abandonment and Removal by Corporations, Etc.; Disposition of Funds of Corporation, Etc., Remaining Thereafter
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever any cemetery corporation or association shall have resolved upon the abandonment of any cemetery or part thereof and the removal of the human remains therefrom under the provisions of this division, such cemetery corporation or association shall have power to employ any moneys in its treasury to defray the expense of such abandonment and removal, including the expense of purchasing or otherwise providing a suitable place for the interment or depositing of such remains in any other cemetery, mausoleum, or columbarium in this state, including the expenses of disinterment, transportation, and reinterment or the depositing of such remains in such mausoleum or columbarium, the expenses of the removal and disposal of such vaults, monuments, headstones, coping, or other improvements which may remain after the human bodies are removed from any such cemetery or part thereof, all necessary expenses incident to the sale or mortgaging of any of said lands, all other expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out such abandonment of such cemetery lands and the removal and reinterment or disposing of the bodies so removed and all other expenses incident to any of the above purposes.

(b) Any moneys remaining in the treasury of such cemetery association or corporation after making the removal and reinterment of the bodies from such cemetery lands shall be retained and used as a fund for the perpetual maintenance and care of the cemetery lands wherein such bodies so removed have been interred or for the maintenance and care of any memorial mausoleum or columbarium in which said human remains have been deposited or such fund may be used for such other purposes as such cemetery corporation or association may lawfully declare.
Ala. Code § 2-22-20 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 2-22-20
Section 2-22-20 Rules and Regulations
Status: in_force

For the administration and enforcement of this chapter, the board is authorized to adopt and promulgate reasonable rules and regulations relating to the sale and distribution of commercial fertilizers necessary to carry out the full intent and meaning of this chapter, including, but not limited to, fixing tolerances for plant food deficiency penalty assessments pursuant to Section 2-22-12, providing for the incorporation into commercial fertilizer of such other substances as pesticides and the proper labeling of such mixture, establish a fee together with such other rules and regulations reasonably necessary to implement, make specific, and interpret the provisions of this chapter. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter and specifically the provisions of subdivision (5) of Section 2-22-2 relating to guaranteed analysis, the commissioner with the approval of the board shall be authorized to require by rules and regulations that the guaranteed analysis of phosphorus and potassium for labeling purposes shall be expressed in the elemental form, but until such rules and regulations are duly promulgated and adopted, the guaranteed analysis shall not be required to be expressed in the elemental form.
Ala. Code § 2-8-272 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-272
Section 2-8-272 Referendum and Assessments Declared to Be in Public Interest
Status: in_force

It is hereby further declared to be in the public interest and highly advantageous to the economy of the state that catfish producers be permitted by referendum as provided in this article to levy upon themselves an assessment and to provide for the collection thereof for the financing or contributing toward the financing of a program of research, education, advertising and other methods designed to increase or promote the efficient and economical production, distribution and marketing as well as the increased use, consumption and sale of catfish and catfish products.
Ala. Code § 2-15-113 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-113
Section 2-15-113 Use of Sticks, Whips, Chains, Etc., in Livestock Markets; Promulgation of Rules and Regulations by Commissioner as to Treatment of Livestock in Markets; Inspections of Markets for Enforcement of Section
Status: in_force

In addition to the authority granted to the Commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Industries pursuant to Division 1 of Article 4 of this chapter, the said commissioner, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, shall be authorized to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations for the humane treatment of animals held in livestock markets and while being sold or offered for sale in such markets, including the number, kind and size of animals that may be held in pens or areas of stipulated dimensions, regulations for the feeding and care of such animals and for the maintenance of sanitary conditions of the premises.

Sticks, canes or whips shall not be used in such a manner so as to injure an animal. The use of chains, spikes, clubs or other injurious devices are hereby prohibited except under extreme circumstances where it is necessary to prevent injury to persons or other animals; and flappers, other noisemaking devices, electric prods of not more than six volts in strength and other contrivances which have been found to be equally effective shall be used wherever possible for such purposes.

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall provide for the regular inspection of such livestock markets for the purpose of enforcing the requirements of this section.
Ala. Code § 2-33-3 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 33 / Section 2-33-3
Section 2-33-3 Written Notice Requirements
Status: in_force

(a) A nonprofit agricultural organization that offers health benefits shall provide to an individual applying for health benefits written notice that the benefits are not provided through an insurance policy or other product the offering or issuance of which is regulated as the business of insurance in this state.

(b) An individual shall be required to sign and return to the nonprofit agricultural organization the notice described in subsection (a) before the individual may enroll in health benefits. The nonprofit agricultural organization shall do both of the following:

(1) Maintain a copy of the signed written notice for the duration of the term during which the health benefits are provided to the individual.

(2) At the request of the individual, provide a copy of the written notice to the individual.
Ala. Code § 2-19-100 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 2-19-100
Section 2-19-100 Definitions
Status: in_force

When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries.

(2) COTTON PRODUCER. A person who grows cotton.

(3) COTTON BUYER. A person who buys cotton from a producer on a forward contract.

(4) PERSON. An individual, association, partnership, corporation or other private entity.
Ala. Code § 11-46-71 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 46 / Section 11-46-71
Section 11-46-71 Annulment of Elections
Status: in_force

No misconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of the election officers, the marker, the municipal governing body, or any other person, nor any offers to bribe, bribery, intimidation, or other misconduct which prevented a fair, free, and full exercise of the elective franchise can annul or set aside any municipal election unless the person declared elected and whose election is contested shall be shown not to have received the requisite number of legal votes for election to the office for which he was a candidate thereby, nor must any election contested under the provisions of this article be annulled or set aside because of illegal votes given to the person whose election is contested unless it appears that the number of illegal votes given to such person, if taken from him, would reduce the number of votes given to him below the requisite number of votes for election. No election shall be annulled or set aside because of the rejection of legal votes unless it appears that such legal votes, if given to the person intended, would increase the number of his legal votes to or above the requisite number of votes for election.
Ala. Code § 11-60-14 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 60 / Section 11-60-14
Section 11-60-14 Disposition of Net Earnings of Corporations
Status: in_force

The corporation shall be a nonprofit corporation, and no part of its net earnings remaining after payment of its expenses shall inure to the benefit of any individual, firm, or corporation; except, that in the event the board of directors of the corporation shall determine that sufficient provision has been made for the full payment of expenses, bonds, and other obligations of the corporation, then any net earnings of the corporation thereafter accruing shall, at the option of the board of directors, be used to pay the cost of extensions and improvements to any of its projects or paid to the municipality with respect to which the corporation was organized.
Ala. Code § 11-46-58 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 46 / Section 11-46-58
Section 11-46-58 Absentee Ballots - Marking, Posting, Etc., of Lists of Applicants
Status: in_force

The town clerk, city clerk, or other officer performing the duties of the clerk, as the case may be, in municipal elections held under the provisions of this article, shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 11 of Title 17 with respect to marking, enrolling, posting, and delivering of lists showing the names and addresses of applicants for an absentee ballot.
Ala. Code § 11-62-8 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 62 / Section 11-62-8
Section 11-62-8 Bonds and Notes Generally - Form, Terms, Denominations, Etc.; Execution, Sale, Delivery, Redemption, Etc.; Security for Payment of Principal or Interest; Remedies Upon Default; Liability of Municipalities, Board, Etc., Thereupon
Status: reserved

(a) Any authority shall have power to issue from time to time its bonds and notes in such principal amount as its board shall determine to be necessary to provide sufficient funds for achieving any of its corporate purposes, including the payment of interest on any of its notes and bonds, the establishment of reserves to secure any such notes and bonds and all other expenditures of such authority incident to and necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate purposes and powers. Any authority shall also have the power to issue from time to time notes to renew notes and bonds to pay notes, including interest thereon and, whenever it deems refunding expedient, to refund any bonds by the issuance of new bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and to issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other of its corporate purposes.

(b) If deemed advisable by the board of any authority, there may be retained in the resolution adopted by such board authorizing the issuance of any bonds or notes an option to redeem all or any part thereof as specified in such resolution at such price or prices and after such notice or notices and on such terms and in such manner as may be provided in such resolution and as may be recited in summary form on the face of the bonds or notes; provided, that any bond of any authority having a specified maturity more than 15 years after its date shall be made subject to redemption at the option of such authority at the expiration of 15 years from its date and on any interest payment date thereafter at such price or prices and after such notice or notices and on such terms and in such manner as may be provided in the resolution adopted by the board of such authority authorizing the issuance of such bond. Any authority may pay all expenses, premiums and commissions which its board may deem necessary and advantageous in connection with the issuance of any of its bonds or notes. Issuance by any authority of one or more series of bonds for one or more purposes shall not preclude it from issuing other bonds, but the resolutions whereunder any subsequent bonds may be issued shall recognize and protect any prior pledge or mortgage made for the benefit of any prior issue of bonds, unless in the proceedings authorizing such prior issue the right was reserved to issue subsequent bonds on a parity with such prior issue.

(c) Notes or bonds issued by any authority may, as its board may deem advisable, be either general obligations of such authority or limited obligations payable only out of certain specified revenues or assets of such authority; provided, that any authority may enter into contracts with the holders of any of its bonds or notes preventing such authority from thereafter issuing general obligation bonds or notes or limiting the amount of such bonds or notes that may thereafter be issued. To the extent permitted by any contracts with the holders of outstanding bonds and notes and any other contractual obligations or requirements, any authority may pledge any of its revenues or mortgage or assign any of its assets, whether real or personal and whether tangible or intangible, to secure the payment of any of its bonds or notes.

(d) All obligations created or assumed by any authority and all bonds or notes issued thereby shall be solely and exclusively an obligation of such authority and shall not create an obligation or debt of the state, the determining municipality or any other political subdivision of the state or public corporation or governmental agency existing under the laws thereof; provided, that the provisions of this sentence shall not be construed to release the original obligor from liability on any bond or other obligation assumed by any authority.

(e) The notes and bonds issued by any authority shall be authorized by resolution or resolutions adopted by its board, shall bear such date or dates and shall mature at such time or times as such resolution or resolutions may provide, except that no bond shall mature more than 45 years from the date of its issue. The bonds of any authority may be issued as serial bonds payable in annual installments or as term bonds or as a combination thereof. The notes and bonds of any authority shall bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such form and denominations, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed by such officers of such authority and in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places within or without the state and be subject to such terms of redemption as may be provided in the resolution or resolutions by which they are authorized to be issued. The notes and bonds of any authority may be sold by such authority at public or private sale at such price or prices as such authority shall determine.

(f) Any resolution or resolutions authorizing bonds or notes of any authority may contain provisions, which shall constitute a part of the contract or contracts with the holders of such bonds or notes, pertaining to, among other things, the following matters:

(1) Pledging all or any part of the revenues of such authority to secure the payment of such bonds or notes, subject to contracts with the holders of its then outstanding bonds and notes;

(2) Pledging, assigning or mortgaging all or any part of the assets of such authority to secure the payment of such bonds or notes, subject to contracts with the holders of its then outstanding bonds and notes;

(3) Setting aside of reserves, sinking funds or other funds and the regulation and disposition thereof;

(4) Limitations on the purpose to which the proceeds of sale of such notes or bonds may be applied and pledging such proceeds to secure the payment of such bonds or notes;

(5) Limitations on the issuance of additional bonds or notes, the terms upon which additional bonds or notes may be issued and secured and the refunding of outstanding bonds or notes;

(6) Procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with the holders of such bonds or notes may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds or notes the holders of which must consent thereto and the manner in which such consent may be given;

(7) Limitations on the amount of moneys to be expended by such authority for its operating expenses;

(8) Vesting in a trustee or trustees such property, rights, powers and duties as such authority may determine;

(9) Defining the acts or omissions to act that shall constitute a default in the performance of the obligations and duties of such authority to the holders of such bonds or notes and providing for the rights and remedies of such holders in the event of such default; provided, however, that such rights and remedies shall not be inconsistent with the general laws of the state and the other provisions of this chapter; and

(10) Any other matters of like or different character which in any way affect the security or protection of the holders of such bonds or notes.

(g) Any mortgage of property granted by any authority, any security interest in property created by it or any assignment or pledge of revenues or contract rights made by it, in each case to secure the payment of its bonds or notes, shall be valid and binding from the time when such mortgage is granted, such security interest created or such assignment or pledge is made, as the case may be, and the property so mortgaged, the property with respect to which such security interest is so created and the revenues and contract rights so assigned or pledged shall immediately, or as soon thereafter as such authority obtains any right thereto or interest therein, be subject to such mortgage, security interest, assignment or pledge, as the case may be, without physical delivery of any property, revenues or contract documents covered thereby or any further act, and the lien of any such mortgage, security interest, assignment or pledge shall be valid and binding as against all persons having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against such authority, irrespective of whether such persons have actual notice thereof, from the time notice of such mortgage, security interest, assignment or pledge is filed for record in the office of the judge of probate in which the certificate of incorporation of such authority was filed for record and, in the case of any mortgage or security interest covering any tangible property, whether real, personal or mixed, in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which such property is or is to be located pursuant to any agreement made by such authority with any user respecting the location and use of such property. Such notice shall contain a statement of the existence of any such mortgage, security interest, assignment or pledge, as the case may be, a description of the property, revenues or contract rights subject thereto and a description of the bonds or notes secured thereby, all in terms sufficient to give notice to a reasonably prudent person of the existence and effect of any such mortgage, security interest, assignment or pledge. If the requirements of the preceding sentence are met, such notice may consist of a summary statement prepared specially for the purpose of serving as such notice, an executed counterpart of any mortgage, security agreement, assignment, trust indenture or other instrument granting such mortgage, creating such security interest or making such assignment or pledge, as the case may be, or a certified copy of the resolution adopted by the board of such authority authorizing such mortgage, security interest, assignment or pledge, as the case may be.

(h) Any authority shall have power, subject to contracts with the holders of its then outstanding bonds and notes, to purchase for retirement and cancellation any of its bonds or notes and to use any of its available funds for such purpose, provided that, if such bonds or notes are then redeemable, the purchase price thereof shall not exceed the redemption price then applicable, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of purchase, and, if such bonds or notes are not then redeemable, the purchase price thereof shall not exceed the redemption price applicable on the earliest date after such purchase upon which such bonds or notes become subject to redemption, plus accrued interest thereon to the date of purchase.

(i) The bonds or notes of any authority may, at the discretion of such authority, be issued under and secured by a trust indenture or trust indentures by and between such authority and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the power of a trust company within or without the state. Any such trust indenture may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of bondholders or noteholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of such authority in relation to the exercise of its corporate powers and the custody, safeguarding and application of all moneys. Such authority may provide by any such trust indenture for the payment to the trustee thereunder or other depository of the proceeds of any bonds or notes issued thereunder and any revenues pledged for the security of such proceeds and revenues, with such safeguards and restrictions as it may determine. All expenses incurred in connection with such trust indenture may be treated as part of the operating expenses of such authority.

(j) Whether or not the notes and bonds of any authority are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under the terms of the Alabama Uniform Commercial Code, such notes and bonds are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of the Alabama Uniform Commercial Code and for all purposes thereof, subject only to any registration provisions of such notes and bonds. In case any of the directors or officers of any authority whose signatures appear on any notes, bonds or coupons appertaining to any bond shall cease to be such directors or officers before the delivery of such notes, bonds or coupons, such signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes to the same extent as if such directors or officers had remained in office until such delivery.

(k) The directors and officers of any authority shall not be subject to any personal liability by reason of the issuance of any bonds or notes of such authority.
Ala. Code § 11-44-162 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44 / Section 11-44-162
Section 11-44-162 Management, Etc., of Municipalities Abandoning Commission Form of Government; Powers, Duties, Etc., of Mayor and Aldermen
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2016-295, §1(a), effective May 10, 2016.
Ala. Code § 11-44E-201 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44E / Section 11-44E-201
Section 11-44E-201 Petition for Change of Form of Government; Election as to Proposed Change; Election of New Officers and Governing Body; Termination of Term of Office of Mayor and Commissioners
Status: in_force

Any proposal to change the form of government shall be initiated by a petition signed by at least the number of qualified voters, equal to four for every 100 inhabitants of the city or fraction thereof according to the last federal census, and then filed with the city clerk. The city commission shall forthwith order an election, at which the legally qualified voters of the city shall vote for or against the proposed change in form of government. The officers and members of the governing body of such newly adopted form of municipal government shall be elected as soon as practicable under the provisions of law applicable thereto; and upon their election and qualification for office the term of office of all members of the commission and mayor under the mayor/commission/city manager form of government shall terminate.
Ala. Code § 11-44-79 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44 / Section 11-44-79
Section 11-44-79 Commissioners - Oath; Bond
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2016-295, §1(a), effective May 10, 2016.
Ala. Code § 2-10-22 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 2-10-22
Section 2-10-22 Duty of Commissioner Upon Receipt of Application for Permit
Status: in_force

Upon receipt of an application by an association for a permit, the commissioner shall ascertain from the best source of information at his command whether the character and general fitness of the persons to have charge and control are such as to command the confidence of the community or communities in which it will operate and are such as to reasonably assure a fair and successful operation of such association.
Ala. Code § 11-43A-41 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 43A / Section 11-43A-41
Section 11-43A-41 Effect of Chapter on Laws Relating to Pension, Retirement, and Relief Funds for Employees
Status: in_force

All laws and parts of laws relating to pension, retirement, and relief funds for any employees of the municipality, as the same may apply and be in effect with respect to any municipality at the time when such municipality shall elect to be governed by the provisions of this article, shall continue in full force and effect, and without interruption or change as to any rights which have been acquired thereunder.
Ala. Code § 2-6-50 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 6 / Section 2-6-50
Section 2-6-50 Definitions
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases, wherever used in this article, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, have the following respective meanings:

(1) COLISEUM. The existing coliseum building located in the Alabama Agricultural Center in the City of Montgomery.

(2) THE CORPORATION. Any public corporation which may be organized pursuant to any law now in force or hereafter enacted for the purpose of acquiring title to and completing the construction and equipment of the coliseum and the necessary facilities in connection therewith.

(3) BOARD. The Agricultural Center Board created by Sections 2-6-1 and 2-6-2.

(4) LEASE AGREEMENT. Any agreement of lease covering all or any part of the properties comprising the Alabama Agricultural Center, including the coliseum and any facilities necessary in connection therewith, which may be made between the board and the corporation pursuant to the provisions of this article.
Ala. Code § 2-15-292 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-292
Section 2-15-292 Counties to Provide and Maintain Required Number of Dipping Vats and Chemicals, Etc., Required Therefor
Status: in_force

The county commission of each county shall provide, build, repair and maintain the necessary number of concrete dipping vats with adequate pens and also provide the necessary chemicals, solutions and all other materials required for making, filling, replenishing and operating the required number of dipping vats. Each county shall furnish all the materials required for keeping the required vats filled with a standard tick-killing arsenical dip having the composition and strength as required by the regulations of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries.
Ala. Code § 11-44C-78 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44C / Section 11-44C-78
Section 11-44C-78 Transfer of Records, Property, and Equipment of Office, Etc., Where Powers and Duties Reassigned
Status: in_force

All records, property, and equipment of any office, department or agency, whose power and duties are assigned to any other office, department, or agency by the provisions of this chapter, shall be transferred and delivered to the office, department, or agency to which such powers and duties are so assigned. If part of the powers and duties of any office, department, or agency are assigned to another office, department, or agency, all records, property and equipment relating exclusively thereto shall be transferred and delivered to the office, department, or agency to which such powers and duties are so assigned.
Ala. Code § 11-50-261 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-261
Section 11-50-261 Additional Powers of Boards as to Gas Plants and Systems
Status: in_force

Without limiting the powers provided for in Section 11-50-260, such waterworks board shall have the power to acquire by purchase, construction, condemnation, or any combination thereof a plant and system for the manufacture and distribution of gas and/or a system for the purchase and distribution of manufactured or natural gas and shall also have the power to receive, acquire, take, and hold, whether by purchase, sale, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, all such real, personal, and mixed property of any nature whatsoever as it may deem necessary or convenient for the purchase, construction, operation, maintenance, enlargement, extension, and improvement of a gas plant and system for the manufacture of gas and the distribution thereof or the purchase and distribution of manufactured or natural gas, whether or not the same shall be in existence and whether or not the same shall be publicly or privately owned, and to operate, maintain, enlarge, extend and improve the same and to do all acts necessary to that end.
Ala. Code § 11-54B-84 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 54B / Section 11-54B-84
Section 11-54B-84 Requirements of a Request for the Creation of a Self-Help Business Improvement District
Status: in_force

A request for the creation of a self-help business improvement district shall contain all of the following:

(1) In the case of a district formed to promote economic growth within the municipality, the signatures of the owners of real property comprising at least 60 percent of the total fair market value of all real property located within the proposed district and the signatures of owners owning at least 50 percent of parcels of real property within the proposed district or, in the case of a district formed to increase tourism, the signatures of the owners or operators of the businesses in a particular class who would pay at least 60 percent of the total amount of the self-help improvement district special assessment to be levied and the signatures of the owners of at least 50 percent of the number of the businesses in a particular class located within the proposed district, in accordance with the following requirements:

a. There shall be no requirement that the real property or the businesses in a particular class located within the area of a district be contiguous, as long as there is an accurate description of the proposed district, whether by lot and block numbers, by street addresses, or by metes and bounds.

b. The county property tax records of the assessor or revenue commissioner shall determine ownership of real property and the fair market value for a district proposed to promote economic development.

c. When record title to real property is vested in a public corporation or authority under a bond financing plan provided for by law, the beneficial user of the real property in which title may ultimately be vested by purchase shall be deemed to be the owner of the real property for a district proposed to promote economic development.

d. In the case of a district formed to increase tourism, the municipality’s records shall determine the ownership of the businesses in a particular class.

(2) Copies of the self-help business improvement district plan, which shall include all of the following:

a. A description of the supplemental services to be provided to the district members with an explanation of how the services promote economic development or increase tourism.

b. A budget outlining the annual cost of the supplemental services described in paragraph a.

c. A description of the method that will be used to determine the amount of the special assessment to be levied on the district members to finance the supplemental services described in paragraph a., including all of the following:

1. A description of how the methodology equitably apportions the burden of the special assessment among the district members.

2. In the case of a district to promote economic growth, a list, by lot and block numbers or by street addresses, of all real properties whose owners will benefit from and pay the special assessment, including all of the following:

(i) A clear presentation of any different classes of real property to be levied at different rates based on the fair market value or land use as reflected in the county tax records of the assessor or revenue commissioner, or based on another methodology.

(ii) Any exemptions from, or reductions to, the special assessment based on the benefit to the district member.

d. The number of years, not to exceed five years, that the special assessment described in paragraph c. shall be levied.

e. Copies of the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the district management corporation designated by the plan to provide the administrative and other services to the district.
Ala. Code § 11-47-231 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-231
Section 11-47-231 Bonds as Legal Investments
Status: in_force

The bonds of an authority shall be legal investments in which the state and its agencies and instrumentalities, all counties, municipalities, and other political subdivisions of the state and public corporations organized under the laws thereof, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, savings banks, savings and loan associations, trust companies, credit unions, and investments companies of any kind, all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whosoever are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds in their control or belonging to them.
Ala. Code § 11-65-19 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 65 / Section 11-65-19
Section 11-65-19 Review of Application for Operator’s License
Status: in_force

(a) A commission shall promptly consider any application for the issuance or transfer of an operator’s license submitted to it and shall grant or deny the issuance or transfer of such license based on all information before it, including the results of investigations it deems appropriate. A commission shall deny a license to any applicant unless it finds as follows:

(1) That such applicant is a business entity, whether a corporation, partnership, or other kind of organization, possessing the organizational substance, financial soundness, managerial capability, and business experience with racing and pari-mutuel wagering operations, or with businesses requiring similar managerial experience and skill, that, in the reasonable judgment of the commission, are necessary to conduct horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon or greyhound racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon, as the case may be, at the location for which an operator’s license is being sought;

(2) That the racing facility which is to be the location of the applicant’s prospective operations will be suitable for its intended purposes, whether horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon or greyhound racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon or both, and can be reasonably expected to provide the physical plant and location necessary for a successful operation, taking into account projected capital and operating costs, capacity, access, public appeal, and other relevant factors;

(3) That the applicant shall have made, or shall have committed to make, arrangements satisfactory to the commission for the detection and prosecution of any corrupt or fraudulent act, practice, or conduct in connection with all licensed activities, including utilization of the services of a protective agency acceptable to the commission; and

(4) That the applicant has a business plan for conducting horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon or greyhound racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon or both, as the case may be, in accordance with high standards of security, service, and accommodation to the public, as well as in accordance with such standards of the industry, whether horse racing or greyhound racing, that the commission reasonably considers to be appropriate for operations of the nature planned by the applicant, taking into account the size, location, and other relevant characteristics of the sponsoring municipality and its surrounding area.

(b) A commission shall deny the issuance or transfer of an operator’s license to any applicant unless it finds that more than 50 percent of both the ownership interest and the voting interest in the applicant (and the applicant’s general partner in the event the applicant is a limited partnership) is owned, directly or indirectly by persons who have a substantial presence in the state. For purposes of this subsection, a person shall be deemed to have a substantial presence in the state under any of the following circumstances:

(1) If a natural person, then such person has been domiciled in the state for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the date of the application for a license;

(2) If a corporation, then such corporation is incorporated under Title 10, or is incorporated under comparable laws of another state and is licensed or qualified to do business in the state and, in addition, satisfies one of the following alternative sets of conditions:

a. Such corporation has maintained its principal place of business, and has actively done business, in the state for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the date of application for a license, as evidenced either by the employment of at least 100 employees in the state or by the employment of $500,000.00 in assets held in the state during such period; or

b. More than 50 percent of both the ownership interest and the voting interest in such corporation is owned, directly or indirectly, by natural persons described in subdivision (b)(1), or by one or more corporations described in subdivision (b)(2)a, or by any combination of such natural persons and corporations;

(3) If a limited partnership, then such limited partnership is formed or registered under Title 10, and has maintained its principal place of business and at least 50 percent of its assets in the state for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the date of application for the license, and its general partner has maintained its principal place of business or residence in the state for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the date of such application;

(4) If a general partnership, then such partnership has maintained its principal place of business and at least 50 percent of its assets in the state for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the date of application for the license;

(5) If a financial institution, then such financial institution is a corporation or other legal entity doing business in the state as a bank, national banking association, state banking corporation, trust company, industrial or other loan company, building and loan association, or insurance company and has maintained its principal place of business in the state for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the date of application for the license;

(6) If a trust or custodianship, then at least 50 percent of the corpus of such trust or custodianship is situated in the state and the trustee or custodian of such property has a substantial presence in the state under any of the standards set forth in this subsection (b); or

(7) If an estate, then such estate is the estate of a person described in subdivision (b)(1), or at least 50 percent of the property of such estate consists of real estate located in the state or tangible personal property which has been located within the state for at least 12 consecutive months prior to the date of application for the license.

(c) The provisions of this section which permit an operator’s license to be granted only if more than 50 percent of both the ownership interest and the voting interest in the licensee is owned, directly or indirectly, by persons who have a substantial presence in the state shall not be construed (i) to impair the foreclosure rights of any mortgagee holding a mortgage on any racing facility owned, leased, or otherwise used by such licensee that secures debt incurred to finance the costs of constructing or purchasing such racing facility or (ii) to impair the rights of any mortgagee holding such a mortgage, or the rights of any other person, to which such racing facility may be sold in foreclosure, to take and hold title to such racing facility, to lease or sell the same, and to apply for and receive an operator’s license from the commission to conduct racing and pari-mutuel wagering activities at such racing facility upon compliance with all other applicable provisions of this chapter, irrespective of whether the aforesaid condition of substantial presence in the state shall be satisfied by persons owning, directly or indirectly, more than 50 percent of both the ownership interest and the voting interest in such mortgagee or in any person to which such racing facility shall be sold, as the case may be.

(d) A commission shall deny the issuance or transfer of an operator’s license to an applicant if it finds that for any reason the issuance or transfer of such license to such applicant would not be in the interests of the people of the sponsoring municipality or that the applicant, or any officer, general partner, or director of the applicant, (i) is a disqualified person, (ii) has knowingly made a false statement of a material fact in the application or has deliberately failed to disclose any information called for in the application, or (iii) is not qualified to do business in the state or is not subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of the state.
Ala. Code § 2-15-67 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-67
Section 2-15-67 Commissioner to Require Markets to Carry Insurance on Livestock Accepted for Sale
Status: in_force

The commissioner, with the approval of the board, shall require and is hereby authorized by appropriate rules and regulations to require livestock markets to carry insurance on all livestock accepted for sale in order that such livestock will be insured against injury or loss by fire or windstorm while such livestock are kept at a livestock market.
Ala. Code § 11-59-5 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 59 / Section 11-59-5
Section 11-59-5 Certificate of Incorporation - Filing with Probate Judge; Examination, Approval, and Recordation by Probate Judge
Status: in_force

When executed and acknowledged in conformity with Section 11-59-4, the certificate of incorporation shall be filed with the judge of probate of any county in which may be located any portion of the territory embraced within the corporate limits of the municipality. The judge of probate shall thereupon examine the certificate of incorporation and, if he finds that the recitals contained therein are correct, that the requirements of Section 11-59-4 have been complied with and that the name is not identical with or so nearly similar to that of another corporation already in existence in this state as to lead to confusion and uncertainty, he shall approve the certificate of incorporation and record it in an appropriate book or record in his office.

When such certificate has been so made, filed, and approved, the applicants shall constitute a public corporation under the name set out in the certificate of incorporation.
Ala. Code § 2-26-30 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 26 / Section 2-26-30
Section 2-26-30 Promulgation of Rules and Regulations for Removal, Etc., of Fungi and Noxious Weeds from Seeds and Small Grains by Commissioner
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, with the approval of the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, is hereby authorized to promulgate and adopt rules and regulations for the purpose of eradicating and preventing the spread of fungus growths and diseases from seed and small grains used for planting purposes and the removal of noxious weeds from agricultural and vegetable seed and small grain used for planting purposes by requiring that persons, firms, partnerships, corporations and associations engaged in cleaning or otherwise processing seed shall process, clean or treat such seed and small grains in a manner whereby fungi, diseases and noxious weeds will be eradicated or removed from such seed and small grain prior to the packaging, shipping or sale thereof to growers. Rules and regulations adopted under this section may require seed cleaners or processors to clean or process seed and small grain used for planting purposes by applying fungicides or other chemicals and to process or treat such seed and grain in any other manner reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of this article. Rules and regulations adopted under this section shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure prescribed under the provisions of Sections 2-2-16 and 2-2-17.
Ala. Code § 11-50-475 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-475
Section 11-50-475 Fixing of Bonds Required from Depositories
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2000-748, p. 1669, §3, effective January 1, 2001.
Ala. Code § 11-47-235 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-235
Section 11-47-235 Effect of Revenue Obligations on State of Alabama; Prohibition Against Use of State Funds to Retire Indebtedness
Status: in_force

Revenue obligations issued by any public authority pursuant to this article shall not create an obligation or debt of the State of Alabama, and no state funds shall be used to retire the principal and interest of any indebtedness issued pursuant to this article.
Ala. Code § 11-55-7 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 55 / Section 11-55-7
Section 11-55-7 Notice To, Approval or Consent of Governmental Body, Etc., Not to Be Required for Sale or Issuance of Bonds or Execution of Mortgages
Status: in_force

No notice to or consent or approval by any governmental body or public officer shall be required as a prerequisite to the sale or issuance of any bonds or the making of a mortgage under the authority of this chapter.
Ala. Code § 2-15-96 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-96
Section 2-15-96 Operation of Scales at Livestock Market Without Permit, Giving of False Weights, Etc.; Forfeiture of Permit by Person Giving False Weight of Livestock for Sales Purposes
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who shall operate scales at a livestock market for the purpose of weighing livestock for the purpose of sale without having a permit as required under this division or any person holding such a permit who shall give or cause to be given false weights to be used in selling livestock or any person operating a livestock market who sells livestock upon the basis of weight without having such livestock weighed by a person holding a permit as required under provisions of this division or by a public weighmaster shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as now prescribed by law for such offense.

(b) Any person who shall give or cause to be given a false weight of livestock for sales purposes shall forfeit his permit which shall be revoked or cancelled.
Ala. Code § 11-50-212 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-212
Section 11-50-212 Implementation of Article
Status: in_force

Each municipality and public gas corporation is hereby further authorized to enter into any agreements and to execute any instruments which their respective governing bodies may deem necessary or appropriate in order to effectuate the transfer and conveyance of a gas system pursuant to the provisions of this article.
Ala. Code § 2-19-22 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 2-19-22
Section 2-19-22 Implied Warranty as to Packing of Cotton
Status: in_force

When cotton in bales is sent by a planter or other owner to a factor for sale, a warranty is implied on the part of such planter or owner to the factor and the purchaser from such factor respectively that such cotton is not fraudulently packed and, when cotton is sold by sample by the owner or his factor, that the sample has been fairly drawn and that the cotton is not fraudulently packed, and no other warranty is thereby implied. For any breach of such implied warranty, the purchaser may recover damages, either from the owner or factor selling the same, but no civil action can be brought for any breach of such last mentioned implied warranty unless the civil action is commenced within one year after such sale. Planters shall not be liable in any way for losses sustained by factors or commission merchants for having sold cotton by fraudulent or unfair samples, unless such loss was occasioned by plating or fraudulent packing of the cotton by such planter.
Ala. Code § 11-44-56 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44 / Section 11-44-56
Section 11-44-56 Applicability of General State Laws as to Municipal Elections
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2016-295, §1(a), effective May 10, 2016.
Ala. Code § 2-8-282 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-282
Section 2-8-282 Remission of Collections to Treasurer of Association
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall remit to the treasurer of the certified association all moneys paid to or collected by him or her not later than the last day of January, April, July, and October of each year, less an amount not to exceed three percent of the total amount so collected, which commission shall be deposited in the Agricultural Fund of the State Treasury. The amount remitted to the treasurer of the certified association shall be used and expended by the association for the promotional program in the manner provided by this article and the rules and regulations of the association.
Ala. Code § 11-47-237 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-237
Section 11-47-237 Application of State Ethics Act to Members of Authorities
Status: in_force

The State Ethics Act shall apply to members of authorities created pursuant to this article.
Ala. Code § 2-8-194 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-194
Section 2-8-194 Application for Certification and Approval to Conduct Referendum - Action by Board on Application
Status: in_force

Upon the filing with the State Board of Agriculture and Industries of an application by any commission, formed by mutual agreement of two or more nonprofit associations of cotton producers, the said board shall within 30 days thereafter meet and consider the application. If it is shown by the applicant to the satisfaction of the board that the applicant is fairly and substantially representative of the cotton producers of this state, and the board shall otherwise find and determine that such application and the program proposed therein are in conformity with the provisions and purposes of this article, then, and in such an event, the board shall certify such organization as the duly delegated and authorized commission and shall likewise certify that such commission is duly authorized to conduct among the cotton producers of this state a referendum for the purpose set forth in its application which shall be consistent with the purposes of this article. In the event there is more than one pending application at any time, the board must decide between the pending applications based on the program proposed, the number and geographical distribution of cotton producer members in the applicant commission, the size, stability, potential effectiveness and fiscal soundness of the applicant commission and any organizations with which it is affiliated, the existence and effectiveness of affiliated county organizations in the applicant commission and its affiliates, and the sentiment of cotton producers as ascertained by petitions, hearings, and otherwise as may be determined by the board. No application shall be considered if another commission holds currently valid certification.
Ala. Code § 11-54-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 54 / Section 11-54-4
Section 11-54-4 Binding Option Agreements for Sale of Industrial Park Authorized
Status: in_force

Each municipality in this state holding property as the site of an industrial park is hereby authorized to make and enter into binding option agreements for the sale of all or any portion of said industrial park, subject however, to the following conditions and limitations:

(1) No option shall be entered into for a period exceeding one year.

(2) Where an appraisal is required pursuant to Section 11-54-3, the option amount shall be for not less than the average of the market value stated in two independent appraisals dated not earlier than 60 days prior to consummation of the option agreement. Where the option agreement is for less than one year, said original option agreement may be extended by the municipality up to a maximum of one year without new appraisals. When the provisions on any constitutional amendment relieve or exempt the municipality from the provisions of Section 94 of the Constitution of 1901, no appraisal shall be necessary, provided the provisions of any such amendment are followed and the option is specifically made subject to the provisions of such amendment, and the option is for no longer than two years.

(3) Where the provisions of any constitutional amendment relieve or exempt any municipality from the provisions of Section 94 of the 1901 Constitution of Alabama, as amended, with respect to land acquired and held by said municipality as an industrial site, or industrial park, then the provisions of such constitutional amendment shall apply; provided however, that no municipality relieved or exempted from the provisions of said Section 94 shall sell any real property held as an industrial site or industrial park, for a price less than the actual purchase and development cost of such property unless:

a. A public meeting is held at which a price is approved by the governing body; provided further, that notice of such meeting has first been published, at least 14 days prior to holding such meetings, in a newspaper with the largest circulation in the county in which the property is located stating: (i) the acreage proposed to be sold, (ii) the section or sections or subdivisions of record in which the property is located, (iii) the price per acre at which sale is proposed to be made, and (iv) the place where a map of the property can be examined by the public; and

b. The price thus approved is no less than the price advertised as hereinabove stated.

(4) At least 10 percent of the total purchase price shall be paid by the optionee at the time of the option agreement, which said payment may be credited against the purchase price upon closing, but may not be returned to the optionee in the event the option agreement is not exercised.
Ala. Code § 22-52-7 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 52 / Section 22-52-7
Section 22-52-7 Restrictions on Imposition of Limitations Upon Liberty of Individual Sought to Be Committed; Hearings, Examinations, Etc.; Supervision of Temporary Treatment
Status: in_force

(a)(1) When a petition has been filed seeking to have limitations placed upon the liberty of a respondent pending the outcome of a final hearing on the merits, the judge of probate shall order the sheriff of the county in which the respondent was located at the time of the filing to serve a copy of the petition upon the respondent and to either bring the respondent before the judge of probate or be evaluated as provided in subdivision (2).

(2) When any respondent against whom a petition has been filed seeking to have limitations placed upon the respondent’s liberty pending the outcome of a full and final hearing on the merits is initially brought before the judge of probate, the judge of probate shall determine from an interview with the respondent what limitations, if any, shall be imposed upon the respondent’s liberty and what temporary treatment, if any, shall be imposed upon the respondent pending further hearings. In making these determinations, the judge of probate may also interview any other available individuals or officers and may consult with or seek an evaluation by a licensed medical physician or qualified mental health professional. If limitations on the respondent’s liberty are ordered, the judge of probate may order the respondent detained under the provisions of this section at a designated mental health facility or a hospital.

(b) No limitations shall be placed upon the respondent’s liberty nor treatment imposed upon the respondent unless the limitations are determined necessary by the judge of probate to prevent the respondent from posing a real and present threat of substantial harm to self or others or to prevent the respondent from leaving the jurisdiction of the court. No respondent shall be placed in a jail or other facility for individuals accused of or convicted of committing crimes.

(c) The judge of probate shall order the respondent to appear at the times and places set for hearing the petition and may order the respondent to appear at designated times and places to be examined by licensed medical doctors or qualified mental health professionals. If the respondent does not appear as ordered by the judge of probate, or if the judge of probate determines it is likely the respondent will not appear, the judge of probate may order the sheriff of the county in which the respondent was located at the time of the filing to take the respondent into custody and compel the respondent’s attendance as ordered by the judge of probate. If temporary treatment or admittance to a hospital is ordered for the respondent, the treatment shall be supervised by a licensed medical physician or qualified mental health professional who has willingly consented to treat the respondent, and admission to a hospital shall be ordered by a licensed medical doctor who has willingly consented to admit and treat the respondent.
Ala. Code § 11-51-45 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 51 / Section 11-51-45
Section 11-51-45 Indication by County Tax Assessor on Assessment List of Property Located in Municipalities and Ascertainment of Value Thereof
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the tax assessor of each and every county in which such municipalities are situated on and after October 1 to show on the assessment list made or taken by him under the provisions of law applicable to state and county taxes what property, if any, described in the lists is situated within such municipalities, and the assessor shall ascertain the value of each item or subject of taxation situated in such municipalities separately from the value of each item not within such municipalities in such a way as to make of easy ascertainment the assessed value of property within such municipalities.
Ala. Code § 2-6-29 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 6 / Section 2-6-29
Section 2-6-29 Execution of Bonds
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2011-575, p. 1231, §30, effective June 9, 2011.
Ala. Code § 11-50-300.10 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-300.10
Section 11-50-300.10 Chief Executive Officer
Status: in_force

(a) A regional board shall employ a chief executive officer with full authority to manage the operations of the regional board, subject to policy directives and other governance decisions adopted by the board of directors. Employees of a regional board shall report directly or through subordinates who report to the chief executive officer and may not be ordered or instructed by a director of the board. Employment contracts, construction contracts, consulting contracts, engineering contracts, and other contracts between the regional board and other persons shall be recommended by the chief executive officer, except for the employment contract of the chief executive officer, which shall be recommended by the board of directors. The chief executive officer shall recommend to the board of directors individuals to serve as chief financial officer and other executive level employees. (b) The employment contract of the chief executive officer shall provide for a fixed term of office that may be extended with or without modification of other terms by agreement of the board of directors and the chief executive officer. The board of directors may terminate the employment of the chief executive officer for a material failure to perform his or her duties after providing reasonable notice of a failure and the opportunity for a hearing.

(b) The employment contract of the chief executive officer shall provide for a fixed term of office that may be extended with or without modification of other terms by agreement of the board of directors and the chief executive officer. The board of directors may terminate the employment of the chief executive officer for a material failure to perform his or her duties after providing reasonable notice of a failure and the opportunity for a hearing.
Ala. Code § 11-50-51 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-51
Section 11-50-51 Condemnation of Easements, Etc
Status: in_force

Cities and towns may acquire, whenever necessary, the requisite rights and easements by condemnation in the manner prescribed by the Constitution and laws of Alabama for the condemnation of lands for the public use.
Ala. Code § 11-71-1 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 71 / Section 11-71-1
Section 11-71-1 Legislative Findings
Status: in_force

The Legislature makes the following statements and findings:

(1) Cities have hundreds of miles of roads and streets located in subdivisions that are in need of upgrades or additions. These upgrades or additions are behind schedule and at the current rate will take considerably more years to complete, if ever. These upgrades or additions include, but are not limited to, sanitary sewer, drainage, curb and gutter, sidewalk, underground power, and asphalt overlaying.

(2) Homeowners and business owners would benefit from the voluntary formation of neighborhood infrastructure authorities to oversee and finance infrastructure projects through an assessment basis.

(3) An effective neighborhood infrastructure program would have the following benefits:

a. Jobs would be created.

b. Property values would be stabilized and/or increased.

c. Upgrade and additional work would be expedited.

d. Savings would be created for the city.

e. Revenues would be created for city, state, and federal governments.
Ala. Code § 11-50-5 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-5
Section 11-50-5 Construction, Purchase, Operation, Etc., of Waterworks and Water Supply Plants and Systems and Expenditure of Municipal Funds Therefor
Status: in_force

(a) Any municipality in this state may construct, purchase, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve waterworks plants and systems or any part or parts thereof, whether located within or without or partly within and partly without the corporate limits of such municipality. Such plants and systems may be purchased subject to encumbrances and to contracts to furnish water therefrom, the payment and performance of which may be assumed. Any municipality in this state may furnish and distribute, under contract, water to persons, firms, and corporations in such municipality and to persons, firms, and corporations in the territory surrounding such municipality, whether or not the territory surrounding such municipality is contiguous thereto.

(b) Without limiting the generality of any of the language contained in subsection (a) of this section, any municipality in this state may construct, purchase, operate, maintain, enlarge, extend, and improve water supply plants and systems, whether located wholly within or wholly without or partly within and partly without the corporate limits of such municipality, and may sell and deliver water therefrom to public corporations for ultimate distribution to the inhabitants of such municipality and to the inhabitants of the territory surrounding such municipality, whether or not the territory surrounding such municipality is contiguous thereto.

(c) The construction, purchase, operation, maintenance, enlargement, extension, and improvement of waterworks plants and systems, including water supply plants and systems, and any part or parts of any thereof are hereby declared to be purposes for which any municipality in this state is authorized to expend funds.
Ala. Code § 11-47-17 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-17
Section 11-47-17 Provision of Public Scales, Inspection of Weights and Measures, Etc
Status: in_force

The council or other governing body of any town or city may provide public scales and an inspection of weights and measures and may provide punishment for persons, firms and corporations using fraudulent weights and measures.
Ala. Code § 2-8-210 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-210
Section 2-8-210 Compliance with Article Prerequisite for Holding Ginner’s Permit Under Section 2-19-61
Status: in_force

In addition to all other prerequisites for holding a ginner’s permit issued pursuant to Section 2-19-61 the holding thereof shall also be conditioned upon compliance with the provisions of this article and rules and regulations duly adopted for carrying out the requirements of this article relative to the collection and remittance of assessments on the ginning of cotton in Alabama.
Ala. Code § 11-43A-71 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 43A / Section 11-43A-71
Section 11-43A-71 When Council-Manager Form of Government Becomes Effective
Status: in_force

When such an ordinance is adopted within the time period specified in Section 11-43A-70, the council-manager form of government under this article shall become effective for such municipality either (i) immediately upon receipt of preclearance of such ordinance by the United States Department of Justice under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, or (ii) upon the first Monday in October following the next regularly scheduled municipal election, whichever effective date is specified in the ordinance.
Ala. Code § 2-19-124 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 2-19-124
Section 2-19-124 Reports of Cotton Growers Required
Status: in_force

Every person growing cotton in this state shall furnish to the commissioner on forms supplied by the commissioner, such information as the commissioner may require, concerning the size and location of all commercial cotton fields and of noncommercial patches of cotton grown as ornamentals or for other purposes.
Ala. Code § 2-16-22 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 2-16-22
Section 2-16-22 Expenditure of Funds Appropriated for Purpose of Carrying Out Provisions of Division
Status: in_force

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this division, funds appropriated and made available under the general appropriations act for expenditure on a fiscal year basis for poultry disease control and eradication may be expended for the payment of salaries, equipment purchases and other expenses necessary and incident to the execution of the provisions of this division.
Ala. Code § 11-46-49 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 46 / Section 11-46-49
Section 11-46-49 Election Officers for Voting Machines; Duties
Status: in_force

(a) At all elections where voting machines are used, there shall be the following election officers for each voting machine: An inspector, a chief clerk, and a first and a second assistant clerk; except, in the event voting centers are established, then the requirements of Section 11-46-24 shall control the number of election officials.

(b) The inspector shall be in general charge of the poll, shall see that the counter compartments of the machine are never unlocked or opened so that the counters are exposed during voting, shall see that the other election officers perform the duties imposed on them by this section, shall keep a record of all voters at such machine who received assistance pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 11-46-51, and all other records required by this article, and immediately after the polls have closed and the statement of the returns has been made, shall deliver such statement and the key or keys to the machine to the municipal clerk. He shall also act as challenger.

(c) The chief clerk shall examine the list of qualified electors and check off the names of voters which appear thereon as they vote.

(d) The first assistant clerk shall attend the poll list and see that each voter signs his name thereon in the order in which he votes.

(e) The second assistant clerk shall attend the voting machine at all times and see that it is not tampered with. He shall also inspect the ballot labels at frequent intervals to see that none have been tampered with and that the machine has not been injured.
Ala. Code § 2-28-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 28 / Section 2-28-4
Section 2-28-4 Permits; Statements as to Training and Experience of Applicants; Examination
Status: in_force

(a) Permits generally; fees; delinquent penalty; subcategories of structural pest control permits and fees. Before any person engages in professional work or services as defined in this chapter or before any person may solicit professional work or services through advertising or in any other manner, the person shall apply for and obtain from the commissioner an annual permit on forms furnished for this purpose accompanied with the annual permit fee which shall be established by the Board of Agriculture and Industries not to exceed $200. Structural pest control work as defined in subdivision (5) of Section 2-28-1 shall be divided in the following subcategories: (1) Control of wood-destroying organisms by any method other than fumigation, (2) Control of industrial, institutional, and household pests by any method other than fumigation, (3) Fumigation pest control. The annual permit fee for persons engaged in the type of entomological work known as structural pest control work as defined in subdivision (5) of Section 2-28-1 shall be established by the board for each subcategory of work a person is qualified to perform. Any person engaged in structural pest control work who conducts the work from more than one location or place of business that is a branch office as defined in subdivision (6) of Section 2-28-1 shall be required to obtain a branch office permit for each branch office, and the permit fee shall be established by the board for each branch office and for each subcategory of work a person is qualified to perform. If a person conducts structural pest control work from an additional location designated as a suboffice as defined in subdivision (7) of Section 2-28-1, the person shall be required to obtain a suboffice permit for each suboffice, and the permit fee shall be established by the board for each suboffice and for each subcategory of work a person is qualified to perform. All permits shall expire on September 30 and shall be renewed by October 1 upon payment of the annual permit fee prescribed by this subsection and upon compliance with the other requirements of this chapter. If the permit fee is not paid by November 1 or within 31 days from the date on which the fee is due, a delinquent penalty established by the board shall be added to the amount.

(b) Number of permits required. When a person has qualified for a permit to perform more than one type or branch of professional work or services, other than structural pest control work, only one permit shall be required to be obtained by the person, and the permit shall specify each type of professional work or service that the person is authorized to perform. When a person has qualified for a permit to perform more than one type or branch of structural pest control work, the person shall be required to obtain only one permit, that shall specify each type of work that the person is authorized to perform. Any person who performs structural pest control work from a branch office as defined in this section shall also be required to obtain a branch office permit for each branch office. Any person who performs structural pest control work from a suboffice as defined in this section shall also be required to obtain a suboffice permit for each suboffice.

(c) Statements of applicants as to training and experience; testing and examination; issuance of permits; disposition of fees. The commissioner, pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter, may require applicants for a permit to submit statements as to training and experience in professional work or services, and applicants shall be required to pass any test or examination for each type of professional service or work as the commissioner may prescribe. An examination fee established by the board shall accompany each application for each examination taken by the applicant. All permit fees and examination fees collected under this section shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund for the administration and enforcement of this chapter. Before a permit is issued to any applicant, the applicant shall be certified by the commissioner as qualified to perform the type of professional work or services for which a permit is desired. A full-time employee of an applicant who has been certified by the commissioner as qualified to perform the type or branch of professional work or service in which the applicant desires to engage may be designated by the applicant as a supervisor to be in charge of and responsible for the applicant’s professional work or services, and the permit may be issued designating the employee as a supervisor.
Ala. Code § 11-44E-45 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44E / Section 11-44E-45
Section 11-44E-45 Interference in Appointment or Removal of Officers and Employees; Dealings of Commission with Administrative Service
Status: in_force

Neither the commission nor any of its members shall direct or request the appointment of any person to, or his removal from, office or position by the city manager or by any of his (her) subordinates, or in any manner take part in the appointment or removal of officers and employees in the administrative service of the city with the exception of certain employees as prescribed in Section 11-44E-92(2) of this chapter. Except for the purpose of inquiry, the commission and its members shall deal with the administrative service solely through the city manager and neither the commission nor any member thereof shall give orders to any subordinates of the city manager, either publicly or privately.
Ala. Code § 11-47-251 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-251
Section 11-47-251 Powers of Coastal Municipalities
Status: in_force

(a) Any coastal municipality may do any of the following:

(1) Plan, establish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, regulate, and protect beach projects, including, without limitation, joint beach projects with one or more other coastal municipalities.

(2) Finance the cost of beach projects in whole or in part by the issuance of bonds, warrants, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness.

(3) Pledge to the payment thereof its full faith and credit and any taxes, licenses, or revenues which the coastal municipality may then be authorized to pledge to the payment of bonded or other indebtedness.

(4) Make and enforce rules and regulations governing the use of and activities upon the areas included within any beach project established by the coastal municipality with the concurrence of the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, acting through the Lands Division of the department.

(5) Acquire or condemn lands or rights, easements, or interests therein for use in the establishment and maintenance of beach projects in accordance with Article 7 of this chapter or Chapter 1A of Title 18.

(6) Execute contracts and other instruments and take such other action as may be necessary or convenient in connection with beach projects.

(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or repeal the powers and authority otherwise granted to a municipal corporation under Chapter 48 of this title.
Ala. Code § 2-19-106 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 2-19-106
Section 2-19-106 Disposition of Funds
Status: in_force

All funds collected under this article shall be deposited into the Agricultural Fund of the State Treasury and shall be used for the purpose of administering and enforcing this article.
Ala. Code § 11-51-69 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 51 / Section 11-51-69
Section 11-51-69 Proceedings for Sale of Land for Payment of Taxes - Repayment of State When Sale of Lands Bid in by State Invalid and Purchase Money Refunded
Status: in_force

When land which has been bid in by the state at tax sales has been sold by the state and the state refunds the purchase money on account of an invalid sale under and in accordance with the provisions of law in regard to state and county taxes, the Department of Revenue must ascertain the amount of such purchase money which has been paid to the municipality, if any, which amount it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to certify to the mayor or other governing head of the said municipality, and it shall be the duty of the mayor or other governing head of the municipality to present such claim at the next succeeding meeting of the council, board of commissioners, or other governing body of the said municipality and thereupon such council, board of commissioners, or other governing body shall order a warrant in favor of the state for such amount as the state is entitled to from the municipality, and the treasurer or acting treasurer shall forthwith forward the amount to the treasurer and report it to the Department of Revenue.
Ala. Code § 2-21-32 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 2-21-32
Section 2-21-32 Protection of Trade Secrets
Status: in_force

Any person who seeks to his own advantage, or reveals to other than the commissioner or officers of the commissioner (appropriate department of the state), or to the court when relevant in any judicial proceeding, any information acquired under the authority of this chapter concerning any method, record, formulation or processes which, as a trade secret, is entitled to protection, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than $500.00 or imprisoned for not more than six months or both; provided, that this prohibition shall not be deemed as prohibiting the commissioner or his duly authorized agent from exchanging information of a regulatory nature with duly appointed officials of the United States government or all other states who are similarly prohibited by law from revealing this information.
Ala. Code § 11-47-40 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-40
Section 11-47-40 Ownership, Regulation, Etc., of Municipal Cemeteries; Regulation, Etc., of Establishment or Use of Private Cemeteries Within Police Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to own, regulate, improve, lay out, and control town or city cemeteries and permit additions thereto and the establishment of new ones, either within or without the town or city limits, and to sell burial lots in the same, and to regulate or prohibit the establishment or use of private cemeteries within the police jurisdiction of a city or town elsewhere than in the city or town cemeteries.
Ala. Code § 22-51-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 51 / Section 22-51-4
Section 22-51-4 Incorporation of Public Corporations - Application - Approval
Status: in_force

Upon the adoption by each governing body to which an application was sent of a resolution approving the formation of the said corporation, the incorporators, or not less than three of them, shall proceed to complete the incorporation in the manner provided in this chapter.
Ala. Code § 11-44B-14 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44B / Section 11-44B-14
Section 11-44B-14 Persons Holding Civil Service Positions Continued in Office; Existing Civil Service System Continued
Status: in_force

Any person holding such an office or position in the civil service of such municipality when the mayor-council form of government shall be adopted shall continue to hold such office in the civil service under the mayor-council form of government and with the same status, rights, and privileges and subject to the same conditions under such applicable civil service system. Where there is an existing civil service system, then that system shall remain in full force and effect and this articleshall not supersede, modify, or repeal said civil service system.
Ala. Code § 11-51-92 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 51 / Section 11-51-92
Section 11-51-92 Licenses Based on a Flat Rate, Taken Out After July 1; Transfer of Licenses
Status: in_force

(a) In case the license of any business, trade, occupation, or profession is based on a flat rate and is taken out after July 1, only one half of the license shall be charged and collected, except for those subjects for which daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or semiannual licenses are provided by law.

(b) No license shall be transferred except with the consent of the council or other governing body of the municipality or of the director of finance or other chief revenue officer or his or her designee, and no license shall be transferred to reflect a physical change of address of the taxpayer within the municipality more than once during a license year and never from one taxpayer to another. Provided that a mere change in the name or ownership of a taxpayer that is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other form of legal entity now or hereafter recognized by the laws of Alabama shall not constitute a transfer for purposes of this chapter, unless (1) the change requires the taxpayer to obtain a new federal employer identification number or Department of Revenue taxpayer identification number or (2), in the discretion of the municipality, the subject license is one for the sale of alcoholic beverages. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a municipality from requiring a new business license application and approvals for an alcoholic beverage license.
Ala. Code § 22-50-5 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 22-50-5
Section 22-50-5 Board of Trustees - Membership; Officers; Initial Appointments; Terms
Status: in_force

(a) In order to coordinate the activities of the Department of Mental Health and to advise with such department and to better acquaint the public with the needs and activities of such department, there is hereby created a board of trustees for the Department of Mental Health to be composed of 16 members. The Governor, the Commissioner of Mental Health, the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be ex-officio members of such board of trustees. The remaining 12 members shall be appointed by the Governor, one from each of the congressional districts and the remainder from the state at large. One of the state at large positions shall be selected from nominations offered by the Association for Retarded Citizens of Alabama and one of the state at large positions shall be selected from nominations offered by the Mental Health Association of Alabama. All appointed trustees shall have demonstrated a concern for the programs and services provided by the Department of Mental Health and should represent a balance of primary interest areas or expertise.

(b) The Governor shall be chairman of the board of trustees and the Commissioner of Mental Health shall be the secretary. The board shall meet quarterly at a place to be designated by the chairman and may meet more frequently upon the call of the chairman, or a majority of the members.

(c) As soon as practicable after this section becomes law, the Governor shall appoint four members for a term of one year; four members for a term of two years; four members for a term of three years; all trustees shall take office effective upon appointment. No trustee shall serve more than three consecutive three-year terms; provided, however, that trustees shall continue to serve until their successors have been appointed.
Ala. Code § 11-50-469 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-469
Section 11-50-469 Powers and Duties of Board Generally
Status: in_force

The board shall have complete control of the municipal gas distribution system of such municipality and shall have authority to employ, upon terms to be fixed by the board, but in no event for a term exceeding one year, and to discharge, with or without cause, managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, attorneys, plumbers, gas fitters, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such municipal gas distribution system, except that in those municipalities where public employees are governed by a citywide civil service or merit system act all of such managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, plumbers, gas fitters, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such system shall in all respects, both as to selection, employment, discharge, tenure of office, or employment and as to pay, promotion, demotion, and all other respects covered by said civil service or merit system act, be governed and controlled by said civil service or merit system act, anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding. It shall have the power and authority and it shall be its duty to charge for and collect all accounts due for any service which the municipal gas distribution system may furnish to its customers upon rates to be provided and approved by the governing body of such municipality. The board shall have the right to delegate to any manager which it may employ the authority to employ and discharge employees which may be needed, to direct their work and to manage, control, and operate the municipal gas distribution system, and to account to the board for his acts in so doing, but his authority shall be restricted as the authority of the board is restricted in this article.
Ala. Code § 2-8-134 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-134
Section 2-8-134 Subsequent Referendum After Negative Vote
Status: in_force

In the event a referendum conducted as provided in this article shall not be supported by a majority of those eligible for participation therein and voting therein, the organization conducting the referendum may call another referendum for the purposes set forth in this article no earlier than 90 days after the preceding referendum, on the question of an annual assessment for five years.
Ala. Code § 2-30-41 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 30 / Section 2-30-41
Section 2-30-41 Objects, Purposes and Duties of Agricultural Experiment Station System
Status: in_force

(a) The objects, purposes and duties of the Alabama Experiment Station System are:

(1) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations bearing upon and relating to the production, marketing, manufacturing, use and distribution of agricultural crops and products;

(2) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the production, marketing and curing of all kinds of livestock and livestock products that may be sold from or consumed on the farms of Alabama;

(3) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the production, culture and use of pasture plants and for the establishment, care, use and management of pastures;

(4) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the testing of all kinds of hay, feed and forage crops, including those that may be used for lawns and other sod crop purposes;

(5) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the testing of varieties of crops, including soil adaptation and improvement;

(6) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the testing of various fertilizers and fertilizer materials on the various soils and for various crops;

(7) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the production, marketing, storage and curing of fruit, nut and vegetable crops;

(8) To conduct researches, experiments and investigations for the study of plant and animal diseases and insect pests;

(9) To conduct researches and experiments dealing with forest production, management and use;

(10) To conduct researches dealing with soil erosion and problems arising from the waste of land due to soil erosion;

(11) To conduct researches to discover new uses of land;

(12) To make provision for the necessary land, buildings, fencing, livestock and other physical equipment needed for the research work provided for in this section;

(13) To conduct researches in game and fish production; provided, however, that any researches in game and fish production shall be in cooperation with or upon the advice of the director, so that there may be complete coordination between the work of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station System and that of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources;

(14) To conduct researches in other similar important agricultural and economic problems, having for their object the development of a more permanent, more profitable and diversified agriculture, as future changing agricultural conditions may demand it; and

(15) To provide for the printing of the necessary bulletins, circulars, etc., in order that the citizens of Alabama may be acquainted with the results of said researches.

(b) All appropriations for the experiment station system and its work shall be devoted to these purposes.
Ala. Code § 11-50A-16 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50A / Section 11-50A-16
Section 11-50A-16 Bonds as Legal Investments
Status: in_force

The bonds, bond anticipation notes and notes authorized in this chapter shall be securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all political subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, and savings associations, including savings and loan associations, building and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business, all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees, and other fiduciaries and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds. The bonds, bond anticipation notes and notes shall also be securities which may be deposited with and shall be received by all public officers and bodies of this state and all political subdivisions for any purpose for which deposit of the bonds or other obligations of this state is now or may hereafter be authorized.
Ala. Code § 11-44-95 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44 / Section 11-44-95
Section 11-44-95 Publication, Etc., of Monthly Statement of Receipts and Expenses, Etc.; Examinations of Books and Accounts
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2016-295, §1(a), effective May 10, 2016.
Ala. Code § 22-52-31 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 52 / Section 22-52-31
Section 22-52-31 Proceedings for Civil Commitment of Persons Accused of Crimes, Committed to Custody of Department of Mental Health and Determined to Be Unable to Attain Capacity to Proceed to Trial in Foreseeable Future; Effect of Such Civil Commitment Upon Statute of Limitations, Etc
Status: in_force

(a) Upon certification by the superintendent of Bryce or Searcy Hospital or any other facility so designated by the commissioner that any person accused of a crime and committed to the custody of the department in one of its facilities has been determined by appropriate members of the medical staffs of said facilities as designated by the superintendent to be unable to attain the capacity to proceed to trial in the foreseeable future, the commissioner or his designee is hereby authorized to petition the judges of probate of Tuscaloosa or Mobile Counties or any judge of probate where such facility exists for an order of civil commitment to the Department of Mental Health. All of the subsequent provisions of this article shall apply where the commissioner seeks such order.

(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any prosecuting attorney of the state, county or municipality to dismiss pending criminal charges against any defendant who has been voluntarily or involuntarily civilly committed because a determination was made that he did not have the capacity to proceed or continue to trial in the foreseeable future.

(c) Civil commitment to the custody of the Department of Mental Health shall have the effect of tolling the applicable statute of limitation of the crime for which the defendant is charged; and, once the defendant is released from said custody, the prosecuting attorney shall forthwith reinstate the charges and proceed with the prosecution of the case.
Ala. Code § 11-49B-16 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 49B / Section 11-49B-16
Section 11-49B-16 Use of Public Roads
Status: in_force

Each authority is hereby authorized to use the rights-of-way of all public roads in the authorizing county without securing the prior approval of the state, its agencies, departments, or the governing body of the authorizing county and subject only to the necessity of obtaining the municipal consent required by Section 220 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901. This chapter shall not be construed to exempt any authority from the requirements of Section 23-1-4. The authority shall have the duty to restore at its expense all roads, highways, and public rights-of-way in which it may have made excavations or done other work in constructing a transit system or performing any of its other corporate functions.
Ala. Code § 11-44C-38 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44C / Section 11-44C-38
Section 11-44C-38 Divisions of City Government; Executive Directors of Divisions; City Attorney; Outside Counsel
Status: in_force

(a) There are hereby created three divisions of city government: public works, finance, and public safety. Each division may have an executive director appointed by the mayor with the approval of a vote of five members of the council, who shall be an officer of the city and shall be responsible for the supervision and control of such officer’s jurisdiction. Said executive director shall not be subject to the city merit system and shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor; provided, however, each such officer shall be removed from office only upon recommendation of the mayor and approval of five council members. Upon the first vacancy, of any nature whatsoever, in the office of police chief or fire chief, the mayor may appoint the police chief and fire chief, respectively, from outside the said merit system, with the approval of five members of the council who shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor; provided, however, such officers shall be removed from office only upon recommendation of the mayor with the approval of five council members.

(b) The mayor also is authorized to appoint a city attorney who shall serve at the pleasure of the mayor and shall be compensated in the manner and at a rate approved by the mayor. In addition to the city attorney, the mayor, from time to time in his sole discretion, is authorized to obtain additional legal counsel outside of the city merit system to advise and defend him in his capacity of mayor and in the pursuit of the operation of government.

(c) Upon approval by a majority of those present and voting, the council, from time to time when it deems necessary and reasonable, is authorized to obtain legal counsel outside the city merit system to advise and defend them in their respective capacities as council members and in the pursuit of the operation of government.
Ala. Code § 11-75-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 75 / Section 11-75-4
Section 11-75-4 Training of Law Enforcement Officers; Superintendent
Status: in_force

(a) After a regional law enforcement training facility is operational, the facility shall give first priority to the training of law enforcement officers for each participating municipality.

(b) The superintendent of the facility shall be selected by the members of the board of directors and shall serve at their pleasure. The superintendent, according to written policies and procedures adopted by the members of the board of directors, shall have and exercise control and authority over the law enforcement training facility.
Ala. Code § 2-13-7 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 13 / Section 2-13-7
Section 2-13-7 Milk from Diseased Cows; Unsanitary Premises or Utensils
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the business of handling or selling milk or cream or any by-product of the same or in the preparation, manufacture, or sale of any food products for man from milk or cream or any by-product of the same to maintain his premises or utensils in an unsanitary condition or to knowingly sell milk or cream drawn from sick or diseased cows or cows kept in an unsanitary place or cows fed on unwholesome feeds or slops.
Ala. Code § 11-61A-21 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 61A / Section 11-61A-21
Section 11-61A-21 Publication of Notice
Status: in_force

Upon the adoption by the board of any resolution providing for the issuance of bonds, the authority may cause to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper that is customarily published in this state not less than five days in each calendar week and distributed in the county in which the principal office of the authority is located, a notice in substantially the following form (the blanks being properly filled in) at the end of which there shall be printed the name and title of either the chair or secretary of the authority: “_____ a public corporation of the State of Alabama, on the _____ day of _____,_____, authorized the issuance of $ _____ principal amount of revenue bonds of the corporation for purposes authorized in the act of the Legislature of Alabama under which the corporation was organized. Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of the bonds, or the pledge and any instruments securing the bonds, or the proceedings authorizing the bonds, must be commenced within 30 days after the first publication of this notice.” Any action or proceeding in any court to set aside or question the proceedings for the issuance of the bonds referred to in the notice or to contest the validity of any bonds or the validity of the pledge and any instruments made to secure the bonds must be commenced within 30 days after the first publication of the notice. After the expiration of the period, no right of action or defense questioning or attacking the validity of the proceedings, the bonds, or the pledge or instruments shall be asserted, nor shall the validity of the proceedings, bonds, pledge, or instruments be open to question in any court on any ground whatsoever except in an action commenced within the period.
Ala. Code § 2-11-39 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 2-11-39
Section 2-11-39 Suspension from Sale, Seizure and Condemnation of Catfish Sold in Violation of Provisions of Article
Status: in_force

Any catfish sold in violation of the provisions of this article shall be subject to suspension from sale, seizure and condemnation pursuant to Article 2 of Chapter 2 of this title.
Ala. Code § 2-1-10 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 1 / Section 2-1-10
Section 2-1-10 Offense Under Federal Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries that the violation of any of the provisions of this title is properly a subject of interstate commerce or otherwise comes under the supervision and jurisdiction of the United States, then the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his agent shall certify the matter to the proper federal authority.
Ala. Code § 11-50-95 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-95
Section 11-50-95 Redemption of Property After Sale
Status: in_force

Such property may be redeemed by the owner or his assigns or other person authorized to redeem property sold for taxes by the state within two years from the date of the sale by paying to the purchaser or the city or town treasurer for him the amount for which the property was sold with interest thereon at the rate of eight percent per annum from the date of sale, together with a fee of $2.00 for the expense of the conveyance.
Ala. Code § 2-5A-6 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 5A / Section 2-5A-6
Section 2-5A-6 Market Charges
Status: in_force

In acquiring the sites for such market or markets and in conducting same, the commissioner, with approval of the Board of Agriculture and Industries, may prescribe and collect reasonable charges to pay the necessary costs of acquiring, operating, and maintaining such sites and markets, may erect the necessary buildings, and may conduct the markets as provided by law.
Ala. Code § 11-43-45 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 43 / Section 11-43-45
Section 11-43-45 Officers - Election or Appointment
Status: in_force

All elections of officers shall be made viva voce, and a concurrence of a majority of the members to the council shall be required, and all members of the council may vote any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding. On the vote resulting in an election or appointment, the name of each member and for whom he voted shall be recorded.
Ala. Code § 11-50-148 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-148
Section 11-50-148 Form and Marking of Ballots
Status: in_force

The ballots shall have plainly printed on them the words: “Shall the electric plant, or gas plant or waterworks plant (as the case may be) be sold, leased or disposed of?” and following said words shall be “Yes” and below that “No” with convenient space for the voter to place a cross mark before the word expressive of his wish.
Ala. Code § 11-42-87 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 42 / Section 11-42-87
Section 11-42-87 Fees and Compensation of Probate Judge and Other Officers for Services Rendered
Status: in_force

The probate judge shall be entitled to the same fees for services performed under the provisions of this article as he is authorized by law to charge and collect for similar services rendered by him, and all other officers shall be entitled to the same compensation for services rendered by them as they are authorized by law to charge and collect for similar services rendered by them and the city at whose instance the service is performed under the provisions of this article shall pay all costs and expenses thereof, except in case of a contest as provided in this article.
Ala. Code § 11-51-48 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 51 / Section 11-51-48
Section 11-51-48 Computation and Entry in Assessment Book of Amount of Property Tax Owed by Taxpayer
Status: in_force

After the municipal taxes have been levied by the council, board of commissioners, or other governing body of such municipalities and certified to the tax assessors of the counties in which the same are situated for the next succeeding tax year beginning on the next succeeding October 1, the assessor must compute the amount thereof at the rate levied by the council, board of commissioners, or other governing body of such municipalities as shown by the certified copy furnished the assessor of the resolution or ordinance passed which will be owing by each taxpayer on the assessed value of the property for the then current state tax year and enter the same in the books of assessment required to be made by the assessor under the provisions of law opposite the name of such taxpayer and foot up the same, the footings to be carried from page to page and the total amount thereof footed up. Such books shall appropriately show that the assessed value as extended by the assessor is for the municipal taxes for the next succeeding tax year based on the assessed value for state taxation for the then current tax year.
Ala. Code § 11-65-24 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 65 / Section 11-65-24
Section 11-65-24 Application for Permit
Status: in_force

Any person, firm, corporation, or partnership desiring to obtain a permit as required by this chapter shall make application therefor on a form prescribed by the appropriate commission. Each individual applicant and each principal of any firm, chief executive officer of any corporation, and managing partner of any partnership applying for a permit for such firm, corporation, or partnership, as the case may be, shall be photographed and fingerprinted and shall supply such information as such commission may require. All information contained in, or submitted in support of, any application for a permit shall be confirmed by an affidavit of the person or persons making such application, whether such application shall be made on behalf of such person or persons or on behalf of a firm, corporation, or partnership. Any application for a permit made by an individual who seeks to work at a racing facility under the jurisdiction of a commission and any application for a permit made by a firm, corporation, or partnership that seeks to provide services or sell merchandise at such racing facility, as the case may be, shall include a statement as to whether such individual, or any owner, principal, officer, director, or partner of such firm, corporation, or partnership, or any employee of such firm, corporation, or partnership who will actually work at such racing facility, has ever been convicted of a felony or other offense involving moral turpitude. Any firm, corporation, or partnership which has previously received an effective permit from a commission to provide services or sell merchandise at a racing facility shall, as a condition of maintaining such permit, file with such commission supplemental information (including the statement described in the preceding sentence) concerning any new or additional owners, principals, officers, directors, or partners of such firm, corporation, or partnership, as the case may be, or any new or additional employees thereof who will actually work at such racing facility.

A commission shall be entitled to charge fees for permits according to such schedule as it shall adopt from time to time, and in addition to the fee that it may charge a firm, corporation, or partnership having employees at a racing facility under its jurisdiction, it may charge a separate fee for each individual employee of such firm, corporation, or partnership working at such racing facility; provided, however, that (1) the permit fee for any one firm, corporation, or partnership shall not exceed $1,000.00 in any period of one year and (2) the permit fee for any individual shall not exceed $50.00 in any period of one year, regardless of whether such individual is self-employed or is employed by a firm, corporation, or partnership also paying a permit fee.
Ala. Code § 2-5A-36 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 5A / Section 2-5A-36
Section 2-5A-36 Establishment of Debt Service Reserve Fund
Status: in_force

A debt service reserve fund may be established and maintained in such an amount and under such conditions for any or all series of the bonds as may be determined by the Board of Agriculture and Industries in its resolution relating to the bonds. The Department of Agriculture and Industries may make payments from bond proceeds or any other funds or revenues available to it into the debt service reserve fund. Income earned from the investment of monies held in the debt service reserve fund may be used by the Department of Agriculture and Industries for any purpose designated by the Board of Agriculture and Industries that would constitute a permitted use of funds of the Department of Agriculture and Industries under Act 98-243. Monies on deposit in the debt service reserve fund shall be invested only in permitted investments and the department is authorized to determine the conditions for the utilization of the debt service reserve fund in its resolution relating to the bonds secured thereby, and by the terms of such resolution, to dedicate and pledge such fund and the investment earnings therefrom to payment of debt service on the bonds.
Ala. Code § 11-62-12 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 62 / Section 11-62-12
Section 11-62-12 Establishment and Maintenance of Special Debt Service Reserve Funds, Etc
Status: in_force

Any authority may establish and maintain one or more special debt service reserve funds and such other special fund or funds as may be necessary or desirable for its corporate purposes and may pay into each such fund any moneys contributed or granted to such authority for the purpose of such fund by any governmental or public entity or any private party, any proceeds from the sale of bonds or notes to the extent provided in the resolution adopted by the board of such authority authorizing the issuance of such bonds or notes and any other moneys which may be made available to such authority for the purpose of such fund from any other source or sources.
Ala. Code § 2-7A-8 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 7A / Section 2-7A-8
Section 2-7A-8 Agriculture Exhibition Center Corporation Deemed an Economic Development Organization; Alabama Farm Center Deemed a Site
Status: in_force

The Agriculture Exhibition Center Corporation shall be deemed an economic development organization, and the Alabama Farm Center shall be deemed a site, for the purposes of Article 19A, Chapter 18, Title 40.
Ala. Code § 11-47-236 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-236
Section 11-47-236 Application of Alabama Administrative Procedure Act to Rules Adopted by Authorities
Status: in_force

The Alabama Administrative Procedure Act shall apply to rules adopted by authorities created pursuant to this article.
Ala. Code § 2-8-281 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-281
Section 2-8-281 Collection of Assessments; Deductions for Expenses
Status: in_force

In the event the required number of catfish producers approve by a referendum as provided in this article the levying of an assessment upon the sale of catfish feed for a promotional program, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall within 30 days, notify in writing every person licensed to sell or distribute catfish feed under authority of Section 2-21-19, that on or after the date designated in the notice, which shall be not less than 30 nor more than 60 days after the mailing of the notice by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, the amount of the assessment shall be levied on the sale of catfish feed by all distributors of catfish feed or by their agents or representatives from the purchase price paid to the seller of the feed where the feed is purchased within the state. All assessments so levied shall be remitted to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries not later than the last day of January, April, July, and October of each year. The books and records of all such distributors of catfish feed shall at all times during regular business hours be open for inspection by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his or her duly authorized representatives or agents for the purpose of ascertaining the accuracy of the amounts remitted as required by this section. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries shall deduct from all sums remitted to him or her under this section, to defray the expense incident to collection and administration of this article, an amount to be set by the Board of Agriculture and Industries, but the amount shall not exceed three percent of the sum remitted. All amounts so deducted by the commissioner shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the Agricultural Fund.
Ala. Code § 2-15-81 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-81
Section 2-15-81 Definitions
Status: in_force

When used in this division, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) PERSON. Any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other business unit.

(2) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama.

(3) ALABAMA LIVESTOCK DEALERS’ FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT. An act of the Legislature of Alabama of 1969 now appearing as Sections 2-15-130 through 2-15-138.

(4) DEALER. Any person engaged in the business of buying livestock as a dealer as defined in Section 2-15-131(5).

(5) LIVESTOCK MARKET. Any person engaged in the operation of a livestock market as defined in Section 2-15-60(6).
Ala. Code § 11-54B-16 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 54B / Section 11-54B-16
Section 11-54B-16 District Management Corporation Contracts
Status: in_force

The municipality may, by ordinance, authorize the district management corporation to contract work to be done on any street or streets, or on other municipal property, included in the self-help business improvement district. In the event that the municipality elects to contract with the district management corporation with respect to such work, the district management corporation shall, solely with respect to such contract, be subject to the statutory rules and regulations applicable to the letting of contracts by a municipality. Further, the plans and specifications of any construction work to be contracted shall be approved by the municipal engineer prior to initiation of any actions for the awarding of a contract under this article.
Ala. Code § 11-44E-48 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44E / Section 11-44E-48
Section 11-44E-48 Meetings of Commission
Status: in_force

The first meeting of each newly elected commission shall be held at two o’clock in the afternoon on the first Tuesday in October, with all subsequent meetings held at such times as may be prescribed by ordinance of the commission.
Ala. Code § 11-46-144 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 46 / Section 11-46-144
Section 11-46-144 Provisions of Article as to Offenses Cumulative
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2016-295, §1(a), effective May 10, 2016.
Ala. Code § 11-40-12 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 40 / Section 11-40-12
Section 11-40-12 Classification of Municipalities
Status: in_force

(a) There are hereby established eight classes of municipalities based on the population as certified by the 1970 federal decennial census, as authorized by Amendment No. 375, Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as follows:

Class 1: All cities with a population of 300,000 inhabitants or more;

Class 2: All cities with a population of not less than 175,000 and not more than 299,999 inhabitants;

Class 3: All cities with a population of not less than 100,000 and not more than 174,999 inhabitants;

Class 4: All cities with a population of not less than 50,000 and not more than 99,999 inhabitants;

Class 5: All cities with a population of not less than 25,000 and not more than 49,999 inhabitants;

Class 6: All cities with a population of not less than 12,000 and not more than 24,999 inhabitants;

Class 7: All cities with a population of not less than 6,000 and not more than 11,999 inhabitants;

Class 8: All cities and towns with a population of 5,999 inhabitants or less.

(b) The Legislature may refer, in the title thereof, to the class or classes of municipalities herein set out, in adopting general laws.

(c) Any municipality incorporated after June 28, 1979, shall be placed in one of the above classes according to the population of the municipality at the time of its incorporation.
Ala. Code § 2-15-110 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-110
Section 2-15-110 Inhumane Handling or Handling in Violation of Article Prohibited
Status: in_force

In order to prevent injury to animals in livestock markets and in transit and to prevent unnecessary abuse and cruelty to animals with resultant loss of profit from the slaughter and sale of such animals, it shall be unlawful in this state to handle or transport such animals in any manner not consistent with humane methods of treatment to such extent as is reasonably possible or in a manner not in compliance with or in violation of the requirements of this article.
Ala. Code § 2-13-118 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 13 / Section 2-13-118
Section 2-13-118 Collection of Assessment If Voted On
Status: in_force

If in such referendum called under the provisions of this article, a simple majority of the bulk tank units eligible to participate and voting therein shall vote in the affirmative and in favor of the levying and collection of such assessment proposed in such milk referendum covered thereby, then such assessment shall be collected in the manner determined and announced by the state ADA.
Ala. Code § 11-50-497 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-497
Section 11-50-497 Powers and Duties Generally
Status: in_force

The board shall have complete control of the municipal electric distribution system of such municipality and shall have authority to employ, upon terms to be fixed by the board, but in no event for a term exceeding one year, and to discharge with or without cause, managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, attorneys, linemen, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such municipal electric distribution system, except that in those cities where public employees are governed by a citywide civil service or merit system all of such managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, linemen, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such system shall in all respects, both as to selection, employment, discharge, tenure of office, or employment and as to pay, promotion, demotion, and in all other respects covered by said civil service or merit system, be governed and controlled by said civil service or merit system, anything in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding. It shall have the power and authority and it shall be its duty to charge for and collect all accounts due for any service which the municipal electric distribution system may furnish to its customers, upon rates to be provided and approved by the governing body of such municipality. The board shall have the right to delegate to any manager which it may employ the authority to employ and discharge employees which may be needed; to direct their work and to manage, control, and operate the municipal electric distribution system and to account to the board for his acts in so doing, but his authority shall be restricted as the authority of the board is restricted in this chapter.
Ala. Code § 11-50-71 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-71
Section 11-50-71 Authorized
Status: in_force

All cities and towns in this state shall have authority to purchase sanitary sewers or sanitary sewer systems already constructed and draining territory within their corporate limits, although the trunk sewers and disposal plants thereof may be located outside their corporate limits, and to cause the purchase price of said sewers or sewer systems with the disposal plants, together with the cost of improvements made thereon, to be assessed against the property abutting on the streets, avenues, alleys, highways, or other public places so improved or drained by said sewers or sewer systems to the extent of the increase of the value of such property by reason of the special benefits derived from such sewers or sewer systems and from the purchase of the same by the municipality.
Ala. Code § 11-47-170 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-170
Section 11-47-170 Acquisition of Lands, Easements, Etc., by Municipality; Limitations on Condemnation
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), whenever in the judgment of the council, commission, or other governing body of a city or town it may be necessary or expedient for the carrying out and full exercise of any power granted by the applicable provisions of this title or any other applicable provision of law, the town or city shall have full power and authority to acquire by purchase the necessary lands or rights, easements, or interests therein, thereunder, or thereover or, for the purposes for which private property may be acquired by condemnation, may proceed to condemn the same in the manner provided by this article, or by the general laws of this state governing the taking of lands or the acquiring of interests therein for the uses for which private property may be taken, and such proceedings shall be governed in every respect by the general laws of this state pertaining thereto or by the provisions on the subject contained in this article when the same are followed.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a municipality or county may not condemn property for the purposes of private retail, office, commercial, industrial, or residential development; primarily for enhancement of tax revenue; for transfer to a person, nongovernmental entity, public-private partnership, corporation, or other business entity; or for the primary purpose of acquiring a mortgage or deed of trust. Provided, however, the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the use of eminent domain by any municipality, housing authority, or other public entity based upon a finding of blight in an area covered by any redevelopment plan or urban renewal plan pursuant to Chapters 2 and 3 of Title 24, provided the primary purpose of the use of eminent domain pursuant to Chapters 2 and 3 of Title 24 is not primarily to acquire a mortgage or deed of trust, but just compensation, in all cases, shall continue to be first made to the owner. Nothing in this article shall limit the exercise of eminent domain by or for the benefit of public utilities or other entities engaged in the generation, transmission, or distribution of telephone, gas, electricity, water, sewer, or other utility products or services. Nothing in this article shall be interpreted to prohibit a municipal or county governing body from exercising the power of eminent domain to condemn real property, irrespective of whether the property may be subject to a mortgage or deed of trust, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, or operating streets and roadways, government buildings, or park and recreation facilities.

(c) Property condemned pursuant to the authorizations as described in subsections (a) and (b), if not ever used for the purpose or purposes for which it was condemned or for some other public use, that is subsequently determined to be sold, shall be first offered for sale to the person or persons from whom the property was condemned, or his or her known or ascertainable heirs or assigns, at the price which was paid for the property, less such amount, if any, as the person or persons from whom the property was condemned shall show by good and sufficient documentation to be the amount of income and transaction taxes, if any, actually paid in connection therewith, and if the offer shall not be accepted within 90 days from the date it is made, the property may be sold to any other person, but only at public sale after legal notice is given.
Ala. Code § 2-14-6 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 2-14-6
Section 2-14-6 Shipment, Movement, Etc., of Used Beekeeping Equipment or Appliances Without Permit from Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful to move, transport or ship any honeybees, combs or used beekeeping equipment or appliances without a permit from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries bearing the approval or countersignature of the State Apiarist. The permit must have been issued within the calendar year during which the movement or shipment is to be made; and, before such a permit is issued, the proposed movement of any honeybees or beekeeping equipment shall be in compliance with all conditions and requirements that may be set forth and prescribed therefor under rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries for the prevention and the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of honeybees.
Ala. Code § 11-62-6 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 62 / Section 11-62-6
Section 11-62-6 Officers
Status: in_force

The officers of an authority shall consist of a chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer, and such other officers as its board shall deem necessary or appropriate. The offices of secretary and treasurer may but need not be held by the same person. The chairman and vice chairman of an authority shall be elected by the board from the membership thereof; the secretary, the treasurer and any other officers of the authority may but need not be members of the board and shall also be elected by the board. The chairman, vice chairman and secretary of the authority shall also be the chairman, vice chairman and secretary of the board, respectively.
Ala. Code § 11-43C-58 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 43C / Section 11-43C-58
Section 11-43C-58 Emergency Appropriations
Status: in_force

At any time in any budget year, the council may make emergency appropriations to meet a pressing need for public expenditures, for other than a regular or recurring requirement, to protect the public health, safety, or welfare. Such appropriation may be made by the council by not less than four affirmative votes, but only on the recommendation of the mayor.
Ala. Code § 2-19-21 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 2-19-21
Section 2-19-21 Removal of Cotton from Place Where Sold Prior to Weighing Without Consent of Seller
Status: in_force

Without the consent of the seller, cotton must not be removed from the place where it may be when sold until the weight thereof has been ascertained.
Ala. Code § 11-44-33 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44 / Section 11-44-33
Section 11-44-33 Resolutions, Bylaws, or Ordinances Granting Franchises, Etc., for Use of Streets, Public Highways, Etc. - Publication; Effective Date
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2016-295, §1(a), effective May 10, 2016.
Ala. Code § 2-29-7 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 29 / Section 2-29-7
Section 2-29-7 Maintenance of Records by Commission Merchants as to Handling, Storage or Sale of Farm Products
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of every commission merchant upon receipt of any farm products for sale on commission to make and keep a correct record thereof, showing in detail the following with reference to the handling, sale or storage of any such farm products: the name and address of the consignor, the date received, the grade, quantity and condition when received, the amounts sold, the date of each sale, the price for which sold, itemized statement of the expenses connected with or incurred in making sale and to whom sold, including the complete name and address. A copy of such record and account of sale of such farm products, together with remittance in full of the amount realized by such sale, less expenses and commission, shall be mailed to the consignor within 48 hours after the consummation of and in no case shall such remittance be delayed for a longer period than seven days after the date of consummation of the sale of such farm products or any part thereof, unless such longer period shall have previously been agreed upon by contract in writing between the consignor and such commission merchant. It shall also be the duty of every commission merchant to retain a copy of every record of account of sales made as required by this section for a period of one year from the date thereof, which copy shall at all times be available for and open to the inspection of the commissioner. The burden of establishing the accuracy and correctness of any such record or account of sales or copy thereof shall rest upon the commission merchant making such record or account of sales.
Ala. Code § 11-43-144 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 43 / Section 11-43-144
Section 11-43-144 Compensation for Death or Disability of Firefighters from Occupational Diseases. (Amended by Act 2026-353)
Status: in_force

THIS ACT WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2026-353, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 2026. SEE ACT FOR AMENDED LANGUAGE.

(a) As used in this section the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them herein unless a contrary meaning is indicated by the context:

(1) BENEFIT. Any monetary allowance payable by a city or from a pension system established for the firemen of a city to a firefighter on account of his or her disability or to his or her dependents on account of his or her death, irrespective of whether the same is payable under a pension law of the state or under some other law of the state.

(2) CITY. Any municipality of the state, regardless of its population.

(3) DISABILITY. Disability to perform duties as a firefighter.

(4) FIREFIGHTER. A person employed as a firefighter by a city.

(5) FIREFIGHTER’S OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE. Any condition or impairment of health caused by any of the following:

a. Hypertension.

b. Heart disease.

c. Respiratory disease.

d. Cancer that manifests itself in a firefighter during the period in which the firefighter is in the service of the city, provided the firefighter demonstrates that he or she was exposed, while in the employ of the city, to a known carcinogen that is reasonably linked to the disabling cancer, and the cancer shall be presumed to arise out of and in the course of the firefighter’s employment, unless the city demonstrates by a preponderance of the evidence that the cancer was caused by some other means.

e. AIDS that manifests itself in a firefighter during the period in which the firefighter is in the service of the city, provided the firefighter demonstrates that he or she was exposed to AIDS while in the line and scope of his or her employment with the city.

f. Hepatitis that manifests itself in a firefighter during the period in which the firefighter is in the service of the city, provided the firefighter demonstrates that he or she was exposed to hepatitis while in the line and scope of his or her employment with the city.

(b)(1) This section shall apply to firefighters who, upon entering the service of the city as firefighters, have successfully passed a physical examination which failed to reveal any evidence of a firefighter’s occupational disease and who have completed at least three years’ service as firefighters.

(2) If a physical examination was not required at the time of entry into service, a firefighter who has completed at least three years’ continuous service as a firefighter next preceding September 8, 1967, shall be deemed eligible for benefits under this section.

(c)(1) If a firefighter who qualifies for benefits under this section suffers disability as a result of a firefighter’s occupational disease, his or her disability shall be compensable the same as any service-connected disability under any law that provides benefits for firefighters of the city injured in the line of duty. If a firefighter, who qualifies for benefits under this section, dies as the result of a firefighter’s occupational disease, his or her death shall be compensable to the same extent as the death of a firefighter killed in the line of duty, and shall be considered to have been killed in the line of duty for purposes of Sections 36-30-1 to 36-30-7, inclusive.

(2) Notwithstanding subdivision (1), a firefighter who dies of cancer, as provided in paragraph (a)(5)d., within 10 years of the firefighter’s last date of employment shall be considered to have been killed in the line of duty for purposes of Sections 36-30-1 to 36-30-7, inclusive.

(d) In the case of cancer, heart disease, hypertension, and respiratory disease, the city must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the condition was caused by some means other than the occupation to disqualify the firefighter from benefits.
Ala. Code § 11-44E-110 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44E / Section 11-44E-110
Section 11-44E-110 Fiscal, Budget, and Accounting Year
Status: in_force

The fiscal year of the city government shall begin on the first day of October and shall end on the last day of September of each calendar year. Such fiscal year shall also constitute the budget and accounting year. As used in this chapter, the term “budget year” shall mean the fiscal year for which any particular budget is adopted and in which it is administered.
Ala. Code § 11-44C-86 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44C / Section 11-44C-86
Section 11-44C-86 Participation in Meetings of Council by Mayor, Department Heads, Etc
Status: in_force

The mayor, the heads of all departments, and such other officers of the city as may be designated by the council, shall be entitled to attend meetings of the council, but shall have no vote therein. The mayor shall have the right to take part in the discussion of all matters coming before the council, and the directors and other officers shall be entitled to take part in all discussions of the council relating to their respective offices, departments, or agencies.
Ala. Code § 2-3-5 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 3 / Section 2-3-5
Section 2-3-5 Assistance from Specialists and Scientists of Auburn University and Agricultural Extension Service
Status: in_force

The State Board of Agriculture and Industries is hereby authorized to call into consultation the heads of departments, professors or scientists of Auburn University and officers or specialists of the Alabama Agricultural Extension Service whenever it may be deemed advisable to secure technical, scientific or practical information relating to any of the subjects of this title. It shall be the duty of such heads of departments, professors or scientists of Auburn University and of the officers or specialists of the Alabama Agricultural Extension Service, when so requested by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries, to attend any meetings of the board and to furnish such information, facts and data in their possession as may be requested by the said board. The actual traveling expenses of such persons in attending such meeting may be paid from the Agricultural Fund.
Ala. Code § 11-47-67 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-67
Section 11-47-67 Reinterment of Remains Generally
Status: in_force

Whenever under the provisions of this division the remains of any person shall have been removed from any cemetery or part thereof abandoned as such burial place under the provisions of the division by the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person having charge or control of such cemetery lands, such remains shall be transported to and reinterred in any other cemetery in this state where burials are permitted by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person having charge or control of such cemetery lands or part thereof or deposited in a mausoleum or columbarium as provided in this section.

The remains of each person so reinterred shall be placed in a separate and suitable receptacle and decently and respectfully interred under such rules and regulations now in force or that may be adopted by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person making such removal. If the remains of any such person so removed from said cemetery lands are deposited in a memorial mausoleum or columbarium built for that purpose, each body so removed shall be inclosed in a separate and suitable receptacle or container and shall be so deposited in a decent and respectful manner in accordance with such rules and regulations now existing or that may hereafter be adopted by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such cemetery lands.
Ala. Code § 11-42-58 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 42 / Section 11-42-58
Section 11-42-58 Certain Annexed Territory and Property Therein Subject to Taxation After Five Years
Status: in_force

From time to time after the lapse of five years from the time when such territory is brought within the corporate limits of the city, all portions of such territory as has residing on it a population of at least 20 persons on a contiguous 10 acres of land (in form of a square or any other shape) and all property having a situs on such populated territory shall thereafter be subject to taxation by the city and taxes thereon shall be paid to the city.
Ala. Code § 11-42-181 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 42 / Section 11-42-181
Section 11-42-181 Disposition of Property of Absorbed Municipalities
Status: in_force

The city or town so altering or rearranging its boundary lines shall become vested with the title and ownership of all property, both real and personal, including taxes, moneys, school buildings and grounds, parks, fixtures and furniture of school buildings, city or town halls, equipment and apparatus of fire departments, city or town jails, water, gas or electric systems, including all mains or pipes used for conducting the water or gas or electric lines, wires, poles, conduits and all apparatus connected with any waterworks, gas or electric light systems belonging to the city or town so absorbed or whose government has been extinguished, subject to the same conditions and to be held for the same uses and purposes as before.
Ala. Code § 11-51-62 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 51 / Section 11-51-62
Section 11-51-62 Proceedings for Sale of Land for Payment of Taxes - Appeal by State from Decree of Sale
Status: in_force

In case of an appeal by the state from a decree of tax sale under the provisions of law in regard to state and county taxes the appeal by the state shall be in behalf of such municipality the same as it is in behalf of the county, and all proceedings shall be under and in accordance with the provisions of law in regard to state taxes and county taxes.
Ala. Code § 2-15-24 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-24
Section 2-15-24 Furnishing, Etc., of Forms for Registration, Reregistration and Transfer of Brands by Department
Status: in_force

The department shall prescribe and furnish forms on which applications for registration, reregistration and transfer of livestock brands shall be made and shall furnish such forms to the sheriff and the county agricultural agent of each county of the state to be distributed on request to livestock owners desiring to make application for registration of brands and such applications may also be furnished to applicants by the department.
Ala. Code § 2-8-103 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-103
Section 2-8-103 Penalty; Inspection of Books and Records; Injunctions
Status: in_force

(a) Any dealer, handler, processor or other purchaser of soybeans who willfully fails or refuses to deduct and pay to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries any assessment required to be so deducted and remitted to the commissioner or who fails or refuses to obtain a permit authorizing the purchase of soybeans in Alabama shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $500.00 and, in the discretion of the court, may also be imprisoned for a term not to exceed six months. Any purchaser of soybeans who fails or refuses to allow the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries or his authorized agents and employees to inspect and review his books and records which disclose his purchases of soybeans for the purpose of ascertaining the accuracy of amounts deducted and remitted as required under this article shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as in this subsection provided.

(b) In addition to the above penalty, the circuit court, or any judge thereof, shall have jurisdiction for cause shown, to grant a temporary restraining order or permanent injunction or both, restraining and enjoining any person from buying soybeans in Alabama without having a valid permit as required under this article or after such a permit has been revoked or from violating any other provisions and requirements of this article. Petitions for injunctive relief as authorized under this subsection shall be filed in the name of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries in the circuit court in the county of residence of the person who buys soybeans in violation of the provisions of this article or in the county where such violation occurs. Any temporary restraining order or permanent injunction issued under this subsection shall be issued without a bond.
Ala. Code § 11-44-159 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44 / Section 11-44-159
Section 11-44-159 Continuation of Territorial Limits; Creation of Wards; Vesting of Rights, Powers, and Privileges
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2016-295, §1(a), effective May 10, 2016.
Ala. Code § 2-8-88 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-88
Section 2-8-88 Eligibility to Vote in Referendum; Question to Be Voted On
Status: in_force

Any referendum conducted under the provisions of this article may be held on a statewide basis pursuant to rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries for the holding of such referendum. All producers of soybeans who shall be subject to any assessments levied under the provisions of this article and who produced soybeans in the crop year immediately preceding the referendum shall be entitled to vote in the referendum. In such referendum, individuals so eligible for participation therein shall vote upon the question of whether there shall be levied an assessment for a period of five years in an amount set forth in the call for such referendum, which amount shall not exceed the limitations prescribed by this article.
Ala. Code § 11-61A-15 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 61A / Section 11-61A-15
Section 11-61A-15 Issuance of Bonds
Status: in_force

(a) The authority may issue bonds under and secured by an indenture between the authority and a trustee. The trustee may be a private person or corporation, including, but not limited to, any trust company or bank having trust powers, whether the bank or trust company is located within or without the state.

(b) In any indenture or resolution providing for the issuance of bonds, the authority may pledge, for payment of the principal of and the interest on the bonds, any of its revenues to which its right then exists or may subsequently come into existence and may assign, as security for the payment, any of its leases, franchises, permits, and contracts. In any such indenture the authority may mortgage any of its properties, including any properties subsequently acquired by it. Any pledge of revenues shall be valid and binding from the time it is made, and the revenues pledged and subsequently received by the authority, and any property of the authority mortgaged shall immediately become subject to the lien of the pledge without any physical delivery or further act. The lien of the pledge shall be valid and binding against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the authority, irrespective of whether the parties have actual notice thereof, from the time a statement is filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the principal office of the authority is located. The notice shall state only the date on which the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds was adopted by the board, the principal amount of bonds issued, a brief description of the revenues so pledged, and a brief description of any property mortgaged or any property from which the revenue is pledged.

(c) In any indenture or resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds and pledging for the benefit thereof revenues from any one or more of its parking facilities, the authority may include provisions customarily contained in instruments securing evidence of indebtedness. These provisions may include, but shall not be limited to, each of the following:

(1) Collection, segregation, and application of any rental or other revenues due to or to become due to the authority.

(2) The terms to be incorporated in any lease agreement respecting any property of the authority.

(3) The maintenance and insurance of any building or structure owned by the authority.

(4) The creation and maintenance of special funds from any revenue of the authority.

(5) The rights and remedies available in the event of default to the holder of the bonds or the trustee under the indenture.

(d) In case of default by the authority in payment of the principal of, or the interest on the bonds, or in any of the agreements on the part of the authority that may properly be included in any indenture securing the bonds, any holder of any of the bonds or any of the coupons, or the trustee under any indenture if so authorized in the indenture, may, in addition to any other available remedies, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, enforce payment of the principal or interest and compel performance of all duties of the board and officers of the authority. The holder shall be entitled as a matter of right and regardless of the sufficiency of any security to the appointment of a receiver in equity with all the powers of the receiver for the operation and maintenance of the property of the authority covered by the indenture and the collection, segregation, and application of revenues therefrom. The indenture may also contain provisions restricting the individual rights of action of the holders of the bonds and coupons.
Ala. Code § 2-22-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 2-22-4
Section 2-22-4 Fertilizer Dealer Permit Required; Relation to Section 2-22-5
Status: in_force

Before any person may sell or offer for sale or exchange in this state any commercial fertilizer to a user thereof, the person shall first procure a fertilizer dealer permit from the commissioner authorizing the person to sell, exchange, or deal therein. The permit shall be issued on payment of a fee established by the Board of Agriculture and Industries not to exceed ten dollars ($10), and shall expire on September 30 of each year. A permit as required by this section shall be obtained for each separate place of business at which commercial fertilizer is sold or offered for sale to the user thereof. Any person required to procure a license under Section 2-22-5 shall not be required to procure a permit as required by this section as it is the intent of this section that every person who purchases any commercial fertilizer for resale where the fertilizer is not manufactured, mixed, formulated, or labeled by the person is required to obtain the permit required by this section.
Ala. Code § 2-15-63 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 2-15-63
Section 2-15-63 Bonds of Livestock Market Operators
Status: in_force

Any person operating a livestock market in this state shall make and execute a bond in favor of the State of Alabama, which bond shall be made by a surety company qualified to do business in the State of Alabama and such bond shall be filed in the office of the commissioner. The minimum amount of such bond shall be $5,000.00 or such greater sum not to exceed $50,000.00. The exact amount of said bond shall be determined by dividing the gross amount of business done by such livestock market during the preceding 12 months or such part thereof as the livestock market was engaged in business by the number of days on which sales were made, and such bond shall be not less than the nearest multiple of $1,000.00. Any bond accepted under the provisions of this section shall be not less than $5,000.00 nor more than $50,000.00. In the event the livestock market has not engaged in business during the year preceding the date of its application for a permit, the amount of the bond shall be determined by the commissioner upon the basis of anticipated business to be done during the year for which a permit is applied. The commissioner shall require a bond in an amount to be arrived at by dividing the gross amount of anticipated business by the number of days on which sales are to be held during the year for which the permit is applied.

Such bond shall be conditioned that the livestock market named therein as principal shall, upon the sale of any livestock, promptly pay to the rightful owners all money received by it, less reasonable expenses and commissions.

Any person having a right of action against the livestock market named as principal in such bond may bring a civil action in his own name against the principal and surety of such bond for the recovery of any loss sustained by the owner of livestock for the violation of the conditions of said bond; provided, however, that the aggregate liability of the surety for all such losses shall in no event exceed the amount of said bond.

The commissioner is hereby authorized to accept a bond made by any livestock market pursuant to the bonding provisions of the federal Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, as amended, and any livestock market presenting such a bond shall be deemed to have complied with the bonding provisions of this section; provided, that the amount of such bond shall equal or be greater than the amount required under this section. The commissioner is authorized to be designated as trustee in any bond or principal-surety contract or he shall be authorized to designate the director or chief of the division of the department which handles the administration of this division to be designated and named as trustee in any bond accepted as authorized in this section which is made by any livestock market as required under the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, as amended.
Ala. Code § 11-68-1 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 68 / Section 11-68-1
Section 11-68-1 Purpose of Chapter
Status: in_force

The purposes of this chapter are to provide for the establishment of historic preservation commissions and architectural review boards, and to promote the educational, cultural, economic and general welfare of Alabama municipalities: through the preservation and protection of buildings, sites, structures, areas, and districts of historic significance and interest; through the preservation and enhancement of the national, state, and local historic, architectural, archaeological, and aesthetic heritage found in Alabama; and through the promotion and enhancement of Alabama’s historic and aesthetic attraction to tourists and visitors.
Ala. Code § 22-58-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 58 / Section 22-58-4
Section 22-58-4 Department Collaboration; Development of Comprehensive Plan
Status: in_force

(a) ADMH shall work collaboratively with ADVA, leveraging each other’s roles, relationships, and expertise. The committee shall develop a comprehensive plan in response to a review of the following:

(1) The current state of Alabama veterans’ mental health and rates of substance use.

(2) Mental health, substance use, recovery, and other veteran support services in Alabama.

(3) Needs assessments previously conducted for the purpose of identifying gaps in services and support. The review of needs assessments shall include qualitative and quantitative feedback of post-9/11 veterans in Alabama, as well as the need for additional services and coordination of existing services.

(b) The review shall be completed by January 1, 2025.

(c) The committee shall consult with others, including the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, as appropriate, during the development of the comprehensive plan.

(d) ADMH shall align the comprehensive plan with state and national behavioral health standards.
Ala. Code § 11-44-45 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44 / Section 11-44-45
Section 11-44-45 Selection of Municipal Employees
Status: reserved

Repealed by Act 2016-295, §1(a), effective May 10, 2016.
Ala. Code § 11-40-63 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 40 / Section 11-40-63
Section 11-40-63 Violations of Class 2 Municipality Housing and Building Code; Priority of Liens
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any fees, penalties, and abatement costs imposed against property other than owner occupied real property for violations of a Class 2 municipality’s housing and building codes adopted pursuant to the Code of Alabama 1975, may be enforced in rem as a lien in accordance with this article.

(b) Every municipal code lien, as defined in this article, shall be superior to all other liens, except those liens for taxes described or referenced in Section 11-51-6.
Ala. Code § 11-47-234 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 47 / Section 11-47-234
Section 11-47-234 Eminent Domain
Status: in_force

Neither an authority nor a participating subdivision in an authority shall have the power of eminent domain for a project under this article.
Ala. Code § 2-6-81 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 6 / Section 2-6-81
Section 2-6-81 Refunding Securities
Status: in_force

Any securities issued by the corporation may from time to time thereafter be refunded by the issuance of refunding securities of the corporation, but the amount of any refunding securities so issued shall not exceed the principal of the securities refunded thereby together with any unpaid interest thereon, any redemption premium thereon and any expenses of such refunding. Any such refunding securities may be issued regardless of whether the securities to be refunded shall have then matured or shall thereafter mature, and such refunding may be effected either by sale of the refunding securities and the application of the proceeds thereof to the payment or redemption of the securities so refunded or by exchange of the refunding securities for those to be refunded thereby; provided, that the holders of any securities so to be refunded shall not be compelled without their consent to surrender their securities for payment or exchange prior to the date on which they are payable or, if they are called for redemption, prior to the date on which they may be redeemed by the corporation according to their terms. Any refunding securities of the corporation shall be payable solely from and secured by the revenues out of which the securities to be refunded thereby were payable. The proceeds derived from any sale of refunding securities shall be applied to the purchase, redemption or payment of the securities refunded thereby. Pending the application of said proceeds to the purchase, redemption or payment of such outstanding securities, the said proceeds may be invested in eligible investments pursuant to an escrow or trust agreement providing for the future application of such proceeds to the purchase, redemption or payment of such outstanding securities.
Ala. Code § 2-13-16 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 13 / Section 2-13-16
Section 2-13-16 Imitation Butter and Imitation Cheese Defined
Status: in_force

Every article, substitute or compound, except that produced from pure milk or cream from milk cows, made in the semblance of or designed to be used for and in the place of butter, is imitation butter. Every article, substitute or compound, except that produced from pure milk or cream from milk of cows, made in the semblance of or designed to be used for and in the place of cheese, is imitation cheese. No person shall manufacture, sell, solicit or take orders to deliver, ship, consign or forward by any common carrier, public or private, and no common carrier shall knowingly receive or transport any such imitation butter or cheese except in the manner and subject to the provisions of this article and in compliance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries.
Ala. Code § 11-48-43 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 48 / Section 11-48-43
Section 11-48-43 Appeals from Judgment of Circuit Court - by Property Owner - Authorized; Bonds
Status: in_force

An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of Alabama by any person interested in said property from the judgment entered by the circuit court within 42 days from the date of entry of such judgment, upon giving bond for costs of appeal or, if a stay of execution of the judgment is desired, upon giving further bond in such sum as the judge of the circuit court may prescribe, payable to the city or town with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the clerk of said court, conditioned to pay such judgment or perform such judgment as the supreme court may render in the action, and all such costs and damages as the city or town may have sustained if the judgment is affirmed.
Ala. Code § 11-46-36 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 46 / Section 11-46-36
Section 11-46-36 Preparation, Certification, Filing, and Publication of Lists of Qualified Regular Voters
Status: in_force

(a) The mayor or other chief executive officer of the city or town shall cause to be made a list of the qualified voters who reside within the corporate limits of such city or town and who are registered to vote regular ballots, dividing the same into separate alphabetical lists of the qualified voters of each ward where such city or town has been divided into wards and all qualified voters thereof vote at one box or voting machine, or dividing such list into separate alphabetical lists of voters authorized to vote at each respective box or voting machine if the list of qualified voters has been divided alphabetically and each alphabetical group assigned a box or machine at which to vote. He or she shall have such lists compared with the official list of electors qualified to vote during the current year on file in the probate office of the county in which the municipality is situated and shall certify on each list prepared pursuant to this section that it is a correct list of the voters who are qualified to vote regular ballots in the municipality, ward, ballot box, or voting machine to which it appertains. He or she shall have full access to all registration lists of the county for this purpose. A copy of each list so prepared shall be filed with the municipal clerk, who shall file and retain each such list as a public record in his or her office, on or before the third Tuesday in July before a regular municipal election. The clerk shall prepare a copy of the list of qualified voters authorized to vote at each of the respective polling places in the municipality, and, prior to the opening of the polls on election day, he or she shall furnish to the inspectors, or one of them, of each ballot box or voting machine at each polling place a copy of the list of qualified voters authorized to vote at the box or voting machine for which he or she was appointed an inspector. The clerk shall also publish the list of qualified voters authorized to vote at the ensuing election at least five days prior to the election by posting copies thereof in at least three public places in the municipality.

(b) Following each election, the municipal clerk shall make a copy of that portion of the poll list to be made a public record and shall maintain the original in his or her office. The clerk shall redact any information required to be redacted pursuant to Section 17-4-33 from the copy to be made a public record. This subsection shall not affect poll lists used at local precincts.
Ala. Code § 11-61A-5 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 61A / Section 11-61A-5
Section 11-61A-5 Attachments to Certificate
Status: in_force

(a) The certificate of incorporation of the authority shall be signed and acknowledged by the incorporators before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take acknowledgments to deeds.

(b) The certificate shall have each of the following attached:

(1) A certified copy of the resolution required in Section 11-61A-3.

(2) A certificate by the Secretary of State that the name proposed for the authority is not identical to that of any other corporation organized under the laws of the state or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion and uncertainty.

(c) The incorporators shall file the certificate of incorporation of the authority, together with the attachments in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the principal office of the authority is located. The judge of probate shall immediately receive and record the certificate and attachments.

(d) When the certificate of incorporation and attachments have been filed, the authority shall come into existence and shall constitute a public corporation under the name set forth in the certificate. The authority shall be vested with the rights and powers granted in this chapter.
Ala. Code § 11-52-72 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 52 / Section 11-52-72
Section 11-52-72 Purposes of Zoning Regulations Generally; Considerations in Establishment Thereof Generally
Status: in_force

Such regulations shall be made in accordance with a comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers, to promote health and the general welfare, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the overcrowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, and to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public requirements.

Such regulations shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things, to the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses and with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate use of land throughout such municipality.
Ala. Code § 11-44B-44 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44B / Section 11-44B-44
Section 11-44B-44 Probationary Period for Appointments
Status: in_force

All appointments to covered jobs, including promotions, demotions, and transfers, shall be on a probationary basis for a period of one year from the beginning of employment. For those jobs in which the individual is required to meet state minimum standards, the probationary period shall conclude upon fulfillment of the standards or the passage of one year, whichever is later. A leave of absence will stay the probationary period for the length of the leave. During a covered employee’s probationary period, a department head may discharge a probationer under his or her supervision by stating in writing the reasons to the mayor. If the mayor disagrees with the discharge, he or she, within five days of receipt of the written statement, may notify the department head and the probationer of the time and place of a hearing to be conducted in regard to the discharge. Upon failure of the mayor to so notify within five business days, the mayor shall be deemed to have consented to the discharge. In the event that a hearing is scheduled, the department head may suspend the probationer without pay pending the hearing.
Ala. Code § 11-50-270 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-270
Section 11-50-270 Completion of Sale Pursuant to Final Determination of Commission or Court; Effect of Failure of Seller to Tender Deed, Etc., or of Board to Accept Deed, Pay Purchase Price, Etc
Status: in_force

The owner shall have 30 days after a final determination by the Public Service Commission or the courts to notify the waterworks board of its acceptance of such determination and shall have a further period of 30 days to tender a good and sufficient deed of conveyance to the waterworks board of the property required by the order of the commission or the court to be purchased by placing such deed in escrow with the commission or the court, as the case may be, and to comply with all other terms and conditions of the order or judgment. The waterworks board shall have 60 days from the date of the deposit of the deed in escrow to accept or reject such deed and, if it accepts, the waterworks board shall have a further period of 60 days to pay to the owner the price determined as provided in this division and to comply with all other terms and conditions of the order or judgment. For good cause shown the commission or the court may extend any period of time fixed in this section, such extension or extensions not to exceed a total of 60 days.

If the owner fails to notify the waterworks board of his acceptance and make tender of a deed as provided in this section within the time so fixed or extended or to comply with all other terms and conditions of the order or judgment, the waterworks board may proceed as provided by law to construct or otherwise acquire a plant or system within the territory where the property of such owner or any part thereof is located. If the waterworks board shall reject the tender provided for in this section or shall fail to pay the purchase price of the property determined as provided in this division or to comply with all other terms and conditions of the order or judgment, the waterworks board shall not engage in the business of operating a plant or system for the manufacture or distribution of gas in the territory where the property involved is located until it shall again be authorized as provided by this division and the general law relating thereto to engage in such business, and such waterworks board shall not again institute proceedings under this division sooner than two years from the date of such rejection or the expiration of the time for the payment of such purchase price, as the case may be.
Ala. Code § 11-42-162 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 42 / Section 11-42-162
Section 11-42-162 Continuation of Rights of Action of Municipality Annexed
Status: in_force

All rights of action existing in favor of the city or town annexed shall be a right of action existing in favor of the city or town annexing the other city or town, and it may bring a civil action the same as if such right of action originally existed in favor of the annexing city or town.
Ala. Code § 11-51-73 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 51 / Section 11-51-73
Section 11-51-73 Official Bonds of Probate Judge, County Tax, Assessor and County Tax Collector
Status: in_force

The official bond of the judge of probate and of the county tax assessor and of the county tax collector in the counties in which such municipalities are situated shall be and shall be held to be for the protection of such municipalities for the faithful discharge of the duties of such officers to such municipalities in the same manner and way as it is for the protection of the State of Alabama and the counties in which such municipalities are situated.
Ala. Code § 2-10-50 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 2-10-50
Section 2-10-50 Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:

(1) AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. Such term shall include horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, fish, aquatic and seafood products and any farm products.

(2) MEMBER. Such term shall include actual members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in organizations organized with capital stock.

(3) ASSOCIATION. Any corporation organized under this article.

(4) PERSON. Such term shall include individuals, firms, partnerships and associations.

(5) PRODUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. Such term shall include fishing activities and the harvesting of aquatic and seafood products as well as the production of other agricultural or farm products hereinabove defined in subdivision (1) of this section.
Ala. Code § 11-43-185 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 43 / Section 11-43-185
Section 11-43-185 Agreements for Furnishing by State Personnel Department of Services and Facilities for Administration of Merit Systems for Law Enforcement Officers of Municipalities - Classification of Municipal Law Enforcement Officers and Applicability of State Merit System Rules and Regulations
Status: in_force

Each law enforcement officer in the civil service of any municipality at the time such municipality enters into such an agreement with the state Director of Personnel under the provisions of this article shall, upon the effective date of such agreement, be classified to the nearest classification of their present work assignment and shall thereafter be governed by the state Merit System rules and regulations, the same as any other law enforcement officer in the service of the state.
Ala. Code § 2-7A-6 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 7A / Section 2-7A-6
Section 2-7A-6 Exemption from Municipal Ordinances and Rules
Status: in_force

The Agriculture Exhibition Center Corporation and all property in which it has any ownership, leasehold, or other interest, direct or indirect, is exempt from all municipal ordinances and rules, including zoning ordinances, unless the corporation consents to the application of ordinance or rule.
Ala. Code § 11-50-495 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-495
Section 11-50-495 Compensation
Status: in_force

Each member of the board shall receive for his services such compensation as authorized by the governing body of such municipality. The compensation to the members of the board shall be paid in monthly installments from the money received from the operation of the municipal electric distribution system.
Ala. Code § 2-12-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 2-12-4
Section 2-12-4 Permits for Sale of Eggs Required; Permit Fee; Delinquency Penalty; Revocation of Permits and Appeals Therefrom
Status: in_force

Every retail dealer who sells eggs or offers eggs for sale in this state shall obtain a permit from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries which authorizes the sale or offering for sale of eggs and which shall be issued free of any cost or charge to the dealer. Such permit shall continue in effect for an indefinite period unless revoked as provided in this section or unless the commissioner requires all such permits previously issued terminated at the end of any fiscal year.

Wholesale egg dealers or any egg producer who shall elect to become subject to the requirements of this chapter, before such a dealer or producer sells eggs or offers eggs for sale in this state, shall apply for and obtain an annual permit to be issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries which shall expire on September 30 of each year and shall be renewable on or before October 1 of each year. The annual permit fee which shall be paid for each wholesale egg dealer permit shall be $5.00. The application therefor shall be on forms furnished by the commissioner, and the permit fee shall accompany each application, which amount shall be paid on or before October 1 of each year and deposited to the credit of the Egg Inspection Fund of the State Treasury. If the permit fee as required under this section is not paid by November 1 of each year or within 31 days from the date due, a delinquent penalty of 15 percent shall be added to the amount due. Failure or refusal to obtain the required permit and pay the fee due therefor is hereby declared to be unlawful and punishable under the penalty provisions of this chapter. The permits shall be subject to revocation by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries if the commissioner finds that the holder thereof is not complying with the requirements of this chapter, including rules and regulations adopted under this chapter. In such case the dealer shall be afforded an opportunity for hearing after at least 15 days’ notice. The notice shall state the time and place of the hearing and the reason for the proposed revocation. The commissioner shall prepare or cause to be prepared an official record, which shall include testimony and exhibits, but it shall not be necessary to transcribe shorthand notes unless requested for purposes of court review. The dealer shall have the right of cross-examination of witnesses who testify and shall have the right to submit rebuttal evidence. The decision in such a case shall be in writing and shall be accompanied by findings of fact and conclusions of law. The findings of fact shall consist of a concise statement of the commissioner’s conclusions upon each issue of fact contested. A copy of the decision and order, findings and conclusions shall be delivered to the dealer in person or by registered or certified mail.

Any dealer may appeal the commissioner’s decision or order to the circuit court of the county in which he resides or in which his principal place of business is located, by filing a complaint with the register or clerk of such court within 30 days after the service of notice of the decision. A copy of the complaint shall be served on the commissioner, in person or by registered or certified mail. The filing of the complaint shall stay enforcement of the commissioner’s decision, unless the court shall order otherwise. The commissioner shall transmit the record in the case to the court within 30 days after the service of the complaint. The review by the court shall be confined to the record. The court may affirm the decision or remand the case for further proceedings, or it may reverse or modify the decision if it was affected by an error of law or was unsupported by substantial evidence or was arbitrary or capricious.
Ala. Code § 2-21-24 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 2-21-24
Section 2-21-24 Inspection Fee; Quarterly Statement; Disposition of Fees; Overpayments
Status: in_force

(a) An inspection fee established by the Board of Agriculture and Industries not to exceed twenty-five cents ($.25) per ton shall be paid on commercial feeds by every person who distributes the commercial feed in this state, exempting bulk grain; except that:

(1) The inspection fee shall be paid only once on any commercial feed, feed ingredients, customer-formula feeds or parts thereof. Commercial feeds, feed ingredients, customer-formula feeds or parts thereof on which the inspection fee has not been paid by the distributor or previous distributor shall be subject to the inspection fee.

(2) No fee shall be paid on “vertical-integrator feed” or on the ingredient used to manufacture a “vertical-integrator feed.” Any services the Department of Agriculture and Industries provides manufacturers of “vertical-integrator feed” in relation to this chapter shall be paid for according to fees established by the board.

(3) In the case of a commercial feed distributed in this state in packages or containers of ten pounds or less, an annual fee established by the Board of Agriculture and Industries not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per product shall be paid to the benefit of the Agricultural Fund in lieu of the inspection fee specified above.

(b) Each person who is liable for the payment of such fee also shall:

(1) File, not later than the last day of January, April, July, and October of each year, a quarterly statement, setting forth the number of net tons of commercial feeds distributed in this state during the preceding calendar quarter. Upon filing the quarterly statement, the person shall pay the inspection fee at the rate stated in subsection (a). Inspection fees which have not been paid to the commissioner within 15 days following the date due shall have a penalty fee of 15 percent (minimum $15.00) added to the amount due. The assessment of this penalty fee shall not prevent the commissioner from taking other actions as provided in this chapter.

(2) Keep records as may be necessary or required by the commissioner to indicate accurately the tonnage of commercial feed distributed in this state. The commissioner may examine the records to verify statements of tonnage. Failure to make an accurate statement of tonnage or to pay the inspection fee or comply as provided herein shall constitute sufficient cause for the cancellation of the licenses on file for the distributor.

(c) Fees collected pursuant to this section, including license fees collected under Section 2-21-19, shall be deposited to the credit of the Agricultural Fund of the State Treasury for the regulatory duties of the Department of Agriculture and Industries.

(d) Amounts improperly or illegally collected under this chapter as overpayments may be refunded to the person entitled thereto in accordance with Section 2-1-6.
Ala. Code § 11-49B-4 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 49B / Section 11-49B-4
Section 11-49B-4 Procedure to Incorporate Contents and Execution of Certificate of Incorporation
Status: in_force

Within 40 days after the adoption of an authorizing resolution by the last governing body to adopt an authorizing resolution if the governing bodies of both the county and the municipality with which the applications were filed have adopted authorizing resolutions, the applicants shall proceed to incorporate an authority by filing for record in the office of the judge of probate of the authorizing county a certificate of incorporation which shall comply in form and substance with the requirements of this section and which shall be in the form and executed in the manner herein provided. The certificate of incorporation of the authority shall state:

(1) The names of the persons forming the authority, and that each of them is a duly qualified elector of the authorizing county.

(2) The name of the authority which shall be “The (insert name of the authorizing municipality) Area Regional Transit Authority.”

(3) The period for the duration of the authority (if the duration is to be perpetual, subject to the provisions of Section 11-49B-19, that fact shall be stated).

(4) The names of the authorizing county and the authorizing municipality, together with the dates on which the governing bodies adopted authorizing resolutions.

(5) The location of the principal office of the authority, which shall be in the authorizing county.

(6) That the authority is organized pursuant to this chapter for the purpose of supplying public transportation service in the authorizing county.

(7) Any other matters relating to the authority that the incorporators may choose to insert and that are not inconsistent with this chapter or with the laws of the state. The certificate of incorporation shall be signed and acknowledged by the incorporators before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take acknowledgments to deeds. When the certificate of incorporation is filed for record, there shall be attached to it the following:

a. A copy of each application filed with the governing bodies of the authorizing county and the authorizing municipality in accordance with Section 11-49B-3.

b. A certified copy of each of the authorizing resolutions adopted by the governing bodies of the authorizing county and the authorizing municipality.

c. A certificate by the Secretary of State that the name proposed for the authority is not identical to that of any other corporation organized under the laws of the state or similar to the name of another corporation that would lead to confusion and uncertainty.

Upon the filing for record of the certificate of incorporation and the documents required by the preceding sentence to be attached thereto, the authority shall come into existence and shall constitute a public corporation under the names set forth in the certificate of incorporation. The judge of probate shall send a notice to the Secretary of State that the certificate of incorporation of the authority has been filed for record.
Ala. Code § 11-43C-10 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 43C / Section 11-43C-10
Section 11-43C-10 City Continued as Municipal Corporation
Status: in_force

When this mayor-council form of government becomes applicable to a city, said city shall continue as a municipal corporation, within the corporate limits as now established and as may hereafter be fixed in the manner prescribed by law, subject to all duties and obligations then pertaining to or incumbent upon it as a municipal corporation and shall continue to enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers, and franchises then enjoyed by it, as well as those that may thereafter or hereinafter be granted to it.
Ala. Code § 11-50-350 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 50 / Section 11-50-350
Section 11-50-350 Revenue Refunding Bonds
Status: in_force

(a) The board is hereby authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of revenue refunding bonds of the board for the purpose of refunding any bonds then outstanding which shall have been assumed by the board or shall have been issued under the provisions of this article, including the payment of any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of such bonds and, if deemed advisable by the board, for the additional purpose of constructing improvements, extensions, or enlargements of the water system or sewer system in connection with which the bonds to be refunded shall have been issued.

(b) The board is further authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance of its revenue bonds for the combined purpose of:

(1) Refunding any bonds then outstanding which shall have been assumed by the board or shall have been issued under the provisions of this article, including the payment of any redemption premium thereon and any interest accrued or to accrue to the date of redemption of such bonds, and

(2) Paying all or any part of the cost of acquiring or constructing any additional water system or sewer system or part thereof or any improvements, extensions, or enlargements of any water system or sewer system.

(c) The issuance of such bonds, the maturities and other details thereof, the rights of the holders thereof, and the rights, duties, and obligations of the board in respect of the same shall be governed by the provisions of this article insofar as the same may be applicable.
Ala. Code § 11-40-18 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 40 / Section 11-40-18
Section 11-40-18 Minimum Benefits Under Certain Policemen’s and Firemen’s Pension and Relief Plans
Status: in_force

In all Class 1 municipalities, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any benefit payable on a monthly basis to a participant or retiree under the Policemen’s Pension and Relief Plan provided by Act No. 502 of the 1923 Session of the legislature of Alabama, as amended or codified; the Firemen’s Pension and Relief Plan provided by Act No. 307 of the 1943 Session of the legislature of Alabama, as amended (General Acts of Alabama of 1943, p. 264); the Limited Policemen’s Retirement and Relief System provided by Act No. 470 of the 1955 Regular Session of the legislature of Alabama, as amended (Acts of Alabama of 1955, p. 1067); and Limited Firemen’s Pension and Relief System provided by Act No. 217 of the 1966 Special Session of the legislature of Alabama, as amended (Acts of Alabama, Special Session 1966, p. 280) shall not be of an amount less than $400.00 per month, and any survivor’s or spouse’s benefit payable on a monthly basis shall not be of an amount less than $160.00 per month.
Ala. Code § 11-53A-6 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 53A / Section 11-53A-6
Section 11-53A-6 Article Cumulative in Nature
Status: in_force

This article shall be cumulative in its nature, and in addition to any and all power and authority which any such city may have under any other law.
Ala. Code § 11-44C-83 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 44C / Section 11-44C-83
Section 11-44C-83 Laws Relating to Authority for Fairgrounds, Etc., Continued in Force
Status: in_force

All laws and parts of laws relating to establishment or financing of an authority for fairgrounds, parks, exhibitions, and other facilities for the amusement, recreation, and cultural development of the citizens of the city, contained in the general or local laws of the state, as the same may apply and be in effect with respect to any such city at the time when such city shall become organized under the provisions of this chapter, shall continue in full force and effect and without interruption or change until otherwise provided by law.
Ala. Code § 11-58-14 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 58 / Section 11-58-14
Section 11-58-14 Exemptions of Corporations - Taxation
Status: in_force

The bonds authorized by this chapter and the income therefrom, all mortgages executed as security therefor, all lease agreements made pursuant to the provisions hereof and all property and the revenue derived from any lease thereof shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Alabama.

All deeds, mortgages, trust agreements, articles of incorporation and other documents executed by or delivered to any corporation incorporated under the provisions of this chapter shall be exempt from all state, county, municipal and other taxation in the State of Alabama.
Ala. Code § 2-8-200 — Alabama Code / Title 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 2-8-200
Section 2-8-200 Subsequent Referendums
Status: in_force

In the event any such referendum conducted as herein provided shall fail to receive the required number of affirmative votes from cotton producers eligible for participation and voting therein, then the certified commission conducting the said referendum shall be authorized to call another referendum for the purposes herein set forth in the next succeeding year, on the question of an assessment and promotional program for the period authorized by this article, provided no such referendum shall be held within a period of 12 months from the date on which the last referendum was held; and such commission shall call another statewide referendum for the purposes herein set forth after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the last such referendum failed to receive the required number of affirmative votes from cotton producers voting therein, and each ten years thereafter. In the event such referendum is carried or favored by the required number of eligible cotton producers participating therein and assessments in pursuance thereof are levied for the period set forth in the call for such referendum, then the commission conducting such referendum shall have full power and authority to call and conduct during, or after, the last year of such period another referendum in which the cotton producers shall vote upon the question of whether or not such assessments shall be continued or renewed for another period of time as authorized under this article. Any subsequent referendums as authorized hereunder shall be subject to all of the requirements as an original referendum conducted under the provisions of this article.