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AL Code § 22-21-70 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-70 - Definitions.

Section 22-21-70Definitions. For the purposes of this division, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) THE CORPORATION. A corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this division. (2) SECURITIES. Notes, bonds, certificates of indebtedness, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness. (3) HOSPITAL. Such term includes the plural as well as the singular and means: a. Public hospitals of all types, public clinics, public health centers and related public health facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses' homes and nurses' training facilities and central service facilities operated in connection with public hospitals; b. Appurtenant buildings and other facilities to provide offices for persons engaged in the diagnosis, treatment or cure of diseased, sick and injured persons and to house or service equipment used for the diagnosis, treatment or cure of diseased, sick or injured persons or the records of such diagnosis, treatment or cure or research with respect to any of the foregoing; c. Parking areas, parking decks, facilities, buildings and structures appurtenant to any of the foregoing. (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §2; Acts 1978, No. 468, p. 491.)
AL Code § 22-21-71 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-71 - Purpose and Construction of Division.

Section 22-21-71Purpose and construction of division. It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this division to authorize in each of the several counties of the state the organization of one or more public corporations for the purpose of acquiring, owning and operating public hospitals and other public health facilities in the county in which such corporation shall be organized, or in a portion of the said county. It is the legislative intent to confer on corporations organized under this division all the powers requisite for the fulfillment of the purposes of their organization, including the power to do whatever financing may be necessary to accomplish such purposes. This division shall be liberally construed to give effect to its purpose. Corporations organized under this division shall be nonprofit corporations, and no part of the net earnings thereof shall inure to the benefit of any member thereof or other individual or private corporation. (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §1; Acts 1967, No. 401, p. 1007, §2.)
AL Code § 22-21-72 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-72 - Incorporation - Application.

Section 22-21-72Incorporation - Application. Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall file with the county commission of any county in this state an application in writing for authority to incorporate a public corporation for hospital purposes in the manner provided in this section, and if it shall be made to appear to the county commission of such county that each of said persons is a duly qualified elector of, and owner of property in, said county and if the county commission of the county shall adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon the minutes of such county commission, wherein it shall be declared that it will be wise, expedient and necessary that such a corporation be formed and that the persons filing said application shall be authorized to proceed to form the corporation, then said persons shall proceed to become the incorporators of the corporation in the manner provided in this section. If it is proposed that the corporation shall exercise its corporate functions in a portion only of the county and not in the county as a whole, the application provided for in this section shall so state and shall set forth a brief description of the area in which it is proposed that such corporate functions be exercised. If the application shall contain a statement that it is proposed that the corporation will exercise its functions in a portion only of the county, then it must be made to appear to the county commission of the county that each of the persons signing the application is a resident of, and the owner of property in, the said portion of the county; and if the application does not contain such a statement, then it will be presumed that it is proposed that the corporation will be authorized to exercise its functions in the county as a whole. No corporation shall be formed under this division unless the application provided for in this section shall be made and unless the resolution provided for in this section shall be adopted. (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §3; Acts 1961, No. 761, p. 1083, §1; Acts 1967, No. 401, p. 1007, §3.)
AL Code § 22-21-75 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-75 - Incorporation - Certificate of Incorporation - Validation of Noncomplying Corporations.

Section 22-21-75Incorporation - Certificate of incorporation - Validation of noncomplying corporations. In all cases where the county commission of a county has adopted a resolution authorizing the incorporation under this division, as originally enacted or as subsequently amended, of a public corporation for hospital purposes and there has been an attempt to organize such public corporation by filing in the office of the judge of probate of such county a certificate of incorporation, but the attempted incorporation is invalid because of some irregularity in the procedure followed, any such corporation so authorized and attempted to be formed shall be, and hereby is, validated ab initio notwithstanding any failure to comply with the requirements of said division respecting acknowledgment of signatures to certificates of incorporation, any failure on the part of the county commission of any such county to take formal action approving the form and contents of such certificate of incorporation or any other failure to comply with the procedures set forth in the said division; provided, that this section shall not apply to the incorporation of any public corporation that has been held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction by judgment entered prior to September 20, 1957, or to the incorporation of any public corporation the validity of which is an issue in any pending civil action commenced prior to September 20, 1957. (Acts 1957, No. 673, p. 1021.)
AL Code § 22-21-76 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-76 - Board of Directors.

Section 22-21-76Board of directors. The corporation shall have a board of directors, which shall constitute the governing body of the corporation. The members of the board of directors shall be residents of the county and shall be elected by the county commission of the county for staggered terms of office as follows: (1) The first term of one third of the directors shall be for two years; (2) Of another one third for four years; (3) The remaining one third for six years; and (4) Thereafter the term of office of each director shall be six years; provided, that if any resolution adopted, pursuant to the provisions of Section 22-21-72, by the county commission of a county having a population of more than 300,000 and less than 500,000, according to the last or any subsequent federal census, shall contain requirements respecting the election of the directors of the corporation authorized in the said resolution, then the directors shall be elected in the manner and for the terms and by the governing bodies that may be specified in the said resolution. If any director dies, or resigns, or becomes incapable of acting as a director or ceases to reside in the county, the county commission that elected him may elect a successor to serve for the unexpired period of his term. Directors may succeed themselves in office, if again elected by the applicable county commission. The members of the board of directors shall serve without compensation, except that they may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as directors. No member of the board of directors shall be an officer of the county or of any incorporated municipality in the county; provided, that if any resolution, adopted pursuant to the provisions of the said Section 22-21-72, by the county commission of a county having a population of more than 300,000 and less than 500,000, according to the last or any subsequent federal census, shall so provide, then any director of the corporation authorized in the said resolution may be a member of the governing body, whether of the county or of a municipality therein, that elects him as director until such time as a special annual ad valorem county tax for public hospital purposes shall be voted in any such county. (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §6; Acts 1955, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 57, p. 87; Acts 1955, No. 171, p. 436, §2; Acts 1961, No. 761, p. 1083, §3.)
AL Code § 22-21-79 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-79 - Investment of Trust Funds in Corporation's Securities.

Section 22-21-79Investment of trust funds in corporation's securities. Unless otherwise directed by the court having jurisdiction thereof or by the document which is the source of authority, a fiduciary may, with the exercise of reasonable business prudence, invest trust funds in securities of the corporation for payment of the principal of, and interest on, which the proceeds of any ad valorem, excise, license or privilege tax are pledged. (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §9.)
AL Code § 22-21-80 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-80 - Taxation Exemptions.

Section 22-21-80Taxation exemptions. All real, personal and mixed property that may be owned by the corporation and all income of the corporation shall be exempt from state, county and municipal taxation. (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §10.)
AL Code § 22-21-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-81 - Transfer of Hospitals and Funds by Counties or Municipalities.

Section 22-21-81Transfer of hospitals and funds by counties or municipalities. The county in which the corporation is organized, and any municipality located within such county, are hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the corporation, without consideration, any hospital that may be owned by such county or municipality, as the case may be, and any funds owned or controlled by such county or municipality, as the case may be, that may have been raised or allocated for any of the purposes for which the corporation shall have been organized; provided, that such transfer or conveyance shall be authorized by an ordinance or a resolution duly adopted by the governing body of such county or municipality. (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §13.)
AL Code § 22-21-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-82 - Dissolution of Corporation.

Section 22-21-82Dissolution of corporation. At any time when the corporation owns no property and has no indebtedness outstanding, the county commission of the county in which the corporation was organized may adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon the minutes of said county commission, declaring that the corporation shall be dissolved. Upon the filing for record of a certified copy of said resolution in the office of the judge of probate of said county, the corporation shall thereupon stand dissolved. The formation of one or more corporations under the provisions of this division shall not prevent the subsequent formation under this division of another corporation or corporations. (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §11; Acts 1967, No. 401, p. 1010, §5.)
AL Code § 22-21-83 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 1 - Hospital Boards.|Section 22-21-83 - Division Cumulative.

Section 22-21-83Division cumulative. This division shall not be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any power, right or remedy which any corporation, now in existence or hereafter formed, may have in the absence thereof and shall be construed as cumulative and independent of any statute authorizing the formation of corporations or conferring on any corporation any power, right or remedy. Neither the formation, organization or existence in any particular county of a hospital association under the provisions of Act No. 211 enacted at the 1945 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama or Article 3 of this chapter shall in any way prevent or preclude the organization in such county of a corporation under the provisions of this division if, at the time of the organization of such a corporation under this division, such hospital association is not the then designated agency of such county to acquire, construct, equip, operate and maintain public hospital facilities. (Acts 1949, No. 46, p. 68, §12; Acts 1961, No. 67, p. 87.)
AL Code § 22-21-100 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-100 - Definitions.

Section 22-21-100Definitions. For the purposes of this division, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) HOSPITAL CORPORATION. A hospital association heretofore or hereafter organized under and pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 211, General Acts of Alabama 1945, or Article 3 of this chapter, or a hospital board heretofore or hereafter organized under and pursuant to the provisions of Division 1 of this article. (2) SECURITIES. Notes, bonds, certificates of indebtedness, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness. (3) PUBLIC HOSPITAL PURPOSES. Such term includes the acquisition by purchase, lease or otherwise and the construction, equipment, operation and maintenance of public hospital facilities or any one or more of such purposes. (4) PUBLIC HOSPITAL FACILITIES. Such term includes public hospitals, public clinics, public health centers, nurses' homes and training facilities of any kind. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §1.)
AL Code § 22-21-101 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-101 - Designation as Agency to Operate, etc., Public Hospital Facilities.

Section 22-21-101Designation as agency to operate, etc., public hospital facilities. The county commission of any county in which a special tax for public hospital purposes has heretofore been or shall hereafter be authorized at an election held in the county pursuant to the provisions of any amendment to the constitution shall have the power to designate a hospital corporation in the county as the agency of the county to acquire, construct, equip, operate and maintain public hospital facilities in the county as a whole if the said special tax is a countywide tax or in that portion of the county in which the tax shall have been voted if the said tax is not a countywide tax. Such designation shall be made by a resolution of the county commission, which shall be duly entered upon the minutes of such county commission. A certified copy of such resolution shall be filed with the judge of probate of the county, who shall forthwith receive and record the same. A certified copy of such resolution shall also be forwarded to the State Board of Health. Such designation may contain such terms, conditions and limitations as the county commission may prescribe respecting the hospital facilities that may be acquired, constructed, equipped, operated and maintained by the hospital corporation as such agency of the county and with respect to the maximum principal amount only of securities which may be issued by the hospital corporation; provided, that, anything in such designation to the contrary notwithstanding, such designation shall constitute a contract between the county, the hospital corporation and the holder or holders of any securities issued by the hospital corporation, and such designation shall be irrevocable by the county so long as there shall be outstanding any such securities of the hospital corporation. If any resolution adopted by the county commission pursuant to the provisions of this section fails to specify a particular portion or area of the county in which the hospital corporation shall act as the agency of the county for public hospital purposes, then it will be presumed that the said hospital corporation has been designated in the said resolution to act as such agency in the county as a whole. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §2; Acts 1967, No. 400, p. 1003, §2.)
AL Code § 22-21-102 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-102 - Special County Tax - Payment to Hospital Corporation.

Section 22-21-102Special county tax - Payment to hospital corporation. When a hospital corporation has been designated as the agency of the county to acquire, construct, equip, operate and maintain public hospital facilities in the county, and without restriction to a particular area or portion of the county in which such corporation is to act as such agency, then the proceeds thereafter collected from any such special tax that is a countywide tax for public hospital purposes shall be paid over to the hospital corporation. When a hospital corporation has been designated as the agency of the county to acquire, construct, equip, operate and maintain public hospital facilities in a particular area or portion of the county, then the proceeds thereafter collected from any special tax for public hospital purposes that may have been voted in the area of the county for which such corporation shall have been so designated as the county's agency shall be paid over to said hospital corporation. Any proceeds from any special tax for public hospital purposes that shall be paid over to a hospital corporation pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be used by that hospital corporation for any one or more of the purposes for which the said tax shall have been voted; provided, that payment of the proceeds of said tax to the said hospital corporation shall be made only to such extent as will not result in the impairment of the obligation of any contract theretofore made with respect to said tax. When any designation by a county of an agency for public hospital purposes shall have been made pursuant to the provisions of this division, the tax collector shall thereafter collect the special tax that is payable to the said agency under the provisions of this division in the same manner and under the same requirements and laws as taxes of the state are collected, shall keep the proceeds of the said tax separate and apart from all other funds, shall keep a clear and distinct account thereof and shall turn the same over to the said hospital corporation, which shall have the duty to receipt therefor. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §3; Acts 1967, No. 400, p. 1003, §3.)
AL Code § 22-21-103 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-103 - Special County Tax - Validation of Elections - Generally.

Section 22-21-103Special county tax - Validation of elections - Generally. All elections which have heretofore been held in any county pursuant to the provisions of any amendment to the constitution for the purpose of authorizing a special county tax for public hospital purposes which said elections resulted in a majority of the votes cast being in favor of the said tax and which said elections were irregular by reason of failure prior to the actual holding of the elections to give notice thereof in a newspaper or by reason of any other irregularity are hereby ratified and confirmed and given effect in all respects as if all provisions of law relating to such elections had been duly and legally complied with, and the said tax may be levied and collected accordingly; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to elections which have been in express terms held and declared illegal by any county commission of a county prior to September 19, 1949. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §10-A.)