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AL Code § 11-14-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 14 - Acquisition, Erection, Maintenance, etc., of Buildings, Property, Roads, etc., Generally.|Section 11-14-19 - Special Meeting of County Commission to Make Special Appropriations for Jail - Notice and Designation of Meeting Date.

Section 11-14-19Special meeting of county commission to make special appropriations for jail - Notice and designation of meeting date. If there is a necessity, and delay until the regular meeting of the county commission may be of injury to the health of the prisoners confined in the county jail, it is the duty of the chairman of the county commission to appoint a day for the meeting of the county commission, of which, if practicable, five days' notice must be given to each commissioner, which notice must be in writing, signed by the chairman, and must be served by the sheriff. (Code 1886, §897; Code 1896, §1412; Code 1907, §141; Code 1923, §219; Code 1940, T. 12, §193; Acts 1980, No. 80-808, p. 1663.)
AL Code § 11-14-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 14 - Acquisition, Erection, Maintenance, etc., of Buildings, Property, Roads, etc., Generally.|Section 11-14-20 - Special Meeting of County Commission to Make Special Appropriations for Jail - Appropriation of Funds and Issuance of Warrant to Sheriff.

Section 11-14-20Special meeting of county commission to make special appropriations for jail - Appropriation of funds and issuance of warrant to sheriff. Upon assembling, it is the duty of the county commission to make an appropriation of such an amount as is necessary for the purposes expressed in subdivision (1) of Section 11-12-15 and, for the payment thereof, to order the issuance of a warrant payable to the sheriff, which must be paid by the county treasurer on the presentment thereof, in preference and priority of all other claims. (Code 1886, §898; Code 1896, §1413; Code 1907, §142; Code 1923, §220; Code 1940, T. 12, §194.)
AL Code § 11-14-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 14 - Acquisition, Erection, Maintenance, etc., of Buildings, Property, Roads, etc., Generally.|Section 11-14-21 - Expenditure of Funds by Sheriff.

Section 11-14-21Expenditure of funds by sheriff. The appropriation having been made and the sheriff having received payment thereof, it is his duty, so far as such appropriation will enable him, to keep the jail supplied with wholesome water for drinking and bathing, to keep drinking water accessible at all times to each prisoner and to keep it comfortably warm in cold weather, at all times clean and free from offensive odors and provided with necessary water closets or dry earth, beds, bedding, and clothing for the use of prisoners. (Code 1886, §899; Code 1896, §1414; Code 1907, §143; Code 1923, §221; Code 1940, T. 12, §195.)
AL Code § 11-14-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 14 - Acquisition, Erection, Maintenance, etc., of Buildings, Property, Roads, etc., Generally.|Section 11-14-22 - Examination of Jail.

Section 11-14-22Examination of jail. The chairman of the county commission and the probate judge are hereby authorized and empowered, once each week, without informing the sheriff or jailer of the time when such visit will be made, to visit and examine the condition of the jail, to make a memorandum in writing of such examination and to report under oath such examination to the grand jury. (Code 1886, §900; Code 1896, §1415; Code 1907, §144; Code 1923, §222; Code 1940, T. 12, §196; Acts 1980, No. 80-808, p. 1663.)
AL Code § 11-14-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 14 - Acquisition, Erection, Maintenance, etc., of Buildings, Property, Roads, etc., Generally.|Section 11-14-23 - Acquisition of Lands for Drainage Ditches, Lime and Stone Quarries, Etc.

Section 11-14-23Acquisition of lands for drainage ditches, lime and stone quarries, etc. Counties may acquire by purchase or by condemnation land necessary for drainage ditches and borrow pits, lime and stone quarries, clay and clay pits, sand and sand pits, chert and chert pits, gravel and gravel pits, together with any and all other materials of every character that may be necessary or essential or desired in the construction and maintenance of highways and bridges, and may tap and draw material from the same and acquire such road right-of-way as may be necessary for ingress or egress to and from such material. The reasonable market value, if any, of such land and material shall be paid for same. (Acts 1923, No. 516, p. 687; Code 1923, §6757; Code 1940, T. 12, §198.)
AL Code § 11-14-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 14 - Acquisition, Erection, Maintenance, etc., of Buildings, Property, Roads, etc., Generally.|Section 11-14-24 - Conduct of Condemnation Proceedings.

Section 11-14-24Conduct of condemnation proceedings. The condemnation proceedings for such land and materials shall be as is now provided by law for condemnation of land for public use. (Acts 1923, No. 516, p. 687; Code 1923, §6758; Code 1940, T. 12, §199.)
AL Code § 11-15-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-1 - Definitions.

Section 11-15-1Definitions. The following words and phrases, including the plural of any thereof, wherever used in this chapter, shall in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise have the following respective meanings: (1) THE CORPORATION. A corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of the corporation. (3) THE STATE. The State of Alabama. (4) THE COUNTY. That county in the state in which the corporation shall be organized. (5) GOVERNING BODY. The county commission in which the legislative functions of the county are vested by law. (6) PROJECT. A building or buildings designed for use and occupancy as a county courthouse or jail or for the supplying of offices and related facilities for officers and departments of the county and any agencies for which the county may lawfully furnish office facilities or any one or more thereof, together with any lands deemed by the board to be desirable in connection therewith. (7) WARRANT. Any warrant authorized to be issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (8) COUPON. Any interest coupon evidencing an installment of interest payable with respect to a warrant. (9) MORTGAGE. A mortgage or a mortgage and deed of trust. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §1.)
AL Code § 11-15-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-2 - Legislative Intent; Construction of Chapter.

Section 11-15-2Legislative intent; construction of chapter. It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to authorize the incorporation in each county in which proceedings shall be taken pursuant to the provisions of this chapter of a public corporation as a political subdivision of the state for the purpose of providing buildings for use by the county in the performance of its governmental and public functions and to invest such corporation with all powers that may be necessary to enable it to accomplish such purpose, including the power to lease its properties and to issue interest-bearing revenue warrants. This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with the said intent. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §2.)
AL Code § 11-15-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-3 - Authority and Procedure for Incorporation.

Section 11-15-3Authority and procedure for incorporation. Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall file with the governing body an application in writing for authority to incorporate a public corporation under the provisions of this chapter, if it shall be made to appear to the governing body that each of the said persons is a duly qualified elector of and property owner in the county and if the governing body shall duly adopt a resolution wherein it shall be declared that it will be wise, expedient and necessary that such a corporation be formed and that the persons filing such application shall be authorized to proceed to form such corporation, then the said persons shall become the incorporators of and shall proceed to incorporate the corporation in the manner provided in this chapter. No corporation shall be formed under this chapter unless the application herein provided for shall be made and unless the resolution provided for in this section shall be adopted. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §3.)
AL Code § 11-15-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-4 - Certificate of Incorporation - Contents; Approval.

Section 11-15-4Certificate of incorporation - Contents; approval. The certificate of incorporation of the corporation shall state: (1) The names of the persons forming the corporation together with the residence of each thereof and a statement that each of them is a duly qualified elector of and property owner in the county; (2) The name of the corporation; (3) The location of its principal office, which shall be in the county seat of the county; (4) The number of directors (which shall be three or a multiple of three); and (5) Any other matters relating to the corporation which the incorporators may choose to insert and which shall not be inconsistent with this chapter or with the laws of the state. The name designated for the corporation in the certificate of incorporation shall be one indicating the purpose thereof, such as "_______ County Public Building Authority" (the name of the county to be filled in the blank space) or some other name of similar import. The form and contents of the certificate of incorporation must be submitted to the governing body for its approval, which shall be evidenced by a resolution or order duly entered upon the minutes of the governing body. The certificate of incorporation shall be signed and acknowledged by the incorporators before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take acknowledgment of deeds, and the certificate of incorporation shall have attached thereto a certified copy of the resolution provided for in this section and a certificate by the Secretary of State of Alabama that the name proposed for the corporation is not identical with that of any other corporation in the state or so nearly similar thereto as to lead to confusion and uncertainty. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §4.)
AL Code § 11-15-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-5 - Certificate of Incorporation - Recordation.

Section 11-15-5Certificate of incorporation - Recordation. The certificate of incorporation with the documents attached shall be filed with the judge of probate of the county who shall forthwith receive and record the same. When so filed the corporation referred to therein shall come into existence and shall constitute a body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the state under the name set forth in the certificate of incorporation; whereupon the corporation shall be vested with the rights and powers granted by this chapter. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §5.)
AL Code § 11-15-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-6 - Directors and Officers; Records of Proceedings.

Section 11-15-6Directors and officers; records of proceedings. The corporation shall have a board of directors which shall be composed of the number of directors provided in the certificate of incorporation. All powers of the corporation shall be exercised by the board or pursuant to its authority. The directors shall be residents of the county and shall be elected by the governing body for staggered terms of office as follows: The first term of one third of the directors shall be two years, of another one third shall be for four years and of the remaining one third shall be six years and, thereafter, the term of office of each director shall be six years. If any director resigns or dies or becomes incapable of acting as a director or ceases to reside in the county, the governing body may elect a successor to serve for the unexpired period of his term. Directors shall be eligible for reelection by the governing body to succeed themselves in office. No director shall be an officer of the state, the county or any incorporated municipality. A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The corporation shall have a president, a vice-president, a secretary and a treasurer, but the offices of secretary and treasurer may be held by the same person. All officers shall be elected by the board. The members of the board and the officers shall serve without compensation, except that they may be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. All proceedings of the board shall be reduced to writing by the secretary of the corporation and recorded in a well-bound book. Copies of such proceedings, when certified by the secretary of the corporation under its seal, shall be received in all courts as evidence of the matters and things therein certified. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §6.)
AL Code § 11-15-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-7 - Powers Generally.

Section 11-15-7Powers generally. The corporation shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name until dissolved as provided in this chapter; (2) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend civil actions in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties; (3) To make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To acquire, whether by purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, property of every description and to hold title thereto; (5) To construct, enlarge, equip, improve, maintain and operate one or more projects; (6) To sell and issue and do all things incidental to the sale and issuance of its interest-bearing revenue warrants and to secure the same by pledge and mortgage as provided in this chapter; (7) To appoint and employ such agents, architects and attorneys as the business of the corporation may require; (8) To provide for such insurance as the board may deem advisable; (9) To invest in obligations which are direct general obligations of the United States of America or which are unconditionally guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States of America any funds of the corporation which the board may determine are not presently needed for the corporate purposes of the corporation; (10) To contract, lease and make lease agreements respecting its properties or any thereof; and (11) To sell and convey any of its properties which may have become obsolete or worn out or which may no longer be needed or useful in connection with or in the operation of any project; provided, that it shall not have the power to sell or convey any project substantially as a whole except as provided in this chapter. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §7.)
AL Code § 11-15-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-9 - Warrants - Authority for Issuance; Form, Terms, Denominations, Redemption, etc.; Sale.

Section 11-15-9Warrants - Authority for issuance; form, terms, denominations, redemption, etc.; sale. The corporation is authorized to issue its interest-bearing revenue warrants for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, enlarging, completing and equipping one or more projects. All warrants issued by the corporation shall be limited obligations of the corporation, the principal of and interest on which shall be payable solely out of the revenues derived from the projects with respect to which they are issued. None of the warrants of the corporation shall ever constitute an obligation or debt of the state or of the county or a charge against the credit or taxing powers of the state or the county. Warrants of the corporation may be issued at any time and from time to time, may be in such form and denominations, may be of such tenor, may be payable in such installments and at such time or times not exceeding 30 years from their date, may be payable at such place or places and may bear interest at such rate or rates payable and evidenced in such manner, all as shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter and as may be provided in the proceedings of the board wherein the warrants shall be authorized to be issued. Those warrants having maturities more than 10 years after their date shall be subject to redemption at the option of the corporation as a whole or in part at the expiration of 10 years from their 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 proceedings of the board wherein they are authorized to be issued. Warrants may be sold at either public or private sale in such manner and from time to time as may be determined by the board to be most advantageous. The corporation may pay all expenses, premiums and commissions which the board may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with the authorization, sale and issuance of its warrants. All warrants shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, which recital shall be conclusive that they have been duly authorized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §9.)
AL Code § 11-15-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-10 - Warrants - Notice of Warrant Resolution; Actions to Question Proceedings for Issuance; Invalidate Warrants, Etc.

Section 11-15-10Warrants - Notice of warrant resolution; actions to question proceedings for issuance; invalidate warrants, etc. Upon the adoption by the board of any resolution providing for the issuance of warrants, the corporation may, in its discretion, cause to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and having general circulation in the county and, if there is no such newspaper published in the county, then in a newspaper having general circulation therein, a notice in substantially the following form (blanks being properly filled in): "_____, a public corporation in _____ county and a political subdivision of the State of Alabama, on the_____ day of ______, authorized the issuance of $_____ principal amount of revenue warrants of the said corporation for purposes authorized in the act of the Legislature of Alabama under which the said corporation was organized. Any civil action or proceeding questioning the validity of the said warrants, or the pledge and the mortgage to secure the same or the proceedings authorizing the same must be commenced within 20 days after the first publication of this notice." Any civil action or proceeding in any court to set aside or question the proceedings for the issuance of the warrants referred to in said notice or to contest the validity of any such warrants or the validity of the pledge and mortgage made therefor must be commenced within 20 days after the first publication of such notice. After the expiration of the said period, no right of action or defense founded upon the validity of the said proceedings or of the said warrants or the said pledge or mortgage shall be asserted, nor shall the validity of the said proceedings, warrants, pledge or mortgage be open to question in any court on any ground whatsoever except in a civil action commenced within such period. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §16.)
AL Code § 11-15-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.|Chapter 15 - Public Building Authorities.|Section 11-15-11 - Warrants - Execution and Delivery.

Section 11-15-11Warrants - Execution and delivery. All warrants shall be signed by the president or vice-president of the corporation, and the seal of the corporation shall be affixed thereto and attested by its secretary. They shall be drawn on the treasurer or depository of the funds of the corporation. Coupons shall be signed by the president or vice-president of the corporation, but a facsimile of the signature of such president or vice-president may be impressed on any such interest coupons in lieu of his manually signing the same. Delivery of warrants so executed shall be valid notwithstanding any changes in officers or in the seal of the corporation after the signing and sealing of the warrants. (Acts 1951, No. 682, p. 1172, §10.)