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AL Code § 11-81-81 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-81 - Ordering of Election for Determination as to Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-81Ordering of election for determination as to issuance of bonds. The county commission may order an election to be held in its county for deciding whether or not the bonds of the county shall be issued for such purposes as are authorized by law. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §92.)
AL Code § 11-81-82 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-82 - Notice of Election.

Section 11-81-82Notice of election. Notice of such election shall be given by publication in a newspaper published in the county in which the election is to be held once a week for three successive weeks, the first publication to be made at least 30 days before the election, which notice shall state the purpose for which the election is to be held, the time and places for holding the same, the amount of the proposed bond issue, the maximum rate of interest proposed to be paid, the time or times when the bonds are to mature and the amount that is to mature at each such time, and the purpose for which the bonds are to be issued, and such notice shall be signed by the probate judge or chairman of the county commission or by such other person as the governing body may designate, and if no newspaper is published in the county the notice must be posted in five public places in the county at least 30 days before the time of holding the election. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §94.)
AL Code § 11-81-83 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-83 - Ballots.

Section 11-81-83Ballots. The ballot used at such election shall be prepared under the direction of the probate judge and shall be in such form as may not be inconsistent with the Constitution of Alabama. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §95.)
AL Code § 11-81-84 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-84 - Conduct of Election Generally.

Section 11-81-84Conduct of election generally. The probate judge, the circuit clerk, and the sheriff of the county in which an election is being held under this article, within 10 days after notice in writing to them of the calling of such election, shall appoint three managers, two clerks, and one returning officer to conduct the election in each beat or polling place in the county, and said managers shall all reside in the beats, wards, or precincts where they are appointed to serve and shall be qualified electors at the date of said election. The sheriff shall notify the managers and returning officers of their appointments and shall send out the boxes and ballots to the several beats or voting precincts in the county promptly. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §96.)
AL Code § 11-81-85 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-85 - Expenses of Election; Compensation of Managers, Clerks, and Returning Officers.

Section 11-81-85Expenses of election; compensation of managers, clerks, and returning officers. All expenses for holding such election shall be paid out of the treasury of the county in which the same is held, and the managers, clerks, and returning officers shall be entitled to the same compensation as managers, clerks, and returning officers of the general election. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §97.)
AL Code § 11-81-86 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-86 - Board of Canvassers.

Section 11-81-86Board of canvassers. The clerk of the circuit court, the probate judge and the sheriff of the county in which an election is being held under this article shall constitute a board to canvass the returns and declare the results of such election, and they shall meet at the courthouse of the county in which the election is to be held on the Saturday following the holding of said election and canvass the returns and declare the result of said election, and in case either of the three should be absent, the two present shall act. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §98.)
AL Code § 11-81-87 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-87 - Recordation of Election Results.

Section 11-81-87Recordation of election results. The record of the result of the election held under this article as returned by the board of canvassers shall be recorded in the minutes of the county commission of the county in which the same is held, and when so recorded the record shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated and of the validity of such election, unless contested, as provided in Sections 11-81-88 through 11-81-90. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §99.)
AL Code § 11-81-88 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-88 - Election Contest - Authorized; Bond Required.

Section 11-81-88Election contest - Authorized; bond required. A contest of the election held under this article in any county may be made by any qualified elector of the county by executing a bond, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the judge of probate of the county, for the payment of the costs of the contest. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §100.)
AL Code § 11-81-89 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-89 - Election Contest - Notice and Hearing; Representation of County.

Section 11-81-89Election contest - Notice and hearing; representation of county. Notice of the contest shall be served on the district attorney of the county in which the contest is instituted and said district attorney shall respond in the name of the county and the county shall be contestee. In all courts said contest shall be a preferred case. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §101.)
AL Code § 11-81-90 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-90 - Election Contest - Limitation of Action.

Section 11-81-90Election contest - Limitation of action. No civil action shall be commenced to test the validity of any election held by any county of this state for the purpose of issuing bonds unless the said civil action is commenced within 40 days from the date of the said election. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §102.)
AL Code § 11-81-91 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-91 - Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-91Issuance of bonds. If at an election held under and according to the provisions of this article, a majority of the qualified electors of the county voting upon such proposition vote in favor of the issuance of said bonds and the result is ascertained and declared as set out in this article, the county commission shall issue bonds of such county in the amount and for the purpose and payable at the times and in the respective amounts mentioned in the notice of said election; provided, that if subsequent to the said election the county commission shall determine that the entire amount of bonds mentioned in the election notice is not required for carrying out the purpose mentioned in the election notice, the said county commission may issue such lesser amount of bonds as it may determine to be adequate for the said purpose and may designate the amounts and maturities of the bonds described in the election notice which shall not be issued so that the amounts and maturities of the bonds to be issued shall meet the requirements of Section 11-81-6. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the county commission from issuing the said bonds from time to time as the proceeds thereof may in its judgment be needed. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §103.)
AL Code § 11-81-92 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-92 - Execution and Delivery of Bonds.

Section 11-81-92Execution and delivery of bonds. Bonds of a county shall be signed by the manually subscribed or facsimile signature of any two or more officers of the county holding office at the time of such signing as shall be designated by the county commission of the county by whose authority the bonds are issued; provided, that at least one signature required or permitted to be inscribed on such bonds shall be manually subscribed thereon. The seal of the county or of the county commission thereof or of the probate court thereof as shall be designated by the county commission shall be affixed to the bonds; provided, that when so authorized by the county commission the seal designated by it to be used may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the bonds. Interest coupons attached to the bonds may be executed with the facsimile signatures of the officers whose signatures appear on the bonds. The delivery of bonds so executed shall be valid notwithstanding any change in officers or in the seal after the signing and sealing of the bonds. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §107; Acts 1959, No. 260, p. 824.)
AL Code § 11-81-93 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-93 - Bonds for Refunding of Bonds Outstanding or Installments on Serial Bonds Outstanding - Authority for Issuance.

Section 11-81-93Bonds for refunding of bonds outstanding or installments on serial bonds outstanding - Authority for issuance. (a) The county commission of any county having bonds outstanding, without an election, may issue bonds of the county for the purpose of refunding the bonds to an amount not exceeding the principal amount of the bonds to be so refunded and also, without an election, may issue bonds of the county from time to time for the purpose of refunding installments of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) becoming due on outstanding serial bonds heretofore or hereafter issued.  (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a county commission of any county, without an election, and no later than December 31, 2020, may issue bonds of the county, limited in an amount as provided in subsection (a), for the purpose of refunding bonds that were originally issued prior to January 1, 2011, to refund other bonds. The prior refunding bonds are ratified and confirmed and given effect in all respects and any refunding bonds to be issued to refund those bonds are authorized. This subsection does not apply to any bonds that prior to May 18, 2020, have been held invalid by the Supreme Court of Alabama or by final judgment of the circuit court in the county which issued the bonds and from which judgment an appeal was not taken to the Supreme Court of Alabama within the time provided by law for the taking of appeals or to any bonds the validity of which is an issue in any pending civil action commenced prior to May 18, 2020. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Acts 1931, No. 363, p. 428; Acts 1939, No. 167, p. 290; Code 1940, T. 12, §104; Act 2020-121, §1.)
AL Code § 11-81-94 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-94 - Bonds for Refunding of Bonds Outstanding or Installments on Serial Bonds Outstanding - Security.

Section 11-81-94Bonds for refunding of bonds outstanding or installments on serial bonds outstanding - Security. All bonds issued under the authority of Section 11-81-93 shall have all the security and protection to which the original bonds were entitled. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §105.)
AL Code § 11-81-95 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-95 - Bonds for Refunding of Bonds Outstanding or Installments on Serial Bonds Outstanding - Special Tax Levy for Payment of Principal and Interest.

Section 11-81-95Bonds for refunding of bonds outstanding or installments on serial bonds outstanding - Special tax levy for payment of principal and interest. Where the levy of a special tax was or is authorized to be made to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of such outstanding bonded indebtedness, said county commission is authorized to levy a like tax for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds which may be issued under the authority of Sections 11-81-93 and 11-81-94 for the purpose of refunding the said outstanding bonds. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §106.)
AL Code § 11-81-96 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-96 - Applicability of Provisions of General Election Laws; Mandatory and Directory Provisions of Article.

Section 11-81-96Applicability of provisions of general election laws; mandatory and directory provisions of article. Where no provisions are otherwise made in this article, the general election laws of the state then in existence with regard to all notices, qualifications of voters, official acts, and things to be done in connection with ordering and holding elections, making returns, canvassing, and certifying the same shall govern in all respects and all penalties fixed for wrongful acts and violations of the general election laws of the state shall apply to similar acts and violations in all elections held under this article. The provisions of this article relating to the calling of elections are mandatory and those relating to the conduct and the method of canvassing the same are directory. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §108.)
AL Code § 11-81-97 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 3 - County Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-97 - Applicability of Provisions Pertaining to Municipal Bonds.

Section 11-81-97Applicability of provisions pertaining to municipal bonds. The provisions of Sections 11-81-5 through 11-81-20 and 11-81-22 through 11-81-33 shall be applicable to bonds issued under this article. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §109.)
AL Code § 11-81-160 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 5 - Revenue Bonds for Waterworks, Gas, Sewer or Electric Systems.|Section 11-81-160 - Definitions.

Section 11-81-160Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BORROWER. A county or incorporated municipality, as the case may be, exercising the powers conferred by this article. (2) GOVERNING BODY. In the case of a county, the county commission exercising the legislative functions of the county and, in the case of a municipality, the board of commissioners, the mayor and council or other similar body exercising the legislative functions of the municipality. (3) WATERWORKS SYSTEM. Facilities for the gathering, collecting, impounding, treatment, transmission and distribution, or any of them, of water for domestic use or for industrial use or both, together with all appurtenances to any such facilities. (4) SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM. Facilities for the collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of sewage, together with all appurtenances to any such facilities. (5) GAS SYSTEM. Facilities for the manufacture, conditioning, transmission and distribution, or any thereof, of manufactured or natural gas, together with all appurtenances to such facilities. (6) ELECTRIC SYSTEM. Facilities for the generation, manufacture and distribution, or any thereof, of electricity, together with all appurtenances to such facilities. (7) COMBINED SYSTEM. A consolidated system resulting from the combination of any two or more of the following: a waterworks system, a sanitary system, a gas system and an electric system. (8) SYSTEM and PROJECT. A waterworks system, a sanitary system, a gas system, an electric system or a combined system. (9) INDUSTRIAL. When used with reference to a waterworks system, a waterworks system designed to supply or distribute water primarily for use other than human consumption. (10) DOMESTIC. When used with reference to a waterworks system, a waterworks system designed to supply or distribute water primarily for human consumption. (11) DOMESTIC WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. A waterworks system designed to distribute water primarily for human consumption. (12) BONDS and REVENUE BONDS. Bonds issued under this article. (13) AUTHORIZING PROCEEDINGS, AUTHORIZING ORDINANCE and similar phrases. An ordinance or resolution adopted by the governing body of a borrower whereunder bonds are provided to be issued pursuant to the provisions of this article. (Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 102, p. 88; Code 1940, T. 37, §309; Acts 1955, No. 494, p. 1127, §2.)
AL Code § 11-81-161 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 5 - Revenue Bonds for Waterworks, Gas, Sewer or Electric Systems.|Section 11-81-161 - Acquisition, Extension, Repair, Consolidation, etc., of Waterworks, Sewer, Gas or Electric Systems by Counties or Municipalities Authorized.

Section 11-81-161Acquisition, extension, repair, consolidation, etc., of waterworks, sewer, gas or electric systems by counties or municipalities authorized. (a) Any county or incorporated municipality in the State of Alabama is authorized to acquire by any lawful means any one or more of the following systems: a waterworks system, a sanitary sewer system, a gas system and an electric system and, in furtherance of the acquisition of any such system, to acquire any necessary part thereof within or without or partially within and partially without the limits of any such county or the corporate limits of any such municipality, as the case may be; provided, that no municipality in this state shall have, under the authority conferred by this article, the right to construct a gas system, a domestic water distribution system or electric system or portion thereof if there is at the time of such proposed construction a gas system, domestic water distribution system or electric system, respectively, or any portion thereof, then operated as a public utility within the corporate limits of such municipality by any private or public utility corporation, individual, partnership or association; provided further, that no county in this state shall have under the authority conferred by this article the right to construct a gas system, domestic water distribution system, electric system or portion thereof in that portion of said county where there may then be located any gas system, domestic water distribution system or electric system, respectively, or any portion thereof, then being operated as a public utility by any private or public utility corporation, individual, partnership or association. (b) Any county or incorporated municipality in the state that may now or hereafter own and operate a waterworks system, sanitary sewer system, gas system or electric system is authorized to improve, enlarge, extend and repair such system and to furnish the services, commodities and facilities of such system to domestic or industrial users or both within or without the limits of such county or municipality, as the case may be. (c) Any such county or incorporated municipality may, if it so elects, at any time and from time to time consolidate any two or more of its systems, including any waterworks system, sanitary sewer system, gas system or electric system into one combined and consolidated system and provide for the operation, maintenance and repair of such combined system and the keeping of books and records with respect thereto as one unit. (Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 102, p. 88; Acts 1935, No. 46, p. 108; Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 203, p. 236; Code 1940, T. 37, §308; Acts 1955, No. 494, p. 1127, §1.)
AL Code § 11-81-162 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.|Article 5 - Revenue Bonds for Waterworks, Gas, Sewer or Electric Systems.|Section 11-81-162 - Estimate of Cost of Acquisition, Extension, Repair, Consolidation, Etc.

Section 11-81-162Estimate of cost of acquisition, extension, repair, consolidation, etc. Whenever the governing body of any borrower shall determine to acquire, improve, enlarge, extend or repair a system or systems under the provisions of this article, it shall first cause an estimate to be made of the cost thereof, and the fact that such estimate has been made and the amount thereof shall appear in the authorizing proceedings providing for the issuance of the bonds proposed to be issued to finance such acquisition, improvement, enlargement, extension or repair. (Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 102, p. 88; Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 203, p. 236; Code 1940, T. 37, §310; Acts 1955, No. 494, p. 1127, §3.)