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AL Code § 11-81-31 (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 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-81-31 - Ratification of Certain Irregular Elections for Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-31Ratification of certain irregular elections for issuance of bonds. Every election heretofore held in any municipality or in any county for the purpose of voting upon and deciding the question of whether bonds of the municipality or county, as the case may be, shall be issued, at which election a majority of the votes cast were in favor of the issuance of the bonds, but which election was irregular by reason of failure prior to the holding of the election to give notice thereof in a newspaper or by posting in the manner or for the time required by any statute applicable to the election, or because of the failure to comply with any other statutory requirement applicable to the election, or because of any other irregularity with respect to the holding of the election or canvassing or recording the results thereof, shall be and is ratified and confirmed and given effect in all respects as if all provisions of law relating to the election had been duly and legally complied with, and bonds may be issued pursuant to the authorization purported to have been granted at the election, and any bonds heretofore or hereafter issued pursuant to the purported authorization shall be valid. This section shall not apply to any election which, prior to April 22, 1998, has been held invalid by the Supreme Court of Alabama or by final judgment of the circuit court in the county in which the election was held 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 election the validity of which is an issue in any pending civil action commenced prior to April 22, 1998. (Acts 1971, No. 161, p. 436; Acts 1977, No. 753, p. 1291; Act 98-368, p. 668, §1.)
AL Code § 11-81-32 (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 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-81-32 - Issuance of Duplicates for Lost, Mutilated or Destroyed Bonds.

Section 11-81-32Issuance of duplicates for lost, mutilated or destroyed bonds. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the governing body of any municipality or county by clear and satisfactory evidence that any bond of said municipality or county bearing interest has been lost, destroyed or mutilated so that the same is not held by any person as his property, then such municipality or county shall issue a duplicate of such lost, destroyed or mutilated bond in like amount, bearing like interest and executed and marked in like manner as the bond so proved to have been lost, destroyed or mutilated. But the owner of such lost, destroyed or mutilated bond shall first execute a penal bond in double the amount of the bond sought to be replaced together with the amount of interest which has or might thereafter accrue thereon with some surety company qualified to do business in the State of Alabama, to be approved by the governing body of said municipality or county and payable to said municipality or county, with condition to indemnify and save harmless such municipality or county from any claim whatsoever because of such lost, destroyed or mutilated bond. Such penal bonds shall be filed and kept with the clerk of said municipality or the judge of probate of such county and shall be admissible in evidence in any court. (Code 1940, T. 37, §272.)
AL Code § 11-81-33 (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 1 - General Provisions.|Section 11-81-33 - Execution of Bonds, etc., With Engraved or Otherwise Reproduced Facsimile of Signature, Seal or Other Means of Authentication, Etc.

Section 11-81-33Execution of bonds, etc., with engraved or otherwise reproduced facsimile of signature, seal or other means of authentication, etc. Any bonds, notes or other obligations for the payment of money heretofore or hereafter authorized to be issued and delivered by any city or town of this state may be executed with an engraved, imprinted, stamped or otherwise reproduced facsimile of any signature, seal or other means of authentication, certification or endorsement required or permitted to be recorded thereon if so authorized by the governing body of such city or town; provided, that at least one signature required or permitted to be placed thereon shall be manually subscribed. This section shall not repeal any other law authorizing the execution of such bonds, notes or other obligations for the payment of money or interest coupons attached thereto with facsimile signatures or seals. (Acts 1955, No. 94, p. 340.)
AL Code § 11-81-50 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-50 - Municipality Defined.

Section 11-81-50Municipality defined. In this article "municipality" means and includes any city or town now or hereafter created, except where clearly restricted. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §274.)
AL Code § 11-81-52 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-52 - Ordering of Election for Determination as to Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-52Ordering of election for determination as to issuance of bonds. The governing body of any municipality in this state may order elections to be held in such municipality for the purpose of voting upon and deciding the question as to whether or not the bonds of such municipality shall be issued for such purposes as are authorized by law whenever such governing body deems this necessary. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §275.)
AL Code § 11-81-53 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-53 - Notice of Election.

Section 11-81-53Notice of election. Notice of any election held under the provisions of this article shall be given by publication in a newspaper published in the municipality in which such 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 place of holding the same, the amount of the proposed bond issue, the maximum rate of interest the bonds are to bear, 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 mayor or other chief executive of such municipality in which such election is to be held, and if no newspaper is published therein such notice must be posted in five public places in said municipality at least 30 days before the time of holding said election. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §277.)
AL Code § 11-81-54 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-54 - Ballots.

Section 11-81-54Ballots. The ballot used at such election shall be prepared under the direction of the mayor or other chief executive officer 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. 37, §278.)
AL Code § 11-81-55 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-55 - Conduct of Election Generally.

Section 11-81-55Conduct of election generally. The governing body of any municipality in which an election is held under this article shall designate the number and location of voting places and shall appoint three managers, two clerks, and one returning officer for each voting place in such municipality to conduct said election, and the mayor or other chief executive shall notify the managers, clerks, and returning officers of their appointment and shall deliver the box and ballots to the managers at the several voting places in the municipality; provided, that if voting machines are to be used at said election, then the election officials therefor shall be appointed and the election shall be conducted as is prescribed in the applicable provisions of Sections 17-9-1 through 17-9-41, inclusive, with amendments thereto or any other laws governing the use of voting machines at elections for such municipality. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §279; Acts 1953, No. 851, p. 1143.)
AL Code § 11-81-56 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-56 - Expenses of Election; Compensation of Managers, Clerks, and Returning Officers.

Section 11-81-56Expenses of election; compensation of managers, clerks, and returning officers. All expenses for holding such election shall be paid out of the treasury of the municipality 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 at other municipal elections. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §280.)
AL Code § 11-81-57 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-57 - Board of Canvassers.

Section 11-81-57Board of canvassers. The governing body of such municipality in which an election has been held under this article shall constitute a board to canvass the returns and declare the result of such election, and such governing body shall meet at the usual place of meeting on the day after the date of the holding of such election and, at that time or at a subsequent meeting to which such meeting may be adjourned, shall canvass the returns and declare the result of said election. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §281.)
AL Code § 11-81-58 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-58 - Recordation of Election Results.

Section 11-81-58Recordation of election results. The record of the result of the election as ascertained and declared by the board of canvassers shall be recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of such municipality and when so recorded shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated and of the validity of such election, unless contested as provided in Sections 11-81-59 through 11-81-61. No form shall be required for such record, but it shall be sufficient if the record plainly and manifestly shows the votes cast for and against the proposition submitted to the electors. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §282.)
AL Code § 11-81-59 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-59 - Election Contest - Authorized; Bond Required.

Section 11-81-59Election contest - Authorized; bond required. Any election held under the provisions of this article can be contested by any qualified elector of the municipality by executing a bond with sufficient security, 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. 37, §283.)
AL Code § 11-81-60 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-60 - Election Contest - Notice and Hearing.

Section 11-81-60Election contest - Notice and hearing. Notice of contest shall be served on the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality in which such election was held when the bond for costs has been approved by the judge of probate of the county. The municipality shall be made contestee, and an answer shall be filed in the name of such municipality. Said contest shall be a preferred case in all courts. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §284.)
AL Code § 11-81-61 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-61 - Election Contest - Limitation of Action.

Section 11-81-61Election contest - Limitation of action. No civil action shall be commenced to test the validity of any election held by any municipality of this state for the purpose of issuing bonds unless the said civil action be commenced within 40 days from the date of the said election. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §285.)
AL Code § 11-81-62 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-62 - Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-62Issuance of bonds. If at any election held under and according to the provisions of this article a majority of the qualified electors 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 governing body shall issue the bonds of such municipality in the amount and for the purposes and payable at the times and in the respective amounts mentioned in the notice of the said election; provided, that if subsequent to the said election the governing body 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 governing body 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 governing body 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. 37, §286.)
AL Code § 11-81-63 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-63 - Execution and Delivery of Bonds.

Section 11-81-63Execution and delivery of bonds. Bonds of a municipality shall be signed by two or more officers of the municipality holding office at the time of such signing, one of which officers shall be the mayor or other chief executive officer, and the corporate seal of such municipality shall be affixed to the bonds. Interest coupons attached to bonds may bear a facsimile signature of one or both of said officers. The delivery of bonds so executed shall be valid notwithstanding any changes in officers or in the seal of the municipality after the signing and sealing of the bonds. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §289.)
AL Code § 11-81-65 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-65 - Bonds for Refunding or Funding of Bonds Outstanding - Security.

Section 11-81-65Bonds for refunding or funding of bonds outstanding - Security. Where the indebtedness to be funded or refunded is secured in whole or in part by a lien, mortgage, or deed of trust upon any property belonging to the municipality or by a pledge, assignment, or appropriation of certain revenues or resources of the municipality, such municipality may make a new lien, mortgage, or deed of trust upon such property or a new pledge, assignment, or appropriation of such revenues or resources to secure the payment of the principal and interest of such funding or refunding bonds, subject, however, to any valid prior liens, mortgages, deeds of trust, pledges, assignments and appropriations. Municipalities are further authorized to pledge, assign and appropriate to the payment of the principal and interest of funding and refunding bonds issued after February 15, 1933, the collections or proceeds of any or all uncollected special assessments and any or all moneys to be derived from the sale or transfer of tax sale certificates and deeds and from the operation, sale, transfer, or lease of any real estate if such certificates, deeds or real estate shall have been acquired prior to the issuance of such funding and refunding bonds in connection with the enforcement of liens for taxes or special assessments, subject, however, to any other outstanding pledge of such special assessments, certificates, deeds, or money theretofore made. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 153, p. 172; Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 70, p. 60; Code 1940, T. 37, §288.)
AL Code § 11-81-66 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-66 - Bonds and Coupons Receivable for Payment of Taxes and Dues.

Section 11-81-66Bonds and coupons receivable for payment of taxes and dues. Such bonds and coupons shall, after the maturity thereof, be receivable in payment of all taxes and dues to the municipality issuing the same. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §290.)
AL Code § 11-81-67 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-67 - Applicability of Provisions of General Election Laws; Mandatory and Directory Provisions of Article.

Section 11-81-67Applicability 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 method of canvassing the same are directory. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §291.)
AL Code § 11-81-68 (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 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally.|Section 11-81-68 - Audits.

Section 11-81-68Audits. There shall be an annual audit by a certified public accountant or other disinterested public accountant of every municipality having according to the most recent federal census as much or more than a population of 2,000 and an audit biennially for municipalities with a population of less than 2,000 according to the most recent federal census. Said audit shall describe in detail each bond issue outstanding and shall disclose the provision made for payment thereof. In the case of assessment bonds it shall show the amount of assessments 12 months or more past due pledged for the payment of each series of bonds and the amount of all other assessments and the estimated deficit, if any, to be paid out of the general revenues of the municipality. One copy of such audit shall be filed with the clerk of the municipality. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §292.)
AL Code § 11-81-80 (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 11-81-80 - Purposes for Which Bonds May Be Issued.

Section 11-81-80Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All counties shall have full and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds, when such issue is authorized by the election provided for in this chapter, for the following named purposes: (1) To purchase and acquire or construct courthouses, jails, poorhouses, hospitals, asylums for the insane, tuberculosis sanatoriums, workhouses, houses of correction and other public buildings. (2) For the purchase of real estate for any improvement authorized by law or for the site for any building or improvement to be used for public purposes. (3) For extending, enlarging, improving, repairing, or securing the more complete use of and enjoyment of any building or improvement, owned, purchased, or constructed by the county and for equipping and furnishing the same. (4) To fund floating debt. (5) To acquire land for county parks and to improve the same. (6) To provide for the purchase or the original construction and improvement of highways and bridges, whether such bridges are wholly within the county or are across streams, waters, swamps, overflowed, submerged or inundated lands or lowlands lying partly within the limits of another county. (7) For the purpose of providing for the payment of the whole or any part of the cost of the acquirement, construction, extension, improvement, repair, or reconstruction of dikes, levees, embankments, seawalls, or other protection against seas, storms, and floods or the encroachment of streams, rivers, waters, or seas and the whole or any part of the cost of draining, filling, elevating, or reclaiming swamps or submerged, inundated, or overflowed lands or lowlands located within the limits of such county and for the purpose of constructing sanitary and storm sewers within the limits of said county. (8) For any other purpose for which it is authorized by law to expend money. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §93.)