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AL Code § 33-15-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 15 - Bear Creek Development Authority.|Section 33-15-19 - Chapter Cumulative; Construction of Chapter.

Section 33-15-19Chapter cumulative; construction of chapter. This chapter shall be considered supplemental and additional to any and all other laws and confers sufficient power in and of itself for the purposes set forth herein. This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purpose of facilitating the development of the resources of the Bear Creek Watershed. (Acts 1965, No. 584, p. 1080, §19.)
AL Code § 33-16-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-1 - Definitions.

Section 33-16-1Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) AUTHORITY. The public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (2) BOARD. The board of directors of the authority. (3) BONDS. The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter. (4) COUNTY. A county in the state. (5) DIRECTOR. A member of the board of directors of the authority. (6) MUNICIPALITY. An incorporated city or town of the state. (7) PERSON. Unless limited to a natural person by the context in which it is used, such term includes a public or private corporation organized under the laws of Alabama or of another state, a municipality, a county, or an agency, department or instrumentality of a county or municipality, of one or more of the several states, or of the United States. (8) PROPERTY. Such term means and includes real and personal property, and interests therein. (9) STATE. In the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, such term means the State of Alabama. (10) WATERWAY. A navigable waterway utilizing the channel of the Coosa River between Montgomery and Gadsden and to the Alabama-Georgia boundary, as authorized by the River and Harbor Act of March 2, 1945, Public Law 14, 79th Congress, 1st Session (1945). (11) HEREIN, HEREBY, HEREUNDER, HEREOF. These and other equivalent words refer to this chapter as an entirety and not solely to the particular section or portion thereof in which any such word is used. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §1.)
AL Code § 33-16-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-2 - Legislative Intent; Construction of Chapter.

Section 33-16-2Legislative intent; construction of chapter. The Legislature hereby makes the findings of facts and declaration of intent hereinafter set forth in this section. The construction of a navigable waterway between Montgomery and Gadsden and to the Alabama-Georgia boundary, utilizing the channel of the Coosa River, would provide a new transportation route of great importance and would stimulate the development of commerce, agriculture and industry in many sections of the state. It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to implement the provisions of Amendment No. 287 of the Constitution of Alabama. In order to further the developments herein found to be beneficial, it is the intention of the Legislature to authorize the formation of a public corporation for the following purposes: (1) To cooperate with the United States, the State of Alabama, other participating states, counties and municipalities, with all agencies, departments and instrumentalities of such political entities, and with private individuals, corporations, associations and other persons in furthering the development of the waterway project; (2) To undertake all obligations and perform all actions that shall be necessary to fulfill the requirements of local contribution, participation and cooperation now, or hereafter, established by the United States in connection with the waterway project; (3) To cooperate generally with the United States, the State of Alabama, other participating states, counties and municipalities, with all agencies, departments and instrumentalities of such political entities, in promoting projects in the basin of the Coosa River for navigation, water conservation and supply, flood control, irrigation, industrial development, public recreation and related purposes. It is further the intention of the Legislature to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds of the state herein provided for and to empower the said public corporation to supervise the sale of the said bonds and to expend the proceeds of the said bonds in discharging the duties and obligations which the said public corporation is authorized by this chapter to undertake. Nothing herein is intended to authorize such public corporation to engage in or finance, directly or indirectly, the production, transmission, distribution or sale of electric power or to acquire by purchase, license, lease, condemnation or otherwise a hydroelectric project, or any part thereof, now or hereafter licensed by the federal power commission under the Federal Power Act of June 10, 1920, Public Law No. 280, 66th Congress, 2nd Session, and amendments thereto. Likewise nothing herein is intended to authorize such public corporation to engage in or finance, directly or indirectly, the organization or operation of any irrigation district or similar irrigation authority. This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with its purpose. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §2.)
AL Code § 33-16-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-3 - Authorization to Form Public Corporation.

Section 33-16-3Authorization to form public corporation. The Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the State Legislature, the Director of Finance, the Highway Director, the Director of the State Docks Department and the President of the Coosa-Alabama River Improvement Association may become a public corporation, with the powers hereinafter provided, by proceeding according to the provisions of Section 33-16-4. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §3.)
AL Code § 33-16-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-4 - Procedure for Incorporation.

Section 33-16-4Procedure for incorporation. To become a corporation, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Director of Finance, the Highway Director, the Director of the State Docks Department and the President of the Coosa-Alabama River Improvement Association shall present to the Secretary of State of Alabama an application signed by each of them which shall set forth (1) The name, official designation and official residence of each of the applicants; (2) The name of the proposed corporation, which shall be Coosa Valley Development Authority; (3) The location of the principal office of the proposed corporation; and (4) Any other matter relating to the proposed corporation which the applicants may choose to insert and which is not inconsistent with this chapter or the laws of the State of Alabama. The application shall be subscribed and sworn to by each of the applicants before an officer authorized by the laws of the State of Alabama to take acknowledgments to deeds. The Secretary of State shall examine the application and, if he finds that it substantially complies with the requirements of this section, he shall receive and file it and record it in an appropriate book of records in his office. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §4.)
AL Code § 33-16-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-5 - Certificate of Incorporation; No Fees to Be Paid to Secretary of State.

Section 33-16-5Certificate of incorporation; no fees to be paid to Secretary of State. When the application has been made, filed and recorded, as herein provided, the applicants shall constitute a public corporation under the name submitted in the application, and the Secretary of State shall make and issue to the applicants a certificate of incorporation under the Great Seal of the State and shall record the certificate with the application. There shall be no fees paid to the Secretary of State for any service rendered or work performed in connection with the authority thus formed, its incorporation, dissolution or records. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §5.)
AL Code § 33-16-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-6 - Members, Officers and Directors; Records of Proceedings.

Section 33-16-6Members, officers and directors; records of proceedings. The applicants named in the application and their respective successors in office shall constitute the members of the authority. The Governor shall be the president of the authority, the Lieutenant Governor shall be its vice-president, and the Director of Finance shall be its secretary. The State Treasurer shall be the treasurer of the authority and shall act as custodian of its funds, but he shall not be a member of the authority. The members of the authority shall constitute all the members of the board of directors of the authority, and any four members of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Should any person holding any state office named in this section, or the President of the Coosa-Alabama River Association, cease to hold office by reason of death, resignation of his term of office or for any other reason, then his successor in office shall take his place as a member and officer of the authority. Except as hereinafter provided, no member, officer or director of the authority shall receive any compensation in addition to that now authorized by law for any service they may render or for any duty they may perform in connection with the authority; provided, that the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall receive for each day devoted to the business of the authority the same per diem compensation and allowance that would be paid to them for attending legislative sessions, but this special compensation and allowance shall not be allowed on days when the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives are paid the per diem compensation and allowance for attending legislative sessions. The herein provided for special compensation and allowance of the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the expenses of the Legislature in the same manner that the per diem compensation and allowance of legislators serving on interim committees are paid. All proceedings had and done by the board of directors shall be reduced to writing by the secretary of the authority and recorded in a substantially bound book, which shall be kept in the office of the Secretary of State. Copies of such proceedings, when certified by the secretary of the authority, under the seal of the authority, shall be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the matters and things therein certified. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §6.)
AL Code § 33-16-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-7 - Duties and Obligations Which May Be Undertaken.

Section 33-16-7Duties and obligations which may be undertaken. The authority may undertake and discharge the duties and obligations set forth in this section as follows: In connection with the waterway, the authority may do or cause to be done the following: (1) Construct, improve, maintain and operate all highway and railroad bridges necessitated by the waterway and construct and maintain all highway relocations and alterations necessitated by the waterway; (2) Construct, improve, maintain and operate all river and canal terminals necessitated by the waterway; (3) Construct and maintain all alterations in sewer, water supply and drainage facilities necessitated by the waterway; (4) Assume any increased cost necessitated by the waterway in connection with maintaining and operating utility crossings. It is the intention of the Legislature to make the scope of the foregoing duties and obligations which may be undertaken by the authority commensurate with the corresponding requirements of local contribution and participation established by the River and Harbor Act of March 2, 1945, Public Law 14, 79th Congress, 1st Session (1945) and by other provisions of federal law (including duly adopted rules and regulations of agencies of the United States) which pertain to the respective responsibilities of the authority and the United States with respect to the development of the waterway. In particular, in connection with the construction, improvement or relocation of any highway or railroad bridge, the authority may pay such portion of the total cost of such construction, improvement or relocation as may be apportioned, without regard to the cost of improvements unrelated to navigation, to the owner of such bridge pursuant to the provisions of the Truman-Hobbs Act of June 21, 1940, Public Law 647, 76th Congress (1940), as amended, regardless of whether such bridge is owned by the authority or by a party other than the authority; provided, however, that, if such bridge is owned by the authority, the state, any municipality in the state or any other political subdivision or instrumentality of the state, the authority may pay all of the costs of such construction, improvement or relocation, except for such portion thereof as may be apportioned to the United States pursuant to the provisions of the aforesaid Truman-Hobbs Act of June 21, 1940, as amended. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §7; Acts 1984, No. 84-379, p. 885, §1.)
AL Code § 33-16-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-8 - Powers Enumerated.

Section 33-16-8Powers enumerated. The authority shall have the following powers: (1) To have succession by its corporate name without time limit; (2) To bring civil actions and have civil actions brought against it and to prosecute and defend in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties; (3) To have and to use a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To receive, take and hold by sale, gift, lease, devise or otherwise real and personal property of every kind and description, and to manage the same; (5) To acquire by purchase, gift or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or any other lawful means, and to convey or cause to be conveyed to the United States, the State of Alabama, any county or municipality in the state, or to any agency, department or instrumentality of such political entities, or to any public corporation, any real, personal or mixed property necessary or convenient to the authority in the performance of its duties and obligations in connection with the waterway project; (6) To exercise the right of eminent domain as freely and completely as, and in the same manner that, the State of Alabama is empowered to exercise such right; (7) To enter into contracts with the United States, the State of Alabama, counties and municipalities, with all agencies, departments and instrumentalities of such political entities, and with private individuals, firms, corporations and other persons for any purpose related to the authority's duties and obligations in connection with the waterway project; (8) To supervise the sale of general obligation bonds of the state subject to the provisions of Section 33-16-12 and to extend the proceeds of the said bonds in discharging its duties and obligations in connection with the waterway project; (9) To appoint and employ such attorneys and agents as the business of the authority may require; provided, that the authority shall not employ fiscal agents in connection with the sale of bonds; (10) To appoint and employ an administrator and supporting staff with such duties and powers, for such terms and at such salaries as the board of directors shall deem advisable; (11) To delegate, subject to the provisions of Section 33-16-10, the performance of the authority's duties and obligations to the Highway Department, the State Docks Department, and any other public corporations, agencies and departments of the state, in such part, to such extent, and on such terms as the board of directors shall deem advisable and to turn over to such other public corporations, agencies and departments of the state any and all funds of the authority necessary to enable such other public corporations, agencies and departments to perform the duties and obligations of the authority delegated to them. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §8.)
AL Code § 33-16-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-10 - Delegation of Duties, etc., to Other Public Corporations, Agencies and Departments of State.

Section 33-16-10Delegation of duties, etc., to other public corporations, agencies and departments of state. Any duties and obligations of the authority which shall be delegated by the board of directors of the authority to the Highway Department, the State Docks Department or any other public corporation, agency or department of the state shall be undertaken and discharged by the public corporation, agency or department to which such duties and obligations shall have been delegated; provided, that such a delegation shall not be effective and shall not release the authority from the duties and obligations proposed to be delegated nor impose any duties or obligations on the public corporations, agencies and departments to which a delegation shall have been made unless the Governor and the director, head or governing body of the public corporation, agency or department to which a delegation shall have been made shall approve such delegation in all respects; and, provided further, that the public corporation, agency or department shall at the time of such delegation be empowered by laws other than this chapter to perform duties and discharge obligations of the kind delegated and that this section shall not be construed to change the lawfully established nature and functions of public corporations, agencies and departments of the state. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §10.)
AL Code § 33-16-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-11 - Construction, Maintenance, etc., of Terminals.

Section 33-16-11Construction, maintenance, etc., of terminals. In connection with the navigational use of the waterway, the authority is hereby authorized to construct, improve, maintain and operate suitable and adequate river and canal terminals in accordance with plans approved by the Secretary of the Army of the United States and the Chief of Engineers of the United States army; provided that any obligations undertaken by the authority in connection with the provision and maintenance of such terminals may be delegated by the authority to the State Docks Department. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §11; Acts 1984, No. 84-379, p. 885, §3.)
AL Code § 33-16-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-13 - Bonds - Disposition of Proceeds; Investments.

Section 33-16-13Bonds - Disposition of proceeds; investments. The authority shall pay out of the proceeds from the sale of any of the bonds all expenses which the board of directors may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with the sale and issuance of the bonds. The proceeds from the sale of all bonds, other than refunding bonds, remaining after paying the expenses of their sale and issuance shall be turned in to the State Treasury, shall be carried in a special fund to be designated the Coosa Valley Development Authority fund, and shall be subject to be drawn on by the authority, upon approval by the Governor, but solely for the purpose of discharging the duties and obligations undertaken by the authority in connection with the waterway project. The proceeds from the sale of any refunding bonds remaining after the expense of their issuance shall be used only for the purpose of refunding the principal of outstanding bonds issued hereunder and of paying any premium that may be necessary to be paid in order to redeem or retire the bonds to be refunded. Any portion of the proceeds derived from the sale of any of the bonds which the board of directors of the authority may determine is not then needed for any of the purposes for which the bonds are authorized to be issued shall, on order of the authority, be invested by the State Treasurer in any securities that are direct general obligations of the United States or the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by the United States. Any such securities may, at any time and from time to time, on order of the authority, be sold or otherwise converted by the State Treasurer into cash. The income derived from any such investments shall be added to and treated as a part of the Coosa Valley Development Authority Fund. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §13.)
AL Code § 33-16-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-14 - Bonds - State Treasurer to Pay Principal and Interest of Bonds; Records.

Section 33-16-14Bonds - State Treasurer to pay principal and interest of bonds; records. Out of any funds in the State Treasury that may be available for such purpose, the State Treasurer is authorized and directed to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds at the respective maturities of the said principal and interest, and he is further authorized and directed to set up and maintain appropriate records pertaining thereto. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §14.)
AL Code § 33-16-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 16 - Coosa Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-16-15 - Dissolution of Authority.

Section 33-16-15Dissolution of authority. At any time when no duties or obligations of the authority shall remain to be discharged, or when all duties and obligations remaining to be discharged have been effectively delegated to public corporations, agencies and departments of the state in accordance with Section 33-16-10, the authority may be dissolved upon the filing with the secretary of state of an application for dissolution, which shall be subscribed by each of the members of the authority, and which shall be sworn to by each such member before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds. Upon the filing of said application for dissolution, the authority shall cease and any property owned by it at the time of its dissolution shall pass to the state. The Secretary of State shall file and record the application for dissolution, in an appropriate book of record in his office, and shall make an issue, under the Great Seal of the State, a certificate that the authority is dissolved and shall record the same certificate with the application of dissolution. (Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §15.)