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AL Code § 11-50-372 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 11 - Operation of Sanitary Sewer Systems by Public Water Corporations.|Section 11-50-372 - Rights and Powers of Public Water Corporations and State Board of Health as to Sanitary Sewers Not Impaired by Article.

Section 11-50-372Rights and powers of public water corporations and State Board of Health as to sanitary sewers not impaired by article. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to deprive any such public water corporation of its right to fix the charges for sanitary sewer service rendered by any sanitary sewer system owned by it, or its title thereto or its control thereover and powers with respect thereto. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to impair any power of the State Board of Health granted by law with respect to any such sanitary sewer system. (Acts 1953, No. 663, p. 920, §3.)
AL Code § 11-50-390 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-390 - Definitions.

Section 11-50-390Definitions. When used in this article, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) MUNICIPALITY. Any incorporated city or town in the State of Alabama. (2) GOVERNING BODY. The council, commission, or other governing body of such municipality. (3) MAYOR. The mayor, president, or chairman of the commission or other chief executive officer of such municipality. (4) GAS TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. A plant and system for the manufacture, transmission, delivery, and transportation of natural or manufactured gas, together with all appurtenances thereto and all property, real, personal, or mixed, used or useful in connection therewith, including franchises and easements. Such gas transmission system shall include facilities for making sales and deliveries of gas to industrial and institutional users and to line tap residential and commercial users as well as to gas distribution systems. (5) GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM. A plant and system for the distribution and sale of gas and gas services in a municipality and the surrounding territory, including the sale and distribution of gas to residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, and all other users, together with all appurtenances thereto and all property, real, personal, or mixed, used or useful in connection therewith, including franchises and easements. A gas distribution system may make sales and deliveries of gas to other distribution systems. (6) GAS SYSTEM AND SYSTEMS. One or more gas transmission systems and one or more gas distribution systems. (7) RESOLUTION. A resolution adopted by a majority vote of a quorum present of the governing body of a municipality. All resolutions of a general or permanent nature adopted or promulgated by the governing body of a municipality under the provisions of this article shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality, but if no newspaper is published within the limits of such municipality, such resolution may be published by posting a copy thereof in three public places within the limits of the municipality. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §2.)
AL Code § 11-50-391 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-391 - Creation.

Section 11-50-391Creation. Any two or more municipalities are hereby empowered and authorized to cause to be organized and incorporated a gas district as a public corporation with all the power and authority provided in this article for the purpose of securing for such municipalities a supply of natural or artificial gas and for the purpose of transporting gas and for the purpose of the local distribution and sale of gas and gas services in any one or more of such municipalities or for any one or more of such purposes. Such power and authority shall be exercised by the governing body of each such municipality. The determination of such governing body to exercise the power and authority in this section granted shall be evidenced by a resolution which shall declare the desirability of organizing and incorporating a gas district, name the municipalities which are to be members of such district, set forth a brief description of the gas system or systems to be owned and operated by such district, and authorize the mayor of such municipality to proceed with the organization and incorporation of such gas district. Whenever the governing bodies of all of the municipalities which are to be members of such gas district shall have adopted such resolutions, the chief executive officer of each such municipality shall sign the certificate of incorporation and cause the same to be filed as provided in subsection (a) of Section 11-50-392. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §1.)
AL Code § 11-50-393 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-393 - Board of Directors - Composition; Compensation; Removal Actions.

Section 11-50-393Board of directors - Composition; compensation; removal actions. Each district incorporated under this article shall have a board of directors of not less than three members, and the members shall elect a chairman of the board. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation, the board of directors shall consist of at least one member for each municipality which is a member of the district. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation, the member of the board of directors representing each member municipality shall be elected by the governing body of each municipality and shall serve for a term of office concurrent with the term of office of the mayor of the municipality. A representative of each municipality may, but need not be, the mayor thereof. The members of the board of directors shall serve without compensation, except that they shall be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties under this article, and, at the discretion of the board of directors, they may be paid a director's fee not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each director's meeting attended, but not to exceed one meeting each calendar month. The chairman of the board of directors shall serve without compensation, except that he or she shall be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the performance of his or her duties under this article, and, at the discretion of the board of directors, he or she may be paid a director's fee not exceeding one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250) for each director's meeting attended, but not to exceed one meeting each calendar month. Members of the board of directors shall hold office until their successors are appointed and qualify. Appointments to fill a vacancy shall be for the unexpired term. The appointing authority may remove any member of the board of directors within the term for which he or she is appointed after giving the member a copy of the charges against him or her and an opportunity to be heard in his or her defense. The removal action of the appointing authority shall be final and nonreviewable. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §6; Acts 1982, No. 82-529, p. 878; Acts 1993, No. 93-721, p. 1410, §1; Act 2004-553, p. 1191, §1; Act 2009-588, p. 1733, §1.)
AL Code § 11-50-394 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-394 - Board of Directors - Organization; Officers.

Section 11-50-394Board of directors - Organization; officers. Promptly after their appointment, the members of the board of directors shall meet to organize. At such meeting and at the first meeting in each year thereafter, the members of the board shall choose from their number a president. They shall also choose a secretary and a treasurer who may but need not be members of the board. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §7.)
AL Code § 11-50-395 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-395 - Board of Directors - Powers Generally; Resolutions.

Section 11-50-395Board of directors - Powers generally; resolutions. (a) The board of directors shall constitute the governing body of the district. The board shall do all things necessary or convenient in acquiring, owning, operating, developing, and improving the gas system or systems owned or to be owned by the district and shall exercise all the powers of the district including but not limited to the following powers: (1) To adopt and amend bylaws for the management and regulation of its affairs and the enterprises in which it is engaged; (2) To use, with the consent of any of its member municipalities, the agents, employees, or facilities or property of such municipalities and to provide for the payment of the agreed proportion of the costs therefor; (3) To appoint officers, agents, and employees, including attorneys, and to fix their compensation; (4) To contract with any person, firm, or corporation for the entire supervision, operation, and management of any one or more systems of the district, including the collection and distribution of the revenue therefrom, for such period of time as the board may deem advisable and at such compensation and upon such terms as may be agreed upon and approved by the board of directors; and (5) To provide for the execution of deeds, mortgages, indentures of trust, bonds, obligations, and other instruments of the district. (b) Action of the board of directors shall be taken by resolution. Any resolution of a general or permanent nature shall not become effective until it has been published in some newspaper of general circulation in the district, but if no such newspaper is published within the limits of the district, such resolution may be published by posting a copy thereof in three public places within the limits of the district. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §8.)
AL Code § 11-50-397 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-397 - Exercise of Powers of Eminent Domain Generally.

Section 11-50-397Exercise of powers of eminent domain generally. The powers of eminent domain granted and conferred upon districts incorporated under this article shall be exercised in the same manner and subject to the same limitations as in the case of municipal corporations; provided that the power of eminent domain shall not be exercised by any such district in order to acquire those properties of any natural gas company which are subject to the regulation of the Federal Power Commission or any properties of any person which are to be used for the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §5; Act 2005-307, 1st Sp. Sess., §1.)
AL Code § 11-50-398 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-398 - Acquisition, Construction, Operation, etc., of Gas Distribution Systems Outside Territory of Municipalities by Which Incorporated.

Section 11-50-398Acquisition, construction, operation, etc., of gas distribution systems outside territory of municipalities by which incorporated. Any such gas district may, if its certificate of incorporation shall so provide, acquire, construct, own, and operate gas distribution systems and any other facilities suitable to provide for the distribution and sale of gas outside of the territory of the municipalities which are members of such gas district and outside of the territory surrounding such municipalities. (Acts 1953, No. 436, p. 542, §2.)
AL Code § 11-50-399 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-399 - Acquisition of Competing Gas Systems, Etc.

Section 11-50-399Acquisition of competing gas systems, etc. All districts incorporated under the provisions of this article shall have all powers and be subject to all limitations with respect to the acquisition of competing gas systems and the duplication of existing privately owned gas systems to the same extent as boards under the provisions of Sections 11-50-266 through 11-50-270. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §17.)
AL Code § 11-50-400 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-400 - Use of Public Highway Rights-of-Way.

Section 11-50-400Use of public highway rights-of-way. Each such district is hereby authorized to use the right-of-way of public highways for construction of gas lines along the margin of said right-of-way subject to the district's obtaining written permission from the appropriate county commission or the State Department of Transportation as applicable. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §19; Acts 1969, No. 476, p. 932.)
AL Code § 11-50-401 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-401 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations as to Installation, Maintenance, etc., of Gas Fixtures, Pipes, etc., Served by District - Authorized.

Section 11-50-401Promulgation of rules and regulations as to installation, maintenance, etc., of gas fixtures, pipes, etc., served by district - Authorized. Any gas district now or hereafter organized in this state under the provisions of this article is hereby authorized and empowered to promulgate rules and regulations governing and relating to the installation, connection, maintenance, and servicing of gas fixtures, pipes, appliances, and equipment with respect to properties served by it. Such rules and regulations may require that any person so installing, connecting, maintaining, or servicing any such fixtures, pipes, appliances, and equipment be licensed by the gas district promulgating such rules and regulations. (Acts 1955, No. 362, p. 880, §1.)
AL Code § 11-50-402 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-402 - Promulgation of Rules and Regulations as to Installation, Maintenance, etc., of Gas Fixtures, Pipes, etc., Served by District - Procedure.

Section 11-50-402Promulgation of rules and regulations as to installation, maintenance, etc., of gas fixtures, pipes, etc., served by district - Procedure. Any such rules or regulations promulgated by a gas district under the authority conferred by this article shall be incorporated in a resolution of its board of directors, which resolution shall be deemed a resolution of general or permanent nature and shall be published in the manner required of resolutions of a general or permanent nature by the provisions of Section 11-50-395; provided however, that where such rules or regulations have been printed as a code in book or pamphlet form, they may be adopted by reference thereto without publication or posting if, prior to adoption thereof, the board of directors of such gas district shall hold a public hearing thereon and shall give public notice of the time, place, and purpose of such hearing. Such notice shall be sufficient if published once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper published within the territory served by the gas district proposing to adopt such code or, if there be no newspaper published within the territory served by such gas district, in a newspaper of general circulation within such territory. The first of such publications shall be not less than 10 days before the date fixed for such public hearing. (Acts 1955, No. 362, p. 880, §2.)
AL Code § 11-50-403 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-403 - Rules and Regulations Not to Supersede Rules, Regulations, etc., of Municipalities in Territory Served by District; Municipal Rules, Regulations, etc., to Govern in Event of Conflict.

Section 11-50-403Rules and regulations not to supersede rules, regulations, etc., of municipalities in territory served by district; municipal rules, regulations, etc., to govern in event of conflict. No rules or regulations promulgated by a gas district pursuant to the authority conferred by this article shall supersede any valid rules, regulations, or codes promulgated by a municipality situated in the territory served by such gas district with respect to the installation, connection, maintenance, and servicing of gas fixtures, pipes, appliances, and equipment within the corporate limits of such municipality or its police jurisdiction. In the event of any conflict between any rules or regulations promulgated by a gas district pursuant to this article and those adopted by a municipality situated in the territory served by such gas district, those adopted by such municipality shall apply and shall be controlling with respect to the installation, connection, maintenance, and servicing of gas fixtures, pipes, appliances, and equipment within the corporate limits of such municipality and its police jurisdiction. (Acts 1955, No. 362, p. 880, §3.)
AL Code § 11-50-404 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-404 - Transfer of Systems to District by Municipalities.

Section 11-50-404Transfer of systems to district by municipalities. Each municipality in Alabama which now or hereafter owns a gas plant and system is hereby authorized to transfer and convey all or any part of such plant and system or any rights incident thereto, without the necessity of authorization at an election of the qualified voters of such municipality, to a gas district incorporated as a public corporation under the provisions of this article, whether such municipality is a member of the district or not. Any such transfer or conveyance may be made with or without pecuniary consideration and on any such terms and conditions as the governing body of the municipality owning such plant and system may determine. Any such transfer and conveyance shall be made only upon the adoption by the governing body of the municipality owning such plant and system of an ordinance or resolution authorizing such transfer and conveyance. (Acts 1953, No. 641, p. 900.)
AL Code § 11-50-406 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-406 - Bonds - Disposition of Proceeds From Sale.

Section 11-50-406Bonds - Disposition of proceeds from sale. All moneys derived from the sale of any bonds issued by any district incorporated under this article shall be used solely for the purpose or purposes for which the same are authorized, including any engineering, legal or other expenses incident thereto and, in the case of bonds issued in whole or in part for the construction of a gas system or systems or any part thereof, interest on such bonds (or, if a part only of the bonds are issued for the purpose of such construction, on the part of such bonds issued for that purpose) prior to and during such construction and, in the case of bonds issued by a district for the purpose of refunding outstanding bonds of such district, any premium which it may deem necessary to pay in order to redeem or retire the bonds to be refunded and any interest (accrued and to accrue) on the bonds to be so refunded. The treasurer or other officer designated by the board of directors shall give a receipt for the purchase price to the purchaser of any such bonds, which receipt shall be full acquittal to such purchaser, and he shall not be under any duty to inquire as to the application of the proceeds of such bonds. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §14; Acts 1965, No. 694, p. 1286, §2.)
AL Code § 11-50-407 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.|Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.|Article 12 - Gas Districts.|Section 11-50-407 - Provisions in Mortgages, Deeds of Trust, etc., Executed as Security for Bonds as to Rights of Parties Thereto, etc.; Execution, etc., of Contracts as Security for Repayment of Moneys Borrowed.

Section 11-50-407Provisions in mortgages, deeds of trust, etc., executed as security for bonds as to rights of parties thereto, etc.; execution, etc., of contracts as security for repayment of moneys borrowed. (a) Any mortgage, deed of trust or pledge agreement made by any district incorporated under this article for the security of any of its bonds or to define the rights, remedies and privileges of the holders of such bonds and the duties of the district to such holders may contain such agreements, obligations, covenants and provisions as the board of directors may deem advisable respecting the operation and maintenance of the gas system or systems and the collection and application of the revenues subject to such mortgage, deed of trust or pledge agreement and respecting the rights and duties of the parties to such instrument or the parties for the benefit of whom such instrument is made, with it being expressly provided that any such mortgage or deed of trust may be subject to the sale of the system or systems at foreclosure to utility companies or corporations regulated by the Alabama Public Service Commission. (b) To further secure the repayment of any money borrowed by it, any such district may enter into a contract or contracts binding itself for the proper application of the money borrowed, for the continued operation and maintenance of any gas system or systems owned or to be acquired or constructed by it or any part or parts thereof, for the imposition and collection of reasonable rates for and the promulgation of reasonable regulations respecting any service furnished from its gas system or systems, for the disposition and application of its gross revenues or any part thereof and for any other act or series of acts not inconsistent with the provisions of this article for the protection of the loan and the assurance that the revenues from its gas system or systems will be sufficient to operate such system or systems, maintain the same in good repair and in good operating condition, pay all reasonable insurance thereon, pay the principal of and interest on any bonds payable from such revenues and maintain such reserves and funds as may be deemed appropriate for the protection of the loan and the efficient operation of such system or systems. (Acts 1951, No. 762, p. 1319, §11; Acts 1969, No. 634, p. 1161, §2.)