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AL Code § 33-17-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-1 - Definitions.

Section 33-17-1Definitions. 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) FLOOD CONTROL PROJECT. The project for the construction and maintenance of improvements in the channels of tributary streams of the Tombigbee River in order to prevent or abate the flooding of such streams, as authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1958, 72 Statutes at Large 297, 85th Congress, 2nd Session (1958), in accordance with House Document No. 167, 84th Congress, 1st Session (1955). (7) MUNICIPALITY. An incorporated city or town of the state. (8) 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. (9) PROPERTY. Such term means and includes real and personal property, and interests therein. (10) STATE. In the absence of clear implication herein otherwise, such term means the State of Alabama. (11) WATERWAY. A navigable waterway, utilizing the channel of the Tombigbee River, between Demopolis, Alabama and the Tennessee River, as authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1946, 60 Statutes at Large 634, 79th Congress, 2nd Session (1946), in accordance with House Document No. 486, 79th Congress, 2nd Session (1946). (12) HEREIN, HEREBY, HEREUNDER and 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 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §1.)
AL Code § 33-17-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-2 - Legislative Intent; Construction of Chapter.

Section 33-17-2Legislative 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 Demopolis, Alabama and the Tennessee River, utilizing the channel of the Tombigbee 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. Local flooding along the tributary streams of the Tombigbee River occurs frequently in the growing and harvesting season and causes considerable damage to agriculture in the affected sections of the state. Improvements in the channels of the tributary streams will eliminate much of the damage caused by flooding and will also permit improved farming practices and better land use. It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to implement the provisions of Amendment No. 270 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, with the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority, and with private individuals, corporations, associations and other persons in furthering the development of the waterway and the flood control 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 established by the United States in connection with the waterway and the flood control project; and (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, and with the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority in promoting projects in the basin of the Tombigbee 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. This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with its purpose. (Acts 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §2.)
AL Code § 33-17-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-3 - Authorization to Form Public Corporation.

Section 33-17-3Authorization 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 and the Director of the State Docks Department may become a public corporation, with the powers hereinafter provided, by proceeding according to the provisions of Section 33-17-4. (Acts 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §3.)
AL Code § 33-17-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-4 - Procedure for Incorporation.

Section 33-17-4Procedure 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 and the Director of the State Docks Department 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, together with certificates respecting the due election of those who are elected to the offices respectively held by them and certified copies of the commissions evidencing the due appointment of those who are appointed to the offices respectively held by them; (2) The date on which each applicant was inducted into office and the term of office of each applicant; (3) The name of the proposed corporation, which shall be Tombigbee Valley Development Authority; (4) The location of the principal office of the proposed corporation; and (5) 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 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §4.)
AL Code § 33-17-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-5 - Certificate of Incorporation; No Fees to Be Paid to Secretary of State.

Section 33-17-5Certificate 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 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §5.)
AL Code § 33-17-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-6 - Members, Officers and Directors; Records of Proceedings.

Section 33-17-6Members, 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 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 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 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §6.)
AL Code § 33-17-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-7 - Duties and Obligations Which May Be Undertaken.

Section 33-17-7Duties and obligations which may be undertaken. The authority may undertake and discharge the duties and obligations set forth in this section as follows: (1) In connection with the waterway, the authority may do or cause to be done the following: a. Construct, maintain and operate all highway bridges necessitated by the waterway and construct and maintain all highway relocations and alterations necessitated by the waterway; b. Construct and maintain all alterations in sewer, water supply and drainage facilities necessitated by the waterway; c. 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 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 1946, 60 Statutes at Large 634, 79th Congress, 2nd Session (1946), in accordance with House Document No. 486, 79th Congress, 2nd Session (1946). (2) In connection with the flood control project, the authority may do or cause to be done the following: a. Provide all lands, easements and rights-of-way necessary for construction of the proposed improvements; b. Make all changes, additions and relocations in roads, highway bridges and utilities necessitated by the flood control project; c. Hold and save the United States free from all tort claims arising out of the construction of the proposed improvements; d. Undertake all proceedings, prosecutions and civil actions necessary to prevent encroachments in the improved channels of streams involved in the flood control project; e. Maintain all of the proposed improvements in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army; f. Contribute in cash or equivalent work, in addition to the foregoing items, an amount to be determined by the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army as the cash contribution required of local interests for improvements made in Alabama; provided, that the amount contributed shall not exceed $750,000.00. It is the intention of the Legislature to make the scope of foregoing duties and obligations which may be undertaken by the authority commensurate with the corresponding requirements of local contribution and participation established by the Flood Control Act of 1958, 72 Statutes at Large 297, 85th Congress, 2nd Session (1958), in accordance with House Document No. 167, 84th Congress, 1st Session (1955). (Acts 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §7.)
AL Code § 33-17-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-9 - Contracts.

Section 33-17-9Contracts. The aggregate monetary obligation that the authority may incur in connection with its contracts shall not at any time exceed the sum of (1) Any uncommitted or unencumbered moneys then appropriated to the authority by the Legislature, and (2) Any uncommitted or unencumbered proceeds of bonds available or to become available from bonds then authorized by the authority and approved by the Governor pursuant to Section 33-17-12. No contract involving the expenditure of money, whether now or later, shall be approved or ratified by the board of directors unless the resolution approving or ratifying the same shall include a determination that there will be compliance with the preceding limitation when the amount of the obligation of the contract in question has been added to the already existing obligations of the authority. This determination by the board of directors shall be conclusive of the question of compliance. All contracts of the authority for the construction, reconstruction, relocation, maintenance and operation of highways, roads and bridges, and work incidental or related thereto, and the acquisition of property necessary therefor, shall be in writing, shall be subject to the rules and regulations and shall be let under the supervision of the Highway Department, and shall be subject to approval by the Governor and by the Highway Department. All work provided for in any such contract shall be supervised by the Highway Department. All persons engaging in the supervision or performance of any work involving highways, roads and bridges that may be done by the authority without the award of a contract therefor shall be employees of the Highway Department. All contracts of the authority for the construction, reconstruction or relocation of any facilities or structures and all purchases of equipment by the authority shall be made on the basis of competitive bidding in the manner and according to the procedures provided in Sections 39-2-1 through 39-2-13 and 41-16-20 through 41-16-32, and any other applicable statutes. (Acts 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §9.)
AL Code § 33-17-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-10 - Delegation of Duties, etc., to Other Public Corporations, Agencies and Departments of State.

Section 33-17-10Delegation 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 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §10.)
AL Code § 33-17-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-11 - Authority of State Docks Department.

Section 33-17-11Authority of State Docks Department. In connection with the navigational use of the waterway, the State Docks Department is hereby authorized to provide and maintain 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. (Acts 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §11.)
AL Code § 33-17-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-13 - Bonds - Disposition of Proceeds; Investments.

Section 33-17-13Bonds - 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 Tombigbee 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 and the flood control 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 Tombigbee Valley Development Authority Fund. (Acts 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §13.)
AL Code § 33-17-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-14 - Bonds - State Treasurer to Pay Principal and Interest of Bonds; Records.

Section 33-17-14Bonds - 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 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §14.)
AL Code § 33-17-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 33 - Navigation and Watercourses.|Chapter 17 - Tombigbee Valley Development Authority.|Section 33-17-15 - Dissolution of Authority.

Section 33-17-15Dissolution 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 shall have been effectively delegated to public corporations, agencies and departments of the state in accordance with Section 33-17-10, 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 and issue, under the Great Seal of the State, a certificate that the authority is dissolved, and shall record the said certificate with the application of dissolution. (Acts 1967, No. 264, p. 746, §15.)
AL Code § 34-1-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 1 - Accountants.|Section 34-1-1 - Short Title.

Section 34-1-1Short title. This chapter may be cited as the Public Accountancy Act of 2003. (Acts 1973, No. 997, p. 1510, §1; Act 2003-393, p. 1114, §1.)
AL Code § 34-1-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.|Chapter 1 - Accountants.|Section 34-1-5 - Registration of Foreign Accountants.

Section 34-1-5Registration of foreign accountants. The board may, in its discretion and upon application and the payment of an initial registration fee not in excess of $100, permit the registration of any person with good moral character who is the holder of a certificate, license, or degree in a foreign country constituting a recognized qualification for the practice of public accounting in such country. A person so registered shall use only the title under which he is generally known in his or her own country, followed by the name of the country from which he or she received his or her certificate, license, or degree. (Acts 1973, No. 997, p. 1510, §4.)