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AL Code § 22-21-152 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 5 - Municipal Hospital Building Authorities.|Section 22-21-152 - Investment of Funds.

Section 22-21-152Investment of funds. (a) Any portion of the principal proceeds derived from the sale of the bonds which the board may determine is not presently needed for any of the purposes for which the bonds are authorized to be issued, and any other moneys of the authority which the board may determine will not be presently needed by the authority may, on order of the board, be invested in: (1) Any securities that are direct general obligations of the United States of America or the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by the United States of America; (2) Any debt securities that are direct obligations of any agency of the United States of America; (3) Interest-bearing bank time deposits and interest-bearing bank certificates of deposit; and (4) Interest-bearing time deposits and interest-bearing certificates of deposit of any federally-chartered savings and loan association. (b) Any securities, time deposits or certificates of deposit in which any such investment is made may, at any time and from time to time on order of the board, be sold or otherwise converted into cash. The income derived from any such investments shall be disbursed on order of the board for any purpose for which the authority may lawfully expend funds. (Acts 1961, No. 109, p. 134, §17; Acts 1978, No. 409, p. 394, §10.)
AL Code § 22-21-153 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 5 - Municipal Hospital Building Authorities.|Section 22-21-153 - Taxation Exemption.

Section 22-21-153Taxation exemption. The properties of the authority, and the income therefrom, all lease agreements made by the authority, all bonds issued by the authority, and the coupons applicable thereto and the income therefrom, and all indentures executed with respect thereto shall be forever exempt from any, and all, taxation in the State of Alabama. (Acts 1961, No. 109, p. 134, §18.)
AL Code § 22-21-154 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 5 - Municipal Hospital Building Authorities.|Section 22-21-154 - Dissolution.

Section 22-21-154Dissolution. At any time when the authority does not have any bonds outstanding, the board may adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon its minutes, declaring that the authority shall be dissolved. Upon the filing for record of a certified copy of said resolution in the office of the judge of probate of the county, the authority shall, thereupon, stand dissolved, and in the event that it owned any assets or property at the time of its dissolution, the title to all its assets and property shall thereupon vest in the municipality. In the event the authority shall at any time have outstanding bonds issued under this article payable out of the revenues of different projects, then as and when the principal of and interest on all bonds payable from the revenues derived from any project shall have been paid in full, title to the project, with respect to which the bonds so paid in full have been paid, shall thereupon vest in the municipality, but such vesting of title in the municipality shall not affect the title of the authority to any other project the revenues from which are pledged to the payment of any other bonds then outstanding. The formation of one or more public corporations under the provisions of this article shall not prevent the subsequent formation under this article of other public corporations pursuant to permission granted by the same municipality. (Acts 1961, No. 109, p. 134, §25.)
AL Code § 22-21-155 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 5 - Municipal Hospital Building Authorities.|Section 22-21-155 - Article Cumulative.

Section 22-21-155Article cumulative. This article shall not be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any power, right or remedy which any municipality or any corporation now in existence or hereafter formed may have in the absence of this article, and shall be construed as cumulative and independent thereof. (Acts 1961, No. 109, p. 134, §26.)
AL Code § 22-21-156 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 5 - Municipal Hospital Building Authorities.|Section 22-21-156 - Lease of Hospitals, Buildings or Facilities to Public or Nonprofit Corporations.

Section 22-21-156Lease of hospitals, buildings or facilities to public or nonprofit corporations. Any public corporation heretofore or hereafter incorporated and existing under the provisions of this chapter is hereby authorized and empowered to lease any hospital, building or facility constructed and equipped under the provisions of this chapter to any public corporation or any nonprofit corporation. Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow the abrogation of the terms of any contract or to jeopardize any security for the fulfillment of any obligation assumed under the provisions of this chapter. (Acts 1977, No. 785, p. 1355.)
AL Code § 22-21-170 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-170 - Definitions.

Section 22-21-170Definitions. For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise indicated, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) CORPORATION. A corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this article. (2) COUNTY. Any county in this state. (3) MEMBER. The county that is a member of a corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this article and each municipality that is at the time a member of such corporation. (4) SECURITIES. Notes, bonds, certificates of indebtedness, warrants or other evidences of indebtedness. (5) HOSPITAL. Such term includes the plural as well as the singular and means any one or more of buildings or facilities which serve to promote the public health, either by providing places or facilities for the diagnosis, treatment, cure or convalescence of sick, injured, mentally ill or disturbed persons, or for the prevention of sickness and disease, or for the care, treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics or for research with respect to any of the foregoing, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hospitals, clinics, sanitoria, nursing homes, offices for persons engaged in the diagnosis, treatment or cure of sick or injured persons or in preventive medicine and buildings to house or service equipment used for the diagnosis or treatment of sick or injured persons or in preventive medicine or the records of such diagnosis or treatment, or research with respect to any of the foregoing or dormitories or residences for hospital personnel and students and other employee-related facilities, together with: a. All real and personal properties for the location or better utilization of any such buildings and facilities, such as parking structures and areas, garages, storage facilities and out-buildings; and b. Machinery, equipment, furniture and fixtures useful or desirable in the operation of any of the aforesaid buildings and facilities. (6) CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. With respect to a county, the probate judge as ex officio principal judge of the county commission or the president or chairman of such commission and, with respect to a municipality, the mayor, president or chairman of the commission or other chief executive officer of such municipality. (7) GOVERNING BODY. With respect to a county, the county commission and, with respect to a municipality, the council, commission or other governing body of such municipality. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §2.)
AL Code § 22-21-171 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-171 - Purpose and Construction of Article.

Section 22-21-171Purpose and construction of article. It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this article to authorize in each of the several counties of the state the organization of a public corporation or corporations for the purpose of acquiring, owning and operating public hospitals and other health-care and related facilities in the county in which such corporation shall be organized. It is the legislative intent to confer on corporations organized under this article all the powers requisite for the fulfillment of the purposes of their organization, including the power to do whatever financing may be necessary to accomplish such purposes. This article shall be liberally construed to give effect to its purpose. Corporations organized under this article shall be public, nonprofit corporations, and no part of the net earnings thereof shall inure to the benefit of any individual or private corporation. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §1.)
AL Code § 22-21-172 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-172 - Incorporation - Authority.

Section 22-21-172Incorporation - Authority. Any county and any one or more municipalities located, in whole or in part, in such county are hereby together empowered and authorized to cause to be organized and incorporated one or more public corporations for hospital purposes with all the power and authority provided in Section 22-21-179. Such power and authority shall be exercised by the governing body of the county and by the governing body or bodies of the municipality or municipalities proposing to exercise such power and authority. The determination of such governing body to exercise the power and authority granted in this section shall be evidenced by a resolution which: (1) Shall declare the desirability of organizing and incorporating a public corporation for hospital purposes under this article; (2) Shall approve the form of the certificate of incorporation proposed to be used in organizing the corporation; (3) Shall find and determine that it is wise, expedient, necessary or advisable that the corporation be formed; and (4) Shall authorize its chief executive officer to proceed with the organization and incorporation of such public corporation. Whenever the governing bodies of the county and of the municipality or municipalities which are to be members of such public corporation shall have adopted such resolutions, the chief executive officer of each of them shall sign the certificate of incorporation and cause the same to be filed as provided in Section 22-21-173. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §3.)
AL Code § 22-21-173 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-173 - Incorporation - Certificate of Incorporation - Contents; Acknowledgment; Filing.

Section 22-21-173Incorporation - Certificate of incorporation - Contents; acknowledgment; filing. The certificate of incorporation of any public corporation incorporated under this article shall state: (1) The name of the corporation, which shall be Hospital Authority of _____ (or space to be filled in with the names of the county and of the municipality or municipalities which are to be members thereof, or with the name of any hospital proposed to be acquired by the corporation or with such other descriptive name as in the judgment of the members of the corporation is appropriate); (2) The names of the county and the municipality or municipalities which are to be members of the corporation; (3) The dates of adoption by the governing bodies of the county and such municipality or municipalities of their respective resolutions authorizing the incorporation of the corporation; (4) The location of the principal office of the corporation and its post office address; (5) The period for the duration of the corporation; if the duration is to be perpetual, that fact shall be stated; and (6) The objects for which the corporation is organized, including, if appropriate, the name of any existing hospital the ownership or operation of which is proposed to be acquired and assumed by the corporation. The certificate of incorporation may also include any provision or provisions for the regulation and conduct of the affairs of the corporation which are not inconsistent with this article and the laws of the State of Alabama. The certificate of incorporation shall be acknowledged before an officer authorized by the laws of this state to take acknowledgments to deeds. The certificate of incorporation shall be filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county which is to be a member of the corporation, and said judge of probate shall forthwith file such certificate and record the same; and thereupon the corporation described in said certificate of incorporation shall constitute a public corporation under the name stated in the certificate of incorporation. As soon thereafter as convenient, the judge of probate shall transmit a copy of the certificate of incorporation to the Secretary of State. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §4.)
AL Code § 22-21-174 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-174 - Incorporation - Certificate of Incorporation - Amendment.

Section 22-21-174Incorporation - Certificate of incorporation - Amendment. The certificate of incorporation of any public corporation incorporated under this article may, at any time and from time to time, be amended in the following manner: (1) The board of directors of the corporation shall adopt a resolution setting forth the proposed amendment, which may include any proposed change in the name of such corporation, the inclusion of another municipality or municipalities as members thereof (provided each of such other municipalities is located, in whole or in part, in the county which is a member of the corporation) and any matter which might originally have been included in the certificate of incorporation. (2) If the governing body of the county and of each other member of the corporation and the governing body of each municipality, if any, which it is proposed shall be added as a member of the corporation shall by resolution consent to such proposed amendment, the chairman and the secretary of the corporation shall then file, in the office of the judge of probate in the county in which the certificate of incorporation of the corporation is filed, a certificate in the name and on behalf of the corporation, under its corporate seal, reciting the adoption of the said respective resolutions by the board of directors and by the governing bodies of the county and of such municipalities and setting forth the proposed amendment. (3) The proposed amendment shall become effective upon the filing of such certificate in the said office. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §5.)
AL Code § 22-21-176 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-176 - Officers; Personnel.

Section 22-21-176Officers; personnel. The officers of the corporation shall consist of a chairman, a vice-chairman, a secretary, a treasurer and such other officers as the board of directors shall deem necessary to accomplish the purposes for which the corporation was organized. The chairman and the vice-chairman of the corporation shall be elected by the board of directors from its membership, but neither the secretary, the treasurer nor any of the other officers of the corporation need be a member of the board of directors. The offices of secretary and treasurer may, but need not be, held by the same person. The chairman and the vice-chairman of the corporation shall be elected by the board of directors for a term of one year, and the secretary, the treasurer and the other officers of the corporation shall be elected by the board of directors for such terms as it deems advisable. The board of directors shall have also the authority to employ all personnel as it deems necessary and to fix the terms and conditions of their employment. The duties of the chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer shall be such as are customarily performed by such officers and as may be prescribed by the board of directors. The duties of any other officers of the corporation shall be such as are from time to time prescribed by the board. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §7.)
AL Code § 22-21-177 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-177 - Formation of Other Corporations.

Section 22-21-177Formation of other corporations. The formation of one corporation under the provisions of this article shall not prevent the subsequent formation under this article of another corporation by the same county and the same municipality or municipalities or another municipality or municipalities in such county. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §19.)
AL Code § 22-21-178 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-178 - Governmental Sovereignty or Immunity.

Section 22-21-178Governmental sovereignty or immunity. No hospital authorized under this article shall have governmental sovereignty or immunity. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §15; Acts 1975, 4th Ex. Sess., No. 105, p. 2793, §2.)
AL Code § 22-21-180 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-180 - Eminent Domain.

Section 22-21-180Eminent domain. The corporation shall not have the power of eminent domain. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §14.)
AL Code § 22-21-181 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 21 - Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally.|Article 6 - County and Municipal Hospital Authorities.|Section 22-21-181 - Transfer of Funds and Assets by Counties and Municipalities.

Section 22-21-181Transfer of funds and assets by counties and municipalities. The county in which the corporation is organized, any municipality located, in whole or in part, within such county, whether or not a member of such corporation, and any public corporation in such county and any other public agency, authority or body, whether or not incorporated, located or having its principal office in the county are hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the corporation, with or without consideration, any hospital and other properties, real or personal, and all funds and assets, tangible or intangible, relative to the ownership or operation of any hospital that may be owned by such county, municipality, public corporation or public agency, authority or body, as the case may be, or that may be jointly owned by any one or more thereof, and any funds owned or controlled by such county, municipality, public corporation or public agency, authority or body, as the case may be, or jointly by any one or more thereof, that may have been raised or allocated for any of the purposes for which the corporation shall have been organized; provided, that such transfer or conveyance shall be authorized by an ordinance or a resolution duly adopted by the governing body of such county, municipality, public corporation or public agency, authority or body, as the case may be. Further, in the event of the transfer of any hospital to the corporation, any taxes, tax proceeds and other revenues that are apportioned or allocated to or for the benefit of the prior owner or operator of such hospital or for patient care at such hospital shall thereafter be paid to the corporation. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §21.)