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AL Code § 11-104-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 104 - Post-Employment Benefits Act of 2008.|Section 11-104-5 - Funding; Trust Investments.

Section 11-104-5Funding; trust investments. (a) Subject to any limitations necessary to ensure the tax-exempt status of a trust, the sources of funding to a trust may be any of the following: (1) Appropriations made by the governmental entity. (2) Contributions by employees and retired employees. (3) Employer contributions. (4) Investment income. (5) Proceeds of any gifts, grants, or contributions. (6) Transfers from another trust or fund held by a governmental entity. (7) Bonds, warrants, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness. (8) All other sources permitted by law. (b) Subject to payment for fees and reasonable expenses of maintaining a trust, the funds deposited into a trust shall be used for the exclusive purpose of funding post-employment benefit obligations of the governmental entity or entities. The agreements creating a trust shall be irrevocable, subject to subsection (e) of Section 11-104-3 and Section 11-104-8, and the assets of a trust shall not be expended, disbursed, loaned, transferred, or used for any purpose other than to acquire investments, pay reasonable administrative expenses, and provide post-employment benefits to or for retired employees and their dependents. The Legislature may not appropriate the assets of any trust. (c) The governmental entity or entities may retain, in addition to the trustee, the appropriate administrative and professional services, including, but not limited to, actuaries, attorneys, and investment consultants, to properly maintain a trust and manage and invest the assets held in a trust. The reasonable administrative expenses associated with these services may be paid from the assets of the trust, if so allowed by the written trust agreement. (d) The trust investments shall be governed by an asset allocation strategy that emphasizes the long-term funding of the trust while investing the assets for the highest investment rate of return consistent with acceptable levels of risk and the actuarially assumed rate of return that is established by the trust's actuary. These investments may include, but are not limited to, stocks, bonds, and various alternative assets, including real estate, hedge funds, and commodities. With respect to each trust that is created, an investment policy guiding the investment of such trust's assets, consistent with this subsection and all other provisions of this chapter, shall be established. (Act 2008-503, p. 1109, §5.)
AL Code § 11-104-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 104 - Post-Employment Benefits Act of 2008.|Section 11-104-6 - Applicability of Chapter

Section 11-104-6Applicability of chapter Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to define or otherwise grant any right or privilege to post-employment benefits or any other benefits to any person other than those post-employment benefits, rights, and privileges previously or already granted to employees, retired employees, and their dependents by each governmental entity's post-employment benefit plans, if any. Such rights and privileges shall be governed by the terms of the governmental entity's benefit plans, if any. This chapter is not intended to assure or deny any existing or future employee, retired employee, any of their dependents, or any other person of any right of employment or entitlement to any post-employment benefit or limit or otherwise restrict the ability of the governmental entity to modify or eliminate any existing or future benefit or post-employment benefit. (Act 2008-503, p. 1109, §6.)
AL Code § 11-104-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 104 - Post-Employment Benefits Act of 2008.|Section 11-104-7 - Construction With Other Laws.

Section 11-104-7Construction with other laws. It is the intent of the Legislature that, to the extent a governmental entity or entities establishes a trust, that it be operated in compliance with the Internal Revenue Code 26 U.S.C., as amended, in a manner which would allow the trust to maximize investment earnings while minimizing the costs to the governmental entities and their employees. The trusts shall not be subject to any current or future provision of a law, rule, ordinance, or resolution of the state, municipality, city, town, county, agency, or instrumentality thereof which conflicts with this legislative intent or would prevent or unreasonably hinder the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter. This chapter shall be read as separate and apart from, and not in conflict with or subject to, the provisions of Amendment No. 623 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 228.01 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. (Act 2008-503, p. 1109, §7.)
AL Code § 11-105-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 105 - Tourism Promotion and Development Authorities.|Section 11-105-1 - Formation of Public Authority.

Section 11-105-1Formation of public authority.  Any one or more municipalities or counties, or any combination thereof, by resolution of the governing body of each participating municipality or county, may elect to form a public authority for the purpose of promoting and developing tourism in the geographic area to be served by the authority. The authority shall be vested with the powers provided by this chapter. (Act 2011-692, p. 2116, §1.)
AL Code § 11-105-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 105 - Tourism Promotion and Development Authorities.|Section 11-105-2 - Designation of Tourism Promotion and Development District.

Section 11-105-2Designation of tourism promotion and development district.  A public authority established pursuant to this chapter shall designate a tourism promotion and development district which may be comprised of part or all of the corporate limits of any participating municipality and all or part of the unincorporated areas of any participating county. The governing body of each municipality and each county participating in the formation of the authority shall state in its authorizing resolution or by separate resolution the geographic area within its corporate limits that shall comprise the tourism promotion and development district. (Act 2011-692, p. 2116, §2.)
AL Code § 11-105-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 105 - Tourism Promotion and Development Authorities.|Section 11-105-3 - Powers of Authority.

Section 11-105-3Powers of authority.  (a) A public authority established pursuant to this chapter may conduct programs and events, including, but not limited to, programs of information and publicity and public events to attract tourists to geographic areas served by the authority. The authority may conduct programs or events in Alabama and elsewhere and expend its funds in the furtherance of such programs and events in Alabama and elsewhere. (b) The authority may enter into contracts with a person, firm, corporation, or association to carry out the purposes set forth herein. No contract entered into by the authority shall bind the State of Alabama or any county or municipality of the State of Alabama. (c) The authority shall have all of the following powers: (1) To sue and be sued. (2) To own, lease, license, operate, purchase, acquire, hold, improve, develop, manage, sell, convey, transfer, exchange, release, and dispose of, either alone or in conjunction with others, real and personal property, tangible and intangible, of every kind, character, and description. (3) To have a seal and alter the seal as necessary or appropriate. (4) To appoint officers, agents, employees, attorneys, and accountants and fix their compensation. (5) To make bylaws for the management and regulation of the authority's affairs, including the appointment of committees, upon resolution of the board of directors of the authority. (6) To enter into contracts and execute all instruments necessary or convenient to lease, purchase, and own real or personal property used in furtherance of the purposes for the accomplishment of which the authority is created. (7) To accept or receive gifts, bequests, devises, and all other types of funds, both public and private, regardless of the source, subject to all applicable laws, and to expend all such funds to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (8) To provide funds directly or indirectly to third parties in connection with any public program, event, or advertising campaign to carry out the purposes herein stated. (9) To borrow money, execute notes, and other evidence of indebtedness which may be required by the lender, and pledge anticipated revenue or income to secure payment of loans. (10) To do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers expressly given herein. (d) The authority shall not have the power of eminent domain. (Act 2011-692, p. 2116, §3.)
AL Code § 11-105-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 105 - Tourism Promotion and Development Authorities.|Section 11-105-5 - Powers of Board.

Section 11-105-5Powers of board.  (a) The power of the authority shall be vested in and exercised by the board of directors pursuant to this chapter. (b) The board may employ agents, employees, officers, consultants, attorneys, and secure services and assistance the board deems necessary to enable it to conduct and engage in the activities and purposes for which the authority is created. (c) The board may delegate to one or more of its members, employees, agents, or officers, the duties it deems proper. (d) The board shall elect a chair and a treasurer, and may elect a vice chair of the board who shall serve as chair in the event of the absence of the chair, and a secretary. One person may serve as treasurer and secretary. The treasurer and secretary may, but need not be, a member of the board. (e) The board shall provide by resolution for the dates on which the chair, vice chair, treasurer, secretary, or any other officers shall be elected, which resolution shall also specify the term or period for which each of the offices shall serve. (f) The treasurer shall act as custodian of all funds from whatever sources derived received by the authority. (g) The treasurer of the board shall execute a fidelity bond with a company authorized to write bonds in the State of Alabama being surety thereon, which bond shall be in an amount approved by the board. (h) Contracts of the authority shall be executed in the name of the authority by the chair of the board and attested by the secretary of the board. The board, by resolution, may provide for a different form for the execution of contracts and for the execution by an officer or agent other than the chair and secretary. In no event may a contract, irrespective of its form and of the persons executing it, be binding unless the contract was authorized or ratified by the board. (i) Any member of the board may be removed without cause upon a two-thirds majority vote of the then existing board members of the authority. (Act 2011-692, §5.)
AL Code § 11-106-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 106 - Military Land Use Planning.|Section 11-106-1 - Short Title.

Section 11-106-1Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Military Land Use Planning Act. (Act 2014-13, p. 44, §1.)
AL Code § 11-106-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 106 - Military Land Use Planning.|Section 11-106-2 - Legislative Findings.

Section 11-106-2Legislative findings. The Legislature finds, determines, and declares that it is desirable for local governments in the state to cooperate with military installations located within the state in order to encourage compatible land use, help prevent incompatible urban encroachment upon military installations, and facilitate the continued presence of major military installations within the state. (Act 2014-13, p. 44, §1.)
AL Code § 11-106-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 106 - Military Land Use Planning.|Section 11-106-3 - Definitions.

Section 11-106-3Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ADVERSE IMPACT ON MILITARY OPERATIONS AND READINESS. The same meaning as provided for that term in 10 U.S.C. § 183a(h), and consistent with Section 3.1.a.4 of DoD Instruction 4180.02. (2) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SITING CLEARINGHOUSE. The Military Aviation and Installation Assurance Siting Clearinghouse of the Department of Defense, as established by 10 U.S.C. § 183a. (3) LOCAL GOVERNMENT. Any county or municipality. (4) LOCAL IMPACT ISSUE. Any adoption or amendment by a local government of a proposed zoning plan, comprehensive master plan, or land development regulations that, if approved, may or will significantly affect any area or airspace that is within two miles of a military installation. (5) MILITARY INSTALLATION. Any base, camp, post, station, airfield, yard, center, or any other land area under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Defense, including any leased facility, the total acreage of which installation is in excess of 500 acres. The term military installation does not include any facility used primarily for civil works, river projects, or flood control projects. (6) NOTICE OF PRESUMED RISK. The notice provided by the Department of Defense Siting Clearinghouse to an owner of an energy facility pursuant to 10 U.S.C. § 183a(c)(2). (7) TALL STRUCTURE. Any building, structure, or unit within a multiunit building with a vertical height of more than 200 feet measured from the top of the foundation of the building, structure, or unit to the uppermost point of the building, structure, or unit. The term does not include: wind energy facilities, electrical transmission towers, slender structures, or minor vertical projections of a parent building, including, but not limited to, chimneys, flagpoles, flues, spires, steeples, belfries, cupolas, antennas, poles, lines, or wires, except that no such structure or vertical projection may project more than 20 vertical feet above the parent building. The term also does not include any communications structures requiring antenna structure registration pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 17.4. (8) WIND ENERGY FACILITY. Facilities for the generation of electricity by wind power. (Act 2014-13, p. 44, §1; Act 2021-114, §1.)
AL Code § 11-106-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 106 - Military Land Use Planning.|Section 11-106-4 - Notification of Local Impact Issues.

Section 11-106-4Notification of local impact issues. (a) Each local government whose territorial boundaries are within two miles of all or any portion of a military installation shall provide written notice to the military installation's commanding officer and the flying mission commanding officer if applicable, or their designees, of any local impact issue. (b) Prior to approving any proposed tall structure or wind energy facility, the local government shall follow the requirements of Section 11-106-6. The requirements of Section 11-106-6 shall apply regardless of the distance of the tall structure or wind energy facility from any military installation and regardless of whether the local government’s territorial boundaries are within two miles of all or any portion of a military installation. (Act 2014-13, p. 44, §1; Act 2021-114, §1.)
AL Code § 11-106-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 106 - Military Land Use Planning.|Section 11-106-5 - Review by Military Installation, Submission of Comments; Effects on Local Government.

Section 11-106-5Review by military installation, submission of comments; effects on local government. (a) Upon submission of the information required by Section 11-106-4 about a local impact issue, the military installation shall have 30 calendar days before any final action is taken or any public hearing is held about the issue. During that time the military installation may review the information and submit comments to the local government on the impact of the issue upon the mission of the military installation. The comments may include any of the following: (1) If the military installation has an airfield, whether the local impact issue will be compatible with the safety and noise standards contained in the air installation compatible use zone recommended by the United States Department of Defense for that airfield. (2) Whether the local impact issue is compatible with the installation environmental noise management program of the military installation. (3) Whether the local impact issue is compatible with any joint land use study for the area within which the changes are to take place, if such study has been completed. (4) Whether the military installation's mission will be adversely affected by the local impact issue. (b) The local government shall review any comments received from the commanding officer or the flying mission commanding officer, or their designees, pursuant to this section when considering approval of the local impact issue. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, nothing in this section shall be construed to require a local government to amend its zoning rules, comprehensive plan, or land development regulations in effect as of February 18, 2014, in order to satisfy the requirements of this section. (d) No provision of this chapter shall be construed to confer additional powers or expand existing powers of any local government over zoning, planning, or land use. (e) If an existing joint land use study exists between any local governmental body and a military installation, this chapter shall not be construed to supersede the provisions of that existing agreement. (Act 2014-13, p. 44, §1.)
AL Code § 12-2-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-1 - Composition of Court; Election and Terms of Office of Justices.

Section 12-2-1Composition of court; election and terms of office of justices. (a) The Supreme Court, except as otherwise provided, shall consist of a chief justice and eight associate justices, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the state at the general elections as provided by law for the election of members of the House of Representatives in Congress and who shall hold their offices for the term of six years from the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next succeeding their election and until their successors are elected and qualified. Subject to the provisions of the Constitution respecting filling of vacancies in judicial offices, members of the Supreme Court shall be elected as follows: The Chief Justice and three associate justices shall be elected at the general election in November, 1976, two associate justices shall be elected at the general election in November, 1978, and three associate justices shall be elected at the general election in November, 1980. Thereafter members of the Supreme Court shall be elected in the general election next preceding the expiration of the respective term for which the incumbent holds office. (b) Persons elected to the Supreme Court, or appointed to fill a vacant term of office on the Supreme Court, after January 1, 2010, must have been licensed by the Alabama State Bar Association a combined total of 10 years or more, or by any other state bar association for a combined total of 10 years or more, prior to beginning a term of office or appointment to serve a vacant term of office. (Code 1852, §566; Code 1867, §658; Code 1876, §568; Code 1886, §673; Code 1896, §3825; Code 1907, §5948; Code 1923, §10269; Code 1940, T. 13, §10; Acts 1969, No. 602, p. 1087, §1; Act 2009-562, p. 1632, §1.)
AL Code § 12-2-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-2 - Powers of Justices - Issuance of Writs of Certiorari and Granting of Injunctions.

Section 12-2-2Powers of justices - Issuance of writs of certiorari and granting of injunctions. The justices of the Supreme Court shall have authority to issue writs of certiorari and to grant injunctions and stays of execution of judgment, subject to the limitations prescribed by this code and the Alabama Rules of Appellate Procedure, as judges of the circuit courts are authorized to grant the same. (Code 1852, §569; Code 1867, §661; Code 1876, §572; Code 1886, §676; Code 1896, §3827; Code 1907, §5956; Code 1923, §10277; Code 1940, T. 13, §18.)
AL Code § 12-2-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-3 - Powers of Justices - Administration of Oaths and Taking of Affidavits and Acknowledgments.

Section 12-2-3Powers of justices - Administration of oaths and taking of affidavits and acknowledgments. The Chief Justice and every associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama may administer any oaths and take any affidavits or acknowledgments authorized or required by law. (Acts 1915, No. 3, p. 35; Code 1923, §10278; Code 1940, T. 13, §19.)
AL Code § 12-2-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-4 - Salary of Justices.

Section 12-2-4Salary of justices. The salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and every associate justice of the Supreme Court shall be such amount as is provided by law, and shall be paid as the salaries of other state officers are paid. (Code 1876, §580; Code 1886, §684; Code 1896, §3841; Code 1907, §5966; Acts 1919, No. 279, p. 257; Code 1923, §10288; Acts 1927, No. 459, p. 510; Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 138, p. 124; Acts 1936-37, Ex. Sess., No. 149, p. 166; Code 1940, T. 13, §29; Acts 1945, No. 491, p. 724; Acts 1947, No. 685, p. 521; Acts 1951, No. 560, p. 975; Acts 1957, No. 170, p. 223; Acts 1963, No. 510, p. 1096; Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 243, p. 366; Acts 1969, No. 601, p. 1087; Acts 1973, No. 1245, p. 2093, §1.)
AL Code § 12-2-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 12 - Courts.|Chapter 2 - Supreme Court.|Article 1 - General Provisions.|Section 12-2-5 - Performance of Duties or Functions of Chief Justice in Event of Absence From State or Disability Thereof Generally.

Section 12-2-5Performance of duties or functions of Chief Justice in event of absence from state or disability thereof generally. In the event of the absence of the Chief Justice from the state or in the event of the inability of the Chief Justice to perform any duty or function required by law or rule, such duty or function may be performed by the senior associate justice available in the seat of government, provided he is requested to do so by the Chief Justice. (Acts 1975, No. 1205, p. 2384, §6-110.)