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AL Code § 45-29-90.03 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.03 - Certificate of Incorporation.

Section 45-29-90.03Certificate of incorporation. (a) To become a corporation, the persons who are designated to become members of the initial board of directors of the authority, as provided in Section 45-29-90.02, shall present to the Judge of Probate of Fayette County, a certificate of incorporation signed by them which shall contain all of the following: (1) The name and official residence of each of the persons. (2) The term of office of each of the persons as such directors. (3) The name of the proposed corporation which shall be the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area Authority. (4) A concise legal description of the areas included in the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area. (5) The location of the principal office of the proposed corporation which shall be in Fayette County. (6) Any other matter relating to the incorporation that the persons may choose to insert and which is not inconsistent with this article or the laws of the State of Alabama. (b) The certificate of incorporation shall be accompanied by all of the following: (1) A certificate by the clerk of the governing body of Fayette County, which certificate shall set forth the date on which the term of office of each member of such governing body expires. (2) A certificate by the clerk of the governing body of Fayette County, which certificate shall set forth the date on which the term of office of the judge of probate expires. (3) A certified statement from each appointing authority appointing a director. (4) The certificate of incorporation shall be subscribed and sworn to by each of the persons before an office authorized by the laws of this state to take acknowledgments to deeds. (c) The judge of probate shall examine the certificate of incorporation presented to him or her and if he or she finds that it substantially complies with the requirements of this section, he or she shall receive and file it, and shall record it in an appropriate book of records in his or her office. When the certificate of incorporation has been made, presented, filed, and recorded as herein provided, the persons shall constitute a public corporation under the aforesaid name, and the authority shall thereupon come into existence. There shall be no fees paid to the judge of probate for any work done in connection with the incorporation provided in this section. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §4.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.04 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.04 - Meetings; Officers.

Section 45-29-90.04Meetings; officers. As soon as may be practicable after completion of the incorporation as provided in Sections 45-29-90.02 and 45-29-90.03, the board of directors shall hold their first meeting at Fayette, Alabama, elect a chair, vice chair, and secretary-treasurer, set a regular time and place for meetings of the board, and attend to such other matters as may be appropriate. The chair, vice chair, and secretary-treasurer shall be elected from the membership of the board. (1) Directors shall serve without compensation, except reimbursement for actual traveling expenses and other necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties, such expenses to be reimbursed from such funds as may be available to the authority. The Fayette County Commission shall provide office space and staff for the authority. (2) The quorum necessary for the board of directors to hold valid meetings and to take valid action or transact business shall be four members. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §5.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.05 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.05 - Powers, Duties, and Functions of Authority.

Section 45-29-90.05Powers, duties, and functions of authority. (a) The general powers, duties, and functions of the authority shall be as follows: (1) Shall have perpetual succession in its corporate name. (2) May sue and be sued in its corporate name. (3) May adopt, use, and alter a corporate seal, which shall be judicially noticed. (4) May enter into such contracts and cooperative agreements with federal, state, and local governments, with agencies of such governments, and with private individuals, corporations, associations, and other organizations whether organized under the laws of Alabama or of another state, as the board may deem necessary or convenient to enable it to carry out the purposes of this article. (5) May adopt, amend, and repeal bylaws. (6) May appoint managers, officers, employees, attorneys, and agents as the board deems necessary for the transaction of its business, fix their compensation, define their duties, and require bonds of such of them as the board may determine, the salaries of any such employees to be paid out of such funds as may be available to the authority from any source. (b) The authority may institute legal proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction and proper venue; provided, that the authority may not be sued or subjected to a counterclaim, cross-claim, setoff, or recoupment in any court other than the courts of Fayette County, Alabama; and provided, further, that the officers, directors, agents, and employees of the authority may not be sued or subjected to a counterclaim, cross-claim, setoff, or recoupment for actions in behalf of the authority in any court other than the courts of Fayette County, Alabama. No claim or cause of action, based wholly or in part upon allegations which call into question the validity of the authority, shall be heard or adjudicated in any court other than the courts of Fayette County, Alabama. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §6.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.06 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.06 - Developmental Plans.

Section 45-29-90.06Developmental plans. The authority is authorized to do all of the following: (1) Investigate the resources of the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area and determine the requirements for its full development and for control and development of its stream system as an integral part of the economy of the area. (2) Develop and carry out a unified, comprehensive program of resource development designed to encourage and assist the economic growth of the area, which program shall not be inconsistent with official programs for statewide economic development. (3) Provide for the construction of water control structures, channel improvements, and other facilities for water conservation and supply, industrial development, navigation, drainage, irrigation, recreation, and related purposes, as a part of comprehensive plans. (4) Arrange with the state and with any city, county, municipality, or supplier of utilities, for the abandonment, relocation, or other adjustments of roads, highways, bridges, and utility lines. (5) In making investigations and in formulating and executing development plans, seek and utilize the assistance of appropriate federal, state, and local agencies and of private citizens and citizen organizations and in aid of such activities, accept loans, grants, or other assistance from federal, state, and local governments or from agencies of such governments, and make contracts and execute instruments containing such terms, provisions, and conditions as the board in its discretion deems to be necessary, proper, or advisable for the purpose of obtaining such loans, grants, or other assistance. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §7.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.07 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.07 - Acquisition of Property.

Section 45-29-90.07Acquisition of property. The authority may acquire by purchase, construction, lease, gift, condemnation, or otherwise, property of any kind, real, personal, or mixed, or any interest therein, that the board deems necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers or functions; provided, that acquisition by condemnation shall be limited to lands, rights in land, including leaseholds and easements, and water rights in the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area that the board determines to be necessary to the control and optimum development of the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area, including such lands adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity of water control reservoirs as the board determines to be necessary to assure full development and optimum use of such reservoirs for the purposes of, water conservation and supply, flood control, irrigation, navigation, industrial development, public recreation, and related purposes. The amount and character of the interest in land, rights in land, and water rights to be acquired in such area shall be determined by the board of directors, and its determination shall be conclusive. The authority’s power of eminent domain may be exercised under Title 18, or pursuant to any other general statutory provisions hereafter enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain. The authority is expressly authorized to acquire by condemnation or otherwise and hold for resale or lease to private or other industrial organizations land or interests in land within the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area that it determines to be suitable for industrial or recreational uses, or both, and such acquisition is hereby declared to be for the public purpose of the state’s industrial or recreational development, or both, and for the increase of industrial employment opportunities. Nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the acquisition by eminent domain of any real property or rights owned or controlled by railroads or utilities, both public or private. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §8.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.08 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.08 - Contractual Powers; Additional Powers.

Section 45-29-90.08Contractual powers; additional powers. The authority may: (1) Enter into contracts with the United States, with the several states, and with individuals, private corporations, associations, municipalities, and other public agencies, or political subdivisions of any kind, for the sale of water for municipal, domestic, agricultural, or industrial use, or for the sale of any other services, facilities, or commodities that the authority may be in a position to supply. (2) Acquire and develop reservoirs and shoreline lands and provide for their operation for industrial, recreational, and other uses directly or by concessionaires, licensees, lessees, or vendees of shoreline lands. (3) Sell or lease shoreline lands, or any interest therein, in connection with development of the reservoir system, for uses consistent with the authority’s development plan and subject to such restrictions as the authority deems necessary for reservoir protection and subject to such requirements as to character of improvements and activities shall be undertaken as the authority deems appropriate to its overall development plan. (4) Acquire or operate shoreline lands of reservoirs owned by the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area Authority. (5) Acquire, construct, or operate such other facilities or works of improvement as are necessary to effectuate plans for the comprehensive development of the area. (6) Make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations governing the use of any facilities and other property owned, controlled, or operated by the authority. (7) Provide for such insurance as the board may deem advisable. (8) Fix and revise from time to time reasonable rates, fees, and other charges for the sale of water for municipal, domestic, agricultural, or industrial use, or for the sale of any other services, facilities, or commodities that the authority may be in a position to supply. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §9.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.09 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.09 - Bonds Authorized.

Section 45-29-90.09Bonds authorized. The authority may: (1) Sell and issue its bonds from time to time in order to provide funds for any corporate function, use, or purpose, all such bonds to be payable solely out of the revenues derived from the facilities and other property of the authority or out of the revenues of any particular facilities and other property of the authority; and (2) Secure such bonds by a pledge of all or any of the revenues which may now or hereafter come to the authority from any source, by a mortgage or deed of trust covering the authority’s land or any part thereof, or under the provisions of a trust indenture, or by a combination of one or more thereof; provided, that all obligations created or assumed and all bonds issued by the authority shall be solely and exclusively obligations of the authority and shall not create an obligation or debt of the state or of any county or municipality. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §10.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.10 - Levy of Taxes; General Fund.

Section 45-29-90.10Levy of taxes; general fund. All revenues arising from this section shall be deposited to the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area Authority general fund. This section shall apply only to the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area. (1) There is hereby levied in the incorporated area of the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area an additional two cent ($.02) sales and use tax paralleling the state sales and use tax, as defined in Sections 40-23-1 to 40-23-5, inclusive, and 40-23-60 to 40-23-63, inclusive. The proceeds of the taxes provided herein shall be collected by the State Department of Revenue. The department shall charge the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area Authority for collecting the taxes in such amount or percentage of total collections as may be agreed upon by the Commissioner of Revenue and the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area Authority, but such charge shall not exceed five percent of the total amount collected hereunder. All provisions of the state sales and use tax statutes with respect to exemptions, payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales and use taxes, making of reports, and keeping and preserving records with respect thereto, interest after due date of tax, penalties for failure to comply with the statutes, the promulgation of rules and regulations with respect to the state sales and use tax statutes which are not inconsistent with this article shall apply. The Commissioner of Revenue and the State Department of Revenue shall have and exercise the same powers, duties, and obligations with respect to the management area taxes as are imposed on the commissioner and the department, respectively, by the sales and use tax statutes. (2) Within the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area, in addition to all other taxes heretofore levied, there is hereby levied and imposed an additional ad valorem tax in the amount of 10 mills on each dollar of taxable real and personal property. The additional ad valorem tax imposed by this article shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as existing ad valorem taxes are collected by the Revenue Commissioner of Fayette County. (3) On retail sales within the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area, there is hereby imposed an excise tax on the retail sale of gasoline and motor fuels in the amount of two cents ($.02) per gallon in addition to all other taxes imposed by law. Such excise tax is to be collected on the retail sale of gasoline and motor fuels sold to end users. The tax shall be collected by the distributor or retail dealer and paid to the Tom Bevill Reservoir Management Area Authority general fund, the intention being that the tax be paid but once. The additional excise tax imposed by this article shall be collected and paid at the same time and in the same manner as existing gasoline and motor fuel excise taxes are collected. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §11.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.12 - Rates, Fees, and Charges for Services.

Section 45-29-90.12Rates, fees, and charges for services. (a) Rates, fees, and charges for services rendered by the authority from any of its facilities shall be fixed and from time to time revised by the authority; provided, that such rates, fees, and charges shall be so fixed as at all times to provide funds at least sufficient to do all of the following: (1) To pay the cost of operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing, extending, and improving the facilities and other property from which such services are rendered. (2) To pay the principal of and the interest on all bonds issued and obligations assumed by it, the authority, that are payable out of the revenues derived from the operation of those facilities, as the principal and interest become due and payable. (3) To create and maintain such reserves for the foregoing purposes or any of them as may be provided in any mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture executed by the authority hereunder or in any resolutions of the board of directors authorizing the issuance of bonds, the assumption of any obligation, or the acquisition of any such facilities and other property. (4) To make such annual payments, if any, to the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, the several states, municipalities, counties, departments, authorities, agencies, and political subdivisions of the several states as the authority may have contracted to make. (1) May provide for the rendition by the authority to customers served by it of combined statements or bills for service furnished from one or more of its facilities. (b) Any schedule or schedules of rates and other charges adopted by the board: (1) May provide for the rendition by the authority to customers served by it of combined statements or bills for service furnished from one or more of its facilities. (2) May permit the authority to decline to accept payment of charges for service from any of its facilities, without payment of charges for service at the same premises from any one or more of its other facilities. (3) May provide for discontinuance of service from any or all of its facilities at any premises with respect to which there is a delinquency in the payment of charges for service from any part of the facilities of the authority. (4) May provide for the payment of connection fees, disconnection fees, and reconnection fees. (5) May require, as a prerequisite to the rendition of any service, the making of a deposit as security for payment of bills, on which deposit the authority shall not be obligated to pay or allow interest. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §13.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.14 - Contracts to Secure Bonds and Assumed Obligations.

Section 45-29-90.14Contracts to secure bonds and assumed obligations. As security for payment of the principal of and interest on bonds issued or obligations assumed by it, the authority may enter into a contract or contracts binding itself for the proper application of the proceeds of bonds or other funds, for the continued operation and maintenance of any facilities owned 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 such facilities, 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 this article for the protection of the bonds and other obligations being secured and the assurance that the revenues from such facilities will be sufficient to operate such facilities, maintain the same in good repair and in good operating condition, pay the principal of and interest on any bonds payable from such revenues, and maintain such reserves as may be deemed appropriate for the protection of the bonds, the efficient operation of such facilities, and the making of replacements thereof and capital improvements thereto. Any contract pursuant to this section may be set forth in any resolution of the board of directors authorizing the issuance of bonds or the assumption of obligations or in any mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture made by the authority. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §15.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.15 - Statutory Mortgage Lien.

Section 45-29-90.15Statutory mortgage lien. Any resolution of the board of directors, or trust indenture, under which bonds may be issued pursuant to this article may contain provisions creating a statutory mortgage lien, in favor of the holders of such bonds and of the interest coupons applicable thereto, on the facilities and other property, including any after-acquired property, out of the revenues from which such bonds are made payable. The resolution of the board of directors, or the trust indenture, may provide for the filing for record in the office of the Judge of Probate of Fayette County of a notice containing a brief description of such facilities or other property, a brief description of such bonds, and a declaration that the statutory mortgage lien has been created for the benefit of the holders of such bonds and the interest coupons applicable thereto, upon such facilities and other property, including any additions thereto and extensions thereof. The judge of probate shall receive, record, and index any such notice filed for record in his or her office. The recording of such notice, as herein provided, shall operate as constructive notice of the contents thereof. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §16.)
AL Code § 45-29-90.16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 45 - Local Laws.|Chapter 29 - Fayette County.|Article 9 - Economic and Industrial Development and Tourism.|Section 45-29-90.16 - Disposition of Funds.

Section 45-29-90.16Disposition of funds. All moneys derived from the sale of any bonds issued by the authority shall be used solely for the purpose or purposes for which the same are authorized and any costs and expenses incidental thereto. Such costs and expenses may include, but shall not be limited to: (1) The fiscal, engineering, legal, and other expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of the bonds. (2) In the case of bonds issued to pay costs of construction, interest on such bonds, or if a part only of any series of bonds is issued for construction purposes, interest on that portion of the bonds of that series that is issued to pay construction costs, prior to and during such construction and for not exceeding one year after completion of such construction. (3) In the case of bonds issued for the purpose of refunding principal and interest, or either, with respect to bonds issued or obligations assumed by the authority, any premium that it may be necessary to pay in order to redeem or retire the bonds or other obligations to be refunded. (Act 91-277, p. 517, §17.)