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AL Code § 11-92C-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-6 - Board of Directors to Govern Each Authority.

Section 11-92C-6Board of directors to govern each authority.  (a) All powers of an authority shall be exercised by the board or pursuant to its authorization. The board shall consist of three or more directors, who shall be elected by the governing body of the authorizing subdivision for staggered terms as provided in this section.  (b) At the time of the election of the first board, the governing body of the authorizing subdivision shall divide the directors into three groups containing as nearly equal whole numbers as may be possible. The governing body of the authorizing subdivision shall specify for which term each director is elected. The initial term of office of the first group shall be two years. The initial term of office of the second group shall be four years. The initial term of office of the third group shall be six years. (c) Thereafter, the term of office of each director shall be six years. If at the expiration of any term of office of any director a successor has not been elected, the director whose term of office has expired shall continue to hold office until his or her successor has been elected. If at any time there is a vacancy on the board, a successor director shall be elected by the governing body of the authorizing subdivision to serve for the unexpired term applicable to the vacancy.  (d) Each director shall be a duly qualified elector residing in the authorizing subdivision. Directors shall be eligible for reelection. Each director shall be reimbursed for expenses actually incurred by him or her in and about the performance of his or her duties. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, no director shall be compensated for serving as a director of the authority. (e) Any director of an authority may be impeached and removed from office in the same manner and on the same grounds provided in Section 175 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and the general laws of the state for impeachment and removal of the officers. (Act 2020-72, §6.)
AL Code § 11-92C-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-7 - Officers of Authority.

Section 11-92C-7Officers of authority. The officers of an authority shall consist of a chair, vice chair, secretary, treasurer, and other officers as its board shall deem necessary or appropriate. The offices of secretary and treasurer may, but need not, be held by the same person. The chair and vice chair of an authority shall be elected by the board from the membership thereof; the secretary, the treasurer, and any other officers of the authority may be members of the board and shall also be elected by the board. The chair, vice chair, secretary, and treasurer of an authority shall also be the chair, vice chair, secretary, and treasurer of the board, respectively. (Act 2020-72, §7.)
AL Code § 11-92C-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-10 - Proceeds From the Sale of Bonds.

Section 11-92C-10Proceeds from the sale of bonds. All moneys derived from the sale of any bonds issued by an authority shall be used solely for the purpose or purposes for which the same are authorized, including, but not limited to, the use of bond proceeds to establish reserve funds as security for the payment of the principal, premium, as applicable, and interest on the bonds, and any costs and expenses incidental thereto. The costs and expenses may include, but shall not be limited to the following: (1) The underwriting, fiscal, engineering, legal, and other expenses incurred in connection with the issuance of the bonds. (2) Except in the case of refunding bonds, interest to accrue on the bonds for a period ending not later than two years from their date. (Act 2020-72, §10.)
AL Code § 11-92C-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-11 - Refunding Bonds.

Section 11-92C-11Refunding bonds. Any bonds issued by an authority may from time to time be refunded by the issuance, sale, or exchange of refunding bonds payable from the same or different sources for the purpose of paying all or any part of the principal of the bonds to be refunded, any redemption premium required to be paid as a condition to the redemption prior to maturity of any bonds that are to be so redeemed in connection with refunding, any accrued and unpaid interest on the bonds to be refunded, any interest to accrue on each bond to be refunded to the date on which it is to be paid, whether at maturity or by redemption prior to maturity, and the expenses incurred in connection with refunding. Unless duly called for redemption pursuant to provisions contained therein, the holders of any bonds then outstanding and proposed to be refunded shall not be compelled without their consent to surrender their outstanding bonds for refunding. Any refunding bonds may be sold by the authority at public or private sale at the price or prices as may be determined by its board to be most advantageous, or may be exchanged for the bonds or other obligations to be refunded. Any refunding bonds may be executed and delivered by the authority at any time and from time to time, shall be in the form and denominations and have the tenor and maturities, shall contain provisions not inconsistent with this chapter, and shall bear the rate or rates of interest, payable and evidenced in the manner as may be provided by resolution of its board. Any refunding bonds issued by an authority shall be issued and may be secured in accordance with Section 11-92C-9. (Act 2020-72, §11.)
AL Code § 11-92C-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-12 - Notice of Bond Resolution.

Section 11-92C-12Notice of bond resolution. (a) Upon the adoption by the board of an authority of any resolution providing for the issuance of bonds, the authority may publish once a week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper published and having general circulation in the geographical area of the authorizing subdivision, a notice in substantially the following form, the blanks properly filled in, at the end of which shall be printed the name and title of either the chair or secretary of the authority. "The _____ Local Redevelopment Authority, a public corporation under the laws of the State of Alabama, on the _____ day of _____ authorized the issuance of $_____ principal amount of bonds of the public corporation for purposes authorized by the state law under which the public corporation was organized. Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of the bonds, or the pledge and the mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture to secure the same, or the proceedings authorizing the same, must be commenced within 30 days after the first publication of this notice." (b) A newspaper shall be deemed to be published in the geographical area of the authorizing subdivision, within the meaning of this section, if its principal editorial office is located in the geographical area of the authorizing subdivision. (c) Any action or proceeding in any court to set aside or question the proceedings for the issuance of the bonds referred to in the notice or to contest the validity of any bonds, or the validity of any agreements relating to any payment in lieu of taxes, fees, charges, and any pledge and mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture made therefor, must be commenced within 30 days after the first publication of the notice. After the expiration of that period, no right of action or defense questioning or attacking the validity of the proceedings or of the bonds or the pledge or mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture shall be asserted, nor shall the validity of the proceedings, bonds, pledge, mortgage, and deed of trust or trust indenture be open to question in any court on any ground whatsoever except in an action commenced within that period. (Act 2020-72, §12.)
AL Code § 11-92C-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-14 - Liability of Authorizing Subdivision.

Section 11-92C-14Liability of authorizing subdivision. An authorizing subdivision shall not in any event be liable for the payment of the principal of, or interest on, any bonds of the authority or for the performance of any pledge, mortgage, obligation, or agreement of any kind whatsoever which may be undertaken by an authority, and none of the bonds of the authority or any of its agreements or obligations shall be construed to constitute indebtedness of the authorizing subdivision within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision. (Act 2020-72, §14.)
AL Code § 11-92C-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-16 - Exemption From Usury Laws.

Section 11-92C-16Exemption from usury laws. An authority shall be exempt from the laws of the State of Alabama governing usury or prescribing or limiting interest rates, including, but without limitation to, Chapter 8 of Title 8 as it may at any time be amended. (Act 2020-72, §16.)
AL Code § 11-92C-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-17 - Exemption From Competitive Bid Laws.

Section 11-92C-17Exemption from competitive bid laws. An authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, and any private user, and all contracts made by them are exempt from the laws of the State of Alabama requiring competitive bids for any contract to be entered into by municipalities or public corporations authorized by them or any public works, including, but without limitation to, Article 3, commencing with Section 41-16-50, of Chapter 16 of Title 41, as amended from time to time, and Chapter 2 of Title 39, as amended from time to time. (Act 2020-72, §17.)
AL Code § 11-92C-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-18 - Freedom of Authority From State Supervision and Control.

Section 11-92C-18Freedom of authority from state supervision and control. This chapter is intended to aid the state through the furtherance of the purposes of this chapter by providing an appropriate and independent instrumentality of the state with full and adequate powers to fulfill its functions. Except as expressly provided in this chapter, no proceeding, notice, or approval shall be required for the incorporation of the authority or the amendment of its certificate of incorporation, the issuance of any bonds, the execution of any mortgage and deed of trust or trust indenture, or the exercise of any other of its powers. Neither a public hearing nor the consent of Alabama State Department of Finance shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of bonds by the authority. (Act 2020-72, §18.)
AL Code § 11-92C-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-19 - Earnings of Authority.

Section 11-92C-19Earnings of authority. An authority shall be a nonprofit corporation and no part of its net earnings remaining after payment of its expenses shall inure to the benefit of any individual, firm, or corporation, except that in the event the board shall determine that sufficient provision has been made for the full payment of the expenses, bonds, and other obligations of the authority, then any net earnings of the authority thereafter accruing shall be paid to the authorizing subdivision or private user for the creation and maintenance of the project. (Act 2020-72, §19.)
AL Code § 11-92C-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-20 - Dissolution of Authority and Vesting of Title to Property.

Section 11-92C-20Dissolution of authority and vesting of title to property. At any time when an authority has no bonds or other obligations outstanding, its board may adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon its minutes, declaring that the authority shall be dissolved. Upon filing for record of a certified copy of the resolution in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the authority was formed pursuant to Section 11-92C-4, the authority shall stand dissolved and in the event it owned any property at the time of its dissolution, the title to all its properties shall thereupon pass to the authorizing subdivision or private user as required by any agreement with any private user. (Act 2020-72, §20.)
AL Code § 11-92C-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-21 - Existence of Authority Not to Prevent Subsequent Incorporation of Another Authority.

Section 11-92C-21Existence of authority not to prevent subsequent incorporation of another authority. The existence of one or more authorities incorporated under this chapter shall not prevent the subsequent incorporation under this chapter of another authority or the amendment of the certificate of incorporation of another authority pursuant to authority granted by the same county, counties, municipality or municipalities, public corporation or public corporations, or by the same combination thereof, even though the project described in the certificate of incorporation, as originally filed or amended, of any existing authority may include a project proposed by an authority that is proposed to be incorporated under this chapter or that proposes to amend its certificate of incorporation under this chapter. (Act 2020-72, §21.)
AL Code § 11-92C-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 92C|Section 11-92C-22 - Establishment and Revision of Rentals, Licenses, Rates, Fees, and Charges for Services or Facilities Rendered by Authority.

Section 11-92C-22Establishment and revision of rentals, licenses, rates, fees, and charges for services or facilities rendered by authority. Rates, fees, charges, rentals, and licenses for services rendered by an authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, or a private user or facilities provided by the authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, or a private user from any of their projects shall be so fixed and, from time to time, revised as at all times to provide funds at least sufficient, taking into account other sources for the payment thereof, to: (1) Pay the cost of operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing, extending, and improving the project or projects of the authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, or any private user. (2) Pay the principal of and the interest on all bonds issued and obligations assumed by the authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, or any private user that are payable out of the revenues derived from operation of the project or projects of the authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, or any private user as the principal and interest become due and payable. (3) Create and maintain reserves for the purposes of subdivision (1) or (2) or any purpose as may be provided in any trust indenture executed by the authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, or any private user under this chapter or in any resolutions or agreements of the board authorizing the issuance of bonds, the assumption of any obligation, or the acquisition of the project. (4) Make annual payments, if any, to the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, the state, municipalities, counties, departments, authorities, agencies, and political subdivisions of the state, and any public corporations organized under the laws of the state as the authority, a cooperative district of which the authority is a member, or any private user may have contracted to make. (Act 2020-72, §22.)
AL Code § 11-93-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 93 - Tort Claims and Judgments Against Local Governmental Entities.|Section 11-93-1 - Definitions.

Section 11-93-1Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section: (1) GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY. Any incorporated municipality, any county, and any department, agency, board, or commission of any municipality or county, municipal or county public corporations, and any such instrumentality or instrumentalities acting jointly. "Governmental entity" shall also include county public school boards, municipal public school boards and city-county school boards when such boards do not operate as functions of the State of Alabama. "Governmental entity" shall also mean county or city hospital boards when such boards are instrumentalities of the municipality or county or organized pursuant to authority from a municipality or county. (2) EMPLOYEE. An officer, official, employee, or servant of a governmental entity, including elected or appointed officials, and persons acting on behalf of any governmental entity in any official capacity, temporarily or permanently, in the service of the governmental entity, whether with or without compensation, but the term "employee" shall not mean a person or other legal entity while acting in the capacity of an independent contractor under contract to the governmental entity to which this chapter applies in the event of a claim. (3) BODILY INJURY. Any bodily injury, sickness, disease, or death sustained by any person or caused by an occurrence. (4) PROPERTY DAMAGE. Injury or destruction to tangible property caused by an occurrence. (5) CLAIM. Any claim against a governmental entity, for money damages only, which any person is legally entitled to recover as damages caused by bodily injury or property damage caused by a negligent or wrongful act or omission committed by any employee of the governmental entity while acting within the scope of his employment, under circumstances where the governmental entity, if a private person, would be liable to the claimant for such damages under the laws of the State of Alabama. (Acts 1977, No. 673, p. 1161, §1.)
AL Code § 11-93-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 93 - Tort Claims and Judgments Against Local Governmental Entities.|Section 11-93-2 - Maximum Amount of Damages Recoverable Against Governmental Entities; Settlement or Compromise of Claims Not to Exceed Maximum Amounts.

Section 11-93-2Maximum amount of damages recoverable against governmental entities; settlement or compromise of claims not to exceed maximum amounts. The recovery of damages under any judgment against a governmental entity shall be limited to $100,000.00 for bodily injury or death for one person in any single occurrence. Recovery of damages under any judgment or judgments against a governmental entity shall be limited to $300,000.00 in the aggregate where more than two persons have claims or judgments on account of bodily injury or death arising out of any single occurrence. Recovery of damages under any judgment against a governmental entity shall be limited to $100,000.00 for damage or loss of property arising out of any single occurrence. No governmental entity shall settle or compromise any claim for bodily injury, death or property damage in excess of the amounts hereinabove set forth. (Acts 1977, No. 673, p. 1161, §2.)
AL Code § 11-93-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 93 - Tort Claims and Judgments Against Local Governmental Entities.|Section 11-93-3 - Liability of Governmental Units Not Extended.

Section 11-93-3Liability of governmental units not extended. This chapter is not intended and shall not be construed to subject any governmental entity to liability for tort claims where liability therefor does not already exist by law. It shall not authorize any governmental entity to be sued where such authorization does not already exist by law. (Acts 1977, No. 673, p. 1161, §3.)
AL Code § 11-94-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 94 - Port Authorities.|Section 11-94-2 - Legislative Intent; Liberal Construction of Chapter.

Section 11-94-2Legislative intent; liberal construction of chapter. (a) It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to authorize the incorporation of authorities as nonprofit public corporations to develop waterfront property for recreational, transportational, agricultural, industrial and commercial purposes by financing, acquiring, enlarging, improving, replacing, owning, operating, selling, leasing, and disposing of a project or projects or any part thereof. It is the further intent of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to vest an authority with all powers that may be necessary to enable it to accomplish such purposes. (b) This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with the said intention. (Acts 1980, No. 80-647, p. 1220, §2.)
AL Code § 11-94-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 94 - Port Authorities.|Section 11-94-3 - Application for Incorporation of Authority; Approval by Local Governing Bodies and State Docks Department.

Section 11-94-3Application for incorporation of authority; approval by local governing bodies and State Docks Department. Whenever any number of natural persons not less than three shall file with the governing body of a county and with the governing body of any municipality located, in whole or in part, in such county, an application in writing for authority to incorporate a public corporation under the provisions of this chapter and shall attach to such application a proposed form of certificate of incorporation for such corporation, said governing bodies shall each proceed to consider such application. If said governing bodies shall each by appropriate resolution duly adopted, find and determine that each applicant was a duly qualified elector of and taxpayer in the county in which the application was filed and that it is wise, expedient, necessary or advisable that the authority be formed, shall authorize the persons making such application to proceed to form such authority and shall approve the form of certificate of incorporation proposed to be used in organizing such authority, then the persons making such application shall execute, acknowledge and file a certificate of incorporation for the authority as provided in Section 11-94-4. No authority shall be formed unless such application shall have first been filed as hereinabove provided and the governing bodies of the authorizing subdivisions shall each have adopted resolutions as provided in this section. Provided, however, said authority must also be approved by the Alabama State Docks Department. (Acts 1980, No. 80-647, p. 1220, §3.)