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AL Code § 22-21-104 (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 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-104 - Special County Tax - Validation of Elections - Counties With Population Less Than 50,000.

Section 22-21-104Special county tax - Validation of elections - Counties with population less than 50,000. Every election heretofore held in any county in this state, which has a population of less than 50,000, according to the last federal decennial census, on the question of the levy of a special tax for public hospital purposes under the Constitution of Alabama, including any amendment thereto, at which election a majority of the votes cast were in favor of the levy of the said tax, but which election was irregular by reason of failure prior to the holding of the election to give notice thereof in a newspaper or by posting in the manner or for the time required by any statute applicable to the election, or because of failure to comply with any other statutory requirement applicable to the election or because of any other irregularity with respect to the holding of the election or canvassing and recording the results thereof, shall be, and every such election is hereby, ratified and confirmed and given effect in all respects as if all provisions of law relating to such election have been duly and legally complied with, and the said tax may be levied and collected pursuant to the authorization purported to have been granted at such election; provided, that this section shall not apply to any election which, prior to July 16, 1962, has been in express terms held illegal by the county commission of the county wherein the election was held, by the Supreme Court of Alabama or by final judgment of the circuit court in the county in which the election was held and from which judgment an appeal was not taken to the Supreme Court of Alabama within the time provided by law for the taking of such appeals or to any election the validity of which is an issue in any pending civil action commenced prior to July 16, 1962. (Acts 1962, Ex. Sess., No. 105, p. 137.)
AL Code § 22-21-105 (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 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-105 - Special County Tax - Validation of Elections - Elections Under Amendment 72 of Constitution.

Section 22-21-105Special county tax - Validation of elections - Elections under Amendment 72 of Constitution. Every election heretofore held in any county in this state submitting to the qualified electors of such county the question of the levy of a special tax for public hospital purposes pursuant to the provisions of Amendment 72 to the Constitution of Alabama at which a majority of the votes cast were in favor of the levy of the said tax, but which was irregular because of failure to comply with the procedural requirements prescribed by general or local election laws applicable thereto or in the call thereof by the county commission of such county, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any requirements concerning the time and manner of giving notice thereof, canvassing and recording the results thereof or the appointment of election officials therefor, shall be, and every such election hereby is, validated and given effect in like manner as if all such procedural requirements had been duly and legally complied with; provided, that this section shall not apply to any election which, prior to September 12, 1966, has been found to be invalid by the county commission of the county wherein the election was held, or held invalid by a final judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction or to any election the validity of which is at issue in any action pending in a court of competent jurisdiction as of September 12, 1966. (Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 377, p. 522.)
AL Code § 22-21-106 (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 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-106 - Issuance of Securities - in Anticipation of Tax; Funds From Which Payable; Nature of Obligation.

Section 22-21-106Issuance of securities - In anticipation of tax; funds from which payable; nature of obligation. Any hospital corporation may anticipate the proceeds from any special county tax required to be paid to it in accordance with the provisions of this division, by issuing securities for any one or more of the purposes for which the tax shall have been voted, and may pledge for the payment of the principal thereof and interest thereon the annual proceeds from the said tax so paid to it; provided, that if any constitutional provisions applicable to the pledge of the said tax shall restrict the portion of such tax proceeds that may be so pledged, then the hospital corporation shall have the power to pledge only that portion of the said proceeds that may be so pledged without violation of the said constitutional provisions. All securities issued under this division shall be payable from the proceeds of the special tax in respect of which they were issued and from such other funds of the hospital corporation as its directors may determine, but this section shall not prohibit payment of the securities from any other funds which may be available therefor under any other provision of law; provided, that in no event shall such securities be payable from such other funds if the effect thereof would be to subject such securities to any constitutional requirement that they be authorized by vote of the qualified voters. Said securities shall be the obligation only of the hospital corporation issuing the same in accordance with the terms of such securities. No county shall, in any event, be liable for any obligation created by a hospital corporation or by the issuance of securities thereby, nor shall said securities be construed to be an indebtedness of, or against, any county or municipal corporation. All securities issued under this division shall have preference over claims for salaries or other operation expenses or any other purposes. All pledges of the said tax and all contracts made with respect thereto shall take precedence in the order in which they are made and shall create a charge on the proceeds of the said tax prior to the expenses of operation and maintenance of any hospital facilities. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §4; Acts 1963, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 53, p. 217; Acts 1967, No. 400, p. 1003, §4.)
AL Code § 22-21-107 (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 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-107 - Issuance of Securities - Terms, Conditions, etc.; Pledge of Revenues; Mortgages; Foreclosure Prohibited.

Section 22-21-107Issuance of securities - Terms, conditions, etc.; pledge of revenues; mortgages; foreclosure prohibited. Securities issued under this division may contain such other terms, provisions, conditions, limitations and agreements, not inconsistent with the provisions of this division, as the directors of the hospital corporation issuing the same shall deem advisable, including, but not limited to, a pledge of all or any part of the revenues of the hospital corporation in payment of the securities and a mortgage of all or any part of the property, real or personal, or any interest therein, of the hospital corporation, including the property acquired or to be acquired from the proceeds of the securities being issued, as security for the payment of the principal of and interest on the securities; provided, that no such mortgage or pledge shall be construed so as to permit the foreclosure thereof. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §5.)
AL Code § 22-21-108 (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 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-108 - Issuance of Securities - Execution and Delivery; Interest; Payment; Refunding; Status; Tax Exemption.

Section 22-21-108Issuance of securities - Execution and delivery; interest; payment; refunding; status; tax exemption. Securities of the hospital corporation may be executed and delivered by it at any time, and from time to time, shall be in such form and denomination and of such tenor and maturities, shall contain such provisions not inconsistent with this division and shall bear such rate or rates of interest payable and evidenced in such manner as may be provided by resolution of the directors of the hospital corporation providing for their issuance. Such securities shall be payable at such place or places, either within or without the state, as shall be prescribed in the resolution of the directors of the hospital corporation providing for their issuance. Such securities, and any interest coupons applicable thereto, shall be executed in such manner and shall be substantially in the form provided for in the authorizing resolution. Any securities issued by any hospital corporation may thereafter, at any time, whether before, at, or after maturity thereof, and from time to time be refunded by the issuance by sale or exchange of refunding securities. All bonds and notes issued by a hospital corporation shall be construed to be negotiable instruments although payable solely from a specified source. All securities issued by a hospital corporation, the income therefrom and all mortgages and other instruments executed as security therefor shall be exempt from all taxation in the State of Alabama. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §6.)
AL Code § 22-21-109 (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 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-109 - Issuance of Securities - Sale; Expenses, Etc.

Section 22-21-109Issuance of securities - Sale; expenses, etc. All securities issued under this division may be sold, either at private or public sale, in such manner, and from time to time, as may be determined by the directors of the hospital corporation issuing the same to be most advantageous. The hospital corporation may pay all expenses, premiums, commissions and attorneys' fees which its directors may deem necessary or advantageous in connection with any financing or proposed financing done by it. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §7.)
AL Code § 22-21-110 (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 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-110 - Issuance of Securities - Investment of Trust Funds.

Section 22-21-110Issuance of securities - Investment of trust funds. Unless otherwise directed by the court having jurisdiction thereof and by the document which is the source of authority, a fiduciary may, with the exercise of reasonable business prudence, invest trust funds in securities of a hospital corporation for payment of the principal of, and interest on, which the proceeds of any ad valorem, excise, license or privilege tax are pledged. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §8.)
AL Code § 22-21-111 (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 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-111 - Issuance of Securities - Incontestability.

Section 22-21-111Issuance of securities - Incontestability. Securities reciting that they are issued pursuant to the terms of this division shall, in any action or proceeding involving their validity, be conclusively deemed to be fully authorized by this division and to have been issued, sold, executed and delivered in conformity with this division and with all other provisions of law applicable thereto and shall be incontestable, anything in this division or in other statutes to the contrary notwithstanding, unless such action or proceeding is begun before or within 30 days after the day upon which the securities are delivered and paid for, and no irregularity in the proceedings to authorize the issue of securities under this division, nor the omission or neglect of any officer charged with the execution of any duties imposed by this division, shall affect the validity of any securities issued under this division. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §9.)
AL Code § 22-21-112 (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 4 - County Hospital Boards and Corporations.|Division 2 - Hospital Corporations.|Section 22-21-112 - Issuance of Securities - Validation Prior to Issuance.

Section 22-21-112Issuance of securities - Validation prior to issuance. The directors of any hospital corporation may, in their discretion, before the issuance of any securities, determine the authority of the hospital corporation to issue such securities, and the legality of all proceedings had or taken in connection therewith and the validity of the tax or other means provided for the payment thereof and the validity of all pledges of revenues and of all covenants and provisions contained in any resolution authorizing the securities in a proceeding instituted and conducted in accordance with Sections 6-6-750 through 6-6-757 as the same may be amended from time to time, or any similar proceeding prescribed by law, but such proceedings shall not be essential to the validity of such securities. (Acts 1949, No. 640, p. 981, §10.)
AL Code § 22-21-350 (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 11A - Additional Power of Health Care Authorities.|Division 1 - Certain Additional Powers.|Section 22-21-350 - Definitions.

Section 22-21-350Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this division shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following respective meanings: (1) AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized, and any public hospital corporation reincorporated, pursuant to the provisions of the enabling statute. (2) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. A resolution adopted by the board authorizing an arrangement by which an authority is to furnish office space to a nonhospital-based physician, dentist or other health care professional for use in his private practice. (3) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. A county, municipality, or educational institution with the governing body of which an application for the incorporation of an authority under the enabling statute, or for the reincorporation of a public hospital corporation thereunder, is filed (and any other county, municipality, or educational institution that may at the time constitute an "authorizing subdivision" within the meaning of the enabling statute). (4) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority. (5) DIRECTOR. A member of a board. (6) ENABLING STATUTE. Act No. 82-418 enacted at the 1982 Regular Session of the Legislature (codified as Article 11 of Chapter 21 of Title 22, as amended). (7) NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CREDIT RATING AGENCY. Any credit rating agency that is nationally recognized for skill and expertise in rating the credit of obligations similar to securities issued by an authority (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Moody's Investors Service, Inc., and Standard & Poor's Corporation). (8) SECURITIES. Bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of indebtedness or other evidences of indebtedness, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) notes issued in anticipation of the sale of any of the foregoing. The term "federal securities," as used in this division, shall have the same meaning given it in the enabling statute. (Acts 1987, No. 87-745, p. 1458, §1; Act 2003-249, p. 606, §1.)
AL Code § 22-21-351 (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 11A - Additional Power of Health Care Authorities.|Division 1 - Certain Additional Powers.|Section 22-21-351 - Legislative Findings.

Section 22-21-351Legislative findings. The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (1) That in order to promote the public health of the people of the State of Alabama, the Legislature enacted the enabling statute, whereunder, among other things: a. The several counties, municipalities, and educational institutions of the state are effectively authorized to form public corporations known as health care authorities, and b. Existing public hospital corporations are authorized to reincorporate as health care authorities; (2) That all such health care authorities are empowered under and pursuant to the enabling statute, among other things: a. To own and operate public hospitals and other health care facilities; b. To furnish office space to (among others) any nonhospital-based physician, dentist or other health care professional for use in his private practice, subject to the conditions specified in the enabling statute; and c. To appoint, employ, contract with, and provide for the compensation of accountants; and (3) That as a result of significant changes and developments in the economic and commercial structure and practices of health care providers since the enactment of the enabling statute, it is now necessary, in order to enable health care authorities organized or reincorporated pursuant to the provisions of the enabling statute to continue to operate adequately and efficiently, that the Legislature: a. Confer on such health care authorities certain powers in addition to, and in furtherance of, those conferred by the enabling statute; and b. Provide further for the corporate structure of such health care authorities. (Acts 1987, No. 87-745, p. 1458, §2; Act 2003-249, p. 606, §1.)
AL Code § 22-21-353 (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 11A - Additional Power of Health Care Authorities.|Division 1 - Certain Additional Powers.|Section 22-21-353 - Further Provisions Respecting Issuance of Securities.

Section 22-21-353Further provisions respecting issuance of securities. Any authority shall have, in addition to the power to sell and issue interest-bearing securities that are limited as to source of payment, the power to sell and issue interest-bearing securities that are not limited as to source of payment and that are general obligations of the authority. The principal of and interest on (and premium, if any) any securities issued by the authority pursuant to the provisions of this section may be secured by:  (1) A pledge of the general credit of the authority; or (2) Both such a pledge of the general credit of the authority and a special pledge of specific revenues or taxes (or both) identified in the proceedings authorizing the sale and issuance of such securities;  and may also be secured by a trust indenture evidencing such pledge or by a foreclosable mortgage, mortgage indenture or mortgage and trust indenture conveying as security for such securities all or any part of its property. Except to the extent hereinabove provided, all securities issued pursuant hereto shall be considered as securities issued under the enabling statute and shall be subject to all the provisions thereof respecting securities issued thereunder. (Acts 1987, No. 87-745, p. 1458, §4.)
AL Code § 22-21-354 (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 11A - Additional Power of Health Care Authorities.|Division 1 - Certain Additional Powers.|Section 22-21-354 - Further Provisions Respecting Use and Disposition of Certain Property.

Section 22-21-354Further provisions respecting use and disposition of certain property. In determining the financial effect of an arrangement between an authority and any nonhospital-based physician, dentist or other health care professional for the furnishing of office space to any such person for use in his private practice (for purposes of those provisions of the enabling statute relating thereto), the board:  (1) May, in the determination of the rental and other consideration to be received by the authority from the furnishing of such office space, consider not only the dollar amount of such rental and other consideration being or to be paid by such person pursuant to such arrangement, but also such other circumstances or conditions as it shall generally describe in an authorizing resolution, including (without limitation and by way of example or illustration) factors such as the probability or possibility that such person will refer patients or others to any one or more of the health care facilities owned or operated by the authority or will otherwise make use of, and compensate the authority for, services provided at or by any such health care facilities; (2) In such event, may (in the authorizing resolution) assign to such other circumstances or conditions such value as in its discretion it deems appropriate and warranted; and (3) May furnish office space to such person if the dollar amount of the rental and any other consideration being or to be paid to the authority by such person, when added to the value so assigned to such other circumstances and conditions, is not less than the cost of such office space to the authority, any provisions of the enabling statute to the contrary notwithstanding.  Any value so assigned in an authorizing resolution to any such other circumstances and conditions shall be conclusive in the absence of fraud or a gross abuse of discretion. (Acts 1987, No. 87-745, p. 1458, §5.)
AL Code § 22-21-356 (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 11A - Additional Power of Health Care Authorities.|Division 1 - Certain Additional Powers.|Section 22-21-356 - Cumulative Effect.

Section 22-21-356Cumulative effect. The provisions of this division shall be construed as cumulative of the provisions of the enabling statute, shall be construed in pari materia therewith and shall not be deemed to repeal any provisions of the enabling statute or other existing law except to the extent (but only to the extent) that any such provisions of the enabling statute or other existing law clearly conflict, or are clearly inconsistent, with the provisions of this division. (Acts 1987, No. 87-745, p. 1458, §7.)