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AL Code § 11-88-50 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-50 - Payment of Cost of Improvement by Board; Specification of Cost of Improvement.

Section 11-88-50Payment of cost of improvement by board; specification of cost of improvement. (a) The board may pay out of the general funds of the authority or any special fund that may be provided for the purpose such portion of the cost of the proposed improvement as it may deem proper. (b) The cost of any improvement shall include the expense of the preliminary and other surveys, the inspection and superintendence of the work, the preparation, publication and mailing of the notices and resolutions required by this article, the cost of construction, the printing of bonds, the interest on money borrowed during construction or on bonds when bonds have been issued in anticipation of the collection of assessments, the preparation of proceedings authorizing the issuance of bonds under the provisions of this article and the rendition of the approving opinions with respect thereto and any other expenses necessary for the completion of such improvement. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §8.)
AL Code § 11-88-51 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-51 - Levy of Assessments for Cost of Improvement on Abutting or Benefited Property Authorized.

Section 11-88-51Levy of assessments for cost of improvement on abutting or benefited property authorized. If any such improvement be finally ordered and constructed, the board shall have power, after the completion and acceptance thereof, to assess the cost of constructing the said improvement or any part thereof upon or against the property abutting on any street, avenue, alley, highway, or other public place so served or drained or against the property drained, served, or benefited by such improvement to the extent of the increased value of such property by reason of the special benefits derived from such improvement. An authority shall have the power to assess for the cost of improvements any lot or lots, parcel or parcels of land purchased by the State of Alabama at any sale for the nonpayment of taxes and where any such assessment is made against such lot or lots, parcel or parcels of land, a subsequent redemption thereof by any person authorized to redeem or sale thereof by the state shall not operate to discharge or in any manner affect the lien of such authority for such assessment, but any redemptioner or purchaser at any sale by the state of any lot or lots, parcel or parcels of land upon which an assessment has been levied, whether prior to or subsequent to a sale to the state for the nonpayment of taxes, shall take the same subject to such assessment. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §12.)
AL Code § 11-88-52 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-52 - Manner of Assessment Generally; Limitation as to Amount of Assessment.

Section 11-88-52Manner of assessment generally; limitation as to amount of assessment. The cost of any part of such improvement may be assessed in fair proportion against the frontage of the property drained by the said improvement or against all the lots or parcels of land lying within the area drained, served, or benefited, but the assessment shall not exceed the increased value of such property by reason of the special benefits derived from the improvement. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §13.)
AL Code § 11-88-53 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-53 - Preparation of List of Property Owners Proposed to Be Assessed for Improvement.

Section 11-88-53Preparation of list of property owners proposed to be assessed for improvement. When any improvement is completed, the chairman or other chief executive officer of the board shall cause to be prepared a roll or list showing the names of the property owners and opposite each name a description of each lot or parcel of land proposed to be assessed for such improvement belonging to such owner or owners and the amount proposed to be assessed against each lot or parcel of land. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §14.)
AL Code § 11-88-54 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-54 - Entry of List in Assessment Book of Improvements; Contents and Status Thereof.

Section 11-88-54Entry of list in assessment book of improvements; contents and status thereof. Such list shall be entered in a well bound book or loose leaf book firmly bound, prepared for that purpose, and shall contain appropriate columns in which payments may be credited and the lien of the assessment satisfied by the proper officers of the authority. The said book shall be known as the "Assessment Book of Improvements" and shall be a public record and no error or mistake in regard to the name of the owner shall be held to invalidate any assessment. It shall be sufficient if the name of the person in whose name such property was last assessed for taxes for state taxation is shown in the said book. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §15.)
AL Code § 11-88-55 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-55 - Publication of Notice as to Assessment Book.

Section 11-88-55Publication of notice as to assessment book. After the completion of the proper entries of each improvement, the said book shall be delivered to the secretary of the authority, who shall thereupon give notice by publication one time in some newspaper published in each county in which any part of the improvements have been constructed and of general circulation therein that the said assessment roll or list has been delivered to him and is open for inspection in the office of the person authorized to make collection of the said assessments, whose title and address shall be listed. The notice shall also state the general character of the improvement, the terminal points thereof, and the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways, or portions thereof, along which the improvement has been constructed and shall also describe the frontage of the property drained by the said improvement or the territory or area drained, served, or benefited by the said improvement by naming the streets, avenues, alleys, or other highways or other lines by which said area is bounded. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §16.)
AL Code § 11-88-56 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-56 - Filing of Written Objections or Defenses to Proposed Assessments; Effect of Failure to File Same.

Section 11-88-56Filing of written objections or defenses to proposed assessments; effect of failure to file same. The owner or owners of any real estate or any interest therein which it is proposed to assess for the cost or any part thereof of the said improvement may appear at any time on or before the date named in the said notice or at the said meeting and file in writing with the secretary or in the office of the authority any objections or defenses to the proposed assessment against the said property or to the amount thereof and persons who do not file objections or protests in writing against such assessment shall be held to have consented to the same. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §19.)
AL Code § 11-88-57 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-57 - Hearing of Objections and Defenses to Proposed Assessments by Board Generally.

Section 11-88-57Hearing of objections and defenses to proposed assessments by board generally. At a time and place mentioned in the said published notice, not less than 20 days from the date of publication, the board shall meet to hear and determine any objections or defenses that may be filed to such assessments or the amount thereof. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §18.)
AL Code § 11-88-58 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-58 - Subpoena, etc., of Witnesses by Board.

Section 11-88-58Subpoena, etc., of witnesses by board. The board, by the secretary or its executive officer, may issue subpoenas for witnesses to appear before the governing body or any committee thereof and may administer oaths to any witness to be examined. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §21.)
AL Code § 11-88-59 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-59 - Board to Hear and Pass Upon Objections to Proposed Assessments.

Section 11-88-59Board to hear and pass upon objections to proposed assessments. The board shall hear and pass upon all such objections to and protests against the proposed assessments under such reasonable rules and regulations as it may adopt. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §20.)
AL Code § 11-88-60 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-60 - Fixing of Amount of Assessment by Board; Assessment to Constitute Lien on Property Against Which Levied; Reduction or Abatement of Final Assessment by Board Generally.

Section 11-88-60Fixing of amount of assessment by board; assessment to constitute lien on property against which levied; reduction or abatement of final assessment by board generally. At such meeting or any adjournment thereof, the board shall proceed by resolution to fix the amount of the assessment against each lot or tract of land described and included in the said assessment roll, and all such assessments, from the date of such order or resolution, shall be and constitute a lien on the respective lots or parcels of land upon which they are levied superior to all other liens, except those of the state and county for taxes. The board shall have no power to reduce or abate an assessment made for an improvement after such assessment shall have been made final, unless an appeal shall have been taken from such assessment within the time prescribed by law, except as provided in Section 11-88-62, but this provision shall not affect the power of the board to split an assessment between two or more parties as provided by law. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §22.)
AL Code § 11-88-61 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-61 - Effect of Defects in Notice or Proceedings; Supplementary Proceedings for Correction of Defects.

Section 11-88-61Effect of defects in notice or proceedings; supplementary proceedings for correction of defects. If there be any defect in the said notice or proceedings before or subsequent to the said notice with respect to one or more interested persons, the same shall not affect such notice or proceedings except insofar as it may touch the interest or property of such person or persons and shall not avail any other person concerned therein. In case of such defect, supplementary proceedings of the same general character as those prescribed in this article may be had in order to supply such defect. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §17.)
AL Code § 11-88-62 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-62 - Reduction or Abatement of Assessments by Board.

Section 11-88-62Reduction or abatement of assessments by board. The board shall have the power to reduce or abate any assessment made for improvements in cases where such assessment has been levied or attempted to be levied against property owned by the State of Alabama or by a county or owned by any church, hospital, or other charitable organization or in any case where the chief executive officer of the board, after due inquiry, has determined that such assessment has been made erroneously or in excess of the benefits derived by such property or is so great as to constitute an undue burden on such property having in view the value thereof, whether or not such assessment shall have been made final and the time to appeal therefrom expired. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §23.)
AL Code § 11-88-63 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-63 - Transfer and Assignment of Liens by Authorities.

Section 11-88-63Transfer and assignment of liens by authorities. An authority may transfer and assign such liens to the contractor or contractors who made the said improvement or improvements or to any other person. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §24.)
AL Code § 11-88-64 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-64 - Enforcement of Liens by Circuit Courts; Amounts Recovered in Civil Actions to Enforce Liens.

Section 11-88-64Enforcement of liens by circuit courts; amounts recovered in civil actions to enforce liens. In addition to the method provided in this article for the collection of such assessments, the circuit court may enforce the said liens and, in all civil actions which may be brought to enforce the said liens, either by the authority or by its assigns, the complainant shall recover the amount of such assessment with interest thereon, together with the cost of such proceedings. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §25.)
AL Code § 11-88-65 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-65 - Enforcement of Lien on Property for State, County, etc., Taxes Not to Discharge or Affect Lien of Authority for Assessment; Duration of Liens.

Section 11-88-65Enforcement of lien on property for state, county, etc., taxes not to discharge or affect lien of authority for assessment; duration of liens. The enforcement by the state, county, city, or town of its lien for taxes on any lot upon which has been levied an assessment for any improvement shall not operate to discharge or in any manner affect the lien of the authority for the assessment, but any purchaser at any tax sale by the state, county, city, or town of any lots or parcels of land upon which an assessment has been levied shall take them subject to such assessment. All liens for improvements shall continue until they are paid or extinguished or until the expiration of 20 years from the date of default in payment of the assessment or from the date when there was a due recognition of the indebtedness after default, after which time the enforcement of the lien shall be barred and the indebtedness conclusively presumed to have been paid. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §26.)
AL Code § 11-88-66 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-66 - Effect of Enforcement of Assessment Lien Upon Other Improvement Assessment Liens on Property.

Section 11-88-66Effect of enforcement of assessment lien upon other improvement assessment liens on property. The enforcement by an authority of its lien for an assessment levied for one improvement by the sale of property shall not operate to discharge or in any way affect the lien of any other assessment for a different improvement on the same property, but the purchaser at such sale shall take the property subject to the lien of all other assessments and the right of the authority to enforce the same. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §27.)
AL Code § 11-88-67 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-67 - Appeal From Assessments to Circuit Court - Authorization and Procedure Generally.

Section 11-88-67Appeal from assessments to circuit court - Authorization and procedure generally. Any person aggrieved by the decision in making any assessment may, within 20 days thereafter, appeal to the circuit court, upon executing a bond in double the amount of the probable cost of the appeal. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §28.)
AL Code § 11-88-68 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-68 - Appeal From Assessments to Circuit Court - Establishment of Amount of Appeal Bond and Approval of Sureties Thereon; Conditions of Bond.

Section 11-88-68Appeal from assessments to circuit court - Establishment of amount of appeal bond and approval of sureties thereon; conditions of bond. The amount of such bond shall be fixed and the sureties thereon shall be approved by the chief executive officer of the board, and the said bond shall be conditioned to prosecute the said appeal to effect and pay the authority any judgment that the circuit court may enter and all damages that any person may suffer by such appeal. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §29.)
AL Code § 11-88-69 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-69 - Appeal From Assessments to Circuit Court - Entry of Appeal on Trial Docket.

Section 11-88-69Appeal from assessments to circuit court - Entry of appeal on trial docket. The appeal shall be entered on the trial docket in the circuit court and shall be a preferred case therein. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §30.)
AL Code § 11-88-70 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-70 - Appeal From Assessments to Circuit Court - Transmittal to Circuit Court of Transcript of Proceedings of Authority as to Assessment; Contents Thereof.

Section 11-88-70Appeal from assessments to circuit court - Transmittal to circuit court of transcript of proceedings of authority as to assessment; contents thereof. Upon the filing and the approval of the appeal bond, the secretary of the authority, upon notice thereof, shall immediately send to the clerk of the circuit court to which the appeal may be taken, a transcript of all the proceedings of the authority relating to such assessment, so far as the same concerns the property of the appellant. Such transcript shall contain a description of the property of such party or parties, which shall be described as accurately as possible according to the map of the county in common use, if there be such map, the name of the owner or owners of such property and the amount of the assessment. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §31.)
AL Code § 11-88-71 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.|Chapter 88 - Water, Sewer and Fire Protection Authorities.|Article 2 - Construction of Sewage Treatment or Disposal Plants, etc., in Resort Areas by Authorities.|Section 11-88-71 - Appeal From Assessments to Circuit Court - Transcript Deemed Prima Facie Evidence of Correctness of Assessment, Etc.

Section 11-88-71Appeal from assessments to circuit court - Transcript deemed prima facie evidence of correctness of assessment, etc. Upon the hearing of such appeal, the introduction of such transcript and papers shall be prima facie evidence of the correctness of such assessment and that the said property and persons are justly indebted to the authority for the amount of the said assessment. (Acts 1973, No. 826, p. 1293, §32.)