2023 Code of Alabama › Title 16 - Education. › Chapter 13 - School Finances Generally. › Article 5 - Warrants for Special County and District Taxes. › Section 16-13-93 - Form.

Section 16-13-93
Form.
The following form of warrant shall be valid and sufficient for warrants issued hereunder, but any other appropriate form may be used:
"No. ___ $ ____ State of Alabama county (city) board of education of the County (City) of ____. County, (City, District No. _____) capital outlay (refunding) school warrant. The county (city) board of education of the County (City) of ____, Alabama, is indebted to bearer in the sum of ____ dollars and hereby directs the custodian (treasurer) of the public school funds of the county (city) to pay to bearer the said sum on ____, 2__, with interest meanwhile at the rate of ____. percent per annum payable semiannually to the bearer of the respective coupons therefor hereto attached, both principal and interest being payable at ____ from the proceeds of a special tax of $.30 on each $100.00 of taxable property in the said county (in the said city, in School District No. ____ of the said county) duly authorized to be levied and collected each year until the maturity thereof. This warrant is issued pursuant to Act No. ____, approved ____, 2__, and is a preferred claim against the proceeds of the said tax as therein provided. It is hereby certified that every requirement of the Constitution or laws of the State of Alabama relating to the issue hereof or to the authorization of the said tax has been duly complied with and that this warrant is within every limit prescribed thereby. In witness whereof the said county (city) board of education has caused this warrant to be signed in its name by its president and its seal to be hereunto affixed and attested by its secretary, and the attached coupons to be executed with the facsimile (manual) signature of the said president. Dated ____, 2__, county (city) board of education of ___ by: ___ president, seal attest: ___ secretary (coupon) no. ___ $ ___. On ___, 2__, the county (city) board of education of the County (City) of ____, Alabama, will be indebted to bearer in the sum of ____ dollars and hereby directs the custodian of the public school funds of the county (city treasurer) to pay to bearer at ___, the said sum at that time from the proceeds of a certain special tax as provided in and as interest on its county (city, District No. ___ ) capital outlay (refunding) warrant no. ___, dated ___, 2__, county (city) board of education of ___ by: ___ president."
If such warrants are subject to the call for payment before maturity the words "unless the said warrants shall have been duly called for earlier payment and payment duly provided therefor" may be added to the coupons and the following paragraph inserted in the warrants:
"The said county (city) board of education reserves the right to call this warrant for payment at ____ and accrued interest upon any interest payment date (or any other appropriate statement as to the time of redemption as prescribed by the issuing board). Notice of such call shall be published at least once at least 30 days before such payment date in a newspaper published or circulated in the county and also in a daily newspaper published in Montgomery or Birmingham. Such notice having been given and such payment having been duly provided, this warrant shall cease to bear interest upon such payment date."
(Acts 1939, No. 186, p. 334, §11; Code 1940, T. 52, §226.)