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2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-81-28 - Issuance, Sale, etc., of Negotiable Notes in Anticipation of Sale of Bonds.

Section 11-81-28
Issuance, sale, etc., of negotiable notes in anticipation of sale of bonds.
Whenever bonds of any county or municipality shall have been authorized under this chapter at any election or by the governing body thereof in cases where an election is not required, such governing body may from time to time in anticipation of the sale of such bonds issue negotiable notes of such county or municipality for the purpose for which such bonds shall have been authorized and to an amount at any time outstanding not exceeding the maximum authorized amount of such bonds.
Such notes shall be general obligations of the issuing county or municipality, shall be signed as the governing body may prescribe, shall be made payable as the governing body may determine, not later than 12 months from their respective dates, and may be refunded from time to time by the issue of new negotiable notes under this section; provided, that no such refunding shall be effected which shall extend the final date for the payment of such notes to more than three years from the date of the original borrowing.
All notes issued under this section may be sold by the governing body at public sale after advertisement given in the manner provided in subsection (a) of Section 11-81-11, or they may be sold at private sale at not less than their par value plus accrued interest from the date thereof to the date upon which they are delivered and paid for.
Any bonds in anticipation of the sale of which such notes may be so issued shall be dated not later than the date of the original borrowing, and such notes and interest thereon shall be paid out of the proceeds derived from the sale of such bonds when sold.
This section shall not apply to revenue bonds authorized to be issued under this chapter.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §268; Acts 1945, No. 471, p. 705.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-81-29 - Bonds and Interest Coupons Exempt From Taxation.

Section 11-81-29
Bonds and interest coupons exempt from taxation.
All bonds and interest coupons attached to the same issued under the authority of this chapter shall be exempt from state, county and municipal taxation.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §269.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-81-30 - Irregularities in Proceedings for Issuance, etc., Not to Affect Validity of Bonds; Properties, etc., of Bonds.

Section 11-81-30
Irregularities in proceedings for issuance, etc., not to affect validity of bonds; properties, etc., of bonds.
No irregularity in the proceedings to authorize the issue of bonds under this chapter nor the omission or neglect of any officer charged with the execution of any duties imposed by this chapter shall affect the validity of any bonds issued under this chapter.
Such bonds shall have all the properties and protection of commercial paper.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §271.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-81-31 - Ratification of Certain Irregular Elections for Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-31
Ratification of certain irregular elections for issuance of bonds.
Every election heretofore held in any municipality or in any county for the purpose of voting upon and deciding the question of whether bonds of the municipality or county, as the case may be, shall be issued, at which election a majority of the votes cast were in favor of the issuance of the bonds, 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 the 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 or recording the results thereof, shall be and is ratified and confirmed and given effect in all respects as if all provisions of law relating to the election had been duly and legally complied with, and bonds may be issued pursuant to the authorization purported to have been granted at the election, and any bonds heretofore or hereafter issued pursuant to the purported authorization shall be valid. This section shall not apply to any election which, prior to April 22, 1998, has been held invalid 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 appeals or to any election the validity of which is an issue in any pending civil action commenced prior to April 22, 1998.
(Acts 1971, No. 161, p. 436; Acts 1977, No. 753, p. 1291; Act 98-368, p. 668, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-81-32 - Issuance of Duplicates for Lost, Mutilated or Destroyed Bonds.

Section 11-81-32
Issuance of duplicates for lost, mutilated or destroyed bonds.
Whenever it shall be made to appear to the governing body of any municipality or county by clear and satisfactory evidence that any bond of said municipality or county bearing interest has been lost, destroyed or mutilated so that the same is not held by any person as his property, then such municipality or county shall issue a duplicate of such lost, destroyed or mutilated bond in like amount, bearing like interest and executed and marked in like manner as the bond so proved to have been lost, destroyed or mutilated. But the owner of such lost, destroyed or mutilated bond shall first execute a penal bond in double the amount of the bond sought to be replaced together with the amount of interest which has or might thereafter accrue thereon with some surety company qualified to do business in the State of Alabama, to be approved by the governing body of said municipality or county and payable to said municipality or county, with condition to indemnify and save harmless such municipality or county from any claim whatsoever because of such lost, destroyed or mutilated bond. Such penal bonds shall be filed and kept with the clerk of said municipality or the judge of probate of such county and shall be admissible in evidence in any court.
(Code 1940, T. 37, §272.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 1 - General Provisions. › Section 11-81-33 - Execution of Bonds, etc., With Engraved or Otherwise Reproduced Facsimile of Signature, Seal or Other Means of Authentication, Etc.

Section 11-81-33
Execution of bonds, etc., with engraved or otherwise reproduced facsimile of signature, seal or other means of authentication, etc.
Any bonds, notes or other obligations for the payment of money heretofore or hereafter authorized to be issued and delivered by any city or town of this state may be executed with an engraved, imprinted, stamped or otherwise reproduced facsimile of any signature, seal or other means of authentication, certification or endorsement required or permitted to be recorded thereon if so authorized by the governing body of such city or town; provided, that at least one signature required or permitted to be placed thereon shall be manually subscribed.
This section shall not repeal any other law authorizing the execution of such bonds, notes or other obligations for the payment of money or interest coupons attached thereto with facsimile signatures or seals.
(Acts 1955, No. 94, p. 340.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-50 - Municipality Defined.

Section 11-81-50
Municipality defined.
In this article "municipality" means and includes any city or town now or hereafter created, except where clearly restricted.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §274.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-52 - Ordering of Election for Determination as to Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-52
Ordering of election for determination as to issuance of bonds.
The governing body of any municipality in this state may order elections to be held in such municipality for the purpose of voting upon and deciding the question as to whether or not the bonds of such municipality shall be issued for such purposes as are authorized by law whenever such governing body deems this necessary.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §275.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-53 - Notice of Election.

Section 11-81-53
Notice of election.
Notice of any election held under the provisions of this article shall be given by publication in a newspaper published in the municipality in which such election is to be held once a week for three successive weeks, the first publication to be made at least 30 days before the election, which notice shall state the purpose for which the election is to be held, the time and place of holding the same, the amount of the proposed bond issue, the maximum rate of interest the bonds are to bear, the time or times when the bonds are to mature and the amount that is to mature at each such time and the purpose for which the bonds are to be issued, and such notice shall be signed by the mayor or other chief executive of such municipality in which such election is to be held, and if no newspaper is published therein such notice must be posted in five public places in said municipality at least 30 days before the time of holding said election.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §277.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-54 - Ballots.

Section 11-81-54
Ballots.
The ballot used at such election shall be prepared under the direction of the mayor or other chief executive officer and shall be in such form as may not be inconsistent with the Constitution of Alabama.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §278.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-55 - Conduct of Election Generally.

Section 11-81-55
Conduct of election generally.
The governing body of any municipality in which an election is held under this article shall designate the number and location of voting places and shall appoint three managers, two clerks, and one returning officer for each voting place in such municipality to conduct said election, and the mayor or other chief executive shall notify the managers, clerks, and returning officers of their appointment and shall deliver the box and ballots to the managers at the several voting places in the municipality; provided, that if voting machines are to be used at said election, then the election officials therefor shall be appointed and the election shall be conducted as is prescribed in the applicable provisions of Sections 17-9-1 through 17-9-41, inclusive, with amendments thereto or any other laws governing the use of voting machines at elections for such municipality.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §279; Acts 1953, No. 851, p. 1143.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-56 - Expenses of Election; Compensation of Managers, Clerks, and Returning Officers.

Section 11-81-56
Expenses of election; compensation of managers, clerks, and returning officers.
All expenses for holding such election shall be paid out of the treasury of the municipality in which the same is held, and the managers, clerks, and returning officers shall be entitled to the same compensation as managers, clerks, and returning officers at other municipal elections.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §280.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-57 - Board of Canvassers.

Section 11-81-57
Board of canvassers.
The governing body of such municipality in which an election has been held under this article shall constitute a board to canvass the returns and declare the result of such election, and such governing body shall meet at the usual place of meeting on the day after the date of the holding of such election and, at that time or at a subsequent meeting to which such meeting may be adjourned, shall canvass the returns and declare the result of said election.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §281.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-58 - Recordation of Election Results.

Section 11-81-58
Recordation of election results.
The record of the result of the election as ascertained and declared by the board of canvassers shall be recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of such municipality and when so recorded shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated and of the validity of such election, unless contested as provided in Sections 11-81-59 through 11-81-61. No form shall be required for such record, but it shall be sufficient if the record plainly and manifestly shows the votes cast for and against the proposition submitted to the electors.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §282.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-59 - Election Contest - Authorized; Bond Required.

Section 11-81-59
Election contest - Authorized; bond required.
Any election held under the provisions of this article can be contested by any qualified elector of the municipality by executing a bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the judge of probate of the county, for the payment of the costs of the contest.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §283.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-60 - Election Contest - Notice and Hearing.

Section 11-81-60
Election contest - Notice and hearing.
Notice of contest shall be served on the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality in which such election was held when the bond for costs has been approved by the judge of probate of the county. The municipality shall be made contestee, and an answer shall be filed in the name of such municipality. Said contest shall be a preferred case in all courts.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §284.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-61 - Election Contest - Limitation of Action.

Section 11-81-61
Election contest - Limitation of action.
No civil action shall be commenced to test the validity of any election held by any municipality of this state for the purpose of issuing bonds unless the said civil action be commenced within 40 days from the date of the said election.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §285.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-62 - Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-62
Issuance of bonds.
If at any election held under and according to the provisions of this article a majority of the qualified electors voting upon such proposition vote in favor of the issuance of said bonds and the result is ascertained and declared as set out in this article, the governing body shall issue the bonds of such municipality in the amount and for the purposes and payable at the times and in the respective amounts mentioned in the notice of the said election; provided, that if subsequent to the said election the governing body shall determine that the entire amount of bonds mentioned in the election notice is not required for carrying out the purpose mentioned in the election notice, the said governing body may issue such lesser amount of bonds as it may determine to be adequate for the said purpose and may designate the amounts and maturities of the bonds described in the election notice which shall not be issued so that the amounts and maturities of the bonds to be issued shall meet the requirements of Section 11-81-6. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the governing body from issuing the said bonds from time to time as the proceeds thereof may in its judgment be needed.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §286.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-63 - Execution and Delivery of Bonds.

Section 11-81-63
Execution and delivery of bonds.
Bonds of a municipality shall be signed by two or more officers of the municipality holding office at the time of such signing, one of which officers shall be the mayor or other chief executive officer, and the corporate seal of such municipality shall be affixed to the bonds. Interest coupons attached to bonds may bear a facsimile signature of one or both of said officers. The delivery of bonds so executed shall be valid notwithstanding any changes in officers or in the seal of the municipality after the signing and sealing of the bonds.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §289.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-65 - Bonds for Refunding or Funding of Bonds Outstanding - Security.

Section 11-81-65
Bonds for refunding or funding of bonds outstanding - Security.
Where the indebtedness to be funded or refunded is secured in whole or in part by a lien, mortgage, or deed of trust upon any property belonging to the municipality or by a pledge, assignment, or appropriation of certain revenues or resources of the municipality, such municipality may make a new lien, mortgage, or deed of trust upon such property or a new pledge, assignment, or appropriation of such revenues or resources to secure the payment of the principal and interest of such funding or refunding bonds, subject, however, to any valid prior liens, mortgages, deeds of trust, pledges, assignments and appropriations.
Municipalities are further authorized to pledge, assign and appropriate to the payment of the principal and interest of funding and refunding bonds issued after February 15, 1933, the collections or proceeds of any or all uncollected special assessments and any or all moneys to be derived from the sale or transfer of tax sale certificates and deeds and from the operation, sale, transfer, or lease of any real estate if such certificates, deeds or real estate shall have been acquired prior to the issuance of such funding and refunding bonds in connection with the enforcement of liens for taxes or special assessments, subject, however, to any other outstanding pledge of such special assessments, certificates, deeds, or money theretofore made.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 153, p. 172; Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 70, p. 60; Code 1940, T. 37, §288.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-66 - Bonds and Coupons Receivable for Payment of Taxes and Dues.

Section 11-81-66
Bonds and coupons receivable for payment of taxes and dues.
Such bonds and coupons shall, after the maturity thereof, be receivable in payment of all taxes and dues to the municipality issuing the same.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §290.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-67 - Applicability of Provisions of General Election Laws; Mandatory and Directory Provisions of Article.

Section 11-81-67
Applicability of provisions of general election laws; mandatory and directory provisions of article.
Where no provisions are otherwise made in this article, the general election laws of the state then in existence with regard to all notices, qualifications of voters, official acts, and things to be done in connection with ordering and holding elections, making returns, canvassing, and certifying the same shall govern in all respects, and all penalties fixed for wrongful acts and violations of the general election laws of the state shall apply to similar acts and violations in all elections held under this article.
The provisions of this article relating to the calling of elections are mandatory, and those relating to the conduct and method of canvassing the same are directory.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §291.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 2 - Municipal Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-68 - Audits.

Section 11-81-68
Audits.
There shall be an annual audit by a certified public accountant or other disinterested public accountant of every municipality having according to the most recent federal census as much or more than a population of 2,000 and an audit biennially for municipalities with a population of less than 2,000 according to the most recent federal census. Said audit shall describe in detail each bond issue outstanding and shall disclose the provision made for payment thereof. In the case of assessment bonds it shall show the amount of assessments 12 months or more past due pledged for the payment of each series of bonds and the amount of all other assessments and the estimated deficit, if any, to be paid out of the general revenues of the municipality. One copy of such audit shall be filed with the clerk of the municipality.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §292.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-80 - Purposes for Which Bonds May Be Issued.

Section 11-81-80
Purposes for which bonds may be issued.
All counties shall have full and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds, when such issue is authorized by the election provided for in this chapter, for the following named purposes:
(1) To purchase and acquire or construct courthouses, jails, poorhouses, hospitals, asylums for the insane, tuberculosis sanatoriums, workhouses, houses of correction and other public buildings.
(2) For the purchase of real estate for any improvement authorized by law or for the site for any building or improvement to be used for public purposes.
(3) For extending, enlarging, improving, repairing, or securing the more complete use of and enjoyment of any building or improvement, owned, purchased, or constructed by the county and for equipping and furnishing the same.
(4) To fund floating debt.
(5) To acquire land for county parks and to improve the same.
(6) To provide for the purchase or the original construction and improvement of highways and bridges, whether such bridges are wholly within the county or are across streams, waters, swamps, overflowed, submerged or inundated lands or lowlands lying partly within the limits of another county.
(7) For the purpose of providing for the payment of the whole or any part of the cost of the acquirement, construction, extension, improvement, repair, or reconstruction of dikes, levees, embankments, seawalls, or other protection against seas, storms, and floods or the encroachment of streams, rivers, waters, or seas and the whole or any part of the cost of draining, filling, elevating, or reclaiming swamps or submerged, inundated, or overflowed lands or lowlands located within the limits of such county and for the purpose of constructing sanitary and storm sewers within the limits of said county.
(8) For any other purpose for which it is authorized by law to expend money.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §93.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-81 - Ordering of Election for Determination as to Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-81
Ordering of election for determination as to issuance of bonds.
The county commission may order an election to be held in its county for deciding whether or not the bonds of the county shall be issued for such purposes as are authorized by law.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §92.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-82 - Notice of Election.

Section 11-81-82
Notice of election.
Notice of such election shall be given by publication in a newspaper published in the county in which the election is to be held once a week for three successive weeks, the first publication to be made at least 30 days before the election, which notice shall state the purpose for which the election is to be held, the time and places for holding the same, the amount of the proposed bond issue, the maximum rate of interest proposed to be paid, the time or times when the bonds are to mature and the amount that is to mature at each such time, and the purpose for which the bonds are to be issued, and such notice shall be signed by the probate judge or chairman of the county commission or by such other person as the governing body may designate, and if no newspaper is published in the county the notice must be posted in five public places in the county at least 30 days before the time of holding the election.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §94.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-83 - Ballots.

Section 11-81-83
Ballots.
The ballot used at such election shall be prepared under the direction of the probate judge and shall be in such form as may not be inconsistent with the Constitution of Alabama.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §95.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-84 - Conduct of Election Generally.

Section 11-81-84
Conduct of election generally.
The probate judge, the circuit clerk, and the sheriff of the county in which an election is being held under this article, within 10 days after notice in writing to them of the calling of such election, shall appoint three managers, two clerks, and one returning officer to conduct the election in each beat or polling place in the county, and said managers shall all reside in the beats, wards, or precincts where they are appointed to serve and shall be qualified electors at the date of said election. The sheriff shall notify the managers and returning officers of their appointments and shall send out the boxes and ballots to the several beats or voting precincts in the county promptly.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §96.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-85 - Expenses of Election; Compensation of Managers, Clerks, and Returning Officers.

Section 11-81-85
Expenses of election; compensation of managers, clerks, and returning officers.
All expenses for holding such election shall be paid out of the treasury of the county in which the same is held, and the managers, clerks, and returning officers shall be entitled to the same compensation as managers, clerks, and returning officers of the general election.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §97.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-86 - Board of Canvassers.

Section 11-81-86
Board of canvassers.
The clerk of the circuit court, the probate judge and the sheriff of the county in which an election is being held under this article shall constitute a board to canvass the returns and declare the results of such election, and they shall meet at the courthouse of the county in which the election is to be held on the Saturday following the holding of said election and canvass the returns and declare the result of said election, and in case either of the three should be absent, the two present shall act.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §98.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-87 - Recordation of Election Results.

Section 11-81-87
Recordation of election results.
The record of the result of the election held under this article as returned by the board of canvassers shall be recorded in the minutes of the county commission of the county in which the same is held, and when so recorded the record shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated and of the validity of such election, unless contested, as provided in Sections 11-81-88 through 11-81-90.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §99.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-88 - Election Contest - Authorized; Bond Required.

Section 11-81-88
Election contest - Authorized; bond required.
A contest of the election held under this article in any county may be made by any qualified elector of the county by executing a bond, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the judge of probate of the county, for the payment of the costs of the contest.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §100.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-89 - Election Contest - Notice and Hearing; Representation of County.

Section 11-81-89
Election contest - Notice and hearing; representation of county.
Notice of the contest shall be served on the district attorney of the county in which the contest is instituted and said district attorney shall respond in the name of the county and the county shall be contestee. In all courts said contest shall be a preferred case.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §101.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-90 - Election Contest - Limitation of Action.

Section 11-81-90
Election contest - Limitation of action.
No civil action shall be commenced to test the validity of any election held by any county of this state for the purpose of issuing bonds unless the said civil action is commenced within 40 days from the date of the said election.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §102.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-91 - Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-91
Issuance of bonds.
If at an election held under and according to the provisions of this article, a majority of the qualified electors of the county voting upon such proposition vote in favor of the issuance of said bonds and the result is ascertained and declared as set out in this article, the county commission shall issue bonds of such county in the amount and for the purpose and payable at the times and in the respective amounts mentioned in the notice of said election; provided, that if subsequent to the said election the county commission shall determine that the entire amount of bonds mentioned in the election notice is not required for carrying out the purpose mentioned in the election notice, the said county commission may issue such lesser amount of bonds as it may determine to be adequate for the said purpose and may designate the amounts and maturities of the bonds described in the election notice which shall not be issued so that the amounts and maturities of the bonds to be issued shall meet the requirements of Section 11-81-6. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the county commission from issuing the said bonds from time to time as the proceeds thereof may in its judgment be needed.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §103.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-92 - Execution and Delivery of Bonds.

Section 11-81-92
Execution and delivery of bonds.
Bonds of a county shall be signed by the manually subscribed or facsimile signature of any two or more officers of the county holding office at the time of such signing as shall be designated by the county commission of the county by whose authority the bonds are issued; provided, that at least one signature required or permitted to be inscribed on such bonds shall be manually subscribed thereon. The seal of the county or of the county commission thereof or of the probate court thereof as shall be designated by the county commission shall be affixed to the bonds; provided, that when so authorized by the county commission the seal designated by it to be used may be imprinted or otherwise reproduced on the bonds. Interest coupons attached to the bonds may be executed with the facsimile signatures of the officers whose signatures appear on the bonds. The delivery of bonds so executed shall be valid notwithstanding any change in officers or in the seal after the signing and sealing of the bonds.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §107; Acts 1959, No. 260, p. 824.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-93 - Bonds for Refunding of Bonds Outstanding or Installments on Serial Bonds Outstanding - Authority for Issuance.

Section 11-81-93
Bonds for refunding of bonds outstanding or installments on serial bonds outstanding - Authority for issuance.
(a) The county commission of any county having bonds outstanding, without an election, may issue bonds of the county for the purpose of refunding the bonds to an amount not exceeding the principal amount of the bonds to be so refunded and also, without an election, may issue bonds of the county from time to time for the purpose of refunding installments of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) becoming due on outstanding serial bonds heretofore or hereafter issued.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a county commission of any county, without an election, and no later than December 31, 2020, may issue bonds of the county, limited in an amount as provided in subsection (a), for the purpose of refunding bonds that were originally issued prior to January 1, 2011, to refund other bonds. The prior refunding bonds are ratified and confirmed and given effect in all respects and any refunding bonds to be issued to refund those bonds are authorized. This subsection does not apply to any bonds that prior to May 18, 2020, have been held invalid by the Supreme Court of Alabama or by final judgment of the circuit court in the county which issued the bonds 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 appeals or to any bonds the validity of which is an issue in any pending civil action commenced prior to May 18, 2020.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Acts 1931, No. 363, p. 428; Acts 1939, No. 167, p. 290; Code 1940, T. 12, §104; Act 2020-121, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-94 - Bonds for Refunding of Bonds Outstanding or Installments on Serial Bonds Outstanding - Security.

Section 11-81-94
Bonds for refunding of bonds outstanding or installments on serial bonds outstanding - Security.
All bonds issued under the authority of Section 11-81-93 shall have all the security and protection to which the original bonds were entitled.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §105.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-95 - Bonds for Refunding of Bonds Outstanding or Installments on Serial Bonds Outstanding - Special Tax Levy for Payment of Principal and Interest.

Section 11-81-95
Bonds for refunding of bonds outstanding or installments on serial bonds outstanding - Special tax levy for payment of principal and interest.
Where the levy of a special tax was or is authorized to be made to provide for the payment of the principal and interest of such outstanding bonded indebtedness, said county commission is authorized to levy a like tax for the payment of the principal and interest of bonds which may be issued under the authority of Sections 11-81-93 and 11-81-94 for the purpose of refunding the said outstanding bonds.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §106.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-96 - Applicability of Provisions of General Election Laws; Mandatory and Directory Provisions of Article.

Section 11-81-96
Applicability of provisions of general election laws; mandatory and directory provisions of article.
Where no provisions are otherwise made in this article, the general election laws of the state then in existence with regard to all notices, qualifications of voters, official acts, and things to be done in connection with ordering and holding elections, making returns, canvassing, and certifying the same shall govern in all respects and all penalties fixed for wrongful acts and violations of the general election laws of the state shall apply to similar acts and violations in all elections held under this article.
The provisions of this article relating to the calling of elections are mandatory and those relating to the conduct and the method of canvassing the same are directory.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §108.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 3 - County Bonds Generally. › Section 11-81-97 - Applicability of Provisions Pertaining to Municipal Bonds.

Section 11-81-97
Applicability of provisions pertaining to municipal bonds.
The provisions of Sections 11-81-5 through 11-81-20 and 11-81-22 through 11-81-33 shall be applicable to bonds issued under this article.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 12, §109.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 4 - Public Improvement Bonds. › Division 1 - Bonds for Street and Sidewalk Improvements, Sewer Systems or Other Improvements Generally. › Section 11-81-110 - Issuance Generally; Pledge of Proceeds of Assessments, etc., as Security for Payment.

Section 11-81-110
Issuance generally; pledge of proceeds of assessments, etc., as security for payment.
(a) For the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of street and sidewalk improvements, sanitary or storm water sewers or sewer systems, including treatment and disposal plants and water service connections, or other improvements, whether of a like or any different kind, the cost of which, in whole or in part, is proposed to be assessed against the property abutting on said street or sidewalk improved or drained, serviced or benefited by such sanitary or storm water sewer or sewer system or water service connection or served, improved, increased in value or otherwise specially benefited by such improvement, for which purpose the Constitution may now or hereafter permit the issuance of bonds without an election, the governing body of any municipality may, without an election, from time to time, issue bonds of such municipality not in excess of the cost of the improvements as estimated at the time of the issue of the said bonds if said bonds are issued prior to the completion or during the construction of said improvements. If said bonds are issued after the work is completed, such bonds shall not exceed in the aggregate the total cost of the improvements.
(b) The governing body of such municipality may pledge as security for such bonds the proceeds of the assessments made or to be made against the property benefited and may transfer and assign for the benefit of the bondholders the lien of the municipality thereon with power to enforce the same. The making of one loan or the issue of one series of bonds shall not exhaust the power of the municipality to provide sufficient funds for the completion of the improvement.
(c) No irregularities or technical defects in the proceedings relating to the making of the improvements shall prevent the issue of bonds under subsection (a) of this section.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §293.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 4 - Public Improvement Bonds. › Division 1 - Bonds for Street and Sidewalk Improvements, Sewer Systems or Other Improvements Generally. › Section 11-81-111 - Maturity and Payment; Sale or Delivery in Payment for Work.

Section 11-81-111
Maturity and payment; sale or delivery in payment for work.
Such bonds shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 11-81-5 through 11-81-20 and 11-81-22 through 11-81-33 except that they shall be payable in annual installments beginning one year and ending 10 years from the date of the bonds, the amount of no installments to exceed the amount of any other installment by more than $1,000.00 and except that they may either be sold according to Sections 11-81-5 through 11-81-20 and 11-81-22 through 11-81-33 or be delivered at not less than par and accrued interest to the contractor in payment or part payment for the work.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §294.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 4 - Public Improvement Bonds. › Division 1 - Bonds for Street and Sidewalk Improvements, Sewer Systems or Other Improvements Generally. › Section 11-81-112 - Disposition of Proceeds From Sale.

Section 11-81-112
Disposition of proceeds from sale.
The proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized to be issued by this division shall be applied only to the payment of the cost of the improvement or improvements designated in the ordinance providing for their issue, but should there be any surplus from any bond issue over and above such cost it shall be applied to the payment of the principal of the bonds.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §300.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds. › Article 4 - Public Improvement Bonds. › Division 1 - Bonds for Street and Sidewalk Improvements, Sewer Systems or Other Improvements Generally. › Section 11-81-113 - Grouping of Improvements for Issuance of Bonds.

Section 11-81-113
Grouping of improvements for issuance of bonds.
Any municipality desiring to issue bonds under this division shall have power to group improvements under two or more improvement ordinances and make one issue of bonds under this division based on the combined estimated costs or combined assessments in respect to such improvements.
(Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §301.)