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2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 90 - Free Public Libraries. › Section 11-90-3 - Library Boards - Powers and Duties.

Section 11-90-3
Library boards - Powers and duties.
(a) The library board shall have full power and authority to:
(1) Control the expenditure of all funds received or appropriated for such libraries;
(2) Erect or rent buildings to cost not in excess of the funds available to it;
(3) Purchase books and equipment;
(4) Provide a system of library service to be made easily available to all citizens of the county or municipality through central library, branches, stations, book truck service, or other appropriate means;
(5) Elect a librarian and other employees; and
(6) Manage and control the said library in order to carry out the full intent and purpose of this chapter.
(b) A careful and complete record and set of books shall be kept by the library board, showing the proceedings of their several meetings and the receipts and disbursements in detail of all funds.
(c) In counties where a city having a population of not less than 65,000 already maintains a free public library, a separate county library board need not be appointed, and the county libraries and the appropriations authorized shall be administered by the governing board of such free public library on such terms as may be agreed upon between the county commission and the said governing board.
(Acts 1919, No. 763, p. 1124; Code 1923, §1547; Acts 1939, No. 200, p. 351; Code 1940, T. 55, §287.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 90 - Free Public Libraries. › Section 11-90-4 - Establishment and Maintenance of Joint Library Service.

Section 11-90-4
Establishment and maintenance of joint library service.
In lieu of establishing or maintaining free public libraries exclusively for a single county or municipality in the manner provided in this chapter, the library board of any county or municipality free public library may contract, in behalf of the political unit represented by such local library board, to and with the library board of another political unit or governmental agency or instrumentality with respect to the establishment or maintenance of joint library service upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the several contracting parties. Where there is no existing public library, the power thus to contract shall vest in the county commission of the county or the governing body of the municipality. Included in the power conferred is the determination of the basis and personnel of representation of the local political units on the joint library board administering the joint library service established under this section. Such board, when appointed, shall have the powers and duties granted by this chapter to county or municipal library boards. County and municipal library boards or joint library boards shall have the power to cooperate with all state and federal agencies and institutions in furtherance of the purpose of this chapter, and all municipal, county and joint library boards shall from time to time submit such records and reports as may be required by the public library service; provided, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to infringe upon any municipal charter provisions governing the administration of existing free public libraries.
(Acts 1919, No. 763, p. 1124; Code 1923, §1548; Acts 1939, No. 201, p. 352; Code 1940, T. 55, §288.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91 - Group Life, Health, Accident, etc., Insurance, etc., for Officers and Employees of Municipalities and Counties. › Section 11-91-1 - Provision by Governing Bodies of Counties and Municipalities for Group Life, Health, Accident, etc., Insurance, etc., for Officers and Employees Authorized.

Section 11-91-1
Provision by governing bodies of counties and municipalities for group life, health, accident, etc., insurance, etc., for officers and employees authorized.
(a) The council, commission, or similar governing body of each municipal corporation, the board of directors of each incorporated municipal board, the county commission of each county, the board of education of each city and the board of education of each county, now existing or established after August 16, 1947, shall have power and authority to contract for and obtain and maintain policies of group life, health, accident, and hospitalization insurance or any one or more of them and shall have power and authority to contract for and obtain and maintain individual annuity contracts, retirement income policies or group annuity contracts to provide a retirement plan for the benefit of such of the officers and employees of such municipality, incorporated municipal board, county, or board as may be determined by such governing body and as shall or may elect to accept the same and who have authorized in writing such governing body to make deductions from their compensation to pay premiums on any such policy or policies if such premiums are payable in whole or in part by such officer or employee.
(b) The term "insurance" as used in this chapter includes the term "annuity," and the term "policy" includes the term "contract."
(Acts 1947, No. 376, p. 267, §1; Acts 1956, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 146, p. 210; Acts 1959, No. 34, p. 439; Acts 1959, No. 171, p. 696; Acts 1961, No. 925, p. 1484.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91 - Group Life, Health, Accident, etc., Insurance, etc., for Officers and Employees of Municipalities and Counties. › Section 11-91-2 - Contracting for and Purchase of Insurance Policies Generally; Requirements as to Amounts of Insurance Under Policies and Coverage of Policies.

Section 11-91-2
Contracting for and purchase of insurance policies generally; requirements as to amounts of insurance under policies and coverage of policies.
(a) All such governing bodies shall have authority to contract for and purchase any or all such policies of insurance from any insurer or insurers admitted to transact the business of such insurance in the State of Alabama, and the governing bodies of all state colleges and universities shall have, in addition to powers previously granted, the authority to contract for and purchase any or all such policies of insurance from any nonprofit corporation organized and operated without profit to any private shareholder or individual exclusively for the purpose of aiding or strengthening educational institutions by issuing insurance and annuity contracts only to or for the benefit of such institutions and individuals engaged in the services of such institutions.
(b) The amounts of insurance under any such policy must be based upon some plan precluding individual selection either by such officers and employees or by the governing body.
(c) The coverage of any such policy may be limited to specified classes of officers and employees determined by conditions pertaining to employment, but there shall be no discrimination within any such specified class.
(Acts 1947, No. 376, p. 267, §2; Acts 1965, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 254, p. 368.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91 - Group Life, Health, Accident, etc., Insurance, etc., for Officers and Employees of Municipalities and Counties. › Section 11-91-3 - Determination of Persons to Be Insured, Amount, Nature, and Kind of Insurance and Manner of Paying Premiums.

Section 11-91-3
Determination of persons to be insured, amount, nature, and kind of insurance and manner of paying premiums.
It is hereby declared to be the intent of the Legislature that any such governing bodies shall have the power and authority to determine in their sole discretion the class or classes of officers or employees who are to be insured under any such policy or policies, the amount, nature, and kind of insurance upon each such officer and employee and class thereof and whether the premium therefor shall be paid in whole or in part by such governing bodies and, if in part, the amount thereof that will be so paid.
(Acts 1947, No. 376, p. 267, §4.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91 - Group Life, Health, Accident, etc., Insurance, etc., for Officers and Employees of Municipalities and Counties. › Section 11-91-4 - Payment of Premiums.

Section 11-91-4
Payment of premiums.
Such governing bodies shall have authority to pay all or such part of the premium for such insurance as such governing bodies shall determine out of any available funds and to deduct that part of the premium, if any, which is to be paid by such officer or employee from the salary or wage of such officer or employee as may be authorized by him and to pay such deductions together with the remainder due of such premium to the insurer issuing such policy in full payment of the premium.
(Acts 1947, No. 376, p. 267, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91 - Group Life, Health, Accident, etc., Insurance, etc., for Officers and Employees of Municipalities and Counties. › Section 11-91-5 - Return of Premiums.

Section 11-91-5
Return of premiums.
In the event there is a return of premium by any insurance company under any such insurance contract, such return shall be made to the governing body paying such premium.
(Acts 1947, No. 376, p. 267, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91 - Group Life, Health, Accident, etc., Insurance, etc., for Officers and Employees of Municipalities and Counties. › Section 11-91-6 - Appropriation of Funds for Implementation of Provisions of Chapter.

Section 11-91-6
Appropriation of funds for implementation of provisions of chapter.
Any such governing bodies may appropriate sufficient funds to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
(Acts 1947, No. 376, p. 267, §6.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91 - Group Life, Health, Accident, etc., Insurance, etc., for Officers and Employees of Municipalities and Counties. › Section 11-91-7 - Validation, etc., of Policies Issued Prior to August 16, 1947, and Acts Done and Premiums Paid in Accordance Therewith.

Section 11-91-7
Validation, etc., of policies issued prior to August 16, 1947, and acts done and premiums paid in accordance therewith.
All contracts and policies of group life, health, accident, and hospitalization insurance or any one or more of them which have been issued prior to August 16, 1947, to any municipal corporation, county, city or county board of education or any state agency or institution of education, learning, training or correction, or for the delinquent, insane, sick, deaf, dumb, blind, needy, juvenile, or aged for the benefit of its officers and employees or any portion of them are hereby ratified, confirmed, approved, and validated.
All acts done and all premiums paid by any such municipal corporation, county, board, agency or institution in accordance with the terms of any such contract or policy are hereby ratified, confirmed, approved and validated.
(Acts 1947, No. 377, p. 269, §§1, 2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91 - Group Life, Health, Accident, etc., Insurance, etc., for Officers and Employees of Municipalities and Counties. › Section 11-91-8 - Health Insurance, etc., Programs for Retired Employees.

Section 11-91-8
Health insurance, etc., programs for retired employees.
The governing body of any county, municipality, or a public agency which is an employer participating in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, or in the local government health insurance program of the State Employees' Insurance Board may, upon a majority vote of its members, elect to allow the retired employees of such a county, municipality, or public agency to participate in any health, hospitalization, surgical, or medical insurance program made available to regular employees, or any related health program for retirees selected by the governing body including the local government health program offered by the State Employees' Insurance Board. Such a county, municipality, or public agency may pay all, or any part, or none of the cost thereof or the premiums thereon for current or future retirees from any funds in the county, municipal, or public agency treasury not otherwise appropriated.
(Acts 1986, No. 86-541, p. 1053; Act 99-383, p. 610, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91A - Local Government Health Insurance Program. › Section 11-91A-1 - Definitions.

Section 11-91A-1
Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following words have the following meanings:
(1) BOARD. The Local Government Health Insurance Board established in this chapter.
(2) PROGRAM. The Local Government Health Insurance Program as provided by the State Employees' Insurance Board prior to April 9, 2014, and as transferred and further provided for pursuant to this chapter.
(Act 2014-401, p. 1473, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91A - Local Government Health Insurance Program. › Section 11-91A-3 - Employee, Retiree, and Dependent Coverage; Premiums; Summary Documents.

Section 11-91A-3
Employee, retiree, and dependent coverage; premiums; summary documents.
(a) All full-time employees, elected officials, and retirees of employer participants who are eligible for health care benefits for themselves or their dependents under the provisions of the program shall be entitled to coverage and benefits as designated by the board.
(b) Each employee and retiree shall be entitled to have his or her spouse and dependent children, as those persons are defined by the board, included in the coverage under rules and regulations promulgated by the board upon agreeing to pay the employee's contribution of the health care premium for the dependents. The board shall adopt rules and regulations governing the discontinuance and resumption of coverage for dependents by the employees and retirees. The board shall adopt rules governing the discontinuance and resumption of coverage for dependents by the employees and retirees.
(c) The board shall establish premiums required for employee, retiree, and dependent coverage to be paid by each employer participant in the program pursuant to rules adopted by the board. Employer participants shall provide to the board any information deemed necessary by the board for the determination of premium or other program matters. Employer participants shall submit all premium payments and any other information required pursuant to rules adopted by the board. Any portion of the premium to be paid for the full-time employees, elected officials, and retirees and their dependents pursuant to this section may be paid by the employer participant.
(d) During any period in which an employee or an employee's dependents are covered under this chapter, the employee's contribution to the health care premium may be deducted from payroll by his or her employer on a pretax basis as permitted under Section 125 of the federal Internal Revenue Code or its successor.
(e) Each employee and retiree who is covered under the program shall be provided a summary document setting forth the benefits to which the employee, retiree, and dependents are entitled, to whom such benefits shall be payable, to whom claims shall be submitted, and a summary of the provisions of the program as they affect the employee, retiree, and dependents. The summary document may be provided in electronic format at the discretion of the board.
(Act 2014-401, p. 1473, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91A - Local Government Health Insurance Program. › Section 11-91A-5 - Meetings; Quorum; Reimbursement of Expenses; Board as Body Corporate.

Section 11-91A-5
Meetings; quorum; reimbursement of expenses; board as body corporate.
(a) The organizational meeting of the board shall be set no later than October 1, 2014, by the Chief Executive Officer of the SEIB. The first order of business at the organizational meeting shall be the election of a chair and vice chair by majority vote of the membership of the board. The Chief Executive Officer of the SEIB shall call the meeting to order and preside only until the chair and vice chair are elected. Thereafter, the board shall annually elect a chair and vice chair by majority vote of the membership of the board, provided that any chair or vice chair may be re-elected and serve successive terms as chair or vice chair.
(b) A majority of the members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and each member shall be entitled to one vote on all matters. Except where otherwise provided, a majority vote of the board members present shall be necessary for a decision by the board. The board shall keep a record of all of its proceedings which shall be open to public inspection and shall at all times comply with Alabama's Open Meetings Law, Chapter 25A of Title 36.
(c) Board members shall serve without compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed from the program for all necessary expenses that they may incur through service on the board.
(d) The board shall be a state agency and shall constitute a body corporate for the purpose of providing for and participating in the management of the program. The board shall have all powers and privileges of a corporation and may enforce all existing rights and claims, and hold its cash and securities and other property in trust for the purpose for which received; provided, however, the board, its officers, and its employees shall be immune from suit to the same extent as the state, its agencies, officers, and employees.
(e) The board shall be exempt from payment of all fees and all taxes levied by the State of Alabama or any of its subdivisions.
(Act 2014-401, p. 1473, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91A - Local Government Health Insurance Program. › Section 11-91A-6 - Property Rights and Contractual Obligations of Board; Costs of Software and Property; Assignment of Contracts.

Section 11-91A-6
Property rights and contractual obligations of board; costs of software and property; assignment of contracts.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the SEIB shall provide for the administration of the program as provided in Chapter 29 of Title 36, until the transfer of the governance and administration of the program takes place as provided herein. Effective at 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 2015, all property rights and contractual obligations of the SEIB related to the administration and governance of the program shall be transferred to the board. The SEIB and its employees shall fully cooperate with the board in the transfer of the governance and administration of the program both prior to and after January 1, 2015, including, but not limited to, providing the board with all the software necessary to properly administer the program beginning on January 1, 2015. Additionally, in order to affect an orderly transfer, the administrator of the SEIB shall serve as the chief executive officer of the board for a period of not less than 18 months beginning on January 1, 2015, and may thereafter be retained as chief executive officer as provided in subsection (h) of Section 11-91A-7.
(b) The board shall compensate the SEIB for the cost of any software or other property transferred from the SEIB based upon the fair market value of such software or other property at the time of transfer determined by mutual agreement.
(c) Any contracts executed between the SEIB and a contractor may be assigned to the board upon mutual consent of all parties.
(Act 2014-401, p. 1473, §6.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91A - Local Government Health Insurance Program. › Section 11-91A-8 - Awarding of Contracts.

Section 11-91A-8
Awarding of contracts.
(a) Before entering into any contract or contracts for a carrier or third party administrator, the board shall solicit competitive proposals from companies or agencies qualified to administer or offer plans for group health care coverage. The board shall carefully evaluate all proposals received and award the contract or contracts to the most qualified company or agency taking into consideration all relevant factors, including, but not limited to, the following: The benefits offered; the proposed administrative costs and the costs to be incurred by the employer participant and its employees, retirees, and dependents; and the experience of the companies or agencies submitting proposals. In evaluating these factors, the board may employ the services of impartial professional insurance analysts or actuaries. The contract or contracts executed by the board with the selected carrier or third party administrator shall be a contract to offer coverage to all employees and retirees of employer participants subject to this chapter.
(b) The board may at the end of any contract period discontinue any contract or contracts it has executed with any carrier or third party administrator and replace the carrier or administrator with a contract or contracts with any other carrier or third party administrator meeting the requirements of this chapter.
(Act 2014-401, p. 1473, §8.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91A - Local Government Health Insurance Program. › Section 11-91A-9 - Discretion of Board; Review of Claims; Appeals.

Section 11-91A-9
Discretion of board; review of claims; appeals.
The board shall have complete discretion and final authority to interpret the terms and conditions of the program. The program shall require adequate notice in writing to any participant whose claim for benefits under the program has been denied, setting forth the specific reasons for such denial. Any participant whose claim for benefits has been denied shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for a full and fair review by the claims administrator upon the written request made within 60 days of the date of denial and setting forth the specific reasons the participant believes the claim should be approved. The claims administrator shall provide a written final determination of the claim upon completion of the review. Appeal of a final decision made by the claims administrator shall be by legal action filed in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County.
(Act 2014-401, p. 1473, §9.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 91A - Local Government Health Insurance Program. › Section 11-91A-10 - Recordkeeping; Audits.

Section 11-91A-10
Recordkeeping; audits.
The board shall maintain books of account covering revenues derived by it from all sources, together with accounts of all expenses incurred in connection with the carrying out by the board of its purposes as established by and under the terms of this chapter. The board may obtain the services of a certified public accountant for annual audits in lieu of audits conducted by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. All such audits shall be filed with the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts and open for public inspection.
(Act 2014-401, p. 1473, §10.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-1 - Definitions.

Section 11-92-1
Definitions.
(a) The following definitions shall be applicable to this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(1) COUNTY. Each county in the state.
(2) GOVERNING BODY. The county commission or the board of commissioners, council, or other governing body of a municipality.
(3) INDUSTRIAL PARK. Land, with such improvements as are authorized by this chapter, which has been determined by a governing body to be suitable for use by more than one industrial or commercial enterprise for industrial or commercial purposes and has been acquired or is proposed to be acquired by a county or a municipality or any combination of counties and municipalities and held for the purpose of transferring it to one or more persons for use for industrial or commercial purposes.
(4) MUNICIPALITY. A municipal corporation in the state.
(5) PARTICIPANT. With respect to the acquisition and development of an industrial park, a county or municipality which has financed or by resolution has declared its intention to finance the acquisition and development of such industrial park.
(6) PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership, public or private corporation or any other entity having the power to acquire title to land.
(7) STATE. The State of Alabama.
(8) WARRANTS. Warrants which have been or are proposed to be issued by a county or a municipality pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(b) In construing this chapter, the use of the singular shall be read to include the plural and the plural to include the singular, except where a contrary intent is clearly manifested.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-2 - Legislative Intent; Construction of Chapter Generally.

Section 11-92-2
Legislative intent; construction of chapter generally.
(a) It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this chapter to authorize each county and each municipality in the state, acting separately or jointly, within the restrictions of this chapter, to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, one or more industrial or commercial parks, as defined in Section 11-92-1, to develop such parks, to finance such acquisition and development by the sale and issuance of interest-bearing general obligation warrants of such counties or municipalities, and to sell such parks.
(b) This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with this intention.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-3 - Powers of Counties and Municipalities as to Acquisition, Development, etc., of Parks Generally.

Section 11-92-3
Powers of counties and municipalities as to acquisition, development, etc., of parks generally.
(a) In addition to all existing powers, a county or municipality shall have the power, by itself or together with other participants, to acquire, by purchase, gift, exchange, lease or otherwise, and to develop and dispose of one or more parcels of land as an industrial park upon compliance with the procedure set out in Section 11-92-4.
(b) This power shall be subject to the following restrictions:
(1) No county or municipality may acquire real property for an industrial park any part of which is located in another county which is not a participant or which is within the corporate limits of a municipality which is not a participant unless the governing body of that other county or municipality shall have adopted a resolution consenting to the acquisition of the industrial park therein;
(2) No real property may be acquired or developed by a municipality as an industrial park if any part of it is located more than 25 miles from the corporate limits of that municipality;
(3) No real property may be acquired or developed by a county any part of which is located more than three miles from the boundary of the county; and
(4) The development of one or more parcels of land as a site for an industrial park shall include the provision for water, sanitary sewage disposal, drainage, electric power, gas, communications, access, and other similar facilities which are incidental to the use of the land as an industrial park. Development shall not include the provision of structures or buildings except those related to the above described facilities.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-4 - Requirements as to Acquisition and Development of Parks.

Section 11-92-4
Requirements as to acquisition and development of parks.
The following procedure shall be followed in acquiring and developing an industrial park:
(1) The governing body of any county or municipality shall determine by the adoption of a resolution duly entered on its minutes that it shall become a participant or act alone in the acquisition and development of an industrial park;
(2) Any other county or municipality proposing to join as a participant must adopt a similar resolution so stating within 90 days of the adoption of the resolution referred to in subdivision (1) of this section;
(3) Such resolutions must contain the following:
a. A legal description of the land proposed to be acquired, having sufficient specificity to satisfy the requirements for a deed, and a finding that it is suitable for an industrial park;
b. The price, if any, for which the land will be acquired;
c. The estimated cost of developing the land as an industrial park and an outline of the plans for accomplishing such development;
d. The portion of the total of the amounts stated pursuant to paragraphs b and c of this subdivision that the county or municipality adopting such resolution is willing to contribute;
e. A finding that the economy and the public welfare of the area served by the county or municipality adopting the resolution will be benefitted by the acquisition and development of the industrial park and that it is wise, expedient, necessary, or advisable to acquire and develop such industrial park;
f. A finding that there are sufficient moneys available, whether or not by the issuance of warrants, to finance the county's or municipality's share of the cost of the industrial park; and
g. The designation of a person to act for the governing body in the acquisition and development of the industrial park and authorization for such person to approve and sign for the county or municipality any contracts necessary within the scope of the aforesaid plans for such acquisition and development.
(4) Such resolution shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county affected for three successive weeks and posted in a publicly accessible place for three successive weeks prior to the execution of said resolution;
(5) Any contracts relating to acquisition or development of an industrial park shall be signed on behalf of all participants; and
(6) Title to each parcel of land acquired shall be taken by all participants in common and may be in equal shares or in shares proportional to the financial contribution of each participant or in shares determined pursuant to some other formula determined by the participants.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §4.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-5 - Sale, etc., by Municipalities or Counties of Property or Interests in Property; Ownership of Parks by Municipalities or Counties.

Section 11-92-5
Sale, etc., by municipalities or counties of property or interests in property; ownership of parks by municipalities or counties.
(a) Any municipality or county shall have the power to sell and grant options to acquire any property or interest in property acquired under the provisions of this chapter.
(b) The sales price of any part of an industrial park shall be no less than the greater of the consideration for purchase paid by the participants plus the cost of all improvements made in the development of the property and the costs of financing the acquisition and development, other than interest on any warrants, prorated on the basis of the acreage involved, or the then fair market value of the property to be sold as determined by an appraisal filed with each participant by a real estate appraiser whose appraisals are accepted by local lending institutions.
(c) It is not the intention of this chapter to authorize any county or municipality to take permanent title to an industrial park, but only for the purpose of eventual transfer to a private industrial or commercial enterprise or a public entity involved in industrial or commercial development.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-6 - Warrants - Form, Terms, Denominations, etc.; Liability of Counties or Municipalities Upon Warrants; Disposition of Proceeds From Sale.

Section 11-92-6
Warrants - Form, terms, denominations, etc.; liability of counties or municipalities upon warrants; disposition of proceeds from sale.
(a) Each participant shall have the power to sell and issue interest-bearing warrants for the purpose of paying the cost or its share of the costs of acquiring and developing industrial parks. Any warrants issued under the provisions of this chapter may be in such denominations, may have such maturity or maturities, not exceeding 30 years from their date, may bear interest from their date at such rate or rates, payable at such times, may be payable at such places within or without the state, may be sold at such times and in such manner and may contain such terms not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter, all as the governing body of the participant may provide in the proceedings wherein the warrants are authorized to be issued.
(b) All such warrants shall evidence general obligation indebtedness of the county or municipality by which they are issued and the full faith and credit of the county or municipality shall be irrevocably pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on the warrants.
(c) The proceeds of the sale of any such warrants shall be used solely for the purpose for which they are authorized to be issued, including the payment of any expenses incurred in connection with their issuance. The proceeds from the sale of any land in an industrial park financed by the sale of warrants issued under this chapter shall be distributed to the participants according to the share of the title held by each as determined pursuant to subdivision (6) of Section 11-92-4 and shall be pledged and applied to the payment of such warrants.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §6.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-7 - Warrants - Security for Payment of Principal and Interest.

Section 11-92-7
Warrants - Security for payment of principal and interest.
(a) The governing body of any participant may assign and specially pledge any tax or any part thereof for the payment of the principal of and interest on warrants.
(b) To the extent necessary to make the payment of the principal of and interest on the warrants, any tax or sales proceeds so pledged shall constitute a trust fund which shall be impressed with a lien in favor of the holders of such warrants. If, pursuant to this section, more than one pledge is made of any tax, then the pledges shall take precedence in the order that they are made, unless the proceedings making the pledge shall provide that it shall be on a parity or subordinate to a subsequent pledge. All warrants benefitting from a pledge shall constitute preferred claims against the tax or sales proceeds pledged, subject to any prior pledges existing at the time of issuance of the warrants, and shall have preference over claims incurred by the county or municipality for any other purpose.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §8.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-8 - Refunding Warrants.

Section 11-92-8
Refunding warrants.
Each participant may issue refunding warrants, either by sale or by exchange, for the purpose of refunding a like or greater principal amount of warrants then outstanding and paying any premium and expenses necessary to be paid to redeem the outstanding warrants. The provisions of this chapter applicable to warrants shall also be applicable to any such refunding warrants.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §7.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-9 - Investment in Warrants by Trustees, Executors, Etc.

Section 11-92-9
Investment in warrants by trustees, executors, etc.
A trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, or other fiduciary may invest trust funds in warrants issued under the provisions of this chapter unless otherwise directed by a court having jurisdiction or by the document that is the source of authority.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §9.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-10 - Issuance of Warrants and Interest Coupons Deemed Audit and Allowance of Claims by Counties; Effect Thereof.

Section 11-92-10
Issuance of warrants and interest coupons deemed audit and allowance of claims by counties; effect thereof.
The issuance by a county of warrants and the interest coupons applicable thereto pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to constitute an audit and allowance by the county of a claim in the aggregate principal amount of such warrants and interest coupons against the county and against any tax proceeds and the sales proceeds or either thereof pledged for the payment of such warrants pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. No proof of registration or other audit or allowance of such claim shall be required and such warrants and interest coupons shall, from the date of their lawful issuance, be deemed to be allowed claims against the county by which they were issued and against any tax proceeds and the sales proceeds or either so pledged therefor.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §10.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92 - Industrial Parks. › Section 11-92-11 - Applicability and Effect of Other Provisions of Law.

Section 11-92-11
Applicability and effect of other provisions of law.
Insofar as the provisions of this chapter may be inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this chapter shall control, it being specifically declared that the provisions of Section 11-8-10 shall not be applicable to the warrants issued under the provisions of this chapter.
(Acts 1977, No. 694, p. 1223, §11.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92A - County Industrial Development Authorities. › Section 11-92A-3 - Incorporation of Authority.

Section 11-92A-3
Incorporation of authority.
(a) Any number of natural persons, not less than three, residing in any county or counties within the proposed authority's authorized operational area may incorporate an authority as provided in this chapter. To do so, the incorporators shall first file a written application in accordance with the provisions of this section and Section 11-92A-4.
(b) The authorized operational area of an authority may include any portion of one but not more than five counties. If more than one county is included in an authority's authorized operational area, each county, or portion thereof, included therein shall be contiguous with at least one other county, or portion thereof, included therein so that the authority's authorized operational area encompasses a unified territory.
(Acts 1989, No. 89-404, p. 802, §3; Act 99-350, p. 513, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92A - County Industrial Development Authorities. › Section 11-92A-4 - Application for Incorporation.

Section 11-92A-4
Application for incorporation.
(a) The written application of the incorporators shall be filed with the probate judge, which application shall:
(1) Contain a statement that the incorporators propose to incorporate an authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter;
(2) State the authorized operational area of the proposed authority;
(3) State that each of the incorporators is a resident of a county within the authorized operational area of the proposed authority; and
(4) Request that each governing body of each county within the authorized operational area of the proposed authority adopt a resolution declaring that it is expedient that the proposed authority be formed, approving the written application, and authorizing the incorporators to proceed to form the proposed authority by filing for record articles in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(b) Such application shall be accompanied by the form of articles of incorporation of the proposed authority.
(c) As promptly as may be practicable after the filing of the application with the judge of probate, the governing body of each county within the authorized operational area of the proposed authority shall review the contents of the application and the accompanying form of articles and shall adopt a resolution either:
(1) Denying the application, or
(2) Declaring that it is expedient that the proposed authority be formed, approving the form of its articles, and authorizing the incorporators to proceed to form the proposed authority by filing for record pursuant to subsection (c) of Section 11-92A-5 such articles of incorporation in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(d) It shall not be necessary that any such resolution be published in any newspaper or posted or be offered for more than one reading.
(e) The failure of any governing body of a county within the authorized operational area of a proposed authority to approve the written application of the incorporators shall invalidate the application to incorporate an authority, and the resolution denying the application of the incorporators shall be filed with the judge of probate of the county where the application of the incorporators was filed, whether within or without the county whose governing body denied the application. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the incorporators of the proposed authority from filing a new application to form an authority excluding the county or counties whose governing body or bodies failed to approve the incorporation of the proposed authority.
(Acts 1989, No. 89-404, p. 802, §4; Act 99-350, p. 513, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92A - County Industrial Development Authorities. › Section 11-92A-7 - Further Authorization and Procedure for Reincorporation of Existing Industrial Development Authorities and Boards.

Section 11-92A-7
Further authorization and procedure for reincorporation of existing industrial development authorities and boards.
In all cases where an industrial development authority or industrial development board has been incorporated or created prior to or after the enactment of this chapter, and a majority of the members of the board of directors of such authority or board adopts a resolution determining that it would be expedient for such authority or board to reincorporate under the terms of this chapter, the authority or board may authorize three or more of its members to file an application in accordance with Section 11-92A-6 (notwithstanding the fact that there may be no invalidity of the attempted creation or incorporation of such board or authority or irregularity in the procedure followed or some invalidity of or defects in the statute under which the attempted creation or incorporation of the authority or board was made) and proceed to reincorporate the authority or board under this chapter in accordance with Section 11-92A-6.
(Acts 1989, No. 89-404, p. 802, §7.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Chapter 92A - County Industrial Development Authorities. › Section 11-92A-8 - Recordation of Articles by Probate Judge; Probate Judge to Receive No Fees in Connection With Incorporation, Reincorporation, Dissolution, etc., of Authority.

Section 11-92A-8
Recordation of articles by probate judge; probate judge to receive no fees in connection with incorporation, reincorporation, dissolution, etc., of authority.
(a) The articles shall be filed with the probate judge. Upon acceptance of such articles for filing, the proposed authority shall constitute a de jure corporation. The acceptance of such articles for filing by the probate judge shall be conclusive of the valid incorporation of a proposed authority or reincorporation of an industrial development authority or industrial development board.
(b) There shall be no fees or taxes paid to or collected by the probate judge for any service rendered or work performed in connection with an authority, its incorporation, reincorporation, amendment, dissolution, or records.
(Acts 1989, No. 89-404, p. 802, §8.)