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2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 13 - Waterworks Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-437 - Meetings.

Section 11-50-437
Meetings.
The board shall hold regular monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of each month and other meetings at such times and places as its members may elect, and the chairman of the board or any two members may call a meeting at any time he or they consider that the business demands that a meeting be held. The chairman and one member or any two members of the board shall constitute a quorum.
A true record of all the proceedings of all meetings of the board shall be kept by the secretary. At the call of any member the vote on any pending question shall be taken by ayes and nayes and the same shall be entered on the record. The record of the proceedings of said board shall be open to any member of the governing body and to the public at all times and a copy from said record, certified by the secretary, shall be competent evidence in all courts.
(Acts 1953, No. 860, p. 1152, §7.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 13 - Waterworks Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-438 - Official Bonds of Certain Officers and Employees.

Section 11-50-438
Official bonds of certain officers and employees.
All officers or employees of the board handling money or exercising authority over property of the municipality shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, give bond with some surety company authorized to do business in the State of Alabama, as surety, and payable to the municipality, to be approved by the board, in such penalty as the board may prescribe, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices or employment and faithfully to account for all moneys received or property coming into their possession in the capacity of their employment.
(Acts 1953, No. 860, p. 1152, §9.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 13 - Waterworks Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-439 - Powers and Duties of Board Generally.

Section 11-50-439
Powers and duties of board generally.
The board shall have complete control of the municipal waterworks plant and waterworks system of such municipality and shall have authority to employ, upon terms to be fixed by the board but in no event for a term exceeding one year, and to discharge with or without cause, managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, attorneys, plumbers, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such municipal waterworks plant and waterworks system; except, that in those municipalities where public employees are governed by a citywide civil service or merit system act all of such managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, plumbers, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such waterworks plant and waterworks system shall in all respects, both as to selection, employment, discharge, tenure of office, or employment and as to pay, promotion, demotion, and all other respects covered by said civil service or merit system act be governed and controlled by said civil service or merit system act, anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding. It shall have the power and authority and it shall be its duty to charge for and collect all accounts due for any service which the municipal waterworks plant and waterworks system may furnish to its customers upon rates to be provided and approved by the governing body of such municipality. The board shall have the right to delegate to any manager which it may employ the authority to employ and discharge employees which may be needed, to direct their work and to manage, control, and operate the municipal waterworks plant and waterworks system and to account to the board for his acts in so doing, but his authority shall be restricted as the authority of the board is restricted in this article.
(Acts 1953, No. 860, p. 1152, §8.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 13 - Waterworks Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-440 - Appointment of Accountant, etc., to Make Annual Examination and Report of Books and Accounts.

Section 11-50-440
Appointment of accountant, etc., to make annual examination and report of books and accounts.
The board shall at least once a year appoint an expert accountant or firm of accountants who shall make an examination in detail of all books and accounts of the board to cover the period since the preceding examination and make a full report in writing, under oath, to the board of its findings at the board's first meeting after completion of such report, a copy of which shall also be furnished the governing body of the municipality, and the same shall be spread upon the minutes of the board. The same person or firm shall not be appointed or authorized to make such examination twice in succession. For this service said accountants shall be paid such reasonable and proper sum as may be agreed upon.
(Acts 1953, No. 860, p. 1152, §11.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 13 - Waterworks Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-441 - Annual Report to Municipal Governing Body.

Section 11-50-441
Annual report to municipal governing body.
Said board shall make an annual report to the governing body of the municipality, showing in detail the receipts and expenditures for its preceding fiscal year, the physical condition of the property under the care of said board and any other matters of public interest connected with said board.
(Acts 1953, No. 860, p. 1152, §12.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 13 - Waterworks Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-442 - Expenditures for New Construction, Additions, etc., to Waterworks Plant and System, Etc.

Section 11-50-442
Expenditures for new construction, additions, etc., to waterworks plant and system, etc.
No expenditures for any new construction, additions, or replacements to the municipal waterworks plant and waterworks system or the equipment used by the same shall be made by the board where the total expense will be more than $5,000.00 without the consent and approval of the governing body of the municipality.
(Acts 1953, No. 860, p. 1152, §13.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 13 - Waterworks Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-443 - Maintenance and Disbursement of Funds of Board Generally.

Section 11-50-443
Maintenance and disbursement of funds of board generally.
All funds of said board shall be kept separate from the other funds of the municipality and in the municipal depositories, and the same shall be withdrawn only in such sums and at such times as the same shall be actually required for the expenditures authorized by law and only upon warrants signed by an employee of the municipal waterworks plant and waterworks system designated by the board and countersigned by a member of the board designated by the board and issued for claims that have been audited and ordered paid by said board and for salaries due board members and employees for work performed and services rendered.
(Acts 1953, No. 860, p. 1152, §14.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 13 - Waterworks Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-444 - Disposition of Moneys Received From Operation of Waterworks Plant and System.

Section 11-50-444
Disposition of moneys received from operation of waterworks plant and system.
All money collected from the sale of water or received in any way from the use of the municipal waterworks plant and waterworks system shall be deposited in the municipal depositories and shall be distributed by the board as required by the governing body of the municipality.
(Acts 1953, No. 860, p. 1152, §15.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 13 - Waterworks Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-445 - Fixing of Bonds Required From Depositories.

Section 11-50-445
Fixing of bonds required from depositories.
Repealed by Act 2000-748, p. 1669, §3, effective January 1, 2001.
(Acts 1953, No. 860, p. 1152, §16.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-460 - Creation; Composition.

Section 11-50-460
Creation; composition.
Any municipality in the State of Alabama is hereby authorized within its discretion to create and establish by ordinance a municipal gas utility board for such municipality, to be composed of three members.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-461 - Members of Board - Qualifications.

Section 11-50-461
Members of board - Qualifications.
No person shall be eligible for membership on said board who is not a qualified elector of such municipality or who is an officer of the municipality or an employee thereof or who is a member of the governing body or whose term on the governing body expired within six months prior to his election to the board.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §3.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-462 - Members of Board - Election and Terms of Office; Vacancies.

Section 11-50-462
Members of board - Election and terms of office; vacancies.
The governing body of such municipality shall elect the members of the board. Immediately upon the creation and establishment of the board, the governing body of such municipality shall proceed to elect one member to serve until July 1 of the next ensuing year and until his successor is elected and qualified, one member to serve until July 1 of the second ensuing year and until his successor is elected and qualified and one member to serve until July 1 of the third ensuing year and until his successor is elected and qualified.
At the first regular meeting of the governing body of such municipality in the month of June of each year, the said governing body shall elect a successor of the member of the board whose term expires on July 1 following, and the person so elected shall become a member of the board on July 1 following and shall hold such position for a period of three years and until his successor is elected and qualified. Should such governing body fail to elect a member at its first meeting in the month of June, it shall do so at any succeeding regular meeting of such governing body. A member of the board may succeed himself if the governing body of such municipality desires to reelect him.
Whenever a vacancy occurs in the membership of the board by resignation, death, or any other cause, the governing body of such municipality shall immediately fill said vacancy by electing another person to membership on the board, who shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term of the member he succeeds and until his successor is elected and qualified.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-463 - Members of Board - Oath of Office.

Section 11-50-463
Members of board - Oath of office.
Before entering upon the duties of his office, each member of the board shall take and subscribe the following oath: "I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the State of Alabama, and the Constitution of the United States, and that I will faithfully, zealously, and impartially discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, without fear or favor, for the public welfare, so help me God." The successors to the members of the board named in this article shall take and subscribe the same oath.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §4.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-464 - Members of Board - Impeachment and Removal.

Section 11-50-464
Members of board — Impeachment and removal.
Members of the board may be removed from office in the manner and on the same grounds provided by the general law of this state for the impeachment and removal of officers, as set out in Section 175 of the Constitution of Alabama.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §10.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-465 - Members of Board - Compensation.

Section 11-50-465
Members of board - Compensation.
Each member of the board shall receive for his services such compensation as authorized by the governing body of such municipality. The compensation to the members of the board shall be paid in monthly installments from the money received from the operation of the municipal gas distribution system.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §6.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-466 - Officers.

Section 11-50-466
Officers.
At the first meeting of the board, the members shall elect one of their number as chairman and one of their number as secretary. Thereafter the board shall annually elect from among their number a chairman and a secretary. Vacancies in the offices of chairman and secretary shall be filled by the board if and when the same may occur.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §5.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-467 - Meetings.

Section 11-50-467
Meetings.
The board shall hold regular monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of each month and other meetings at such times and places as its members may elect, and the chairman of the board or any two members may call a meeting at any time he or they consider that the business demands that a meeting be held. The chairman and one member or any two members of the board shall constitute a quorum.
A true record of all the proceedings of all meetings of the board shall be kept by the secretary. At the call of any member the vote on any pending question shall be taken by ayes and nayes, and the same shall be entered on the record. The record of the proceedings of said board shall be open to any member of the governing body and to the public at all times, and a copy from said record, certified by the secretary, shall be competent evidence in all courts.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §7.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-468 - Official Bonds of Certain Officers and Employees.

Section 11-50-468
Official bonds of certain officers and employees.
All officers or employees of the board handling money or exercising authority over property of the municipality shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, give bond with some surety company authorized to do business in the State of Alabama, as surety, and payable to the municipality, to be approved by the board, in such penalty as the board may prescribe, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of their offices or employment and faithfully to account for all moneys received or property coming into their possession in the capacity of their employment.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §9.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-469 - Powers and Duties of Board Generally.

Section 11-50-469
Powers and duties of board generally.
The board shall have complete control of the municipal gas distribution system of such municipality and shall have authority to employ, upon terms to be fixed by the board, but in no event for a term exceeding one year, and to discharge, with or without cause, managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, attorneys, plumbers, gas fitters, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such municipal gas distribution system, except that in those municipalities where public employees are governed by a citywide civil service or merit system act all of such managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, plumbers, gas fitters, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such system shall in all respects, both as to selection, employment, discharge, tenure of office, or employment and as to pay, promotion, demotion, and all other respects covered by said civil service or merit system act, be governed and controlled by said civil service or merit system act, anything in this article to the contrary notwithstanding. It shall have the power and authority and it shall be its duty to charge for and collect all accounts due for any service which the municipal gas distribution system may furnish to its customers upon rates to be provided and approved by the governing body of such municipality. The board shall have the right to delegate to any manager which it may employ the authority to employ and discharge employees which may be needed, to direct their work and to manage, control, and operate the municipal gas distribution system, and to account to the board for his acts in so doing, but his authority shall be restricted as the authority of the board is restricted in this article.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §8.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-470 - Appointment of Accountant, etc., to Make Annual Examination and Report of Books and Accounts.

Section 11-50-470
Appointment of accountant, etc., to make annual examination and report of books and accounts.
The board shall at least once a year appoint an expert accountant or firm of accountants who shall make an examination in detail of all books and accounts of the board to cover the period since the preceding examination and make a full report in writing, under oath, to the board of its findings at the board's first meeting after completion of such report, a copy of which shall also be furnished the governing body of the municipality, and the same shall be spread upon the minutes of the board. The same person or firm shall not be appointed or authorized to make such examination twice in succession. For this service said accountant shall be paid such reasonable and proper sum as may be agreed upon.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §11.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-471 - Annual Report to Municipal Governing Body.

Section 11-50-471
Annual report to municipal governing body.
Said board shall make an annual report to the governing body of the municipality, showing in detail the receipts and expenditures for its preceding fiscal year, the physical condition of the property under the care of said board, and any other matters of public interest connected with said board.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §12.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-472 - Expenditures for New Construction, Additions, etc., to Gas Distribution System, Etc.

Section 11-50-472
Expenditures for new construction, additions, etc., to gas distribution system, etc.
No expenditures for any new construction, additions, or replacements to the municipal gas distribution system or the equipment used by the same shall be made by the board where the total expense will be more than $5,000.00 without the consent and approval of the governing body of the municipality.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §13.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-473 - Maintenance and Disbursement of Funds of Board Generally.

Section 11-50-473
Maintenance and disbursement of funds of board generally.
All funds of said board shall be kept separate from the other funds of the municipality and in the municipal depositories, and the same shall be withdrawn only in such sums and at such times as the same shall be actually required for the expenditures authorized by law and only upon warrants signed by an employee of the municipal gas system designated by the board and countersigned by a member of the board designated by the board and issued for claims that have been audited and ordered paid by said board and for salaries due board members and employees for work performed and services rendered.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §14.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-474 - Disposition of Moneys Received From Operation of Gas Distribution System.

Section 11-50-474
Disposition of moneys received from operation of gas distribution system.
All money collected from the sale of gas or received in any way from the use of municipal gas or received in any way from the use of the municipal gas distribution system shall be deposited in the municipal depositories and shall be distributed by the board as required by the governing body of the municipality.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §15.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 14 - Gas Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-475 - Fixing of Bonds Required From Depositories.

Section 11-50-475
Fixing of bonds required from depositories.
Repealed by Act 2000-748, p. 1669, §3, effective January 1, 2001.
(Acts 1953, No. 861, p. 1157, §16.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-490 - Creation.

Section 11-50-490
Creation.
Any municipality in the State of Alabama is authorized within its discretion to create and establish, by ordinance, a municipal electric utility board for such municipality, to be composed of three members.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §60.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-491 - Qualifications of Members.

Section 11-50-491
Qualifications of members.
No person shall be eligible for membership on said board who is not a qualified elector of such municipality, or who is an officer of the municipality or an employee thereof, or who is a member of the governing body or whose term on the governing body expired within six months prior to his election on the board.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §62.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-492 - Election of Members; Filling of Vacancies.

Section 11-50-492
Election of members; filling of vacancies.
The governing body of such municipality shall elect the members of the board. Immediately upon the creation and establishment of the board, the governing body of such municipality shall proceed to elect one member to serve until July 1 of the next ensuing year and until his successor is elected and qualified; one member to serve until July 1 of the second ensuing year and until his successor is elected and qualified; and one member to serve until July 1 of the third ensuing year and until his successor is elected and qualified. At the first regular meeting of the governing body of such municipality in the month of June of each year, the said governing body shall elect a successor of the member of the board whose term expires on July 1 following, and the person so elected shall become a member of the board on July 1 following and shall hold such position for a period of three years and until his successor is elected and qualified. Should such governing body fail to elect a member at its first meeting in the month of June, it shall do so at any succeeding regular meeting of such governing body. A member of the board may succeed himself, if the governing body of such municipality desires to reelect him. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the membership of the board by resignation, death, or any other cause, the governing body of such municipality shall immediately fill said vacancy by electing another person to membership on the board, who shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term of the member he succeeds and until his successor is elected and qualified.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §61.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-493 - Oath.

Section 11-50-493
Oath.
Before entering upon the duties of his office, each member of the board shall take and subscribe the following oath: "I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the State of Alabama and the Constitution of the United States and that I will faithfully, zealously, and impartially discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter, without fear or favor, for the public welfare, so help me God." The successors to the members of the board named in this chapter shall take and subscribe the same oath.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §63.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-494 - Chairman; Secretary.

Section 11-50-494
Chairman; secretary.
At the first meeting of the board, the members shall elect one of their number as chairman and one of their number as secretary; thereafter, the board shall annually elect from among their number a chairman and a secretary. Vacancies in the offices of chairman and secretary shall be filled by the board, if and when the same may occur.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §64.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-495 - Compensation.

Section 11-50-495
Compensation.
Each member of the board shall receive for his services such compensation as authorized by the governing body of such municipality. The compensation to the members of the board shall be paid in monthly installments from the money received from the operation of the municipal electric distribution system.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §65.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-496 - Meetings; Record of Proceedings.

Section 11-50-496
Meetings; record of proceedings.
The board shall hold regular monthly meetings on the second Tuesday of each month and other meetings at such times and places as its members may elect, and the chairman of the board or any two members may call a meeting at any time he or they consider that the business demands that a meeting be held. The chairman and one member or any two members of the board shall constitute a quorum. A true record of all the proceedings of all meetings of the board shall be kept by the secretary. At the call of any member, the vote on any pending question shall be taken by ayes and nayes, and the same shall be entered on the record. The record of the proceedings of said board shall be open to any member of the governing body and to the public at all times, and a copy from said record, certified by the secretary, shall be competent evidence in all courts.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §66.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-497 - Powers and Duties Generally.

Section 11-50-497
Powers and duties generally.
The board shall have complete control of the municipal electric distribution system of such municipality and shall have authority to employ, upon terms to be fixed by the board, but in no event for a term exceeding one year, and to discharge with or without cause, managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, attorneys, linemen, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such municipal electric distribution system, except that in those cities where public employees are governed by a citywide civil service or merit system all of such managers, cashiers, clerks, stenographers, linemen, repairmen, laborers, and such other employees as are necessary for the operation of such system shall in all respects, both as to selection, employment, discharge, tenure of office, or employment and as to pay, promotion, demotion, and in all other respects covered by said civil service or merit system, be governed and controlled by said civil service or merit system, anything in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding. It shall have the power and authority and it shall be its duty to charge for and collect all accounts due for any service which the municipal electric distribution system may furnish to its customers, upon rates to be provided and approved by the governing body of such municipality. The board shall have the right to delegate to any manager which it may employ the authority to employ and discharge employees which may be needed; to direct their work and to manage, control, and operate the municipal electric distribution system and to account to the board for his acts in so doing, but his authority shall be restricted as the authority of the board is restricted in this chapter.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §67.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-498 - Impeachment and Removal.

Section 11-50-498
Impeachment and removal.
Members of the board may be removed from office in the manner and on the same grounds provided by the general law of this state for the impeachment and removal of officers, as set out in Section 175 of the Constitution of Alabama.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §69.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-499 - Bonds of Officers and Employees.

Section 11-50-499
Bonds of officers and employees.
All officers or employees of the board handling money or exercising authority over property of the municipality shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, give bond with some surety company authorized to do business in the State of Alabama, as surety and payable to the municipality, to be approved by the board, in such penalty as the board may prescribe, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office or employment, and faithfully to account for all moneys received or property coming into his possession in the capacity of his employment.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §68.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-500 - Examination of Books and Accounts.

Section 11-50-500
Examination of books and accounts.
The board shall at least once a year appoint an expert accountant or firm of accountants who shall make an examination in detail of all books and accounts of the board to cover the period since the preceding examination and make a full report in writing, under oath, to the board of its findings at the board's first meeting after completion of such report, a copy shall also be furnished the governing body of the municipality, and the same shall be spread upon the minutes of the board, but the same person or firm shall not be appointed or authorized to make such examination twice in succession. For this service said accountant shall be paid such reasonable and proper sum as may be agreed upon.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §70.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-501 - Annual Report.

Section 11-50-501
Annual report.
Said board shall make an annual report to the governing body of the municipality, showing in detail the receipts and expenditures for its preceding fiscal year, the physical condition of the property under the care of said board, and any other matters of public interest connected with said board.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §71.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-502 - Expenditures for New Construction, Additions, or Replacements.

Section 11-50-502
Expenditures for new construction, additions, or replacements.
No expenditures for any new construction, additions, or replacements to the municipal electric distribution system, or the equipment used by the same, shall be made by the board where the total expense will be more than $5,000.00 without the consent and approval of the governing body of the municipality.
This section shall not affect or repeal any local law now in effect.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §72; Acts 1947, No. 106, p. 33.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-503 - Segregation and Withdrawal of Funds.

Section 11-50-503
Segregation and withdrawal of funds.
All funds of said board shall be kept separate from the other funds of the municipality and in the municipal depositories, and the same shall be withdrawn only in such sums and at such times as the same shall be actually required for the expenditures authorized by law and only upon warrants signed by an employee of the municipal electric system designated by the board, countersigned by a member of the board designated by the board, and issued for claims that have been audited and ordered paid by said board and for salaries due board members and employees for work performed and services rendered.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §73.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-504 - Deposit and Distribution of Money Received From Use of Electric System.

Section 11-50-504
Deposit and distribution of money received from use of electric system.
All money collected from the sale of electric current or received in any way from the use of the municipal electric distribution system shall be deposited in the municipal depositories, which shall be qualified public depositories under Chapter 14A of Title 41, and shall be distributed by the board as required by the governing body of the municipality.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §74; Act 2000-748, p. 1669, §2.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-505 - Bond or Securities of Depository.

Section 11-50-505
Bond or securities of depository.
Repealed by Act 2000-748, p. 1669, §3, effective January 1, 2001.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §75.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 15 - Electric Utility Boards. › Section 11-50-506 - Effect of Chapter on Existing Laws, Etc.

Section 11-50-506
Effect of chapter on existing laws, etc.
The authority granted municipalities under the provisions of this chapter shall not be construed so as to repeal, restrict, modify, or otherwise limit any authority now conferred on any municipality by any existing general, local, or special law or to affect any such board created or existing by virtue of a local act.
(Acts 1939, No. 463, p. 675; Code 1940, T. 18, §76.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 16 - District Electric Corporations. › Section 11-50-520 - Definitions.

Section 11-50-520
Definitions.
The following words and phrases and others importing the same meaning, where used in this chapter, shall be given the following respective interpretations and meanings:
(1) THE CORPORATION. Any corporation organized under this chapter.
(2) APPLICANTS. Those persons who organize the corporation.
(3) POWER DISTRICT. The territory proposed to be served by the corporation as specified in its certificate of incorporation as originally filed or any amendment thereto made pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(4) MUNICIPALITY or MUNICIPALITIES. Any city or town incorporated under the laws of Alabama.
(5) COUNTY or COUNTIES. Any county organized under the laws of Alabama.
(6) GOVERNING BODY. Whenever used in relation to any municipality, the city or town council, city commission or the body or board, by whatsoever name known, having charge of the governing of a municipality, and shall be held to include the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality in any case where the concurrence or approval of such officer is required by the law governing such municipality for the adoption of any municipal resolution provided for in this chapter.
(7) CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION or CERTIFICATE. The certificate of incorporation of the corporation.
(8) BOARD. The board of directors of the corporation, as duly constituted and when acting as a board.
(9) DIRECTOR or DIRECTORS. The members of the board.
(10) UTILITY or UTILITIES. Any plant, works, system, facilities, or properties, together with all parts thereof and appurtenances thereto, including contract and franchise rights, used and useful primarily for the production, transmission, or distribution of electric energy.
(11) BONDS. Any bonds, notes, warrants, or other evidences of obligations issued by the corporation.
(Acts 1943, No. 158, p. 142.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 16 - District Electric Corporations. › Section 11-50-521 - Authority to Incorporate.

Section 11-50-521
Authority to incorporate.
Any number of natural persons, not less than three and each of whom shall meet the requirements provided in this chapter, may organize a corporation not for pecuniary profit by proceeding according to the provisions of this chapter. Such corporation shall be organized for the benefit of the municipalities located within the confines of the power district and for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the fullest possible use of electric energy within the power district by making such electric energy available to the public within the power district at the lowest cost consistent with sound economy and prudent management of the business of the corporation. Each such person shall be an elector and property owner in one of the municipalities located within the territory proposed to be included in the power district upon organization of the corporation, and no two shall be from the same municipality. All or parts of not less than three counties shall be included in the power district upon organization of the corporation, and such counties must be so located that each of said counties shall be connected with one or more of the others thereof and so that the area within the power district shall constitute one body.
(Acts 1943, No. 158, p. 142, §1.)
2023 Code of Alabama › Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations. › Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only. › Chapter 50 - Public Utilities. › Article 16 - District Electric Corporations. › Section 11-50-523 - Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation.

Section 11-50-523
Amendment of certificate of incorporation.
Whenever the board shall deem it desirable to amend the certificate, it may do so in the following manner: The board shall adopt a resolution declaring the proposed amendment to be desirable and specifying the matters of such amendment and providing for the filing with the Secretary of State of such amendment. In the event the proposed amendment provides for the addition of territory to be served by the corporation, the resolution shall describe generally the boundaries of such additional territory, which shall not include any territory served by an existing utility unless consent to the inclusion in the proposed amendment of the territory served by the existing utility shall be given by the owner of each utility in such additional territory. Following the adoption of such resolution, the officers of the corporation designated by the board for such purpose shall than execute a report of such amendment which shall set forth the following: The name of the corporation; a recital as to the original organization of the corporation and any prior amendments thereto; a recital as to the desire to amend the certificate and specifying the matters of such amendments; a recital that authorization for the filing of such report had been granted by a resolution of the board duly adopted and that a copy of such resolution, certified by the secretary of the corporation under its seal, is attached as an exhibit to such report; and, in the event the amendment proposes to add additional territory to the power district as then constituted, the boundaries of such additional territory shall be generally described with either a recital that there is no existing utility in such additional territory or a recital giving the name of the owner of each existing utility in such additional territory and stating that the original evidence of the consent of the owner of each such utility to the inclusion of such additional territory in the power district is attached as an exhibit to such report. The report of the amendment shall be sworn to by the persons executing the same in behalf of the corporation before an officer authorized by the laws of Alabama to take acknowledgments to deeds. Such report shall be presented to the Secretary of State of Alabama who shall thereupon examine the same and, if he finds that the matters required in this section to be set out in such report are contained therein and any exhibit therein referred to is attached thereto, he shall thereupon file such report and shall record it with the certificate, whereupon the certificate shall thereupon and thereby be amended as provided in such report.
(Acts 1943, No. 158, p. 142, §3.)