Title 11

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to adopt ordinances not inconsistent with the laws of the state to promote temperance and to suppress intemperance and to suppress the traffic in such beverages as the laws of the state prohibit to be manufactured, sold, or …

The council or other governing body of any town or city of this state may prohibit houses of prostitution and punish the inmates thereof. (Code 1907, §1294; Code 1923, §2052; Code 1940, T. 37, §488.)

All towns or cities shall have the power to regulate the running of railroad trains or engines or automobiles within the corporate boundaries, and to prohibit the standing thereof on or across the streets or highways within the corporate boundaries. (Code 1876, §1801; Code 1886, …

Any street railroad company operating its railroad by steam, electric, or other power shall have the right and may be required by the council or other governing body of any town or city of this state to operate its cars over the tracks of any other street railroad company in whol…

(a) All municipalities are hereby authorized to provide by ordinance for the taking up and storing of abandoned and stolen personal property found within the corporate limits or outside the corporate limits but within the police jurisdictions and to sell the same in the manner pr…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to prevent injury or annoyances from anything dangerous or offensive or unwholesome and to cause all nuisances to be abated and assess the cost of abating the same against the person creating or maintaining the same. (Code 1…

Municipalities may maintain a civil action to enjoin and abate any public nuisance, injurious to the health, morals, comfort, or welfare of the community or any portion thereof. (Acts 1919, No. 49, p. 50; Code 1923, §2055; Code 1940, T. 37, §506.)

All cities and towns in this state shall have the power to maintain the health and cleanliness of the city or town within its limits and within the police jurisdiction thereof. (Code 1907, §1290; Code 1923, §2048; Code 1940, T. 37, §491.)

In addition to the powers granted to them by the applicable provisions of this title or any other provisions of law, all cities and towns of this state shall have the following powers, and the councils or other governing bodies of such cities and towns may provide by ordinance or…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to adopt all necessary ordinances and enforce the same to prevent the introduction or spread of contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases in such cities or towns and, to that end, may provide for a system of compulsor…

The board of mayor and aldermen or other governing body of cities or towns in this state may make appropriations out of the revenues of their respective cities or towns to aid in maintaining and taking care of sick or wounded persons who are unable to provide such maintenance and…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to aid, establish, set up, and regulate hospitals, poorhouses, workhouses, houses of correction, and pesthouses anywhere in the county in which the city or town is situated and cause persons afflicted with contagious, infect…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish and maintain incinerators for the destruction of garbage and like substances or to otherwise dispose of garbage, either within or without the city limits, and to haul or cause to be hauled to such incinerators o…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to prohibit and prevent the gift, barter, sale, or display of impure or adulterated foods and drinks and of diseased or unsound meats or decayed fruits and vegetables or impure, adulterated, unsound, or unwholesome articles …

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, regulate and control markets and market houses and to require and provide for the proper inspection of food products and articles offered for sale or barter within the police jurisdiction of the city or town an…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to establish, control, and regulate slaughterhouses and pens and to confine the same to a specified limit in or outside of the city or town or prohibit the same within the police jurisdiction of the city or town, and to regu…

All municipalities of this state may inspect dairies, milk, meats and other food products for other municipalities and may make contracts and agreements with such other municipalities with reference to payment or compensation for such services, and the governing bodies of such mu…

All cities and towns of this state shall have the power to construct, repair, and regulate public wells and cisterns and to compel the screening of all wells, cisterns, and other places in the city or town in which water is collected where mosquitoes or other insects of like kind…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), whenever in the judgment of the council, commission, or other governing body of a city or town it may be necessary or expedient for the carrying out and full exercise of any power granted by the applicable provisions of this tit…

Whenever in the opinion of the council or other governing body of a city or town, a right-of-way through the lands of others (whether in or out of the city or town) is necessary for obtaining a water supply or for sewerage or drainage purposes and whenever the council or other go…

(a) Whenever the proprietor or proprietors or any of them of any of the lands necessary for any of the purposes provided in Section 11-47-171 or necessary for opening new streets or widening old streets and the mayor or other chief executive officer cannot agree on a price of sai…

When an appeal is taken from any preliminary assessment as provided for in subsection (c) of Section 11-47-172, such appeal shall not deprive the municipal corporation obtaining the judgment of condemnation from a right of entry for any or all of the purposes provided for in Sect…

No city or town shall be liable for damages for injury done to or wrong suffered by any person or corporation, unless such injury or wrong was done or suffered through the neglect, carelessness, or unskillfulness of some agent, officer, or employee of the municipality engaged in …

(a) The injured party, if he institutes a civil action against the municipality for damages suffered by him, shall also join such other person or persons or corporation so liable as defendant or defendants of the civil action, and no judgment shall be entered against the city or …

No recovery shall be had against any city or town on a claim for personal injury received, unless a sworn statement be filed with the clerk by the party injured or his personal representative in case of his death stating substantially the manner in which the injury was received, …

When used in this article, unless the context plainly indicates otherwise, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) APPLICANT. An individual who files a written application with the governing body of any county or …

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Through this article, the Legislature has (i) granted to each municipality in the state, acting either individually or in cooperation with one or more other municipalities, the power to acquire, operate, manage, and con…

Each subdivision in the State of Alabama may, in the manner as may be authorized or provided by law for the acquisition of lands, buildings, facilities, and improvements for public purposes, acquire or lease lands, buildings, facilities, and improvements situated in whole or in p…

All authority heretofore or hereafter granted to a subdivision to acquire, provide, establish, finance, including the issuance of bonds, warrants, or other obligations to pay the cost thereof, own, use, operate, manage, and control, including the fixing of fees and the charging f…

A subdivision may join and cooperate with one or more other subdivisions in acquiring, providing, establishing, financing, refinancing, operating, managing, and controlling and conducting projects, making them common to the use of the subdivisions and the inhabitants thereof, and…

(a) The governing bodies of two or more subdivisions may authorize the organization of an authority as a public corporation with powers set forth in this article for the purpose of acquiring, financing, refinancing, providing, establishing, installing, using, or managing one or m…

The certificate of incorporation of the authority shall state: (1) The names of the persons forming the authority, together with the residence of each person, and that each of them is a duly qualified elector of at least one of the subdivisions. (2) The name of the authority, whi…

(a) Within 40 days following the adoption of the most recent authorizing resolution, the applicants shall proceed to incorporate an authority by filing for record in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the principal office of the authority is to be located a…

(a) Each authority shall have a board of directors composed of the number of directors provided in the certificate of incorporation, as most recently amended. Unless provided to the contrary in its certificate of incorporation, all powers of the authority shall be exercised, and …

(a) In addition to all other powers at any time conferred on it by law, and subject to any express provisions of its certificate of incorporation to the contrary, an authority shall have the following lawful powers, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to disc…

At any time when an authority has no bonds or other obligations outstanding, its board may adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon its minutes, declaring that the authority shall be dissolved. Upon filing for record of a certified copy of the resolution in the office…

Neither this article nor anything contained in this article shall be construed as a limitation or restriction upon any power which a municipality might otherwise have under the laws of the State of Alabama and this article shall be construed as cumulative of such powers. (Acts 19…

Bonds of an authority may be executed and delivered by it at any time, shall be in the form and denominations and of the tenor and maturity or maturities not exceeding 30 years from their date, shall bear the rate or rates of interest, which may be fixed or which may float or var…

(a) An authority may at any time and from time to time sell and issue its refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding the principal of and interest on any then outstanding bonds of the authority, whether or not the bonds shall have matured or be redeemable at the option of the a…

All bonds of an authority shall be signed in the name and behalf of the authority by its chair or vice-chair, and the seal of the authority shall be affixed thereto and attested by its secretary or an assistant secretary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, facsimiles of the signature…

(a) Any bonds issued by an authority shall be revenue bonds and shall be payable solely out of the revenues of the authority as may be designated in the proceedings of the board under which the bonds are authorized to be issued. (b) As security for payment of the principal of and…

(a) The principal proceeds derived from any borrowing made by an authority shall be used solely for the purpose or purposes for which the borrowing was authorized. If any bonds are issued for the purpose of financing costs of acquiring, constructing, improving, enlarging, and equ…

(a) For the purpose of attaining the objectives of this article, any county, municipality, or other political subdivision, or public corporation, agency, or instrumentality of the state, a county, or municipality, may, upon such terms and with or without consideration, as it may …

Bonds issued by an authority shall be construed to be negotiable instruments although payable solely from a specified or limited source. (Acts 1996, No. 96-320, p. 361, §9.)

The property and income of an authority, all bonds issued by an authority, the interest on the bonds, conveyances by or to an authority, and leases, deeds, or indentures by or to an authority shall be exempt from all taxation in the state. All tangible personal property sold by a…

Each authority shall be exempt from the laws of the state governing usury or prescribing or limiting interest rates, including, without limitation, the provisions of Chapter 8 of Title 8. (Acts 1996, No. 96-320, p. 361, §11.)