Title 23

It is the intention of the Legislature to authorize the incorporation of a public corporation for all of the following purposes: (1) To issue bonds to assure the availability of funds for payment of the cost of constructing industrial access roads and bridges as shall from time t…

The Director of Transportation, the State Treasurer, and the Director of Finance may become a corporation, with the powers and authorities hereinafter provided, by proceeding according to the provisions of this chapter. (Acts 1985, No. 85-549, p. 833, §3.)

To become a corporation, the Director of Transportation, the State Treasurer, and the Director of Finance shall present to the Secretary of State of Alabama an application signed by them which shall set forth: (1) The name, official designation, and official residence of each of …

When the application has been made, filed and recorded, as herein provided, the applicants shall constitute a public corporation under the name proposed in the application and the Secretary of State shall make and issue to the applicants a certificate of incorporation pursuant to…

The applicants named in the application and their respective successors in office shall constitute the members of the corporation. The Director of Transportation shall be the president of the corporation, the State Treasurer shall be its vice-president, the Director of Finance sh…

The corporation shall have the following powers: (1) To have succession by its corporate name without time limit; (2) To sue and be sued and to prosecute and defend, at law or in equity, in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties; (3) To have and to…

(a) The bonds of the corporation shall be signed by its president and attested by its secretary and the seal of the corporation shall be affixed thereto or a facsimile thereof printed or otherwise reproduced thereon. The signatures of both the president and the secretary on any b…

The annual appropriation from the Public Road and Bridge Fund shall remain a part of the Public Road and Bridge Fund but still be maintained in a special account within the State Treasury. Said funds shall at all times be invested in the same manner allowed for all other State Tr…

(a) The proceeds of all bonds, other than refunding bonds, issued by the corporation, remaining after paying the expenses of their issuance, shall be turned into the treasury, shall be carried in a special industrial access road and bridge construction account, and shall be avail…