Title 8

A provider is not required to obtain any other license or charter except for the requirement under this chapter to perform the activities permitted in Section 8-7B-3. (Act 2026-354, §1.)

No later than 180 days after the approval of an application, and afterwards on an annual basis, each Alabama qualified payment stablecoin issuer shall submit to the commission a certification that the issuer, consistent with the requirements of the GENIUS Act, has implemented ant…

(a) An Alabama qualified payment stablecoin issuer shall comply with 12 U.S.C. § 5902(a) and any regulations adopted by federal governmental entities implementing the GENIUS Act. (b) The commission, through the adoption of rules pursuant to Section 8-7B-8 or other means of notice…

(a)(1) The commission shall adopt rules to administer and implement this chapter. These rules may include provisions that govern the recovery of the cost of administering and enforcing this chapter by imposing and collecting fees, fines, penalties, and costs associated with appli…

(a) The commission may suspend or revoke a license if the Alabama qualified payment stablecoin issuer: (1) Violates this chapter or a rule adopted or an order issued under this chapter; (2) Does not cooperate with an examination or investigation by the commission; (3) Engages in …

Except as otherwise provided by law, the maximum rate of interest upon the loan or forbearance of money, goods, or things in action, except by written contract is $6 upon $100 for one year, and the rate of interest by written contract is not to exceed $8 upon $100 for one year an…

(a) Individuals, partnerships, banks, corporations, and other legal entities may, on any loans or extensions of credit made by them, charge or impose the same rate of interest or finance charge to the same extent and under the same circumstances and conditions as any federal or s…

Any savings and loan association located within the State of Alabama may charge on loans secured by savings accounts a rate of interest of not more than two percent per annum in excess of the rate of return payable on any such savings account. (Acts 1979, No. 79-104, p. 126.)

(a) Judgments for the payment of money, other than costs, if based upon a contract action, bear interest from the day of the cause of action, at the same rate of interest as stated in the contract; all other judgments shall bear interest at the rate of 7.5 percent per annum, the …

Except as provided in this section, when partial payments are made, the interest due is first to be paid and the balance applied to the payment of the principal. In the case of a judgment for child or spousal support, or a judgment for medical support of a child or spouse, any pa…

(a) Except as otherwise permitted by law, all contracts for the payment of interest upon the loan or forbearance of goods, money, things in action, or upon any contract whatever at a higher rate than is prescribed in this chapter are usurious and cannot be enforced except as to t…

Except when otherwise permitted by law, any banker who discounts any note, bill of exchange, or draft at a higher rate of interest than eight percent per annum, not including the difference of exchange, cannot enforce the collection of the same, except as to principal; and if any…

(a) In addition to other lawful charges under various state laws, and notwithstanding any restrictions thereunder, a legal licensed lending institution, a vendor making credit sales, any financial institution operating in Alabama or any individual may, if provided in the contract…

(a) Any lender of money, extender of other credit, or merchant making a sale of merchandise, goods, or services, or the assignee of the lender, extender of credit, or merchant who receives a check, draft, negotiable order of withdrawal, or like instrument drawn on a bank or other…

It shall be lawful to lend money at six percent per annum or less, to aggregate principal and interest at the date of the loan for the entire period of the loan and to divide the sum of the principal and interest for the entire period of the loan into monthly or other installment…

(a) The State Board of Education and the trustees of all state institutions where education is a part of the program of the institution as referred to in Section 16-3-28, when borrowing money in amounts of not less than $100,000, may agree to pay such rate or rates of interest no…

(a) Any person or persons, corporations, trust, general partnership or partnerships, limited partnership or partnerships, or association may agree to pay such rate or rates of interest for the loan or forbearance of money and for any credit sales as such person, corporation, trus…

(a) All debts or extensions of credit incurred pursuant to any provision of the act of Congress known as the National Housing Act, as the same now exists or may hereafter be amended or supplemented, and all debts or extensions of credit incurred pursuant to any act of Congress re…

Any bonds, notes, warrants, other evidences of indebtedness, or securities issued by the State of Alabama or any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, by any not-for-profit public or private corporation at any time organized or created pursuant to act of the Legislature…

All contracts, express or implied, for the payment of money, or other thing, or for the performance of any act or duty bear interest from the day such money, or thing, estimating it at its money value, should have been paid, or such act, estimating the compensation therefor in mo…

All change bills and notes for a sum not exceeding $1 issued or circulated in this state without authority of law bear interest at the rate of 100 percent per annum from the day of their date, time of issue or circulation, and may be sued on by the holder thereof, without regard …

Except as may be otherwise provided by Title 7 a mortgage of or security interest in personal property is not valid unless made in writing and subscribed by the mortgagor or debtor. (Code 1886, §1731; Code 1896, §2151; Code 1907, §4288; Code 1923, §8033; Code 1940, T. 20, §2.)

Any agreement, convenant, or stipulation in any contract, verbal or written, forfeiting any right of action for failure to present to the party liable a claim for damages, is void; but this section shall not prevent stipulations requiring the giving of informaiton by one party to…

All agreements, contracts, or stipulations to confess judgment in any of the courts of this state, to be sued in any county other than that fixed by the venue statutes of this state, or to authorize another to confess judgment in any of the courts of this state made before the co…

Any conveyance of realty wherein a material part of the consideration is the agreement of the grantee to support the grantor during life is void at the option of the grantor, except as to bona fide purchasers for value, lienees, and mortgagees without notice, if, during the life …

In the following cases, every agreement is void unless such agreement or some note or memorandum thereof expressing the consideration is in writing and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith or some other person by him thereunto lawfully authorized in writing: (1) Every …

When lands, tenements, or hereditaments are sold or leased at public auction and the auctioneer, his clerk or agent makes a memorandum of the property and the price thereof at which it is sold or leased, the terms of sale, the name of the purchaser, or lessee and the name of the …

When lands, tenements, or hereditaments are sold at judicial sale, the return or report of the officer making the sale, showing the names of the parties to the action or proceeding, a description of the property, the price at which it was sold, and the name of the purchaser is a …

No action can be maintained to charge any person, by reason of any representation or assurance made, concerning the character, conduct, ability, trade, or dealings of any other person, when such action is brought by the person to whom such representation or assurance was made, un…

(a) Every general assignment made by a debtor or a conveyance by a debtor of substantially all of his property subject to execution in payment of a prior debt by which a preference or priority of payment is given to one or more creditors over the remaining creditors of the granto…

As used in this chapter: (1) AFFILIATE. a. A person who directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, 20 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than a person who holds the securities, 1. As a fiduciary or agent without sole…

Unless displaced by the provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relating to principal and agent, estoppel, laches, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, insolvency, or other validating or invalidating cau…

This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it. (Acts 1989, No. 89-793, p. 1585, §11.)

This chapter may be cited as the “Alabama Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act.” (Acts 1989, No. 89-793, p. 1585, §12.)

(a) A debtor is insolvent if the sum of the debtor’s debts is greater than all of the debtor’s assets at a fair valuation. (b) A debtor who is generally not paying his debts as they become due is presumed to be insolvent. (c) A partnership is insolvent under subsection (a) if the…

(a) Value is given for a transfer if, in exchange for the transfer, property is transferred or an antecedent debt is secured or satisfied, but value does not include an unperformed promise to furnish support to the debtor or another person made otherwise than in the ordinary cour…

(a) A transfer made by a debtor is fraudulent as to a creditor, whether the creditor’s claim arose before or after the transfer was made, if the debtor made the transfer with actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud any creditor of the debtor. (b) In determining actual intent u…

(a) A transfer made by a debtor is fraudulent as to a creditor whose claim arose before the transfer was made if the debtor made the transfer without receiving a reasonably equivalent value in exchange for the transfer and the debtor was insolvent at that time or the debtor becam…

For the purposes of this chapter: (1) A transfer is made: a. With respect to an asset that is real property other than a fixture, but including the interest of a seller or purchaser under a contract for the sale of the asset, when the transfer is so far perfected that a good-fait…

(a) In an action for relief against a transfer under this chapter, the remedies available to creditors, subject to the limitations in Section 8-9A-8, include: (1) Avoidance of the transfer to the extent necessary to satisfy the creditor’s claim; (2) An attachment or other provisi…

(a) A transfer is not voidable under Section 8-9A-4(a) against a person who took in good faith and for a reasonably equivalent value or against any subsequent transferee or obligee who took in good faith. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, to the extent a transfer …

A claim for relief with respect to a fraudulent transfer under this chapter is extinguished unless action is brought: (1) Under Section 8-9A-4(a) within 10 years after the transfer of real property was made. (2) Under Section 8-9A-4(a) within six years after the transfer of perso…

This chapter may be cited as the Alabama Uniform Voidable Transactions Act. (Act 2018-163, §1.)

A claim for relief with respect to a transfer under this chapter is extinguished unless action is brought: (a) under Section 8-9B-5(a)(1), within ten years after the transfer of real property was made; (b) under Section 8-9B-5(a)(1), within six years after the transfer of persona…

(a) In this section, the following rules determine a debtor’s location: (1) A debtor who is an individual is located at the individual’s principal residence. (2) A debtor that is an organization and has only one place of business is located at its place of business. (3) A debtor …

(a) In this section: (1) “Series” means an arrangement, however denominated, created by a series organization that, pursuant to the law under which the series organization is organized, has the characteristics set forth in paragraph (2). (2) “Series organization” means an organiz…