Title 11

All bonds issued under the authority of this chapter shall be sold at public or private sale as the governing body of the municipality or county may determine. If the bonds are sold at public sale, the public sale shall be either on sealed bids or at auction. The notice of public…

In determining the highest bidder for bonds offered for sale at any public sale held pursuant to this chapter, the lowest net interest cost to the county or municipality as determined by the governing body of such county or municipality shall govern. The determination of such gov…

The principal proceeds received in the sale of any bonds hereafter issued under the authority of this chapter shall be used for the purposes for which the bonds are issued; provided, however, that if for any reason any part of such proceeds shall not be necessary for such purpose…

Any bonds reciting that they are issued pursuant to this chapter shall in any action or proceeding involving their validity be conclusively deemed to be fully authorized by this chapter and to have been issued, sold, executed, and delivered in conformity herewith and with all oth…

In every county and municipality the officers charged by law with the duty of levying taxes shall annually, without further authority, levy a tax, insofar as such a tax is or may be permitted by the present or any future provisions of the Constitution, sufficient to pay: (1) Bond…

In any case in which a county or municipality may hereafter issue any bonds which are general obligations of such county or municipality, there may be pledged to the payment of the principal of an interest on such bonds all or any part or portion of funds which may be derived fro…

Any municipality or county may pledge the net revenues of any waterworks system maintained and operated by such municipality for the purpose of supplying such municipality or county and its inhabitants with water to secure the payment of any bonds issued by such municipality or c…

In any case in which a municipality or county may hereafter issue any securities, including bonds, warrants, notes and certificates of indebtedness, whether such securities are general obligations of the municipality or county or are payable solely from a special source, there ma…

All sinking funds provided for the retirement of bonds shall be invested in bonds of such subdivision or in bonds of the United States or in bonds of the State of Alabama or in bonds of any county in the State of Alabama or any municipal corporation of the State of Alabama, or de…

Any municipal corporation in this state shall have power and authority to execute a mortgage or deed of trust upon the property acquired or to be acquired with the proceeds of a bond issue authorized in this chapter, and such mortgage or deed of trust shall be admitted to record …

Any funds of any municipality or county which may come into the hands of such county or municipality to the credit of any sinking fund may be by such county or municipality invested in bonds of the United States, bonds of the State of Alabama or of any county or municipality ther…

(a) Any municipal funds or county funds that a municipal or county governing body determines are not presently needed for other purposes may be invested in any obligations in which sinking funds are now authorized to be invested, pursuant to Section 11-81-19, and, in addition, in…

Any city which has power to issue bonds to refund the principal of its unmatured bonds under this chapter, may, in the discretion of the city council or board of commissioners or other governing body of such city, cause such bonds to be executed and issued to and placed in a sink…

Bonds issued to and placed in such a sinking fund pursuant to Sections 11-81-22 through 11-81-25 shall be designated “sinking fund bonds.” Notwithstanding anything contained in said sections or any acts amendatory thereof, such bonds may be made payable at such time or times, not…

Any city which desires to issue bonds as provided by Sections 11-81-22 through 11-81-24 to refund the principal of any of its unmatured bonds may establish a sinking fund which shall be used solely for the purposes of paying the principal of such unmatured bonds and may, by resol…

Any trustee of a sinking fund established under Sections 11-81-22 through 11-81-24 shall have power to invest in such manner and subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed in the ordinance or resolution establishing such sinking fund any moneys which it may receive as such…

Any court having jurisdiction shall issue mandamus for the levy and collection and proper application of the tax required by Section 11-81-15 or for the setting aside and proper application of sinking fund payment as required by law upon proper proof of noncompliance with the pro…

Any county or municipality of this state may mortgage any public property for the payment of any debt contracted in connection with such mortgaged property either originally or as a renewal, and such mortgage shall be admitted to record in the office of the probate judge of any c…

Whenever bonds of any county or municipality shall have been authorized under this chapter at any election or by the governing body thereof in cases where an election is not required, such governing body may from time to time in anticipation of the sale of such bonds issue negoti…

All bonds and interest coupons attached to the same issued under the authority of this chapter shall be exempt from state, county and municipal taxation. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §269.)

The governing body of any county, city or town, or municipal authority organized under Article 9, Chapter 47 of this title which shall authorize the issuance of refunding or funding bonds may exercise all powers deemed necessary by the governing body for the execution and fulfill…

No irregularity in the proceedings to authorize the issue of bonds under this chapter nor the omission or neglect of any officer charged with the execution of any duties imposed by this chapter shall affect the validity of any bonds issued under this chapter. Such bonds shall hav…

Every election heretofore held in any municipality or in any county for the purpose of voting upon and deciding the question of whether bonds of the municipality or county, as the case may be, shall be issued, at which election a majority of the votes cast were in favor of the is…

Whenever it shall be made to appear to the governing body of any municipality or county by clear and satisfactory evidence that any bond of said municipality or county bearing interest has been lost, destroyed or mutilated so that the same is not held by any person as his propert…

Any bonds, notes or other obligations for the payment of money heretofore or hereafter authorized to be issued and delivered by any city or town of this state may be executed with an engraved, imprinted, stamped or otherwise reproduced facsimile of any signature, seal or other me…

The governing body of any municipality in this state is hereby authorized to issue, without an election, refunding interest-bearing certificates of indebtedness or refunding interest-bearing warrants or refunding interest-bearing notes maturing at such time or times as the govern…

All bonds may be made payable at such place or places within or without the State of Alabama as the proper governing body may designate. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Acts 1935, No. 195, p. 575; Code 1940, T. 37, §254.)

The principal of all bonds issued under this chapter, except bonds issued under Division 1 of Article 4 of this chapter, shall be payable as provided in this section. (1) The principal of all such bonds, other than revenue bonds as defined in subdivision (2) of this section, shal…

In any case where general obligation bonds of a county or a municipality have heretofore been or may hereafter be authorized at an election held pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 or 3 of this chapter, as amended, and are issued and sold in series rather than as an entirety,…

The governing body shall estimate the period of usefulness of the improvement or property for which the bonds are issued, and such estimate of the governing body shall be conclusive. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §256.)

Bonds issued under this chapter may be issued either in registered or coupon form. If they are coupon bonds, they may be made registerable either as to principal or as to both principal and interest. The governing body may appoint a bank or trust company within or without the Sta…

In this article “municipality” means and includes any city or town now or hereafter created, except where clearly restricted. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §274.)

All municipalities shall have full and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds (when such issue is authorized by an election as provided in this article if such election is requir…

The governing body of any municipality in this state may order elections to be held in such municipality for the purpose of voting upon and deciding the question as to whether or not the bonds of such municipality shall be issued for such purposes as are authorized by law wheneve…

Notice of any election held under the provisions of this article shall be given by publication in a newspaper published in the municipality in which such election is to be held once a week for three successive weeks, the first publication to be made at least 30 days before the el…

The ballot used at such election shall be prepared under the direction of the mayor or other chief executive officer and shall be in such form as may not be inconsistent with the Constitution of Alabama. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. 37, §278.)

The governing body of any municipality in which an election is held under this article shall designate the number and location of voting places and shall appoint three managers, two clerks, and one returning officer for each voting place in such municipality to conduct said elect…

All expenses for holding such election shall be paid out of the treasury of the municipality in which the same is held, and the managers, clerks, and returning officers shall be entitled to the same compensation as managers, clerks, and returning officers at other municipal elect…

The governing body of such municipality in which an election has been held under this article shall constitute a board to canvass the returns and declare the result of such election, and such governing body shall meet at the usual place of meeting on the day after the date of the…

The record of the result of the election as ascertained and declared by the board of canvassers shall be recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of such municipality and when so recorded shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated and of the validity of such ele…

Any election held under the provisions of this article can be contested by any qualified elector of the municipality by executing a bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the judge of probate of the county, for the payment of the costs of the contest. (Acts 1927, No. 47…

Notice of contest shall be served on the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality in which such election was held when the bond for costs has been approved by the judge of probate of the county. The municipality shall be made contestee, and an answer shall be filed in…

No civil action shall be commenced to test the validity of any election held by any municipality of this state for the purpose of issuing bonds unless the said civil action be commenced within 40 days from the date of the said election. (Acts 1927, No. 478, p. 534; Code 1940, T. …

If at any election held under and according to the provisions of this article a majority of the qualified electors voting upon such proposition vote in favor of the issuance of said bonds and the result is ascertained and declared as set out in this article, the governing body sh…

Bonds of a municipality shall be signed by two or more officers of the municipality holding office at the time of such signing, one of which officers shall be the mayor or other chief executive officer, and the corporate seal of such municipality shall be affixed to the bonds. In…

The governing body of any municipality may, without any election, issue bonds of the municipality for the purpose of refunding a like or greater face amount of the principal of any matured or unmatured bonds of such municipality then outstanding whether the bonds to be refunded b…