2019 Code of Alabama
Title 41 - State Government.
Chapter 9 - Boards and Commissions.
Article 30 - Tennessee Valley Exhibit Commission.
Section 41-9-780 - Creation; powers and privileges generally; purpose.

REPEALED IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2018-152 EFFECTIVE JUNE 1, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT.

There is hereby created and established a state agency to be known as the Tennessee Valley Exhibit Commission of Alabama, which shall be a public body corporate with all the powers and privileges of a corporation, for the purpose of providing for and participating in the management and control of facilities to house and display such visual exhibits of energy related hardware and examples of technology used therefor as may be made available by the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Energy Research and Development Administration, other federal and state agencies, including universities and colleges, and other public and private sectors engaged in energy related activities. Such facility shall constitute a permanent housing for the Tennessee Valley Exhibit, which shall be open to the general public and shall be located at a place to be designated in the vicinity of the Muscle Shoals area for a nominal cost through the cooperation of the Tennessee Valley Authority or at such other locations as the commission may deem appropriate. The commission is further empowered to provide facilities for the housing and display of energy related hardware and technology, navigational river and tributary development practices, agriculture technology and innovations, and wildlife and environmental practices and protections, and mankind and his historical achievements and mementos of the Tennessee Valley Authority. All such facilities shall be principally constructed out of oolitic shadow vein Alabama limestone. The commission is further empowered to establish an information and exhibit center in order to provide information to the public on research and development in the field of energy related hardware and technology, navigational river and tributary development practices, agriculture technology and innovations, wildlife and environmental practices and protections and mankind and his historical achievements as developed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Energy Research and Development Administration, other federal and state agencies, including universities and colleges, and other public and private sectors engaged in energy related activities.