2021 Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Chapter 89A - Solid Waste Disposal Authorities.
Section 11-89A-3 - Filing of Application for Incorporation of Authority; Denial or Authorization of Incorporation by Governing Body of County or Municipality.

Section 11-89A-3

Filing of application for incorporation of authority; denial or authorization of incorporation by governing body of county or municipality.

A public corporation may be organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter in any county or municipality. In order to incorporate such a public corporation, any number of natural persons, not less than three, who are duly qualified electors of a proposed determining subdivision shall first file a written application with the governing body of any county or municipality, or any two or more thereof, which application shall:

(1) Recite the name of each county and municipality with the governing body of which such application is filed;

(2) Contain a statement that the applicants propose to incorporate an authority pursuant to the provisions of this chapter;

(3) State the proposed location of the principal office of the authority;

(4) State that each of the applicants is a duly qualified elector of the determining subdivision (or, if there is more than one, at least one thereof); and

(5) Request that the governing body of such determining subdivision adopt a resolution declaring that it is wise, expedient, and necessary that the proposed authority be formed, approving its certificate of incorporation and authorizing the applicants to proceed to form the proposed authority by the filing for record of a certificate of incorporation in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-89A-4. Every such application shall be accompanied by the form of certificate of incorporation of the proposed authority and by such other supporting documents or evidence as the applicants may consider appropriate.

As promptly as may be practicable after the filing of the application with it in accordance with the provisions of this section, the governing body of the determining subdivision with which the application was filed shall review the contents of the application, and the accompanying form of certificate of incorporation and shall adopt a resolution either denying the application or declaring that it is wise, expedient, and necessary and that the proposed authority be formed, approving the form of its certificate of incorporation and authorizing the applicants to proceed to form the proposed authority by the filing for record of such a certificate of incorporation in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-89A-4. While it shall not be necessary that any such resolution be published in a newspaper or posted, each governing body with which the application is filed shall also cause a copy of the application to be spread upon or otherwise made a part of the minutes of the meeting of such governing body at which final action upon said application is taken.

(Acts 1980, No. 80-278, p. 368, §4; Acts 1989, No. 89-744, p. 1476, §3.)