Section 11-97-9 - Bonds of corporation generally(a) Any corporation shall have the power to issue, sell and deliver at any time and from time to time its bonds in such principal amount or amounts as its board shall determine to be necessary to provide sufficient funds for achieving any of its corporate purposes, including the payment of interest on any of its bonds, the establishment of reserves to secure any such bonds and all other expenditures of such corporation incident to and necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate purposes and powers. Any corporation shall also have the power to issue from time to time bonds to renew bonds and bonds to pay bonds, including interest thereon and, whenever it deems refunding expedient, to refund any bonds by the issuance of new bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and to issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other of its corporate purposes.(b) The bonds issued by any corporation shall be authorized by resolution or resolutions adopted by its board, shall bear such date or dates and shall mature at such time or times as such resolution or resolutions may provide, except that no bond shall mature more than 40 years from date of its issue. The bonds of any corporation may be issued as serial bonds or as term bonds or as a combination thereof. The bonds of any corporation shall bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such form and denominations, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed by such officers of such corporation and in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places within or without the state and be subject to such terms of redemption as may be provided in the resolution or resolutions by which they are authorized to be issued. The bonds of any corporation may be sold by such corporation at public or private sale at such price or prices as such corporation shall determine. If such action shall be deemed advisable by the board, there may be retained in the proceedings under which any of such bonds are authorized to be issued an option to redeem all or any part thereof as may be specified in such proceedings, at such price or prices and after such notice or notices and on such terms and conditions as may be set forth in such proceedings and as may be recited in summary form on the face of such bonds; provided that any bond of any corporation having a specified maturity more than 15 years after its date shall be made subject to redemption at the option of such corporation at the expiration of 15 years from its date and on any interest payment date thereafter at such price or prices and after such notice or notices and on such terms and in such manner as may be provided in the resolution adopted by the board of such corporation authorizing the issuance of such bond. Any corporation may pay all expenses, premiums and commissions which its board may deem necessary and advantageous in connection with the issuance of any of its bonds. Issuance by any corporation of one or more series of bonds for one or more purposes shall not preclude it from issuing other bonds, but the resolutions whereunder any subsequent bonds may be issued shall recognize and protect any prior pledge or mortgage made for the benefit of any prior issue of bonds, unless in the proceedings authorizing such prior issue the right was reserved to issue subsequent bonds on a parity with such prior issue.(c) Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the corporation may issue interim receipts or temporary bonds, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds when such bonds shall have been executed and are available for delivery. The corporation may also provide for the replacement of any bonds which shall become mutilated or shall be destroyed or lost.(d) All obligations created or assumed and all bonds issued or assumed by any corporation shall be solely and exclusively an obligation of such corporation and shall not create an obligation or debt of the state, the determining subdivision, any other county or municipality or any other political subdivision of the state or any instrumentality or governmental agency existing under the laws thereof; provided, that the provisions of this subsection shall not be construed to release the original obligor from liability on any bond or other obligation assumed by the corporation.Ala. Code § 11-97-9 (1975)
Acts 1984, No. 84-314, p. 695, §9.