The county of incorporation and each municipality in the county may lease, sell, donate, or otherwise convey to an agriculture authority real or personal property, including park properties, without authorization by election of the qualified voters of the county or of the municipality; and the county and each municipality thereof are authorized, but not required, to appropriate public funds of the county or of the municipality, as the case may be, to the authority to be used by the authority for purposes enumerated in this article. The county shall not lease, sell, donate, or convey any property to the authority, or appropriate any money to the authority, unless the county commission has determined that the lease, sale, donation, conveyance, or appropriation will benefit the people of the county or municipality to such an extent as to fully warrant and justify the lease, sale, donation, conveyance, or appropriation.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 1 - Provisions Applicable to Counties Only.
Chapter 20 - Promotion of Industry and Trade.
Article 3 - Agricultural Authorities for Advancement of Humanities
Section 11-20-70 - Establishment of Agriculture Authority; Application; Articles of Incorporation.
Section 11-20-71 - Board of Directors; Officers; Proceedings; Qualifications of Directors.
Section 11-20-72 - Amending Articles of Authority.
Section 11-20-73 - Powers of Authority; Execution of Contracts; Disposition of Funds.
Section 11-20-74 - Borrowing of Money; Security.
Section 11-20-75 - Advisory Council.
Section 11-20-76 - Lease, Sale, Conveyance, etc., of Property.
Section 11-20-77 - Construction of Article.
Section 11-20-78 - Dissolution of Authority.
Section 11-20-79 - Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages Within Agriculture Center.
Section 11-20-80 - Exemption From Certain Municipal Ordinances and Requirements.