Code of Alabama
Chapter 49A - Public Transportation Service in Class 3 Municipalities.
Section 11-49A-5 - Certificate of Incorporation - Filing; Contents; Signing and Acknowledging; Additional Documents; Notice to Secretary of State.

Within 40 days following the adoption of an authorizing resolution by the governing body the applicants shall proceed to incorporate an authority by filing for record in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the municipality is located, a certificate of incorporation which shall comply in form and substance with the requirements of this section and which shall be in the form and executed in the manner herein provided.
The certificate of incorporation of the authority shall state:
(1) The names of the persons forming the authority, and that each of them is a duly qualified elector of the authorizing municipality;
(2) The name of the authority (which shall be "_____ Transit Authority", with the insertion of the name of the authorizing municipality);
(3) The period for the duration of the authority (if the duration is to be perpetual, subject to the provisions of Section 11-49A-20, that fact shall be stated);
(4) The name of the authorizing municipality, together with the date on which the governing bodies thereof adopted authorizing resolutions;
(5) The location of the principal office of the authority, which shall be in the authorizing municipality;
(6) That the authority is organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for the purpose of supplying public transportation service in the authorizing municipality and in the county and in any other municipality in the county in which the authorizing municipality is located and in any other county in the state; and
(7) Any other matter relating to the authority that the incorporators or the authorizing municipality may choose to insert and that are not inconsistent with this chapter or with the laws of the state.
The certificate of incorporation shall be signed and acknowledged by the incorporators before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take acknowledgements to deeds. When the certificate of incorporation is filed for record, there shall be attached to it (a) a copy of the application as filed with the governing body of the authorizing municipality in accordance with the provisions of Section 11-49A-4, (b) a certified copy of the authorizing resolution adopted by the governing body of the authorizing municipality, and (c) a certificate by the Secretary of State that the name proposed for the authority is not identical to that of any other corporation organized under the laws of the state or so nearly similar thereto as to lead to confusion and uncertainty. Upon the filing for record of the said certificate of incorporation and the documents required by the preceding sentence to be attached thereto, the authority shall come into existence and shall constitute a public corporation under the name set forth in said certificate of incorporation. The judge of probate shall thereupon send a notice to the Secretary of State that the certificate of incorporation of the authority has been filed for record.

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