Any mortgage or conveyance of property and any pledge of revenues to secure the bonds of a district incorporated under this article shall be valid and binding from the time when such mortgage or conveyance is delivered or such pledge made, and the system, properties, revenue, income and moneys so mortgaged, conveyed or pledged and thereafter received by such district shall immediately be subject to the lien of such mortgage, conveyance or pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such mortgage, conveyance or pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the district, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof, from the time when a statement thereof is filed in the office of the judge of probate of the county or counties where the system or systems of the district are located. Such notice shall be sufficient if it states the date of the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds, the date of the bonds, the principal amount thereof, the maturity dates thereof and whether the system is one or more gas transmission systems or one or more gas distribution systems or both. The judge of probate shall file and index such notice in the record of mortgages in his office.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.
Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.
Section 11-50-390 - Definitions.
Section 11-50-393 - Board of Directors - Composition; Compensation; Removal Actions.
Section 11-50-394 - Board of Directors - Organization; Officers.
Section 11-50-395 - Board of Directors - Powers Generally; Resolutions.
Section 11-50-396 - Powers Generally.
Section 11-50-397 - Exercise of Powers of Eminent Domain Generally.
Section 11-50-399 - Acquisition of Competing Gas Systems, Etc.
Section 11-50-400 - Use of Public Highway Rights-of-Way.
Section 11-50-404 - Transfer of Systems to District by Municipalities.
Section 11-50-406 - Bonds - Disposition of Proceeds From Sale.
Section 11-50-409 - Liability Upon Bonds, etc.; Payment of Bonds.
Section 11-50-410 - Rights and Remedies of Bondholders and Trustees.
Section 11-50-412 - Taxation - Exemption of Property, Income, Bonds, etc., of District Generally.
Section 11-50-414 - Validation of Proceedings to Incorporate Gas Districts.
Section 11-50-415 - Exemption From Usury and Interest Statutes.