(a) This article is intended to aid the state in the execution of its duties by providing appropriate and independent instrumentalities of the state with full and adequate powers to fulfill their functions.
(b) Except as in this article expressly otherwise provided, no proceeding, notice or approval shall be required for the incorporation of any gas district or the amendment of its articles of incorporation, the acquisition of any property or system or systems or the making of any loans or the issuance of any bonds or instruments in evidence thereof or as security therefor, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding.
(c) Every district incorporated under this article and every gas system of such district and the rates and charges thereof shall be exempt from all jurisdiction of and all regulation and supervision by the Alabama Public Service Commission.
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.