In any case in which a municipality or county may hereafter issue any securities, including bonds, warrants, notes and certificates of indebtedness, whether such securities are general obligations of the municipality or county or are payable solely from a special source, there may be pledged to the payment of the principal of and the interest on such securities all or any part of that portion of the proceeds from any license or privilege tax or excise tax levied by any act of the Legislature which may be apportioned and paid to such municipality or county; provided, however, that such pledge may be made only for the benefit of securities issued for a purpose or purposes for which the tax proceeds so apportioned to any such municipality or county are permitted by any such act to be used.
In any case in which a pledge is made under the provisions of this section, the securities for the benefit of which such pledge shall be made shall have preference over claims for salaries or other operating expenses or claims for any other purpose, and if more than one such pledge shall be made with respect to the same portion of any such tax proceeds so apportioned then such pledges shall take precedence in the order in which they are made; provided, that if in the proceedings authorizing any such securities and making any such pledge therefor the municipality or county reserves the privilege of issuing additional securities secured on a parity of pledge with the securities authorized by the said proceedings, then such additional securities subsequently issued may be secured by such parity pledge in accordance with the provisions of the said proceedings in which the said privilege is reserved.
Each pledge of the character authorized by this section that may have been heretofore made by any municipality or county for the benefit of any such securities heretofore issued by it is hereby ratified and confirmed.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 11-81-3 - Issuance of Refunding or Funding Bonds as to Adjustment, etc., of Indebtedness.
Section 11-81-5 - Places of Payment.
Section 11-81-6 - Maturity and Payment - Generally.
Section 11-81-7 - Maturity and Payment - Bonds Issued and Sold in Series.
Section 11-81-9 - Form; Appointment of Registrar and Provision for Registration and Transfer.
Section 11-81-10 - Sale Price.
Section 11-81-12 - Determination of Highest Bidder.
Section 11-81-13 - Disposition of Proceeds From Sale.
Section 11-81-17 - Pledge of Revenues From Waterworks System to Secure Payment of Bonds.
Section 11-81-20 - Investment of Funds Received to Credit of Sinking Fund.
Section 11-81-21 - Investment of Funds Obligation in Which Sinking Funds May Be Invested.
Section 11-81-22 - Sinking Fund Bonds - Issuance, Etc.
Section 11-81-23 - Sinking Fund Bonds - Designation; Maturity and Interest; Disposition.
Section 11-81-25 - Sinking Fund Bonds - Powers of Trustee of Sinking Fund.
Section 11-81-26 - Mandamus Proceedings.
Section 11-81-27 - Mortgages of Public Property for Payment of Debts.
Section 11-81-28 - Issuance, Sale, etc., of Negotiable Notes in Anticipation of Sale of Bonds.
Section 11-81-29 - Bonds and Interest Coupons Exempt From Taxation.
Section 11-81-31 - Ratification of Certain Irregular Elections for Issuance of Bonds.
Section 11-81-32 - Issuance of Duplicates for Lost, Mutilated or Destroyed Bonds.