All counties shall have full and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds, when such issue is authorized by the election provided for in this chapter, for the following named purposes:
(1) To purchase and acquire or construct courthouses, jails, poorhouses, hospitals, asylums for the insane, tuberculosis sanatoriums, workhouses, houses of correction and other public buildings.
(2) For the purchase of real estate for any improvement authorized by law or for the site for any building or improvement to be used for public purposes.
(3) For extending, enlarging, improving, repairing, or securing the more complete use of and enjoyment of any building or improvement, owned, purchased, or constructed by the county and for equipping and furnishing the same.
(4) To fund floating debt.
(5) To acquire land for county parks and to improve the same.
(6) To provide for the purchase or the original construction and improvement of highways and bridges, whether such bridges are wholly within the county or are across streams, waters, swamps, overflowed, submerged or inundated lands or lowlands lying partly within the limits of another county.
(7) For the purpose of providing for the payment of the whole or any part of the cost of the acquirement, construction, extension, improvement, repair, or reconstruction of dikes, levees, embankments, seawalls, or other protection against seas, storms, and floods or the encroachment of streams, rivers, waters, or seas and the whole or any part of the cost of draining, filling, elevating, or reclaiming swamps or submerged, inundated, or overflowed lands or lowlands located within the limits of such county and for the purpose of constructing sanitary and storm sewers within the limits of said county.
(8) For any other purpose for which it is authorized by law to expend money.
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 3 - County Bonds Generally.
Section 11-81-80 - Purposes for Which Bonds May Be Issued.
Section 11-81-81 - Ordering of Election for Determination as to Issuance of Bonds.
Section 11-81-82 - Notice of Election.
Section 11-81-84 - Conduct of Election Generally.
Section 11-81-85 - Expenses of Election; Compensation of Managers, Clerks, and Returning Officers.
Section 11-81-86 - Board of Canvassers.
Section 11-81-87 - Recordation of Election Results.
Section 11-81-88 - Election Contest - Authorized; Bond Required.
Section 11-81-89 - Election Contest - Notice and Hearing; Representation of County.
Section 11-81-90 - Election Contest - Limitation of Action.
Section 11-81-91 - Issuance of Bonds.
Section 11-81-92 - Execution and Delivery of Bonds.
Section 11-81-97 - Applicability of Provisions Pertaining to Municipal Bonds.