Code of Alabama
Division 1 - Hospital Boards.
Section 22-21-75 - Incorporation - Certificate of Incorporation - Validation of Noncomplying Corporations.

In all cases where the county commission of a county has adopted a resolution authorizing the incorporation under this division, as originally enacted or as subsequently amended, of a public corporation for hospital purposes and there has been an attempt to organize such public corporation by filing in the office of the judge of probate of such county a certificate of incorporation, but the attempted incorporation is invalid because of some irregularity in the procedure followed, any such corporation so authorized and attempted to be formed shall be, and hereby is, validated ab initio notwithstanding any failure to comply with the requirements of said division respecting acknowledgment of signatures to certificates of incorporation, any failure on the part of the county commission of any such county to take formal action approving the form and contents of such certificate of incorporation or any other failure to comply with the procedures set forth in the said division; provided, that this section shall not apply to the incorporation of any public corporation that has been held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction by judgment entered prior to September 20, 1957, or to the incorporation of any public corporation the validity of which is an issue in any pending civil action commenced prior to September 20, 1957.

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