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Article 1 - Bishop of Diocese.
Section 10A-20-1.01 - Authority to Incorporate. - Any bishop of a diocese consisting wholly or in part...
Section 10A-20-1.02 - Proceedings to Incorporate. - To become a corporation sole, the bishop shall present to...
Section 10A-20-1.03 - Certificate of Incorporation. - When the application has been made, filed, and recorded as...
Section 10A-20-1.04 - Powers. - A corporation sole under this article shall have the following...
Section 10A-20-1.05 - Certificate of Succession by Successor of Bishop. - When a bishop has become a corporation sole pursuant to...
Section 10A-20-1.06 - Appointment of Administrator to Act While Bishopric Vacant. - A bishop who has become a corporation sole pursuant to...
Section 10A-20-1.07 - Dissolution. - Any corporation sole under this article may be dissolved by...
Section 10A-20-1.08 - Fees to Be Paid to the Secretary of State. - Upon the presentation to the Secretary of State of any...
Section 10A-20-1.09 - Records and Certificates Prima Facie Evidence. - Any record kept or certificate issued in pursuance of this...
Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.
Section 10A-20-2.01 - Incorporation. - (a) The members of any church, conference of churches, religious...
Section 10A-20-2.02 - Powers of Corporation. - Corporations not of a business character created under this article...
Section 10A-20-2.03 - Independence of Church Corporations in Control of Real Property. - (a) Unless otherwise clearly stated in the deed or other...
Section 10A-20-2.04 - Validity of Service of Process on Trustee. - In all civil actions or legal proceedings, the service of...
Section 10A-20-2.05 - Borrowing of Money and Securing Same by Mortgage or Deed of Trust. - The trustees, or a majority of them, or authorized agents...
Section 10A-20-2.06 - Sale and Conveyance of Property. - The trustees or other authorized agents of any church, conference...
Section 10A-20-2.07 - Effect of Recital in Minutes on Proceedings Under Sections 10a-20-2.05 and 10a-20-2.06. - A recital upon the minutes of the proceedings of a...
Section 10A-20-2.08 - Burial Societies - Special Powers. - Burial societies so incorporated may exercise all powers necessary for...
Section 10A-20-2.09 - Burial Societies - Chair and Members of Board. - When a graveyard is wholly under the control of persons...
Article 3 - Conference of Ministers.
Section 10A-20-3.01 - Formation of Ministers Into Body Corporate. - Whenever 10 or more ministers of the gospel or of...
Section 10A-20-3.02 - Powers of Corporation. - All corporations formed under this article shall have and exercise...
Section 10A-20-3.03 - Changing of Corporate Name. - Any annual conference that has heretofore been incorporated by an...
Section 10A-20-3.04 - Incorporation by Successor of Unincorporated or Defectively Incorporated Conference. - Whenever any annual conference has heretofore been organized according to...
Article 4 - State Conventions or Associations of Churches.
Section 10A-20-4.01 - Powers of Conventions or Associations. - State conventions or state associations of churches, generally known as...
Section 10A-20-4.02 - Establishment of Schools, Hospitals, Orphanages, etc., by State, Sectional, or National Conventions or Associations. - Incorporated conventions or associations, as well as sectional or national...
Section 10A-20-4.03 - Perpetual Existence of Conventions or Association. - All conventions or associations, heretofore incorporated under general or special...
Section 10A-20-4.04 - Ratification and Confirmation of Corporate Existence. - Any incorporated convention or association, heretofore organized under any general...
Article 5 - Educational Institutions.
Section 10A-20-5.01 - Amendment of Charter; Fees for Filing Same; Certified Copy Thereof. - (a) Any educational institution heretofore incorporated under special act of...
Section 10A-20-5.02 - Distribution of Proceeds When Corporation Ceases Business. - When a corporation organized under the laws of Alabama for...
Section 10A-20-5.03 - Disposition of Property of Educational Corporations Where the Stockholders Are Unknown or the Number of Shares Is Unknown. - (a) Where the charter of any educational corporation organized under...
Article 6 - Health Care Services Plans.
Section 10A-20-6.01 - Applicability of Article. - Any nonstock nonprofit corporations organized for the purpose of establishing,...
Section 10A-20-6.02 - Incorporation. - (a) The incorporators of any corporation to be governed by...
Section 10A-20-6.03 - Health Care Facilities Which May Participate. - Any health care facility capable of entering into a binding...
Section 10A-20-6.04 - Board of Directors. - The property and business of the corporation shall be managed...
Section 10A-20-6.05 - Bylaws. - The power to adopt, alter, amend, or repeal bylaws shall...
Section 10A-20-6.06 - Altering, Amending, or Changing Certificate of Formation. - The corporation may change its corporate name, the location of...
Section 10A-20-6.07 - Certificates of Authority; Contracts With Public. - Every corporation organized under this article shall procure from the...
Section 10A-20-6.08 - License, Privilege, or Other Taxes by Municipalities or Counties Prohibited. - No license, privilege, or other tax shall be charged any...
Section 10A-20-6.09 - Selection of Health Care Facility by Certificate Holders. - Any holder in good standing of a certificate for a...
Section 10A-20-6.10 - Regulation of Rates, Charges, Fees, and Dues. - The rates, charges, fees, and dues to be paid by...
Section 10A-20-6.11 - Examination Power of Commissioner of Insurance. - The Commissioner of Insurance or any of his or her...
Section 10A-20-6.12 - Certificates for Agents; Filing of Health Service Certificates. - Persons representing a health care service corporation organized under this...
Section 10A-20-6.13 - Deposit of Securities With State Treasurer. - Every health care service corporation shall deposit with, and thereafter...
Section 10A-20-6.14 - Filing of Annual Statements. - (a) On or before the first day of March of...
Section 10A-20-6.15 - Review of Decisions, etc., by Commissioner of Insurance. - All decisions, findings, and orders of the Commissioner of Insurance...
Section 10A-20-6.16 - Applicability of Insurance Laws. - (a) No statute of this state applying to insurance companies...
Article 7 - Industrial Development Corporation.
Section 10A-20-7.01 - Definitions. - For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall...
Section 10A-20-7.02 - Incorporation. - (a) Five or more financial institutions or persons, a majority...
Section 10A-20-7.03 - First Meeting. - (a) The first meeting of the corporation shall be called...
Section 10A-20-7.04 - Powers of Corporation. - In furtherance of its purposes and in addition to the...
Section 10A-20-7.05 - Membership - Application; When Effective. - Any financial institution may request membership in the corporation by...
Section 10A-20-7.06 - Membership - Withdrawal. - (a) Membership in the corporation shall be for the duration...
Section 10A-20-7.07 - Directors and Officers. - (a) The business and affairs of the corporation shall be...
Section 10A-20-7.08 - Corporation to Be State Development Company. - Any corporation organized under this article shall be a state...
Section 10A-20-7.09 - Powers of Stockholders and Members. - (a) The stockholders and the members of the corporation shall...
Section 10A-20-7.10 - Rights to Shares, Bonds, Securities, or Other Evidences of Corporate Indebtedness. - (a) Notwithstanding any rule at common law, any provision of...
Section 10A-20-7.11 - Loans to Corporation by Members. - Each member of the corporation shall make loans to the...
Section 10A-20-7.12 - Credit of State Not to Be Pledged. - Under no circumstances shall the credit of the state be...
Section 10A-20-7.13 - Taking of Security by Mortgage or Otherwise. - Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law of this state,...
Section 10A-20-7.14 - Tax Exemptions, Credits, and Privileges. - Any tax exemptions, tax credits, or tax privileges granted to...
Section 10A-20-7.15 - Occupational License Taxes. - Every corporation organized and engaged in business under this article...
Section 10A-20-7.16 - Setting Apart of Earned Surplus. - Each year, the corporation shall set apart as earned surplus...
Section 10A-20-7.17 - Deposit of Funds in Designated Depository. - The corporation shall not deposit any of its funds in...
Section 10A-20-7.18 - Annual Examination and Reports. - The corporation shall be examined at least once annually by...
Section 10A-20-7.19 - Fiscal Year. - Corporations organized under this article shall adopt the calendar year...
Section 10A-20-7.20 - Amendment of Certificate of Formation. - (a) The certificate of formation may be amended by the...
Section 10A-20-7.21 - Duration of Corporation. - The period of duration of the corporation shall be 50...
Section 10A-20-7.22 - Dissolution. - A corporation may, upon the affirmative vote of two thirds...
Section 10A-20-7.23 - Applicability of Laws Regulating Securities. - The provisions of Title 8 and any other laws of...
Article 8 - Local Fraternal Orders.
Section 10A-20-8.01 - Definitions. - For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall...
Section 10A-20-8.02 - Right of Majority Group of Local Organization in Fraternal Property. - The right and equity are hereby recognized and declared on...
Section 10A-20-8.03 - Withdrawal From Parent Organization and Use of Fraternal Property Free From Trust Clause. - (a) The majority group of any local organization may withdraw...
Section 10A-20-8.04 - Right to Set Up Unit Independent of Parent Corporation. - Whenever, as a result of action of the parent organization,...
Section 10A-20-8.05 - Declaratory Actions - Institution of Action. - Upon resolution or written declaration by the majority group, upon...
Section 10A-20-8.06 - Declaratory Actions - Service of Process. - Service of process in an action or proceeding may be...
Section 10A-20-8.07 - Declaratory Actions - Averments of Plaintiff. - The plaintiff in an action may aver as a separate...
Section 10A-20-8.08 - Declaratory Actions - Judgment. - If on final hearing the court shall find that the...
Section 10A-20-8.09 - Averments as to Loans From Parent Organization; Judgment to Provide for Repayment and Lien for Unsecured Loans. - The complaint in any action authorized by this article shall...
Section 10A-20-8.10 - Effect of Article on Existing Liens or Mortgages. - Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect the...
Article 9 - Single-Tax and Other Mutual Economic Associations.
Section 10A-20-9.01 - Incorporation. - Ten or more persons desiring to associate themselves together for...
Section 10A-20-9.02 - Officers; Constitution; Bylaws. - Any corporation organized pursuant to this article may elect the...
Section 10A-20-9.03 - Powers. - A corporation formed pursuant to this article shall have the...
Section 10A-20-9.04 - Exemption of Certain Waterworks From Ad Valorem Taxes and State or County License Taxes on Gross Receipts. - All associations or corporations heretofore or hereafter organized pursuant to...
Section 10A-20-9.05 - Recognition of Associations of Lessees, etc.; Arbitration of Certain Disputes Arising Under Real Estate Leases. - (a) Any corporation organized under this article for the purpose...
Article 10 - Private Foundations.
Section 10A-20-10.01 - Restrictions; Powers of Courts and Attorney General Not Impaired. - (a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the certificate...
Article 11 - Alternation, Amendment, or Extension of Charter of Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical, or Similar Associations.
Section 10A-20-11.01 - Alteration, Amendment, or Extension of Charter by Incorporated Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical, etc., Association. - (a) Any incorporated medical association of the State of Alabama,...
Article 12 - Alteration or Amendment of Charters of Corporations Not of a Business Character.
Section 10A-20-12.01 - Alteration or Amendment of Charter by Corporations Not of Business Character; Filing and Contents of Declarations; Issuance of Certificate; Provisions Cumulative. - (a) Unless otherwise provided, any corporation, not of a business...
Article 13 - Retail Merchants' Associations.
Section 10A-20-13.01 - Retail Merchants; Authority to Form Corporation. - Whenever 10 or more retail merchants wish to form an...
Article 14 - Wholesale Merchants' Associations.
Section 10A-20-14.01 - Wholesale Merchants; Authority to Form Corporation. - Whenever 10 or more wholesale merchants wish to form an...
Article 15 - Water Power Companies.
Section 10A-20-15.01 - Rights, Powers, and Authority. - All corporations organized under the general laws of this state,...
Section 10A-20-15.02 - Duty to Serve Public. - Any corporation which exercises any of the rights conferred by...
Section 10A-20-15.03 - Procedure for Condemnation. - The procedure for condemnation under this article shall be in...
Section 10A-20-15.04 - Dams Considered as Authorized by Legislature. - Any dam erected in accordance with this article shall be...
Article 16 - Liability of Officers of Nonprofit Organizations.
Section 10A-20-16.01 - Legislative Intent. - The Legislature finds and declares that the services of nonprofit...
Section 10A-20-16.02 - Definitions. - The following terms shall have the following respective meanings for...
Section 10A-20-16.03 - Officer Immune From Suit; Exception for Willful Misconduct, Fraud, or Gross Negligence; For-Profit Subsidiary Not Immune. - Any noncompensated officer of a qualified entity shall be immune...
Section 10A-20-16.04 - Application. - Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect any...
Section 10A-20-16.05 - Construction. - Nothing in this article shall be construed to affect any...