Alabama § 11-60-3 - Application for Authority to Form Corporation; Adoption of Resolution by Governing Body Authorizing Incorporation; Execution, Acknowledgment, and Filing of Certificate of Incorporation Generally; Effect of Granting of Authority for Incorporation Upon Incorporation of Other Such Corporations.

§ 11-60-3. Application for Authority to Form Corporation; Adoption of Resolution by Governing Body Authorizing Incorporation; Execution, Acknowledgment, and Filing of Certificate of Incorporation Generally; Effect of Granting of Authority for Incorporation Upon Incorporation of Other Such Corporations.

(a) Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three, shall file with the governing body of any municipality of this state an application in writing for authority to incorporate a public corporation under the provisions of this chapter and shall set forth in said application a brief description of the project to be acquired or improved by such corporation and if it shall be made to appear to such governing body that each of said persons is a duly qualified elector of and owner of property in said municipality and if the governing body of said municipality shall adopt a resolution which shall be duly entered upon the minutes of such governing body wherein it shall be found and determined that there is a public need for the proposed project and that it is wise, expedient, necessary, or advisable that such a corporation be formed and that the persons filing said application shall be authorized to proceed to form such corporation, then said persons shall proceed to organize such corporation by executing, acknowledging, and filing a certificate of incorporation as provided in this chapter.

No corporation shall be formed under this chapter unless the application provided for in this subsection shall be made and unless the resolution provided for in this subsection shall be adopted; provided, that the inadequacy of the description of the proposed project in the application for incorporation shall not affect the validity of the incorporation of such corporation.

(b) The granting of authority for the incorporation of one public corporation under this chapter shall not preclude the granting of authority by the governing body of the same municipality for the incorporation of other public corporations under this chapter; provided, that such other public corporations shall be required to adopt a name or designation sufficient to distinguish them from any public corporation theretofore incorporated by such municipality under this chapter.