Alabama § 14-2-15 - Bonds - Recital, Notice and Contest of Authorizing Resolution, Etc.

§ 14-2-15. Bonds - Recital, Notice and Contest of Authorizing Resolution, Etc.

(a) Any resolution or indenture of trust authorizing any bonds under this chapter shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, which recital shall be conclusive evidence that said bonds have been duly authorized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law now in force or hereafter enacted or amended.

(b) Upon the passage of any resolution or approval of any indenture or trust providing for the issuance of bonds under the provisions of this chapter, the authority may, in its discretion, cause to be published once in each of two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and having general circulation in the City of Montgomery, Alabama, a notice in substantially the following form, the blanks being first properly filled in:

“Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority, an Agency of the State of Alabama, on the _____ day of _____, 20__, adopted a resolution providing for the issuance of _____ Dollars principal amount of bonds of said Authority. Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of said resolution or said bonds or the pledges and agreements made in said resolution for the benefit thereof, or the proceedings under which said bonds, pledges and agreements were authorized, must be commenced within 20 days after the first publication of this notice.

Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority.

(c) Any action or proceeding in any court seeking to set aside or invalidate a resolution providing for the issuance of bonds under the provisions of this chapter or to contest the validity of any such bonds or the validity of any pledge or agreement made therefor must be commenced within 20 days after the first publication of said notice. After the expiration of 20 days following such first publication, no right of action or defense founded upon the validity of the resolution, indenture of trust or other proceedings, if any, or of the bonds or of the pledges or agreements shall be asserted. In the event of such publication, the validity of such resolution, indenture of trust, proceedings, bonds, pledges or agreements shall not be open to question in any court upon any ground whatever, except in an action or proceeding commenced within such period. Any such action shall be brought in the circuit court of Montgomery County, Alabama.