§ 11-61A-21 — Publication of Notice

Upon the adoption by the board of any resolution providing for the issuance of bonds, the authority may cause to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks, in a newspaper that is customarily published in this state not less than five days in each calendar week and distributed in the county in which the principal office of the authority is located, a notice in substantially the following form (the blanks being properly filled in) at the end of which there shall be printed the name and title of either the chair or secretary of the authority: “_____ a public corporation of the State of Alabama, on the _____ day of _____,_____, authorized the issuance of $ _____ principal amount of revenue bonds of the corporation for purposes authorized in the act of the Legislature of Alabama under which the corporation was organized. Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of the bonds, or the pledge and any instruments securing the bonds, or the proceedings authorizing the bonds, must be commenced within 30 days after the first publication of this notice.” Any action or proceeding in any court to set aside or question the proceedings for the issuance of the bonds referred to in the notice or to contest the validity of any bonds or the validity of the pledge and any instruments made to secure the bonds must be commenced within 30 days after the first publication of the notice. After the expiration of the period, no right of action or defense questioning or attacking the validity of the proceedings, the bonds, or the pledge or instruments shall be asserted, nor shall the validity of the proceedings, bonds, pledge, or instruments be open to question in any court on any ground whatsoever except in an action commenced within the period.

Legislative History

(Acts 1994, No. 94-254, p. 470, §21.)