§ 22-21-174 — Incorporation - Certificate of Incorporation - Amendment

Alabama § 22-21-174

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 22: Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control
• Ch. 21: Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally
• Art. 6: County and Municipal Hospital Authorities

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The certificate of incorporation of any public corporation incorporated under this article may, at any time and from time to time, be amended in the following manner:
(1) The board of directors of the corporation shall adopt a resolution setting forth the proposed amendment, which may include any proposed change in the name of such corporation, the inclusion of another municipality or municipalities as members thereof (provided each of such other municipalities is located, in whole or in part, in the county which is a member of the corporation) and any matter which might originally have been included in the certificate of incorporation.
(2) If the governing body of the county and of each other member of the corporation and the governing body of each municipality, if any, which it is proposed shall be added as a member of the corporation shall by resolution consent to such proposed amendment, the chairman and the secretary of the corporation shall then file, in the office of the judge of probate in the county in which the certificate of incorporation of the corporation is filed, a certificate in the name and on behalf of the corporation, under its corporate seal, reciting the adoption of the said respective resolutions by the board of directors and by the governing bodies of the county and of such municipalities and setting forth the proposed amendment.
(3) The proposed amendment shall become effective upon the filing of such certificate in the said office.

Legislative History

(Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, §5.)