Alabama § 22-21-350 Definitions

Alabama Statutes

§ 22-21-350 — Definitions

Alabama § 22-21-350

JurisdictionAlabama

Title 22Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control

Ch. 21Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Generally

Art. 11AAdditional Power of Health Care Authorities

Div. 1Certain Additional Powers

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Ala. Code § 22-21-350 (2026).

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The following words and phrases used in this division shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following respective meanings:

(1)AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized, and any public hospital corporation reincorporated, pursuant to the provisions of the enabling statute.

(2)AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. A resolution adopted by the board authorizing an arrangement by which an authority is to furnish office space to a nonhospital-based physician, dentist or other health care professional for use in his private practice.

(3)AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. A county, municipality, or educational institution with the governing body of which an application for the incorporation of an authority under the enabling statute, or for the reincorporation of a public hospital corporation

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The following words and phrases used in this division shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following respective meanings:
(1) AUTHORITY. A public corporation organized, and any public hospital corporation reincorporated, pursuant to the provisions of the enabling statute.
(2) AUTHORIZING RESOLUTION. A resolution adopted by the board authorizing an arrangement by which an authority is to furnish office space to a nonhospital-based physician, dentist or other health care professional for use in his private practice.
(3) AUTHORIZING SUBDIVISION. A county, municipality, or educational institution with the governing body of which an application for the incorporation of an authority under the enabling statute, or for the reincorporation of a public hospital corporation thereunder, is filed (and any other county, municipality, or educational institution that may at the time constitute an “authorizing subdivision” within the meaning of the enabling statute).
(4) BOARD. The board of directors of an authority.
(5) DIRECTOR. A member of a board.
(6) ENABLING STATUTE. Act No. 82-418 enacted at the 1982 Regular Session of the Legislature (codified as Article 11 of Chapter 21 of Title 22, as amended).
(7) NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CREDIT RATING AGENCY. Any credit rating agency that is nationally recognized for skill and expertise in rating the credit of obligations similar to securities issued by an authority (including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and Standard & Poor’s Corporation).
(8) SECURITIES. Bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of indebtedness or other evidences of indebtedness, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) notes issued in anticipation of the sale of any of the foregoing.
The term “federal securities,” as used in this division, shall have the same meaning given it in the enabling statute.