§ 41-10-278 — Presumption of Validity of Bonds and Publication of Notice Thereof; Civil Action Challenging Validity

Any resolution authorizing any bonds hereunder shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to the provisions of this article, which recital shall be conclusive evidence that said bonds have been duly authorized pursuant to the provisions of this article, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law now in force or hereafter enacted or amended. Upon the passage of any resolution providing for the issuance of bonds under the provisions of this article, 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 a notice in substantially the following form (the blanks being first properly filled in):
Alabama Judicial Building Authority, a public corporation in 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 pledge and agreements made in said resolution for the benefit thereof, or the proceedings under which said bonds, pledge and agreements were authorized, must be commenced within twenty days after the first publication of this notice.
Alabama Judicial Building Authority
By _______________________________
Its chair
Any civil 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 article 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 or other proceedings, if any, or of the bonds, or of the pledge or agreements, shall be asserted. In the event of such publication the validity of such resolution, proceedings, bonds, pledge, or agreements shall not be open to question in any court upon any ground whatever, except in a civil action or proceeding commenced within such period. Any such action and any action to protect or enforce any rights under the provisions of this article shall be brought in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County.

Legislative History

(Acts 1986, No. 86-420, p. 627, §19.)