Alabama Code 16-18B-1. Legislative findings
Terms Used In Alabama Code 16-18B-1
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is necessary, desirable, and in the public interest that the state provide adequate forensic sciences laboratories and educational facilities for the provision of instruction and research in the field of forensic sciences. It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this article to authorize the formation of a public corporation for the purposes of providing for the acquisition, provision, construction, improvement, renovation, equipping, and maintenance of such facilities and to authorize the corporation to provide for payment of the costs of accomplishing the stated purposes by implementing that certain constitutional amendment authorizing the issuance by the state of up to $17,500,000 principal amount of its general obligation bonds, which amendment was proposed by Act 98-337, and by issuing and selling for the state, subject to the approval of the Governor, interest bearing general obligation bonds of the state not in excess of $17,500,000 in principal amount, as authorized by said constitutional amendment.