Alabama Code 41-10-89. Board of directors of corporation – Appointment of additional members to board by Governor; terms of office, etc., of additional members
Terms Used In Alabama Code 41-10-89
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- 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.
- 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
In the event that there shall be provided to the corporation either by legislative appropriation or by executive allocation from funds of the state either moneys sufficient to pay the cost of necessary preliminary surveys and engineering, architectural or feasibility studies or reports or, in the alternative, one fourth or more of the total cost of constructing the project, then and in either of such events, the number of directors provided for in this article and in the certificate of incorporation of the corporation shall be doubled, and all the additional directors shall be appointed by the Governor for staggered terms of office terminating on the same respective dates as the terms of office of the directors elected by the governing body. The Governor shall likewise appoint the successors to such additional directors.
In all other respects, directors appointed by the Governor and the board, with such directors as members, shall be subject to the other provisions of this chapter respecting the individual directors and the board.