Code of Alabama - Title 44: Youth Services - Chapter 3 - Regional Custody and Care of Youths Under Jurisdiction of Juvenile Court

• Section 44-3-1 Definitions
  The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication herein...
• Section 44-3-2 Authorization for creation by counties and municipalities of regional, nonprofit public corporations for provision of temporary care and custody of youths under juvenile court jurisdiction
  All counties and incorporated municipalities in this state are hereby authorized and empowered to form regional, nonprofit, public corporations which shall provide for the temporary...
• Section 44-3-3 Effect of formation of corporations upon presently existing juvenile facilities and programs and corporations
  Any corporation so created shall be a public, nonprofit corporation and may be organized as a successor to presently existing juvenile facilities and programs. Members...
• Section 44-3-4 Service areas of corporations
  The service area of such corporation shall be those present and future Alabama counties who are members of a corporation formed for the purpose of...
• Section 44-3-5 Corporations to be governed by boards of directors; selection and meetings of boards of directors
  Such corporation shall be governed by a board of directors selected from member counties or municipalities, as the case may be, as may be specified...
• Section 44-3-6 Powers of corporations generally
  Pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, such corporation, in acting through the board of directors, shall have all the powers of a corporation as...
• Section 44-3-7 Amendment of articles of incorporation of corporations
  The articles of incorporation of such corporation may be amended as specified in the articles of incorporation.
• Section 44-3-8 Admission of governing bodies into membership of corporations
  Any governing body in the state as defined in this chapter may submit a letter of application to the corporation's chairman of the board of...
• Section 44-3-9 Appropriations to corporations by governing bodies
  All governing bodies, as defined in this chapter, are hereby authorized to appropriate and pay over to the corporation a respective share of the costs...
• Section 44-3-10 Responsibility of boards of directors for control and direction of facilities and programs
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to mean that the facilities and programs, provided for herein, are to be under the control or direction...
• Section 44-3-11 Exemption from taxation of corporations, property, income, etc
  Such corporation authorized herein, and its property, including bonds, conveyances, mortgages, leases and all income from such property, and operation of programs shall be exempt...
• Section 44-3-12 Commencement of existence of corporations
  Such corporation authorized herein shall come into being upon the filing of the articles of incorporation with the office of probate judge in the county...

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