Code of Alabama - Title 10A: Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code - Chapter 21 - Certain Powers, Rights, and Duties of Corporations

• Article 1 Corporate Political Contributions.
• Section 10A-21-1.01 Establishment of segregated, separate political funds; voluntary contributions; filing of disclosure reports; violations
  Repealed by Act 2013-311, §3, effective August 1, 2013.
• Section 10A-21-1.02 Giving aid or contribution to political party or candidate, etc.; penalty; exception for voluntary separate political fund
  Repealed by Act 2013-311, §3, effective August 1, 2013.
• Section 10A-21-1.03 Limitation on amount of political contribution; provisions supplemental
  Repealed by Act 2013-311, §3, effective August 1, 2013.
• Section 10A-21-1.04 Corporation contributions to candidates, parties, etc
  Repealed by Act 2013-311, §3, effective August 1, 2013.
• Article 2 Corporate Powers of Eminent Domain.
• Section 10A-21-2.01 Power of eminent domain in internal improvement or public utility corporations
  Corporations formed for the purpose of constructing, operating, or maintaining railroads, street railroads, gas or electric works, water companies, power companies, canals, terminals, bridges, viaducts,...
• Section 10A-21-2.02 Condemnation for ways and rights-of-way, etc., by railroad companies
  Railroad companies may, by condemnation, acquire real estate for ways and rights-of-way not exceeding 100 feet in width throughout the entire length of its lines,...
• Section 10A-21-2.03 Railroads authorized to transfer abandoned rights-of-way
  Any railroad is hereby authorized to transfer all rights, title, and interests to any abandoned right-of-way or portion thereof for public road and bridge use...
• Section 10A-21-2.04 Condemnation for rights-of-way or easements by mining, manufacturing, industrial, power, and quarrying companies
  (a) Every mining, manufacturing, industrial, power, and quarrying corporation or company may acquire by condemnation rights-of-way or easements over or across the lands or easements...
• Section 10A-21-2.05 Condemnation of ways and rights-of-way by companies constructing, operating, or maintaining internal improvement or public utility
  Street railroad companies, telegraph, telephone, water, gas, electric, power, canal, pipeline companies, and all other companies formed for constructing, operating, or maintaining any work of...
• Section 10A-21-2.06 Construction through curtilage of house, etc., without consent prohibited
  Unless otherwise provided by law, no street railroad company or any other corporation, except railroad companies, pipeline companies, and public works companies shall, without the...
• Section 10A-21-2.07 Condemnation of water sources, riparian rights and necessary lands by waterworks corporation
  (a) Corporations authorized to construct and operate waterworks for the supplying of municipalities and their inhabitants, or others living or doing business in the vicinity...
• Section 10A-21-2.08 Condemnation of lands for depots, yards, and tracks by railroads
  Railroads or railroad companies operating in this state may acquire by condemnation proceedings, in the mode prescribed by law, lands for depots, freight yards, and...
• Section 10A-21-2.09 Rights of condemning corporations in selection of routes and sites
  Railroads, street railroads, mining, manufacturing, power, quarrying, telegraph, telephone, pipeline, and other corporations having rights and powers to condemn: (1) May cause such examinations and...
• Section 10A-21-2.10 Operation of transportation methods for persons or property by railroad, mining, manufacturing, and quarrying companies
  Railroad companies and mining, manufacturing, and quarrying companies may contract, purchase, or otherwise acquire, own, operate, and maintain steamboats, barges, ships, and other vessels for...
• Section 10A-21-2.11 Conveyance of franchises, rights, roadbed, and property to another railroad corporation
  Whenever all the capital stock of a railroad corporation formed under this title is owned by a railroad corporation chartered under the laws of this...
• Section 10A-21-2.12 Aiding of another corporation in railroad construction or entering into line arrangements
  (a) Any railroad corporation and any mining, manufacturing, or quarrying corporation may, at any time, by means of subscription to the capital stock of any...
• Section 10A-21-2.13 Operation of railroads or canals without state and making extensions within state by railroad, mining, manufacturing, and quarrying companies
  Railroads, mining, manufacturing, and quarrying companies may purchase, lease, or acquire in any other manner, hold and operate a railroad or railroads or canals without...
• Section 10A-21-2.14 Construction and operation of connections to public ways by mining, manufacturing, and quarrying corporations
  Mining, manufacturing, and quarrying corporations may construct and operate to, and from, their mines, furnaces, mills, factories, quarries, or other works, railways, tramways, canals, tunnels,...
• Section 10A-21-2.15 Contracting with local authorities on use of public roads and places by internal improvement and public utility corporations
  Street railway, gas, electric, and water companies and all other corporations, except railroads, formed for the purpose of constructing, operating, or maintaining any works of...
• Article 3 Prosecutions of Corporations.
• Section 10A-21-3.01 Docketing and issuance of notice of indictment
  When an indictment is returned against a corporation doing business in this state, such indictment shall be forthwith docketed, and the clerk of the court...
• Section 10A-21-3.02 Service of notice and copy; when case stands for trial
  Such notice and copy may be served upon any officer or agent of the defendant corporation authorized by law to receive service of summons or...
• Section 10A-21-3.03 Entry of not guilty plea for corporation failing to appear, etc
  If the defendant corporation fails to appear and plead to the indictment, the court must cause the plea of not guilty to be entered for...
• Section 10A-21-3.04 Execution on judgment; stay thereof
  Upon the conviction of such corporation, judgment shall be entered against it for the fine imposed, together with the costs of the prosecution, and execution...

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