Section 41-10-44.11 Publication of notice; time limitation on actions questioning bonds or proceedings.
Section 41-10-44.11
Publication of notice; time limitation on actions questioning bonds or proceedings.
Upon the adoption by the board of directors of the authority of any resolution providing for the issuance of project obligations, the authority may, in its discretion, cause to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks, in newspapers published or having a general circulation in the Cities of Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville and Mobile, a notice in substantially the following form (the blanks being properly filled in) at the end of which shall be printed the name and title of either the president or the secretary of the authority:
"The State Industrial Development Authority, a public corporation under the laws of the State of Alabama, on the ______ day of ________, authorized the issuance of $___ principal amount of bonds or other obligations of the said public corporation for purposes authorized in Title 41, Chapter 10, Article 2A. The proceeds from the sale of the said bonds or other obligations are proposed to be used to finance the acquisition, construction and installation of facilities to be located at _______, for the use and occupancy of _________.
Any action or proceeding questioning the validity of the said bonds or other obligations, the security thereof, the use of the proceeds thereof or the proceedings authorizing the same, must be commenced within 30 days after the first publication of this notice."
Any action or proceeding in any court to set aside or question the proceedings for the issuance of the project obligations referred to in said notice or to contest the validity of any such project obligations, or the validity of security therefor, or the validity of the proposed use of the proceeds thereof, must be commenced within 30 days after the first publication of such notice. After the expiration of the said period no right of action or defense questioning or attacking any of the foregoing shall be asserted, nor shall the validity of the said proceedings, project obligations, security or use of proceeds be open to question in any court on any ground whatsoever except in an action commenced within such period.
(Acts 1993, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 93-851, p. 79, §1.)