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Section 33-1-1 - State may engage in promoting, constructing, operating, etc., harbors and ports; expenditure of funds to entertain customers, etc., authorized; audit and accounting of certain expenditures.

AL Code § 33-1-1 (2019) (N/A)
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The State of Alabama may engage in, through the agency of the Alabama State Port Authority provided and designated by law, works of internal improvement, and of promoting, developing, constructing, maintaining and operating all harbors, seaports or riverports within the state or its jurisdiction, including the acquisition or construction, maintaining and operating at seaports and riverports of harbor watercraft and terminal railroads, as well as all other kinds of terminal facilities. Such work or improvement and facilities shall be under the management and control of the state through the governing agency provided and designated by law.

The Alabama State Port Authority in further promoting harbors, seaports and riverports within the state, through its director, and such employees as may be designated in writing by the director, shall be authorized to expend funds of the department to entertain customers or prospective customers, industrial prospects or in promoting public relations in such manner as the director deems appropriate; provided, that all funds expended under this section and Sections 33-1-11 and 33-1-12 shall be subject to audit and accounting as otherwise provided for by law.

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