Alabama Constitution

Adopted by Constitutional Convention September 3, 1901

Ratified by vote of the People November 28, 1901

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Article XII. Corporations

Article Private Corporations

Corporations may sue and be sued like natural persons

"Corporation" defined

Article Railroads and Canals

When railroads and canals deemed public highways; railroad and canal companies; common carriers; rights of railroad companies generally

Regulation of railroad companies vested in legislature

Giving free passes or discount tickets to members of legislature or officers exercising judicial functions

Railroad companies not to give rebates or bonuses in nature thereof; deceiving or misleading public as to rates

Acceptance of article prerequisite to benefits of future legislation

Article XIII. Banks and Banking

Authority of legislature restricted

Banking laws to be general; specie basis; authority of banks to issue bills to circulate as money

Bills or notes issued as money redeemable in gold or silver; laws not to sanction suspension of specie payments

Preference of certain creditors in case of insolvency of bank

Termination of business

Maximum rate of interest

State and political subdivisions thereof not to be stockholders in banks or lend credit thereto

Examination of banks by public officers; semiannual reports by banks

Applicability of article

Article XIV. Education

Duty of legislature to establish and maintain public school system; apportionment of public school fund; separate schools for white and colored children

Principal from sale, etc., of school property to be preserved; disposition of income therefrom

Property donated or appropriated for educational purposes and estates of persons dying without will or heirs to be applied to maintenance of public schools

Use of poll taxes for support of public schools

Certain income to be applied to support and maintenance of public schools; special annual tax for schools; maximum annual levy on taxable property; priority for payment of bonded indebtedness of state

Percentage of school funds for teachers' salaries

Supervision of public schools vested in superintendent of education

School funds not to be used for support of sectarian or denominational schools

Board of trustees of state university

Annual payment of interest on funds of University of Alabama; authority to abolish military system at university

Board of trustees of Alabama Polytechnic Institute

Change of location of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Alabama Schools for the Deaf and Blind or Alabama Girls Industrial School

Provision for taking school census

Special county school taxes

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