For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

(1) AUTHORITY. The public corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 14-2-1

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(2) COMMISSION. The Building Commission created by Section 41-9-140 and its successors as the state agency for awarding construction contracts and supervising construction.
(3) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Corrections created by Section 14-1-1.1 and its successors as the state agency responsible for supervising and controlling the operation of the correctional institutions of the state.
(4) ESCAMBIA MEN’S PRISON FACILITY. A prison facility, including all real property, buildings, and improvements, designed to house at least 4,000 male inmates and with intake capability, to be located on land owned by the state or the authority as of December 1, 2020, in Escambia County, as provided in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)a.
(5) STATE. The State of Alabama.
(6) BONDS. The bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter.
(7) FACILITIES. Such term includes any one or more of the following:

a. Prisons;
b. Buildings and enclosures for housing, containing, or supervising prisoners; and
c. Any facilities necessary or useful in connection with prisons, buildings, or enclosures, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hospitals, offices, correctional officers’ quarters and residences, warehouses, garages, storage facilities, abattoirs, cold storage plants, canning plants, laundries, and manufacturing plants , educational and other programming facilities, medical, mental health, and other health care facilities, and substance abuse and addiction treatment facilities.
(8) KILBY PROPERTY. Such term includes all of the real property commonly referred to as Kilby prison property, embracing not only the real property owned by the state on which Kilby prison is located, but also all real property owned by the state used in connection with Kilby prison and adjacent thereto, all located in sections 2, 3, 10, 11, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, and 35 in township 17, range 18 in Montgomery County, Alabama, together with all personal property owned by the state and used in connection with Kilby prison and the real property adjacent thereto.
(9) PERRY COUNTY FACILITY. The Perry County Correctional Center, including all real property, buildings, and improvements located at the facility in Perry County.
(10) SPECIALIZED MEN’S PRISON FACILITY. A prison facility, including all real property, buildings, and improvements, designed to house at least 4,000 male inmates, with intake capability, and with designated space for enhanced medical, mental health, and other health care, substance abuse and addiction treatment, and educational and other programming services to inmates, to be located on land owned by the state or the authority as of December 1, 2020, in Elmore County, as provided in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)a.
(11) WOMEN’S PRISON FACILITY. A prison facility designed to house at least 1,000 female inmates to be located on land owned by the state or the authority in Elmore County, as provided in Section 14-2-12(c)(2)b.1.
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