§33-16-4. Procedure for incorporation.

To become a corporation, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Director of Finance, the Highway Director, the Director of the State Docks Department and the President of the Coosa-Alabama River Improvement Association shall present to the Secretary of State of Alabama an application signed by each of them which shall set forth

(1) The name, official designation and official residence of each of the applicants;

(2) The name of the proposed corporation, which shall be Coosa Valley Development Authority;

(3) The location of the principal office of the proposed corporation; and

(4) Any other matter relating to the proposed corporation which the applicants may choose to insert and which is not inconsistent with this chapter or the laws of the State of Alabama.

The application shall be subscribed and sworn to by each of the applicants before an officer authorized by the laws of the State of Alabama to take acknowledgments to deeds. The Secretary of State shall examine the application and, if he finds that it substantially complies with the requirements of this section, he shall receive and file it and record it in an appropriate book of records in his office.

(Acts 1969, No. 186, p. 491, §4.)