To amend its certificate of incorporation or certificate of reincorporation so to provide, the board shall first adopt a resolution approving and authorizing such an amendment to the certificate of incorporation or certificate of reincorporation (as the case may be) of the authority, which amendment shall be set forth in full in the said resolution. Within 40 days following the adoption of such resolution, the chairman and the secretary of the authority shall sign and file for record, in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the original certificate of incorporation or certificate of reincorporation (as the case may be) of the authority was filed, a certificate in the name and on behalf of the authority, under its seal, reciting the adoption of such resolution by the board and setting forth the proposed amendment. The said judge of probate shall thereupon record such certificate in an appropriate book in his office. When such certificate has been so filed and recorded, such amendment shall become effective without any further consents or approvals (including, without limitation, any consents or approvals that would otherwise be required by law for amendments to such certificate of incorporation or certificate of reincorporation, as the case may be), and the certificate of incorporation or certificate of reincorporation (as the case may be) of such authority shall thereupon be amended to the extent provided in such amendment. The preceding provisions of this subsection shall not, however, apply to any authority if its certificate of incorporation or certificate of reincorporation (as the case may be), or any amendment thereto made pursuant to the provisions of the enabling statute, expressly denies to such authority the power to amend its certificate of incorporation or certificate of reincorporation as provided in this subsection.
Ala. Code § 22-21-352 (1975)