Ala. Code § 22-21-71
It is the intention of the Legislature by the passage of this division to authorize in each of the several counties of the state the organization of one or more public corporations for the purpose of acquiring, owning and operating public hospitals and other public health facilities in the county in which such corporation shall be organized, or in a portion of the said county. It is the legislative intent to confer on corporations organized under this division all the powers requisite for the fulfillment of the purposes of their organization, including the power to do whatever financing may be necessary to accomplish such purposes. This division shall be liberally construed to give effect to its purpose. Corporations organized under this division shall be nonprofit corporations, and no part of the net earnings thereof shall inure to the benefit of any member thereof or other individual or private corporation.
Ala. Code § 22-21-71 (1975)