All resolutions adopted by the board of directors shall constitute actions of the authority, and all proceedings of the board of directors shall be reduced to writing by the secretary of the authority, shall be signed by the members of the authority and shall be recorded in a substantially bound book and filed in the office of the state Finance Director. Copies of such proceedings, when certified by the secretary of the authority under the seal of the authority, shall be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the matters and things therein certified.
Ala. Code § 41-10-496 (1975)