Ala. Code § 11-57-23
The municipality is hereby authorized to transfer and convey to the authority, with or without the payment of monetary consideration therefor, any property that may immediately preceding such conveyance be owned by the municipality, whether or not such property is necessary for the conduct of the governmental or other public functions of the municipality; provided, that such conveyance shall be authorized by a resolution duly adopted by the governing body prior to the conveyance. Such resolution shall be published one time, at least five days before such transfer is consummated, in a newspaper published in the municipality or, if there is no newspaper then published in the municipality, then in a newspaper published or circulated in the county.
Ala. Code § 11-57-23 (1975)