Ala. Code § 27-24-2
Except as provided in Section 27-24-4, whenever any person or corporation is, or may be, required or permitted to execute bond or other undertaking, of whatsoever nature, with surety, or sureties, for the faithful discharge or performance of the duties of any state, county, municipal, precinct, township, district, or corporate office or position or of any position of public or private trust or employment for the faithful discharge or performance of any duty or for the doing or not doing of anything in such bond or undertaking specified or when any person or corporation is required or permitted to execute any bond or other undertaking, of whatsoever nature, with surety or sureties, in any judicial proceeding or as guardian, executor, administrator, receiver, assignee, or trustee, the court, officer, or person having authority or charged with the duty of approving such bond or undertaking may, if such bond or undertaking is otherwise sufficient, approve the same when executed by a corporation having the power or authority under its charter to become surety on such bond or undertaking as surety and having complied with the provisions of this title. The execution by any such corporation as surety of any such bond or undertaking shall be, in all respects, upon the approval and acceptance of such bond, a full and complete compliance with the requirements of any law, ordinance, rule, or regulation requiring that such bond or undertaking shall be executed by one surety, or by one or more sureties, or that such surety, or sureties, shall be residents of the state, or any county therein, or shall be householders or freeholders, or either or both, or shall possess any other qualification.
Ala. Code § 27-24-2 (1975)