HB271

ENROLLED, An Act,

To adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2015 Regular Session as contained in the 2015 Cumulative Supplement to certain volumes of the code and 2015 Replacement Volumes 12, 12A, 14, and 14A; to initially adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, 2015 Volume 22J (Local Laws Lamar to Lee Counties) and to adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, 2015 Cumulative Supplements to local law volumes; to make certain corrections in the replacement volumes and certain volumes of the cumulative supplement; to delete Section 29-6-2.1 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to specify that this adoption and incorporation constitute a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975, and that this act is a law that adopts a code; to declare that the Code Publisher has certified it has discharged its duties regarding the replacement volumes; to expressly provide that this act does not affect any other 2015 Special Session or 2016 session statutes; and to specify the duties of the Secretary of State regarding the custody of these cumulative supplements, replacement volumes, and initial volume.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:

Section 1. (a) Those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2015 Regular Session as contained in the 2015 Cumulative Supplements to Volumes 3 to 11A, inclusive, Volumes 12B to 13A, inclusive, and Volumes 15A to 22A, inclusive, and the 2015 Replacement Volumes 12, 12A, 14, and 14A and the additions and deletions made by the Code Commissioner for editorial purposes, as edited and published by Thomson Reuters, as the Code Publisher, which volumes of the 2015 Cumulative Supplement and 2015 Replacement Volumes are identified and authenticated by the Great Seal of the State of Alabama placed upon the front and back of each of the volumes of the cumulative supplement and upon the first inside page and the last inside page of the replacement volume, are adopted and incorporated into the Code of Alabama 1975.

(b) The following corrections are made:

(1) Part 2 of Article 22 of Chapter 37 of Title 45, 2014 Volume 22I, pages 272 to 278, inclusive. To delete Part 2 in its entirety and to designate Part 2 as "reserved" because the act which added Part 2 is codified as Chapter 14C of Title 9, resulting in duplicative language.

(2) Section 29-6-2.1, 2013 Replacement Volume 16A, pages 860 and 861. To delete Section 29-6-2.1 in its entirety, which was retained in the Code of Alabama due to a scriveners error in Act 2015-408.

Section 2. Those local and permanent laws of the state previously enacted and contained in initial 2015 Volume 22J (Local Laws Lamar to Lee Counties) and the local and permanent laws pertaining to various counties enacted during the 2015 Regular Session as contained in the 2015 Cumulative Supplement to Volumes 22B, 22C, 22D, 22E, 22F, 22G, 22H, and 22I and the additions and deletions made by the Code Commissioner for editorial purposes, as edited and published by Thomson Reuters, as the Code Publisher, which volumes of the 2015 Cumulative Supplement are identified and authenticated by the Great Seal of the State of Alabama placed upon the front and back of each of the volumes of the cumulative supplement, are adopted and incorporated into the Code of Alabama 1975.

Section 3. The adoption and incorporation of the supplements and replacement volumes specified in this act shall constitute a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975, for purposes of Section 85 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. This act is a law that adopts a code for the purposes of Section 45 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.

Section 4. It is declared that Thomson Reuters, as the Code Publisher, has certified that it has discharged its duties and responsibilities to edit and publish 2015 Replacement Volumes 12, 12A, 14, and 14A of the Code of Alabama 1975, by combining the material in the previous bound volumes with the material contained in the cumulative supplement without making substantive changes, but making, under the supervision and pursuant to the direction of the Code Commissioner, nonsubstantive changes and corrections as may have resulted from changes in reference numbers, changes of names and titles of governmental departments, agencies, and officers, typographical errors, grammatical changes, and misspellings.

Section 5. The adoption of this act shall not repeal, supersede, amend, or in any other way affect any statute enacted into law during any 2015 Special Session or any 2016 session of the Legislature.

Section 6. Upon passage and approval of this act, the duly authenticated volumes of the 2015 Cumulative Supplements and the 2015 Replacement Volumes shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State, who shall file the volumes of the supplements and the replacement volumes in that office. The volumes of the supplements and replacement volumes shall not be removed from the office of the Secretary of State, but the Secretary of State, upon request, under proper certificate and seal of that office, shall certify any part or parts thereof upon payment of the fee specified by law for similar services.

Section 7. This act shall become effective immediately following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

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