11-65-10
Section 11-65-10 Powers and duties of commission. When authorized by one or more elections
as provided in Section 11-65-4, a commission shall have the powers and duties necessary to
license, regulate, and supervise horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon and greyhound
racing and pari-mutuel wagering thereon within the commission municipal jurisdiction, including,
without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the powers and duties hereinafter set forth
in this section or in other sections of this chapter. (1) A commission shall have succession
in perpetuity, subject only to the provisions of this chapter as it may be amended from time
to time. (2) A commission shall have the power to sue and be sued in its own name in civil
suits and actions and to defend suits against it. (3) A commission shall have the power to
adopt and make use of an official seal and to alter the same at pleasure. (4) A commission
shall have the power to adopt, alter, and repeal bylaws, regulations and...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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11-51-40
Section 11-51-40 Adoption of ordinance providing for payment of municipal taxes upon basis
of state and county assessments for preceding tax year, etc.; operation under provisions of
article by certain cities. Any municipality may by ordinance provide that the tax year for
such municipality shall commence on October 1 of each year and end on the next succeeding
September 30 and provide for the effective date of such ordinance and further provide that
on and after each October 1 after the effective date of such ordinance municipal taxes shall
be based and due on state and county assessments for the preceding tax year and shall be due
and delinquent at the time when the state and county taxes for the preceding tax year are
due and delinquent. All cities whose taxes were, prior to the adoption of the 1940 Code, assessed
and collected under 1911 Acts, p. 130, or 1931 Acts, p. 337, shall continue under the provisions
of this article without passage of any ordinance. (Acts 1911, No. 155, p....
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11-51-211
Section 11-51-211 Quarterly sales and use tax returns. (a)(1) With respect to those municipalities
and counties for which the department serves as the collecting sales tax agent from time to
time, when the total state sales tax for which any person is liable under Chapter 23 of Title
40 averages less than two hundred dollars ($200) per month during the preceding calendar year,
a quarterly sales tax return and remittance in lieu of monthly returns may be made to the
department. If a quarterly filing election has been made by the taxpayer, then the return
and remittance shall be made to the department on or before the 20th day of the month next
succeeding the end of the quarter for which the tax is due. The election to file quarterly
shall be made in writing no later than February 20 of each year and shall be filed with the
department. Notwithstanding the above, no state-administered county or municipal sales tax
return shall be due until January 20 of each year unless the total state...
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40-7-28
Section 40-7-28 Correction of improvement assessment when improvements nonexistent. When, prior
to March 1 next after the close of any ad valorem tax year, any taxpayer, his agent, or attorney
shall make proof satisfactory to the county tax assessor of the county in which such real
estate is assessed that improvements have been assessed against him as being on said real
estate when in fact there were no improvements thereon, as of the close of any ad valorem
tax year the tax assessor shall be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to correct
said assessment to speak the truth by deleting therefrom said improvements and the assessed
value thereof. The tax assessor shall promptly thereafter give written notice of such correction
of said assessment to the tax collector and to the board of equalization of said county and
shall securely attach a copy of said notice to the corrected assessment record. (Acts 1953,
No. 317, p. 374.)...
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45-36-140
Section 45-36-140 Assessment and collection of tax; Fire Marshal; regulations; fire districts.
(a) The Jackson County Commission is hereby authorized to fix a county fire protection tax
at a rate of 2 mills on each one hundred dollars ($100) of the assessed value on all taxable
real estate outside the incorporated municipalities of Jackson County, excluding row crops
and pasture lands. The tax fixed by the Jackson County Commission shall be based on the assessed
value of all taxable real estate outside the incorporated municipalities of Jackson County,
except row crops and pasture lands, as shown by the records of the Tax Assessor of Jackson
County, and shall be assessed and collected as all other ad valorem taxes in the county. The
Tax Assessor and Tax Collector of Jackson County shall not charge to or collect from the fire
protection tax fund any fees or charges for the assessment or collection of the fire protection
tax. The amount collected from assessment and collection of this...
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11-51-42
Section 11-51-42 Levy of taxes; certification and delivery to county tax assessor of copy of
ordinance or resolution levying taxes. It shall be the duty of the council, board of commissioners,
or other governing body of any such municipality during the month of May of each year, by
resolution or ordinance, to levy a tax on the property situated in such municipality for the
next succeeding tax year at a rate in no event in excess of the constitutional limit authorized
to be levied by such municipality on the value of such property as assessed for state taxation
as shown by the books of assessment for the state and county tax year ending September 30
next succeeding the levy. The levy so made by the council, board of commissioners, or other
governing body of such municipality shall go into force and effect as of October 1 next succeeding
the levy and shall become a lien on October 1 next succeeding such levy and not before. After
such levy is made it shall be the duty of the mayor or...
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11-51-44
Section 11-51-44 Lien for taxes. Such municipalities shall have a lien from, on, and after
October 1 of such municipal tax year upon each and every piece and parcel of property, real
and personal, for the payment of municipal taxes for that tax year which may be assessed against
the owners or upon such property for the use of such municipalities, which lien shall have
priority over all other liens, except for state and county taxes, and this lien shall exist
as to all land bid in by the state at tax sales for the annual tax thereafter assessed on
the value of the property so purchased in the event of the tax title failing. (Acts 1931,
No. 300, p. 337; Acts 1939, No. 57, p. 67; Code 1940, T. 37, §702.)...
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45-27-242
Section 45-27-242 Compensation of tax assessor and tax collector. (a) In those municipalities
in Escambia County which avail themselves of the Optional Method of Collecting Municipal Taxes,
set forth in Division 2, commencing with Section 11-51-40, of Article 1, Chapter 51, Subtitle
2, Title 11, the compensation of the tax assessor for assessing municipal ad valorem taxes
shall be not more than two and one half percent nor less than one percent of the amount of
such taxes; and the compensation of the tax collector for collecting municipal ad valorem
taxes shall be not more than two and one-half percent nor less than one percent of the amount
of such taxes. (b) The compensation herein provided for the Tax Assessor and Tax Collector
of Escambia County shall be retained by the Tax Collector of Escambia County out of such municipal
ad valorem taxes collected by him or her, and he or she shall pay to the Tax Assessor of Escambia
County his or her portion of such compensation at such times...
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45-2-242.20
Section 45-2-242.20 Levy of tax; disposition of funds. Pursuant to Amendment No. 319 to the
Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the Baldwin County Commission may levy, in addition to any
other tax, an ad valorem tax in the amount of one mill on each dollar of taxable property
in the county, beginning with the tax year commencing October 1, 1993. Monies realized from
this tax will be used to meet minimum requirements, standards, and guidelines of each library's
respective governing bodies and to encourage resource and information sharing through a mutual
library network including public, school and college libraries, and to provide for expanding
technology in order to improve access to information. Funds shall be distributed as follows:
(1) Ten percent to Faulkner State Community College. (2) Thirty percent to the Baldwin County
Board of Education to be distributed to each school library, based on enrollment and shall
be in addition to and not in lieu of other funds. (3) Thirty percent to...
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