40-20-50
Section 40-20-50 Collection of severance taxes; deposit into fund; distribution of investment
income; trustees; escrow agents; limitations. Any laws or parts of laws to the contrary notwithstanding,
any annual privilege tax levied upon persons engaging in the business of producing or severing
oil or gas or other hydrocarbons from the soil or waters of this state measured by the gross
value of such oil or gas or other hydrocarbons and which tax is applicable only in a particular
county and under which collections were being made on January 1, 1987, or which shall hereafter
be levied pursuant to legislative act, shall be continued and collected only as herein prescribed:
(1) All revenues collected from such local severance taxes shall, beginning the first day
of the month following August 3, 1987, be paid into the general fund of the county exclusively
for transfer and deposit into a trust fund hereby established until the total sum of $15,000,000
in severance tax revenues of the type...
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45-27-246.30
Section 45-27-246.30 Trust fund. (a) The Legislature recognizes that there has been a certain
windfall to Escambia County paid during the fiscal year 1983-84 and arising under the oil
and gas severance tax levied under provisions of Section 40-20-2, and distributed under Section
40-20-8. The legislative intent of this section is to establish a trust fund, the corpus of
which is to be composed of four million dollars ($4,000,000) from the oil and gas severance
tax paid to Escambia County during the fiscal year of 1983-84 together with 20 percent of
the annual income thereon each year during the existence of this trust beginning with the
fiscal year 1984-85. (b) Subject to any limitation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901,
or of any general law of this state, the Escambia County Commission shall establish a trust
fund which shall be entitled the Escambia County Oil and Gas Severance Trust and which shall
hereafter in this section be referred to as the trust. The Escambia County...
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45-49-171.44
Section 45-49-171.44 Funding - Additional revenues. The county commission also shall obligate
such additional revenues from the General Fund of Mobile County in the amount of any oil and
gas severance tax revenues being held in escrow designated for Mobile County and collected
pursuant to Act 79-434 and Act 80-708, and in the amount of any funds transferred from the
License Commissioner of Mobile County to the General Fund of Mobile County which relates to
beer taxes; such revenues to be used to the extent the board may require same to perform properly
its duties as provided in Section 45-49-171.41 after such funds authorized in Section 45-49-171.43
have been appropriated and paid out by the board. Provided, however, that in the event that
oil and gas severance tax revenues held in escrow and collected pursuant to Act 79-434 and
Act 80-708 and distributed to the General Fund of Mobile County are reduced by judicial decree,
the county commission shall obligate funds from its general...
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45-49-248
Section 45-49-248 Disposition of funds from oil and gas severance tax. (a) The County Commission
of Mobile County shall distribute and pay all funds received by Mobile County under subsection
(a) of Section 40-20-8, as amended, relating to the levy and distribution of a privilege tax
on the production of oil and gas from offshore, as follows: (1) Thirty-five percent to the
County Commission of Mobile County to be used for county purposes. (2) Thirty percent to the
Mobile County Indigent Care Board which shall be used for the medical care and treatment of
medically indigent citizens of the county and under Subpart 3, commencing with Section 45-49-171.40,
Part 2, Article 17, of this chapter. (3) Thirty-five percent to the Mobile County Board of
Education which shall be placed in a special account by the board for the purpose of capital
outlay projects within the Mobile County School System. (b) The County Commission of Mobile
County shall distribute and pay in 12 monthly installments all...
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40-20-31
Section 40-20-31 Levied; applicability. There is hereby levied and shall be paid and collected
as herein set forth a documentary or transfer tax, to be known as the mineral documentary
tax, upon the filing and recording of every lease and other writing hereafter executed whereby
there is created a leasehold interest in and to any nonproducing oil, gas or other minerals
in, on or under or that may be produced from any lands situated within the State of Alabama,
or whereby any such interest is assigned or is extended beyond the primary term fixed by the
original instrument, and upon every deed, instrument, transfer, evidence of sale or other
writing whereby there is hereafter conveyed to a grantee or purchaser, or excepted or reserved
to a grantor separately and apart from the surface, any interest in or right to receive royalty
from any nonproducing oil, gas or other minerals in, on or under or that may be produced from
any lands within the State of Alabama; provided, that the tax shall...
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40-20-35
Section 40-20-35 Tax to be in lieu of ad valorem taxes; exemption of nonproducing leasehold
and other interests from ad valorem taxes. The mineral documentary tax levied above shall
be in lieu of all ad valorem taxes and all nonproducing leasehold interests upon all oil,
gas and other minerals in, on or under lands lying within the State of Alabama, created or
assigned after October 12, 1957, and also all nonproducing interests in such oil, gas and
other minerals, including royalty interests therein, hereafter conveyed to a grantee or purchaser
or excepted or reserved to a grantor separately and apart from the surface shall be exempt
from all ad valorem taxes levied on or after October 1, 1957, by the State of Alabama, or
any county, municipality, school district, or other taxing district within the state or becoming
a lien on or after said date. Any sale for taxes of the surface or of the remainder of the
fee shall not in any manner whatsoever affect the interest or interests hereby...
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40-7-15
Section 40-7-15 Property to be appraised at fair market value. Except as otherwise provided
by law, for the purpose of assessment, real and personal property shall be appraised at its
fair and reasonable market value, according to the best judgment the assessor, the board of
equalization, and agents of the Department of Revenue can form upon information, inspection,
or otherwise, taking into consideration all elements or factors bearing on such value as heretofore
or hereafter authorized; mineral, coal, oil, gas, timber, and turpentine interests, when they
have been severed in ownership from the soil, by sale or otherwise, shall be separately appraised
and assessed. Notwithstanding the above, all property under lease as of October 1, 1978, which
lease does not provide for a direct passthrough of property taxes to the lessee, shall be
appraised solely on the basis of the economic net return to the owner. (Acts 1935, No. 194,
p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §46; Acts 1978, 2nd Ex. Sess., No....
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45-2-231.90
Section 45-2-231.90 Baldwin County Sheriff Service of Process Serving Fund. (a) This section
shall only apply to Baldwin County. (b) The Baldwin County Sheriff Service of Process Serving
Fund is created and hereinafter referred to in this section as the fund. (c) The Sheriff of
Baldwin County, except for warrants for arrest, may contract with or enter into contract or
agreement with a private, public, or governmental entity for the purpose of service of process.
(d)(1) In addition to all existing charges, fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk,
sheriff, or other appropriate court official in the criminal division of the district and
circuit courts of Baldwin County, shall collect a service of process fee of twenty dollars
($20) per document which shall be paid into the fund. (2) In addition to all existing charges,
fees, judgments, and costs of court, the clerk, sheriff, or other appropriate court official
in the civil division of the district and circuit courts of Baldwin...
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45-27-246.04
Section 45-27-246.04 Distribution of funds from Escambia County Courthouse and County Jail
Trust Fund. The funds received by Escambia County prior to June 1, 1989, from severance tax
or privilege tax on oil and gas under any general law, including Sections 40-20-1 through
40-20-13, or any local law whatsoever, and deposited in the county treasury designated as
the Escambia County Courthouse and County Jail Trust Fund, shall be distributed as follows:
(1) All the interest from such investment shall be deposited in the county general fund. (2)
Up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) of the principal shall be deposited in the
county general fund. (3) The remaining principal shall be deposited as principal into the
Escambia County Oil and Gas Severance Trust as established in Subpart 2. The earned interest
that is generated by this transfer of principal shall be expended according to the provisions
of Subpart 2. (Act 89-270, p. 424, §2.)...
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23-1-83
Section 23-1-83 Transfer of general fund surplus to road fund by county. The county commission
of any county in this state may transfer to the road fund of the county any surplus of the
general funds of the county in the county treasury or any part of such surplus whenever, in
the judgment of such commission, it will promote the interest of the county to make such transfer.
Any surplus of the general fund so transferred shall be used only for the working of the public
roads or the building of bridges or otherwise improving the roads of such counties. (Code
1907, §5766; Code 1923, §1351; Acts 1927, No. 347, p. 348; Code 1940, T. 23, §47.)...
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