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29-2-1
Section 29-2-1 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares as
follows: improving the efficiency, cost effectiveness and performance of all branches of government
can only be achieved with proper oversight, accountability, and transparency in government
decision making and processes for service delivery; a long-range program of highway development
and maintenance in Alabama (herein "the state") is vital to the safety of the traveling
public as well as the industrial and agricultural growth of the state; the highway system
in the state must be adequate to meet expanding needs; highway construction, maintenance,
and administration to support such a system should include long-range planning, soundness
in scope of the highway program, efficient performance, and fiscal responsibility in both
policy and planning; the use of a long-range highway program will further the judicious expenditure
of highway funds, will promote the public safety and convenience, will...
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16-13-234
Section 16-13-234 Allocation of funds. (a) In making apportionment of the Public School Fund
held by the state, to the local boards of education, the State Superintendent of Education
shall first set apart and distribute to the schools of each township the amount due from the
state thereto as interest on its sixteenth section fund, or other trust fund held by the state.
(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to insure that no local board of education receive
less state funds per pupil than it received in fiscal year 1994-95. For this reason the Foundation
Program for each local board of education shall be supplemented, if necessary, by a hold harmless
allowance. The base amount of each local board's hold harmless allowance calculation is the
1994-95 program cost as defined herein. The 1994-95 program cost of each local board of education
was determined by using the first forty scholastic days of average daily membership from 1993-94.
Beginning with the fiscal year 1995-96, the hold...
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11-32-7
Section 11-32-7 Powers of authority. (a) The authority shall exercise powers and duties necessary
to the discharge of its powers and duties in corporate form as follows: (1) Have succession
by its corporate name in perpetuity subject to Section 11-32-20. (2) Sue and be sued in its
own name in civil suits and actions and defend suits against it. (3) Adopt and make use of
a corporate seal and alter the same at its pleasure. (4) Adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation
and conduct of its affairs and business. (5) Acquire, receive, take, by purchase, gift, lease,
devise, or otherwise, and hold property of every description, real, personal, or mixed, whether
located in one or more counties or municipalities and whether located within or outside the
authorizing county. (6) Make, enter into, and execute contracts, agreements, leases, and other
instruments and take other actions as may be necessary or convenient to accomplish any purpose
for which the authority was organized, or exercise any...
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40-17-359
Section 40-17-359 Distribution and use of proceeds. (a) For the purpose of this section, the
following terms shall have the meanings ascribed below: (1) BASE ANNUAL COUNTY DISTRIBUTION.
Five hundred fifty thousand dollars ($550,000). (2) COST OF COLLECTION. The amounts from the
proceeds of the highway gasoline tax that may be appropriated by the Legislature to the department
for its operating expenses. (3) COUNTY. Each county in the state. (4) FISCAL YEAR. The fiscal
year of the state. (5) DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. The Department of Transportation of the
state. (6) HIGHWAY GASOLINE TAX. Both of the following: a. The excise tax levied under subdivision
(1) of subsection (a) of Section 40-17-325, with the exception of those portions of the tax
levied on aviation fuel and marine gasoline. b. The excise tax levied by Sections 40-17-140
to 40-17-155, inclusive, except that portion of the tax imposed on diesel fuel. (7) LOCAL
SUBDIVISIONS' SHARES OF THE NET TAX PROCEEDS. The 55 percent...
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40-17-371
Section 40-17-371 Cost of collection; distribution of tax proceeds. (a) The Alabama Department
of Revenue shall retain one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) of the tax proceeds, less any refunds,
from this additional excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel for its cost of collection. The
department may adopt rules and such forms as may be necessary for the administration of the
excise tax provided for in this article. (b) Each month, prior to the remaining payments provided
in this article, up to $750,000 of the tax proceeds from the additional excise tax on gasoline
and up to $230,000 of the tax proceeds from the additional excise tax on diesel fuel shall
be distributed first to the Alabama Highway Finance Corporation for the payment of the principal
of and interest on bonds to be issued by it to finance improvements to the ship channel providing
access to the facilities of the Alabama State Docks, to the extent necessary for such purpose.
The amount distributed pursuant to this section...
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23-8-2
Section 23-8-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds all of the following: (a) That consistent
with the constitutional mandate that navigable waterways are public highways, the Legislature
hereby finds as a fact that a portion of the gasoline and diesel fuel sold in this state is
used for marine purposes to propel vessels on coastal and inland waterways of this state.
(b) That it is the policy of this state to use a portion of the funds derived from the additional
excise tax levied by the Rebuild Alabama Act on each net gallon of gasoline and diesel fuel
for the programs and activities of the Alabama State Port Authority. (c) That the development
and growth of electric vehicle transportation infrastructure are considerations in the construction,
reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of a modern-day public road, highway, and bridge system
in this state. (d) That the State Department of Transportation is the appropriate agency to
initiate the comprehensive planning and...
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40-12-242
Section 40-12-242 License taxes and registration fees - Private passenger automobiles and motorcycles;
electric vehicles; Electric Transportation Infrastructure Grant Program. (a) The following
annual license taxes and registration fees are hereby imposed and shall be charged on each
private passenger automobile operated on the public highways of this state and on each motorcycle
operated on the public highways: (1) For each private passenger automobile $13.00 (2) For
each motorcycle $7.00 No private passenger automobile and no motorcycle shall be used on any
public highway in the state unless the proper license tag therefor has been procured and is
securely attached to the rear end thereof, the tag to be attached right side up with the number
thereof in an upright position and plainly visible. (b)(1) In addition to the annual license
taxes and registration fees imposed in subsection (a) and in this article, there is hereby
imposed and shall be charged: a. An annual license tax and...
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23-1-332
Section 23-1-332 Creation; revenue sources; allocation of revenue; use of funds; funds to be
matched; obligation limitations; role of department; unobligated funds. (a) There is created
within the state a program to be known as the Rural Access Program. (b) The following revenues
sources shall be allocated for use of the Rural Access Program. (1) Motor fuel taxes distributed
to the Department of Transportation and deposited in the Public Road and Bridge Fund under
the provisions of Sections 40-17-13 and 40-17-222, in excess of 105 percent of the base year
receipts, compounded annually. Fiscal year 1994-95 is the base year. Any motor fuel tax receipts
that exceed 105 percent of the base year receipts compounded annually shall be allocated to
the Rural Access Program for allocation to the 67 counties of the state. (2) Other funds including,
but not limited to, matching funds provided by counties. (c) Allocation of the revenue received
shall be as follows: (1) Other funds shall be...
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23-1-50.1
Section 23-1-50.1 Road machinery and equipment management program; Equipment Management Surplus
Reserve Account. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to give the State Department of Transportation
authority to accumulate depreciation, equipment replacement allowances, and salvage value
on road machinery and equipment sufficient to upgrade, replace, or make extraordinary repairs
to the road machinery and equipment of the State Department of Transportation, as determined
by a road machinery and equipment management program to be developed by the department. (b)
Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following words and phrases will have
the following meanings: (1) STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DIVISIONS. Those divisions
of the Department of Transportation responsible for road construction and maintenance over
a specified geographic area of the state. (2) DEPRECIATION. That process of allocating the
original cost per fixed asset over the productive life of the asset...
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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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