45-39-221.03
Section 45-39-221.03 Powers of tourism board. (a) The tourism board may conduct programs and
events, including, but not limited to, programs of information and publicity, sporting events,
and other public events to attract tourists and visitors to the county. The tourism board
may conduct programs or events in the state and elsewhere and expend its funds in the furtherance
of such programs and events in the state and elsewhere. (b) The tourism board may enter into
contracts with any person, firm, corporation, or association to carry out the purposes set
forth herein. No contract entered into by the tourism board shall bind either the state, the
county, or any municipality. (c) The tourism board shall have the following additional powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits
and actions against it, including suits and actions ex delicto...
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45-37-140.10
Section 45-37-140.10 Powers of district. (a) The district shall constitute a public corporation,
which shall have the power to do any and all acts or things necessary and convenient for carrying
out the purposes for which it is created including, but not limited to: (1) To sue and be
sued. (2) To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure. (3) To acquire, hold, and dispose
of property, real and personal, tangible and intangible, or interests therein and to pay therefor
in cash or on credit, and to secure and procure payment of all or any part of the purchase
price thereof on such terms and conditions as the board shall determine. (4) To acquire, own,
operate, maintain, and improve a system or systems. (5) To pledge all or any part of its revenues,
or mortgage, or otherwise encumber, all or any part of its property for the purpose of securing
the payment of the principal of and interest on any of its obligations. (6) To sell, lease,
mortgage, or otherwise encumber or dispose of all or...
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45-17-92
Section 45-17-92 Colbert County Tourism and Convention Bureau. (a) This section shall apply
only in Colbert County. (b) The following words and terms as used in this section, shall have
the meanings hereby ascribed to them: "the bureau" means the public corporation
for which this section provides; "the board" means the board of directors of the
authority for which this section provides. (c)(1) There is hereby established in the county
a public corporation for the purposes herein specified, which corporation shall be vested
with the powers conferred upon it by this section. The public corporation is at times hereinafter
referred to as "the bureau." (2) Subject to the conditions and qualifications hereinafter
stated, the name of the corporation shall be the Colbert County Tourism and Convention Bureau.
(d)(1) The bureau shall be authorized and empowered to conduct programs, including but not
limited to programs of information and publicity designed to attract conventions and tourism
to...
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45-26-142.10
Section 45-26-142.10 Powers of district; bylaws. (a) The district shall constitute a public
corporation, which shall have the power to do any and all acts or things necessary and convenient
for carrying out the purposes for which it is created, including, but not limited to, all
of the following: (1) To sue and be sued. (2) To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure.
(3) To acquire, hold, and dispose of property, real and personal, tangible and intangible,
or interests therein and to pay therefor in cash or on credit, and to secure and procure payment
of all or any part of the purchase price thereof on the terms and conditions as the board
shall determine. (4) To acquire, own, operate, maintain, and improve a system or systems.
(5) To pledge all or any part of its revenues, or mortgages, or otherwise encumber, all or
any part of its property for the purpose of securing the payment of the principal of and interest
on any of its obligations. (6) To sell, lease, mortgage, or otherwise...
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45-49-140.09
Section 45-49-140.09 Powers of district; taxation exemption. (a) The district shall constitute
a public corporation, which shall have the power to do any and all acts or things necessary
and convenient for carrying out the purposes for which it is created including, but not limited
to: To sue and be sued; to have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; to acquire, hold, and
dispose of property, real and personal, tangible and intangible, or interests therein and
to pay therefor in cash or on credit, and to secure and procure payment of all or any part
of the purchase price thereof on such terms and conditions as the board shall determine; to
acquire, own, operate, maintain, and improve a system or systems; to pledge all or any part
of its revenues, or mortgages, or otherwise encumber, all or any part of its property for
the purpose of securing the payment of the principal of and interest on any of its obligations;
to sell, lease, mortgage, or otherwise encumber or dispose of all or any...
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40-22-1
Section 40-22-1 Deeds, bills of sale, etc. (a) Except as set out in subsection (b), no deed,
bill of sale, or other instrument of like character which conveys any real or personal property
within this state or which conveys any interest in any such property shall be received for
record unless the privilege or license tax is paid prior to the instrument being offered for
record as provided in subsection (c). (b) No privilege or license tax shall be required for
any of the following: (1) The transfer of mortgages on real or personal property within this
state upon which the mortgage tax has been paid. (2) Deeds or instruments executed for a nominal
consideration for the purpose of perfecting the title to real estate. (3) The re-recordation
of corrected mortgages, deeds, or instruments executed for the purpose of perfecting the title
to real or personal property, specifically, but not limited to, corrections of maturity dates
thereof, and deeds and other instruments or conveyances,...
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40-26-1
Section 40-26-1 Tax imposed; exemptions; definitions. (a) There is levied and imposed, in addition
to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, a privilege or license tax upon every
person, firm, or corporation engaging in the business of renting or furnishing any room or
rooms, lodging, or accommodations to transients in any hotel, motel, inn, tourist camp, tourist
cabin, marine slip, place or space for tent camping, place or space provided for a motor home,
travel trailer, self-propelled camper or house car, truck camper, or similar recreational
vehicle commonly known as a R.V., or any other place in which rooms, lodgings, or accommodations
are regularly furnished to transients for a consideration, in any county which is located
in the geographic region comprising the Alabama mountain lakes area, those being Blount, Cherokee,
Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Etowah, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison,
Marion, Marshall, Morgan, and Winston, in an amount to be...
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40-12-220.1
Section 40-12-220.1 Legislative intent. It was the intent of the Legislature in enacting Sections
40-12-220 to 40-12-227, inclusive, to impose a license tax or privilege tax on lessors based
on the gross proceeds derived from the leasing or rental of tangible personal property. It
is also the intent of the Legislature to permit lessors of tangible personal property to pass
on to lessees such license or privilege taxes by adding such taxes to the leasing price or
otherwise, with all such amounts constituting the gross proceeds subject to the privilege
or license tax provided in this article. The purpose of Act 2001-636 is to clarify and insure
the implementation of the actual purpose and original intent of the Legislature when it enacted
this article. (Act 2001-636, p. 1242, §2.)...
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45-37-244.01
Section 45-37-244.01 Automobile rental tax. (a) In Jefferson County, in addition to all other
taxes imposed by law, there is hereby levied an additional privilege or license tax, in the
amount hereinafter prescribed against any person, organization, or other entity engaging or
continuing in the county in the business of leasing or renting any passenger automotive vehicle,
the duration of the lease being not more than one year. The amount of the taxes levied by
this section shall be equal to three percent of the gross proceeds derived by the lessor from
the lease or rental of such passenger automotive vehicle for not more than one year. The taxes
levied by this section shall become effective September 1, 2001. (b) All amounts collected
pursuant to this section shall be allocated to the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority,
established by Sections 45-37-90 to 45-37-90.07, inclusive, and shall be used for the support
of the operation of the authority, including, but not limited to,...
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40-12-172
Section 40-12-172 Transient dealers. Each person doing business as a transient dealer as defined
in this section and who does not pay the privilege license under Section 40-12-73 or the license
permit under Section 40-25-19 shall pay an annual license tax to the state of $30. The payment
of one state license shall authorize such transient dealer to engage in such business in any
county in the state upon the payment of a county license of $5 in each such county. When used
in this section, the words "transient dealer" shall be held to include any person
or persons who shall be embraced in any of the following classifications: All persons acting
for themselves or as an agent, employee, salesman or in any capacity for another, whether
as owner, bailee or other custodian of goods, wares, and merchandise and going from person
to person, dealer to dealer, house to house or place to place and selling or offering to sell,
exchanging or offering to exchange, for resale by a retailer, any goods,...
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