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By Representative Estes (N & P)
RFD: Local Legislation
First Read: 07-Mar-23
PFD: 23-Feb-23
2023 Regular Session
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Enrolled, An Act,
Relating to Marion County; to amend Section
45-47-245.05, providing for the distribution of the proceeds
of a local tobacco tax in the county, to further provide for
the distribution of a portion of the proceeds to the Marion
County Firefighters Association.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 45-47-245.05 of the Code of Alabama
1975, is amended to read as follows:
"ยง45-47-245.05
(a) The proceeds from the tax hereby levied, less the
actual costs of collection not to exceed 10 per centum, shall
be paid by the State Department of Revenue to the Marion
County Commission to be deposited in two separate accounts to
the credit of either the Marion County Water Coordinating and
Fire Prevention Authority or the Marion County Volunteer Fire
and Rescue Association as follows:
(1) Sixty percent to the Marion County Water
Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority.
(2) Forty percent to the Marion County Volunteer Fire
and Rescue Association, to be divided as follows:
a. Twenty-five Thirty percent of the total net proceeds
to the Marion County Firefighters Association.
b. Ten percent of the total net proceeds to rescue
squad associations.
c. Five percent to public licensed ambulance services
if such services are authorized and created by such
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association.Any portion of the net proceeds held and not
distributed to public licensed ambulance services before the
effective date of the act adding this amendatory language
shall be distributed to the Marion County Firefighters
Association.
(b) The Marion County Volunteer Fire and Rescue
Association shall have authority to promulgate may adopt rules
and regulations having the force and effect of law for the
distribution of the funds under subdivision (a)(2) of
subsection (a).
(c) Distribution shall be made by the Marion County
Commission to the separate accounts upon written request of
the chair of the respective Marion County Water Coordinating
and Fire Prevention Authority and the Marion County Volunteer
Fire and Rescue Association. The written request shall be
submitted to the Marion County Commission and shall become a
permanent part of the minutes of the commission. A copy of the
written request shall be retained by the requesting authority
or association to be entered in their permanent records."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on the first
day of the third month following its passage and approval by
the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives
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President and Presiding Officer of the Senate
House of Representatives
I hereby certify that the within Act originated in and
was passed by the House 13-Apr-23.
John Treadwell
Clerk
Senate 27-Apr-23 Passed
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