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JPGLYY-1
By Senator Melson (N & P)
RFD: Local Legislation
First Read: 11-Apr-23
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A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to Lauderdale County; to amend Section
45-39-246, providing for the distribution of Tennessee Valley
Authority in lieu-of-taxes payments, to reallocate payments
from the county and municipalities to the Agriculture Center
Authority.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 45-39-246 of the Code of Alabama
1975, is amended to read as follows:
"§45-39-246
(a) In Lauderdale County, the payments made to the
county commission as authorized in Section 40-28-2 shall be
distributed by the county commission as follows: 10 percent of
the payments shall be distributed to the county to be used in
the county road and bridge fund; 30 percent of such the
payments shall be disbursed on the same formula as school
funds according to how the State Department of Education’s
current expense ratio are apportioned , to the two local school
systems - the Lauderdale County Board of Education and the
Florence Board of Education; 60 70 percent of the payments
shall be distributed to the county general fund and the
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general funds of the City of Florence, the City of
Rogersville, the City of Lexington, the City of Killen, the
City of Anderson, the City of St. Florian, and the City of
Waterloo. The county shall share the 60 percent with the
cities in the same ratio that the population of each named
city bears to the population of the entire county Lauderdale
County Agriculture Center Authority .
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a),
after the establishment of an agriculture authority in the
county, the county commission shall annually distribute one
million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) to the
authority; however, the percentages for the distribution of
the balance of the payments shall remain the same for the
entities listed in subsection (a). "
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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