Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB249 Compare Versions

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3	3	SB249
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5	5	By Senators Allen, Orr, Melson
6	6	RFD: County and Municipal Government
7	7	First Read: 18-Mar-25
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15	15	SYNOPSIS:
16	16	Under existing law, a municipality may enact an
17	17	ordinance or resolution to levy a new tax or license
18	18	fee or to increase the rate of any existing tax or
19	19	license fee when the tax or license fee is otherwise
20	20	authorized by law.
21	21	This bill would provide that a municipality may
22	22	only levy a new tax or license fee, or increase the
23	23	rate of a tax or license fee, by ordinance.
24	24	This bill would provide that the ordinance may
25	25	not be considered for adoption until after a public
26	26	hearing, and would require at least 30 days' notice
27	27	before the public hearing.
28	28	This bill would also provide for the
29	29	requirements of the notice.
30	30	A BILL
31	31	TO BE ENTITLED
32	32	AN ACT
33	33	Relating to municipalities; to amend Section 11-45-2,
34	34	Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the procedure
35	35	regarding certain taxes and fees; and to require notice in
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65	65	regarding certain taxes and fees; and to require notice in
66	66	certain circumstances.
67	67	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
68	68	Section 1. Section 11-45-2, Code of Alabama 1975, is
69	69	amended to read as follows:
70	70	"§11-45-2
71	71	(a) The style of an ordinance of a city or town shall
72	72	be, "Be it ordained by the city (or town) council of _______
73	73	as follows:" inserting the name of the city or town as the
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75	75	(b)(1) No ordinance or resolution intended to be of
76	76	permanent operation shall be adopted by the council at the
77	77	same meeting at which it is introduced, unless unanimous
78	78	consent of those present is given for the immediate
79	79	consideration of such the ordinance or resolution, such with
80	80	consent to be shown by a vote taken by yeas and nays, and the
81	81	names of the members voting shall be entered upon the
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83	83	(2)and no No ordinance or resolution intended to be of
84	84	permanent operation shall become a law unless on its final
85	85	passage a majority of the members elected to said the council
86	86	in cities of over 12,000 inhabitants shall vote in its favor.
87	87	(3) In all towns and in cities of less than 12,000
88	88	population, an affirmative vote of a majority of the whole
89	89	number of members of the council to which the corporation is
90	90	entitled, including the mayor, shall be required to enact any
91	91	ordinance or resolution intended to be of permanent operation.
92	92	(c)(1)a. Notwithstanding subsection (b), any action of
93	93	a council to adopt a new tax or license fee, or to increase
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123	123	a council to adopt a new tax or license fee, or to increase
124	124	the rate of a tax or license fee, shall be subject to this
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126	126	b. After the ordinance is introduced at a council
127	127	meeting, a public hearing shall be held by the council after
128	128	not less than 30 days' notice of the public hearing is given.
129	129	c. The notice shall state all of the following:
130	130	1. The substance of the proposed ordinance.
131	131	2. The amount of any proposed new tax or license fee,
132	132	or the amount of the increase in any tax or license fee.
133	133	3. The date, time, and place of the public hearing.
134	134	4. That a copy of the proposed ordinance may be
135	135	obtained from the office of the municipal clerk.
136	136	d. The notice shall be published in a newspaper of
137	137	general circulation published in the municipality or otherwise
138	138	in the same manner as the publication of an ordinance is
139	139	provided for in Section 11-45-8(b).
140	140	e. A representative of the municipality shall post a
141	141	copy of the proposed ordinance on the website of the
142	142	municipality, if the municipality has a website, and on the
143	143	Secretary of State's open meetings website.
144	144	f. After the public hearing, the proposed ordinance may
145	145	be considered by the council at a regular council meeting.
146	146	(c) The council shall award no contract on bids except
147	147	by resolution."
148	148	Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
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