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3	3	SB46
4	4	EM3DCC2-1
5	5	By Senators Sessions, Williams, Figures (N & P)
6	6	RFD: Mobile County Legislation
7	7	First Read: 04-Feb-25
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12	12	5 EM3DCC2-1 07/24/2024 fc (L) ma 2024-2227
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15	15	SYNOPSIS:
16	16	This bill would authorize any Class 2 municipality
17	17	to establish a delegation agreement with the Alabama
18	18	Department of Environmental Management for the local
19	19	enforcement of the Alabama Scrap Tire Environmental
20	20	Quality Act.
21	21	This bill would also provide for jurisdiction of
22	22	violations in the municipal court of the Class 2
23	23	municipality and for criminal penalties.
24	24	A BILL
25	25	TO BE ENACTED
26	26	AN ACT
27	27	Relating to Class 2 municipalities; to amend Section
28	28	22-40A-12 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Alabama
29	29	Scrap Tire Environmental Quality Act, to authorize the
30	30	governing body of a Class 2 municipality to establish a
31	31	delegation agreement with the Alabama Department of
32	32	Environmental Management to enforce the act; to authorize
33	33	enforcement in a Class 2 municipality in municipal court; and
34	34	to provide for criminal penalties of certain violations.
35	35	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
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65	65	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
66	66	Section 1. Section 22-40A-12 of the Code of Alabama
67	67	1975, is amended to read as follows:
68	68	"§22-40A-12
69	69	(a) County commissions and the governing body of any
70	70	Class 2 municipality may request primacy on enforcement and
71	71	establish delegation agreements with the department for
72	72	enforcement of this chapter. The department shall establish by
73	73	regulation rule the procedures for delegation. Counties A
74	74	county or a Class 2 municipality that wish to voluntarily
75	75	establish such establishes a delegation agreements agreement
76	76	with the department for local enforcement shall have all of
77	77	the following responsibilities:
78	78	(1) Provide quarterly reports to the department on all
79	79	scrap tire activities within that quarter on a form prepared
80	80	and provided by the department.
81	81	(2) Provide a written investigation reports report to
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83	83	(3) Investigate all reports and complaints regarding
84	84	scrap tires within the respective county or Class 2
85	85	municipality.
86	86	(4) Investigate illegal dumping of scrap tires.
87	87	(5) Review manifests of scrap tires at businesses
88	88	(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in a
89	89	Class 2 municipality, the municipal court shall have
90	90	jurisdiction over violations of this chapter.
91	91	(c) In any Class 2 municipality, in lieu of the
92	92	penalties provide in Section 22-40A-19, the following
93	93	penalties shall apply:
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123	123	penalties shall apply:
124	124	(1) A person who accumulates scrap tires in violation
125	125	of this chapter as provided in Section 22-40A-19(a)(1), upon
126	126	conviction, shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
127	127	(2) A person who processes scrap tires in violation of
128	128	this chapter as provided in Section 22-40A-19(a)(2), upon
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130	130	(3) A person who transports scrap tires in violation of
131	131	this chapter as provided in Section 22-40A-19(a)(3), upon
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133	133	Section 2. This act shall become effective June 1,
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