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AL SB176
Bill
AI Summary
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Amends Section 35-11-60 of the Alabama Code to allow liens to attach to vessels regardless of the owner's domicile or the vessel's home port location.
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Replaces the term "steamboat" with "vessel" throughout the statute to modernize terminology.
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Establishes that liens apply to any ship, vessel, or watercraft that is built, repaired, fitted, furnished, supplied, or provisioned within Alabama for work done or materials supplied by any person in the state.
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Maintains lien priority for wages of masters, laborers, stevedores, and shipkeepers, as well as for wharfage and dockage charges, over other debts owed by vessel owners.
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Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.
Legislative Description
Liens on vessels, may attach to watercraft or vessel regardless of domicile of owner or home port of vessel, Sec. 35-11-60 am'd.
Liens
Last Action
Indefinitely Postponed
6/1/2011