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AL SB189
Bill
AI Summary
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Sets police jurisdiction of all Alabama municipalities uniformly at one and one-half miles from corporate limits, effective immediately upon passage.
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Allows municipalities to extend police jurisdiction to not more than three miles by local law if they maintain both a full-time police force and full-time, paid fire department providing services throughout the extended jurisdiction.
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Permits existing ordinances, taxes, and regulations beyond one and one-half miles to remain in effect until July 1, 2017, but they are automatically repealed on that date unless a local law extending jurisdiction is enacted before the deadline.
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Requires 30-day notice to the public and submission to state business information websites before enforcing any ordinances adopted after September 1, 2015 in the police jurisdiction.
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Effective immediately upon Governor's approval or passage without signature.
Legislative Description
Municipalities, police jurisdiction, reduced, authorized to be extended by local law under certain conditions, ordinances repealed if outside police jurisdiction, Sec. 11-40-10 am'd.
Municipalities
Last Action
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs
2/9/2016