HB405 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

House Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2010

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Chad Fincher
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2010
Title: Timber and forest products, altering a weight measuring device prohibited, penalties, unauthorized cutting, removal, transportation, sale, or purchase of timber and other forest products designated Class A misdemeanor, exception for electric utility workers, Sec. 9-13-60 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, the unauthorized cutting, removal, transportation, sale, or purchase of timber and other forest products is a misdemeanor.
This bill would specify that these offenses are Class A misdemeanors.
This bill would also make it a crime to alter a weight measuring device or otherwise cause a weight measuring device to give a false reading of forest products.
This bill would define forest products.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Subjects: Forestry