HB523 Alabama 2013 Session

This bill would authorize the governing body of a Class 1 municipality to adopt an ordinance that would permit the city to adopt a fiscal year that begins on October 1 and ends on September 30 and provide specifications for transition to a new fiscal year

This bill would amend the deadlines for submission of the budget proposal by the mayor and adoption of the general fund budget by the council if the council adopts a fiscal year that begins on October 1 and ends on September 30

This bill would specify that certain notices relating to budget hearings may be published in a newspaper that is not published daily and would ratify the publication of certain prior notices prohibited in conformance with this act in a Class 1 municipality

Relating to any Class 1 municipality; to amend Sections 5.01 and 5.02, as amended by Act 792, 1973 Regular Session (Acts 1973, p. 1206), and Sections 5.08 and 5.10 of Act 452 of the 1955 Regular Session (Acts 1955, p. 1004), providing a mayor-council form of government for cities having a certain population; to adopt an ordinance that would permit the city to adopt a fiscal year that begins on October 1 and ends on September 30 and provide specifications for the transition to a new fiscal year; to amend the deadlines for submission of the budget proposal by the mayor and adoption of the general fund budget by the council if the council adopts a fiscal year that begins on October 1 and ends on September 30; to provide that notice of the place and time of a public hearing on the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year be published at least once in a newspaper published and of general circulation in the city at least seven days prior to the hearing; and to confirm and ratify actions taken by any Class 1 municipality in publishing the notices in a newspaper that is not published daily prior to the effective date of this act.