SB293 Alabama 2013 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Gas and oil tax, proceeds of four cent excise tax distrib. to counties, use for vegetation management, Sec. 40-17-362 am'd.; Sec.40-17-224 repealed

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, the proceeds of the four-cent excise tax on gasoline and lubricating oil are used by the Department of Transportation for the construction and maintenance of public roads and bridges on the state highway system; by counties for the resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of paved county roads and bridges or bridge replacement on the county road system; and by municipalities for the resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of roads, bridges, and streets within the municipality</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would allow the proceeds of the four-cent excise tax on gasoline and lubricating oil distributed to counties to be used for vegetation management on the rights-of-way of county roads</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also clarify the uses for the four-cent excise tax and repeal an obsolete section of the Code of Alabama 1975</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Section 40-17-362, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to gasoline tax, to clarify the uses for the four-cent excise tax on gasoline and lubricating oil; to allow the proceeds of the four-cent excise tax on gasoline and lubricating oil distributed to counties to be used for vegetation management on the rights-of-way of county roads; and to repeal Section 40-17-224, Code of Alabama 1975, as obsolete. </p>

Subjects

Taxation