HB89 Alabama 2014 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jamie Ison

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2014

Title

Community development, alcoholic beverages in annexed territory, Sec. 35-8B-1 am'd.

Summary

HB89 ensures that a community development district remains wet when it becomes a municipality or is annexed, and expands alcohol sale permissions in specific districts, with related tax and revenue rules.

What This Bill Does

It amends Section 35-8B-1 so that if a community development district is incorporated as a municipality or annexed by one, the district's territory stays wet and the rest of the municipality can be made wet at the local government's discretion. It creates definitions for different types of community development districts and allows alcohol sale by Alcoholic Beverage Control licensees in certain districts, exempting those districts from some existing restrictions. It requires that a CDD that becomes a new municipality be wet, and it requires notice to voters that incorporation would make the new municipality wet. It requires counties to participate in tax and license fee distributions for CDDs and provides that alcohol revenues can offset certain TVA payments.

Who It Affects

• Local governments (cities, towns, and community development districts): the wet status of the district will carry over when a CDD is annexed or becomes a municipality, and the local government can choose to keep surrounding areas wet; some districts may also qualify for alcohol sales under new criteria.
• Residents, businesses, and counties in areas with CDDs: some defined districts may permit on-site alcohol sales by ABC licensees, and state and local revenue rules (tax distributions and TVA offsets) may change as a result.

Key Provisions

• Amendment to 35-8B-1 ensuring wet status for CDD territory upon annexation or incorporation as a municipality.
• New/expanded definitions of community development districts, including criteria for districts that may allow alcohol sales by ABC licensees and exemptions from Section 35-8B-3 for those districts.
• Provisions that new municipalities formed from CDDs must be wet and must include notice to voters that incorporation will make the area wet.
• Requirements for counties to participate in tax and license fee distributions for CDDs and rules linking alcohol revenues to TVA in-lieu-of-taxes offsets.

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