SB189 Alabama 2016 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Arthur Orr Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

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police jurisdiction, reduced, authorized to be extended by local law under certain conditions, ordinances repealed if outside police jurisdiction, Sec. 11-40-10 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the police jurisdiction of a municipality having a population of less than 6,000 extends for one and one-half miles and the police jurisdiction of a municipality over 6,000 in population extends for three miles.

This bill would provide that the police jurisdiction of all municipalities would be set at one and one-half miles from the corporate limits.

The bill would authorize the extension of the police jurisdiction of a municipality by local law to not more than three miles from the corporate limits if the municipality has a full-time police force and a full-time, paid fire department whose services will be provided to all individuals within the extended police jurisdiction. The bill would also further provide that ordinances, taxes, or regulations in effect on the effective date of this act may remain in effect until July 1, 2017, but, absent enactment of a local law pursuant to this act prior to July 1, 2017, would thereafter be repealed within any territory extending beyond one and one-half miles from the corporate limits.

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Subjects

Municipalities