SB416 Alabama 2016 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2016

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tim Melson Senator
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2016
Title: Trespassing, placement of purple paint to mark posted property, authorized, Sec. 13A-7-1 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, a person may be guilty of a trespassing crime if he or she enters or remains unlawfully on unimproved or unused land if the owner posts notice of trespass in a conspicuous manner.
This bill would provide that posting property in a conspicuous manner would include signs posted on the property or the placement of identifying purple paint marks on trees or posts on the property, provided the marks meet certain requirements.
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: Crimes and Offenses