HB161 Alabama 2017 Session

This bill would prohibit a person from owning or operating or installing, creating, building, or fabricating a motor vehicle, aircraft, or vessel with a false or secret compartment used to unlawfully conceal contraband or controlled substances and would provide criminal penalties for violations

This bill would also provide for the forfeiture of the motor vehicle, aircraft, or vessel and any contents in the false or secret compartment

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

To prohibit a person from owning or operating or installing, creating, building, or fabricating a motor vehicle, aircraft, or vessel with a false or secret compartment used to unlawfully conceal contraband or controlled substances; to provide criminal penalties for violations; to provide for the forfeiture of the motor vehicle, aircraft, or vessel and any contents in the false or secret compartment; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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.