HB349 Alabama 2017 Session

This bill would create the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017.

This bill would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of monuments located on public property.

This bill would prohibit any person from preventing the governmental entity responsible for maintaining the monuments from taking proper measures to protect, preserve, care for, repair, or restore the monuments.

This bill would restrict the renaming of a school, street, bridge, building, park, preserve, or reserve which is located on public property.

This bill would create the Alabama Committee on Memorial Preservation and would provide for the membership of the committee and the duties of the committee, and would authorize the committee to grant waivers and to issue orders for the restoration of monuments removed without authorization.

This bill would also exempt certain art and artifacts, the Department of Transportation, local governments, universities, and utilities under certain limited circumstances.

To create the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017; to prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, or renaming of monuments located on public property; to prohibit any person from preventing the governmental entity responsible for maintaining the monuments from taking proper measures to protect, preserve, care for, repair, or restore the monuments; to restrict the renaming of a school, street, bridge, building, park, preserve, or reserve which is located on public property; to create the Alabama Committee on Memorial Preservation; to provide for the membership of the committee; to provide for the duties of the committee; to authorize the committee to grant waivers and to issue orders; and to exempt certain art and artifacts, the Department of Transportation, local governments, universities, and utilities under certain limited circumstances.