SB143 Alabama 2017 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Bobby D. Singleton Senator

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Motor vehicles, salvage or junk branded, advertisements, license or registration number required, penalties, unlicensed or unregistered entities prohibited from towing, impoundment authorized, cost recovery fines authorized

Description

This bill would require a person who advertises for the purchase of a salvage or junk branded motor vehicle to display his or her current license number on the sign or advertisement.

This bill would provide criminal penalties for the failure to display the license number and would provide exemptions.

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.

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Subjects

Motor Vehicles