Under existing law, the Commissioner of Conservation and Natural Resources has the authority to manage, control, and lease sixteenth section land and school indemnity land, originally granted by Congress to each township in the state for the use of the inhabitants of the township for the use of schools, and income arising from the sixteenth section trust fund and the school indemnity land trust fund is applied to the support and maintenance of the public schools in the state.
This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to grant certain sixteenth section land and school indemnity land located in that portion of land annexed into the Town of Eldridge in Walker County to the Walker County Board of Education, to authorize the Walker County Board of Education to manage, sell, lease, and control those lands and any timber, minerals, or other natural resources of the land, and to provide for the distribution of any proceeds and interest generated by the properties.
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation
Rowe motion to Local Application adopted Roll Call 148
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 147
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Local Legislation
Source: Alabama Legislature