HB308 Alabama 2018 Session

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

To propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, pertaining only to Walker County, to grant certain sixteenth section and school indemnity lands located in that portion of land annexed into the Town of Eldridge in Walker County, and held in trust by the state for education purposes in the 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.