HB 414

Under existing law, in the case of any municipal water works board which serves water to customers or has assets in counties other than the county where the authorizing municipality is principally located, the county commission of each county other than the county where the authorizing municipality is principally located where more than 5,000 water customers are served by the board or where the board owns a major reservoir located entirely within the county may appoint a member to the board

This bill would increase from 5,000 to 25,000 the number of water customers served by the board in a county other than the county where the authorizing municipality is principally located for the county to appoint a member to the board and would remove the member from a county in which the board owns a major reservoir located entirely within the county

To amend Section 11-50-301 of the Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2016-276, 2016 Regular Session, relating to certain municipal water works boards; to revise the process for county commissions of counties other than the county in which the authorizing municipality is principally located to appoint members to the board.

Section 1

Section 11-50-301 of the Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2016-276, 2016 Regular Session, is amended to read as follows:

§11-50-301.

(a) Effective January 1, 2017, the After the effective date of the act adding this amendatory language, the water works board shall be reorganized and composed of the following members:

(1) Two of the members shall be appointed by the mayor of the authorizing municipality and four of the members shall be appointed by the municipal governing body of the authorizing municipality. All of these members shall be residents of the authorizing municipality and water customers of the board.

(2) One additional board member shall be appointed by the association of mayors in the county where the authorizing municipality is located if there is an organized incorporated countywide association of mayors or by the mayors of the county acting jointly if not. This member shall hereafter be referred to as the board member appointed by the association of mayors. The board member shall reside outside of the corporate limits of the authorizing municipality and shall be a resident of the county where the authorizing municipality is principally located and be a water customer of the board. Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the person appointed as a board member by the association of mayors may only serve one full term on the board.

(3) One additional board member shall be appointed by the county commission of each county other than the county where the authorizing municipality is principally located where more than 5,000 25,000 water customers are served by the board or where the board owns a major reservoir located entirely within the county. The term of a member who has been appointed by the county commission of a county in which the board owns a major reservoir located entirely within the county prior to the effective date of the act adding this sentence shall expire on the effective date of the act. Each board member shall be a resident of the county making the appointment."

Section 2

This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law. At that time the water board will reorganize.