HB500 Alabama 2019 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Litter, increase penalties, introduce new penalties for litter from vehicle, watercraft, of cigarettes or of urine, and change from Class C to Class B misdemeanor, Secs. 13A-7-29, 23-5-6, 32-5-76, 32-5A-60, 33-6-10 am'd.

Description

Existing law criminalizes littering and provides penalties.

This bill would provide additional penalties for criminal littering and include enhanced penalties for littering of cigarettes, cigars, containers of urine, restaurant food containers, and other specified waste items.

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.

Relating to littering; to amend Sections 13A-7-29, 23-5-6, 32-5-76, 32-5A-60, and 33-6-10, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide additional penalties for criminal littering to include enhanced penalties for littering of cigarettes, cigars, containers of urine, restaurant food containers, and other specified waste items; to include within the enhanced penalties increased fines, mandatory community service requirements, and assessments of driver license points when littering is committed from a motor vehicle; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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.

Subjects

Littering