HB439 Alabama 2020 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chip Brown Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Class 2 municipalities, to provide that a municipality may not levy business license in its police jurisdiction unless they offer police and fire services to that area, Sec. 11-51-91 am'd.

Description

Under current law, a municipality may levy business, trade, and professional licenses within its police jurisdiction. These licenses may be levied in the area of the police jurisdiction outside the corporate limits of the municipality, but the rates may not exceed one-half of the rates applied within the corporate limits.

This bill would provide that a Class municipality that does not provide police and fire services in the area within its police jurisdiction but outside its corporate limits may not levy any business, trade, or professional licenses within that area.

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Subjects

Police Jurisdiction