SB54 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Gerald H. Allen Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Alabama Memorial Preservation Act, governmental entity that replaces a memorial building required to maintain original name or erect a marker memorializing the name, If Committee on Alabama Monument Protection fails to act on an application for waiver within 90 days the petition for waiver is deemed denied, penalties revised, Sec. 41-9-238 added; Secs. 41-9-233, 41-9-235 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 prohibits architecturally significant buildings, memorial buildings, memorial streets, and monuments that are located on public property, and have been so situated for 40 or more years, from being relocated, removed, altered, renamed, or otherwise disturbed and provides penalties for violations.

This bill would require a controlling governmental entity that replaces a memorial building to maintain the original name or erect a marker memorializing the name.

This bill would provide that a petition for waiver is deemed denied if the Committee on Alabama Monument Protection fails to act on an application for waiver within 90 days.

This bill would revise the penalties for violations and would authorize the Attorney General to commence a civil action.

This bill would also require the Alabama Historical Commission to oversee the design and construction of a statue of civil rights leader John Lewis at the entrance to the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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Subjects

Memorial Preservation Act