HB417 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Troy StubbsRepresentative

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

City of Eclectic in Elmore County, corporate limits altered

Summary

HB417 expands the City of Eclectic’s boundaries in Elmore County to include a large set of surrounding parcels, with easements and a sewer-line agreement, effective October 1, 2025.

What This Bill Does

The act alters and enlarges Eclectic’s corporate limits to annex numerous described parcels totaling about 51.42 acres, spread across multiple sections and plats. The annexed land remains subject to existing restrictions, reservations, easements, and rights-of-way described in the deeds and plats (including road and utility easements along Kowaliga Road, Claud Road, Old Salem Road, River Stone/Centerline roads, and others). It includes a sewer-line construction and installation agreement with the Town of Eclectic. Some parcels are restricted from further subdivision, and at least one parcel includes a manufactured home; the overall change takes effect on October 1, 2025.

Who It Affects

• Owners and residents of the parcels described in the act, who would become part of the City of Eclectic and be subject to city taxes, services, zoning, and municipal governance.
• The City of Eclectic and Elmore County (and local utilities) which would assume governance, service provision, enforcement of ordinances, and administration of the annexed areas and their easements.

Key Provisions

• Annexation and boundary change: The boundary lines and corporate limits of the City of Eclectic are altered, rearranged, and extended to include numerous described parcels in Elmore County totaling approximately 51.42 acres.
• Described parcels: The land to be annexed is identified by multiple tax parcel numbers and metes-and-bounds descriptions across River Stone, Bellwood Place, Brookhaven, Riverstone Plat 2 and 3, Central Place, Kowaliga Road area, and other sections and plats; the annexation covers land in Sections 3, 10-15, 22-23, Township 19 North, Range 20 East.
• Easements and restrictions: The annexed property remains subject to all restrictions, reservations, easements, and rights-of-way of record affecting title to the described property, including specific ingress/egress and utility easements along various roads (e.g., 20-foot, 30-foot, 50-foot, and 60-foot rights-of-way).
• Sewer-line agreement: The conveyance is subject to and incorporates a sewer-line construction and installation agreement dated April 11, 2022 between the Town of Eclectic and the City, to be built along the lot lines of the described property.
• Subdivision restrictions: Some parcels include restrictions prohibiting further subdivision; other covenants and plats connected to the annexed land (e.g., Riverstone Plat, Bellwood Place Plat) remain in effect.
• Effective date: The act becomes effective October 1, 2025.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 22, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.

Subjects

Elmore County