HB204 Alabama 2013 Session

This bill relates to navigable waters and navigation in Alabama. This bill would provide that the term navigable waters would include canals. The bill would also prohibit a person from anchoring, mooring, or abandoning a vessel in navigable waters so that it obstructs navigation and would provide for criminal penalties

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 navigable waters and navigation; to amend Sections 33-7-1 and 33-7-51, Code of Alabama 1975, to further define navigable waters; to prohibit a person from leaving a vessel so that it obstructs navigation; to provide penalties; 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.