SB189 Alabama 2016 Session

Under existing law, the police jurisdiction of a municipality having a population of less than 6,000 extends for one and one-half miles and the police jurisdiction of a municipality over 6,000 in population extends for three miles

This bill would provide that the police jurisdiction of all municipalities would be set at one and one-half miles from the corporate limits

The bill would authorize the extension of the police jurisdiction of a municipality by local law to not more than three miles from the corporate limits if the municipality has a full-time police force and a full-time, paid fire department whose services will be provided to all individuals within the extended police jurisdiction. The bill would also further provide that ordinances, taxes, or regulations in effect on the effective date of this act may remain in effect until July 1, 2017, but, absent enactment of a local law pursuant to this act prior to July 1, 2017, would thereafter be repealed within any territory extending beyond one and one-half miles from the corporate limits

To amend Section 11-40-10, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2015-361, 2015 Regular Session, relating to the police jurisdiction of municipalities; to set police jurisdiction of all municipalities effective immediately; to authorize the extension of the police jurisdiction of a municipality to not more than three miles of its corporate limits by local law if the municipality has and maintains a full-time police department and a full-time, paid fire department providing services to all individuals and entities within the police jurisdiction; to provide that any ordinance, tax, or regulation in effect on the effective date of this act may remain in effect in the territory within the three miles of the corporate limits of the municipality or town until July 1, 2017, but shall be repealed on July 1, 2017, within any territory extending beyond one and one-half miles of the corporate limits of the municipality absent a local law enacted pursuant to this act.