SB60 Alabama 2017 Session

This bill would establish the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017

This bill would prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of monuments located on public property which have been in place for 50 or more years This bill would prohibit, and provide a mechanism for, the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of monuments located on public property and which have been in place for less than 50 years

This bill would prohibit any person from preventing the governmental entity responsible for maintaining the a monument from taking proper measures to protect, preserve, care for, repair, or restore the monuments

This bill would restrict the renaming of a county, municipality, school, street, bridge, building, park, preserve, or reserve which is located on public property

This bill would create the Permanent Joint Committee on Alabama Monument Protection and would provide for the membership and duties of the committee, including the granting of waivers

This bill would provide for the levy of fines for violations of the waiver process

This bill would also provide for exemptions

To create the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017; to prohibit the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of monuments located on public property which have been in place for 50 or more years; to provide a mechanism for the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, or other disturbance of monuments located on public property which have been in place for less than 50 years; to prohibit any person from preventing the governmental entity responsible for maintaining the monuments from taking proper measures to protect, preserve, care for, repair, or restore the monuments; to restrict the renaming of a county, municipality, school, street, bridge, building, park, preserve, or reserve which is located on public property; to create the Permanent Joint Committee on Alabama Monument Protection; to provide for the membership of the committee; to provide for the duties of the committee; to authorize the committee to grant waivers; to provide for the levy of fines for violations of the waiver process; to exempt certain art and artifacts, the Department of Transportation, local governments, universities, and utilities under certain limited circumstances; and to amend Section 11-40-7, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the renaming of a municipality, to provide for application of this act.