SPECIAL NOTICE
NO SPECIAL, PRIVATE, OR LOCAL LAW CAN BE PASSED, except in reference to fixing the time of holding courts, unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published, without cost to the State, in the county or counties where the matter or thing to be affected may be situated. The notice must state the substance of the proposed law and be published at least once a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in such county or counties. Such publication must have been completed prior to the day on which the bill is introduced.
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The county or municipality affected by a local law introduced by a legislator must pay for advertising the notice, if the notice is signed by the Legislator, even though the bill is not passed. (Section 11-13-6, Code of Alabama 1975)
STATE OF ALABAMA
COUNTY OF MARION
NOTICE is hereby given that a bill substantially as follows will be introduced in the 2025 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama and application for its passage and enactment will be made:
Synopsis: This bill would propose a local act relating to Marion County and amending the appointment of the Board of Directors for the Marion County Public Water Authority.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
To amend Act No. 89-465 of the Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama of 1989, approved May 4, 1989, and Act No. 92-489 of the Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama of 1992, approved May 15, 1992 and to provide further for the terms and compensation of the board of directors of a public water authority in Marion County and to ratify and confirm certain compensation paid to the members of the board prior to the effective date of this Act.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. This Act shall apply only to Marion County.
Section 2. Section 5 of Act No. 89-465 of the Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama of 1989, approved May 4, 1989, and Section 1 of Act No. 92-489 of the Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama of 1992, approved May 15, 1992, is amended to read as follows:
Section 5. The Marion County Public Water Authority shall be governed by a board of directors. All powers of the authority shall be exercised by the board of directors or pursuant to its authorization.
The board of directors shall consist of five citizens of Marion County as follows:
• The Chairman of the Marion County Commission shall serve as one director in an ex officio capacity;
• The Marion County Firefighters Association shall appoint one member from their Association who shall serve an initial term of one (1) year;
• With each incorporated municipality regardless of size having one vote in the selection, the elected mayors of all incorporated municipalities in Marion County shall appoint one director who shall serve an initial term of two (2) years;
• The duly elected member(s) of the Alabama State House of Representatives that serves Marion County shall appoint one director who shall serve an initial term of three (3) years;
• The duly elected member(s) of the Alabama State Senate that serve(s) Marion County shall appoint one director who shall serve an initial term of four years;
After the expiration of said initial terms, directors shall serve a term of four years and vacancies shall be filled by the respective appointing authority that made the initial appointment. In the event of a vacancy in office due to death, disability, resignation, recall, or impeachment, the unexpired term of such office shall be filled by appointment by the respective appointing authority making the initial appointment.
Other than the Chairman of the Marion County Commission, no director shall serve longer than three (3) successive four-year terms.
Each director appointed must be a duly qualified elector, and resident of Marion County and must own real property in Marion County.
Each director shall be compensated for each meeting attended in an amount to be determined by a majority of the members of the board. The amount of each director’s compensation shall be stated in the bylaws of the Authority. Additionally, each director shall be entitled to reimbursement for expenses actually incurred on official business of the said Authority in the performance of his/her duties.
If any director of the authority is absent from three consecutive, called or scheduled meetings, he/she shall be removed from office and terminated as a member of the authority. Within 45 days of his removal, the appointing authority of such director shall make a replacement appointment. Upon failure of the appointing authority to make such replacement appointment within 45 days, the governor shall appoint director.
At any time, with thirty (30) days written notice to the director, an appointing authority under this Act shall have the authority to recall its respective appointed director. Upon recall, the appointing authority of such director shall make a replacement appointment. Upon failure of the appointing authority to make such replacement appointment within 45 days, the Governor shall appoint director.
Any director of the Authority may be impeached and removed from office in the same manner and on the same grounds provided by Section 175 of the Constitution of Alabama and the general laws of the state for impeachment and removal of the officers mentioned in Section 175.
Section 3. All compensation payments made to each member of the board of directors of the Marion County Public Water Authority prior to the effective date of this Act shall be and the same are hereby ratified and affirmed.
Section 4. This Act shall become effective on October 1 in the year of its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
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