(a) The term "taxpaying gas district" as used in this section means any gas district organized under the provisions of this article that has, during any one calendar year, paid to at least one half of its member municipalities license taxes, including interest and penalties, in an aggregate amount in the case of each such municipality at least equal to two percent of the gross receipts from business done by such district in such municipality during the eight calendar years next preceding the calendar year during which such taxes were paid.
(b) Any provision of law including, without limitation, Section 11-50-412, as amended, to the contrary notwithstanding, any municipality in this state that is a member of a taxpaying gas district may levy and collect for the calendar year next succeeding that during which the aggregate taxes referred to in subsection (a) of this section were paid, a privilege license tax on such taxpaying gas district in an amount not to exceed the sum of:
(1) The amount by which
a. Two percent of the gross receipts of such taxpaying gas district from business done in such municipality during the eight calendar year period referred to in subsection (a) of this section exceeds
b. The total amount of license taxes, including interest and penalties, theretofore collected by such municipality from such taxpaying gas district with respect to such eight calendar year period, plus
(2) Ten percent of the amount obtained as a result of the application of subdivision (1) of this subsection.
(c) The provisions of subsection (b) of this section to the contrary notwithstanding, no municipality that is a member of a taxpaying gas district may levy or collect any such privilege license tax upon such district if it had theretofore collected from such district, during the aforesaid eight calendar year period, rentals aggregating as much as two percent of the gross receipts from business done by such district in such municipality during such eight calendar year period.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.
Chapter 50 - Public Utilities.
Section 11-50-390 - Definitions.
Section 11-50-393 - Board of Directors - Composition; Compensation; Removal Actions.
Section 11-50-394 - Board of Directors - Organization; Officers.
Section 11-50-395 - Board of Directors - Powers Generally; Resolutions.
Section 11-50-396 - Powers Generally.
Section 11-50-397 - Exercise of Powers of Eminent Domain Generally.
Section 11-50-399 - Acquisition of Competing Gas Systems, Etc.
Section 11-50-400 - Use of Public Highway Rights-of-Way.
Section 11-50-404 - Transfer of Systems to District by Municipalities.
Section 11-50-406 - Bonds - Disposition of Proceeds From Sale.
Section 11-50-409 - Liability Upon Bonds, etc.; Payment of Bonds.
Section 11-50-410 - Rights and Remedies of Bondholders and Trustees.
Section 11-50-412 - Taxation - Exemption of Property, Income, Bonds, etc., of District Generally.
Section 11-50-414 - Validation of Proceedings to Incorporate Gas Districts.
Section 11-50-415 - Exemption From Usury and Interest Statutes.