In every county and municipality the officers charged by law with the duty of levying taxes shall annually, without further authority, levy a tax, insofar as such a tax is or may be permitted by the present or any future provisions of the Constitution, sufficient to pay:
(1) Bond interest falling due in that year of all bonds issued after March 15, 1933;
(2) The principal of all serial bonds issued after March 15, 1933 falling due during the current fiscal year;
(3) The sinking fund appropriation for the current fiscal year, if any, required by any agreement heretofore made or by any proceedings heretofore taken to establish a sinking fund for the payment of bonds now outstanding, or required by any agreement which may be made or proceedings taken after February 15, 1933, to establish a sinking fund for the payment of funding or refunding bonds issued after the last named date, except funding or refunding bonds maturing in annual series; and
(4) Such arrears of interest, principal or sinking fund payments as should have been made under this section in any prior years, but which were not so made; provided, that the amount of such annual tax shall be decreased by the amount of special assessments or other funds on hand and appropriated to the said purpose; provided further, that such county or municipality shall not be required to divert to the purposes set out in subdivisions (3) and (4) of this section the proceeds of any tax now authorized to be levied to pay for the expenses of the city government or general purposes of said county or municipality.
Such tax shall be collected like other taxes and shall be applied solely to the said purposes. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent any county or municipality from applying funds derived from other taxes or from any other source to the payment of bonds heretofore or hereafter issued or interest thereon or from establishing a sinking fund for the payment of principal of bonds heretofore issued.
This section shall not apply to revenue bonds issued under this chapter.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Title 3 - Provisions Applicable to Counties and Municipal Corporations.
Chapter 81 - Municipal and County Bonds.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 11-81-3 - Issuance of Refunding or Funding Bonds as to Adjustment, etc., of Indebtedness.
Section 11-81-5 - Places of Payment.
Section 11-81-6 - Maturity and Payment - Generally.
Section 11-81-7 - Maturity and Payment - Bonds Issued and Sold in Series.
Section 11-81-9 - Form; Appointment of Registrar and Provision for Registration and Transfer.
Section 11-81-10 - Sale Price.
Section 11-81-12 - Determination of Highest Bidder.
Section 11-81-13 - Disposition of Proceeds From Sale.
Section 11-81-17 - Pledge of Revenues From Waterworks System to Secure Payment of Bonds.
Section 11-81-20 - Investment of Funds Received to Credit of Sinking Fund.
Section 11-81-21 - Investment of Funds Obligation in Which Sinking Funds May Be Invested.
Section 11-81-22 - Sinking Fund Bonds - Issuance, Etc.
Section 11-81-23 - Sinking Fund Bonds - Designation; Maturity and Interest; Disposition.
Section 11-81-25 - Sinking Fund Bonds - Powers of Trustee of Sinking Fund.
Section 11-81-26 - Mandamus Proceedings.
Section 11-81-27 - Mortgages of Public Property for Payment of Debts.
Section 11-81-28 - Issuance, Sale, etc., of Negotiable Notes in Anticipation of Sale of Bonds.
Section 11-81-29 - Bonds and Interest Coupons Exempt From Taxation.
Section 11-81-31 - Ratification of Certain Irregular Elections for Issuance of Bonds.
Section 11-81-32 - Issuance of Duplicates for Lost, Mutilated or Destroyed Bonds.