Title 45

The Lee County Cattlemen’s Association Rodeo is exempted from collection and payment of any county and municipal sales taxes levied upon admission to the Lee County Cattlemen’s Association Rodeo. (Act 97-517, p. 908, §1.)

(a) This section shall only apply to those areas outside the corporate limits of the Cities of Auburn, Opelika, and Phenix City in Lee County. (b) As used in this section, state sales and use tax means the tax imposed by the state sales and use tax statutes, including, but not li…

There is hereby levied in that part of Lee County outside the corporate limits of the Cities of Auburn, Opelika, and Phenix City in addition to all other taxes now imposed by law special county privilege license and excise taxes paralleling state sales and use taxes. In that part…

There are exempted from the levy of such taxes the gross receipts of any business and the gross proceeds of all sales which are exempted under the state sales tax statutes from the computation of the amount of the state sales tax. And there is also exempted from the levy the stor…

The sales tax levied in Section 45-41-244.20 shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the 20th day of the month next succeeding the month in which the tax accrues; the use tax levied pursuant to Section 45-41-244.20 shall be due and payable quarterly on or be…

Every registered seller making sales of tangible personal property for storage, use, or other consumption in that part of Lee County outside the corporate limits of the Cities of Auburn, Opelika, and Phenix City, which storage, use, or other consumption is not exempted from the t…

Each person engaging or continuing within that part of Lee County outside the corporate limits of the Cities of Auburn, Opelika, and Phenix City in a business subject to the taxes levied in Section 45-41-244.20 shall add to the sales price or admission fee and collect from the pu…

The taxes imposed by this subpart shall constitute a debt due Lee County and may be collected by civil suit, in addition to all other methods provided by law and in this subpart. The taxes, together with interest and penalties with respect thereto, shall constitute and be secured…

All provisions of the state sales tax statutes with respect to payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales tax, making of reports and keeping and preserving records with respect thereto, interest after due date of tax, penalties for failure to pay tax, make reports, or…

The Department of Revenue shall charge Lee County for collecting the special county taxes levied such amount or percentage of total collections as may be agreed upon by the revenue commissioner and the court of county commissioners, board of revenue, or like governing body of the…

(a) The following words, terms, and phrases as used in this subpart shall have the following respective meanings except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (1) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Revenue of the state. (2) COUNTY. Lee County in the State of Alab…

(a) The governing body of the county is hereby authorized to levy and impose in the county, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, and to collect as herein provided, a privilege or license tax on account of the business activities and in the amount to be…

(a) The governing body of the county is hereby authorized to levy and impose excise taxes on the storage, use, or other consumption of property in the county as hereinafter provided in this section: (1) An excise tax is hereby authorized to be levied and imposed on the storage, u…

The sales taxes authorized to be levied in Section 45-41-244.51 shall be due and payable in monthly installments on or before the twentieth day of the month next succeeding the month in which the tax accrues; and the use taxes authorized to be levied in Section 45-41-244.52 shall…

Each person engaging or continuing within the county in a business subject to the sales taxes authorized to be levied in Section 45-41-244.51 shall add to the sales price or admission fee and collect from the purchaser or the person paying the admission fee the amount due by the …

Every registered seller making sales of tangible personal property for storage, use, or other consumption in the county (which storage, use, or other consumption is not exempted from the use taxes herein authorized to be levied) shall at the time of making such sale, or if the st…

The taxes authorized to be imposed by this subpart shall constitute a debt due the county and may be collected by civil suit, in addition to all other methods provided by law and in this subpart. The taxes, together with interest and penalties with respect thereto, shall constitu…

All provisions of the state sales tax statutes with respect to payment, assessment, and collection of the state sales tax, making of monthly reports and keeping and preserving records with respect thereto, interest after the due date of the tax, penalties for failure to pay the t…

The State Department of Revenue shall charge the county, for collecting the taxes authorized to be levied herein, the costs of the department in collecting the taxes; provided such charge shall not, in any event, exceed five percent of the total amount of the taxes collected here…

(a) The entire proceeds derived by the county from the taxes herein authorized to be levied (including any income derived from the investment of such proceeds), subject to Section 45-41-244.60, shall be applied and used as follows: (1) If no public building securities have been i…

(a) If the governing body of the county elects to levy or impose any of the taxes herein authorized to be levied and imposed, it shall specify, as the effective date of such levy, the first day of any calendar month following such levy; provided that such governing body may not l…

If the governing body of Lee County, Alabama (which is hereinafter referred to as the county), has heretofore levied the privilege, license, and excise taxes authorized to be levied in Sections 45-41-244.50 to 45-41-244.60, inclusive, it shall, not later than 30 days after May 4,…

The governing body of the county is hereby authorized to levy and impose in the county, in addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, a sales tax on the sale of any automotive vehicle, truck trailer, semitrailer, or house trailer required to be registered or li…

The governing body of the county is hereby authorized to levy and impose, in lieu of the excise tax authorized to be levied in subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of Section 45-41-244.52, an excise tax on the storage, use, or other consumption in the county of any automotive vehicl…

(a) The taxes authorized to be levied in Sections 45-41-244.62 and 45-41-244.63 shall be collected by the tax collector of the county before the registration of or licensing of any such automotive vehicle, truck trailer, semitrailer, or house trailer by the aforesaid judge of pro…

Except as herein otherwise provided, the taxes authorized to be levied in Sections 45-41-244.62 and 45-41-244.63 shall be subject to all definitions, exceptions, exemptions, proceedings, requirements, rules, regulations, provisions, penalties, fines, punishments, deductions, and …

For making the collection of taxes authorized to be levied in Sections 45-41-244.62 and 45-41-244.63, the aforesaid tax collector of the county shall be entitled to a fee in an amount equal to five percent of the first one hundred dollars ($100) of revenue collected and two perce…

All provisions of Act 81-665 which are not inconsistent with Act 82-473 when applied to the sales tax and the use tax authorized to be levied in Sections 45-41-244.62 and 45-41-244.63, respectively, shall apply to the sales tax and the use tax. Further, all provisions of Sections…

If the governing body of the county elects to levy or impose either of the taxes authorized by the preceding Sections 45-41-244.62 and 45-41-244.63 to be levied, it shall specify, as the effective date of such levy, the first day of the second calendar month next following that d…

(a) This section shall apply only to Lee County in those areas outside the corporate limits of the Cities of Auburn, Opelika, and Phenix City. (b) In order to provide funds for the benefit of Lee County, the Lee County Commission is hereby authorized to levy and to provide for th…

(a) The County Commission of Lee County may levy a tax, not to exceed ten cents ($.10) per ton, on each ton or cubic yard of rock quarried in the county. (b) The proceeds of any tax levied under this section shall be used for county road and bridge repair and maintenance with pri…

There is hereby created a planning commission for Lee County which commission shall be appointed as hereinafter provided and shall have responsibilities and duties as are stated herein. The term commission as used herein shall mean the Lee County Planning Commission and the term …

The commission shall be composed of 11 members, each of whom shall be a qualified elector in and an actual resident of Lee County. The Lee County Commission members may appoint two members for their respective district and one member shall be appointed by the chair of the county …

The jurisdiction of the commission shall extend to all areas of the county outside the boundaries of municipal corporations, unless a municipality expressly requests by resolution to have the jurisdiction of the commission extend into its corporate area. (Act 2007-401, p. 800, §3…

The commission shall elect its chair and create and fill such other offices as it may determine. The term of chair shall be for one year, with eligibility for reelection. The commission shall normally hold at least one regular meeting each month. Commission members may not miss m…

The county commission may appoint, promote, demote, and remove employees of the commission as it deems necessary. The county commission may also contract with county or city planners, engineers, architects, and other consultants and with any local, state, or federal agency for su…

The commission shall adopt and maintain in an up-to-date manner a master plan of various areas of the county as and when deemed necessary by the commission and shall adopt, with the approval of the county commission, appropriate zoning regulations as provided by Section 45-41-260…

In the preparation of the master plan and zoning regulations, the commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the present conditions existing within the county with due regard to existing agricultural uses, to land by virtue of its fertility, proximity …

Except where jurisdiction has been obtained by the commission pursuant to Section 45-41-260.02, the master plan and zoning regulations provided by the commission shall not be applicable in any beat of Lee County until the majority of the qualified electors of the beat voting in a…

The commission, with the approval of the county commission, shall adopt a code of regulations applicable to the subdivision of land and plats of subdivisions which, after the adoption of the code of regulations, shall not be accepted for filing and recording in the office of the …

For the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, convenience, order, prosperity, and general welfare of the county, the commission, with the approval of the county commission, may divide the portion of the county within its zoning jurisdiction into districts of the number…

After zoning regulations have become applicable to a beat as provided by Section 45-41-260.07, the regulations shall not be changed until the proposed change has been published for three weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the county together with a notice stating …

No zoning regulation adopted by the commission and county commission shall change any use to which land is being made at the time the zoning regulations become applicable in any beat. (Act 2007-401, p. 800, §12; Act 2007-477, p. 998, §12.)

In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted, or maintained, or any subdivision is established, or land used in violation of this article or of any regulation made under the authority conferred by this article, the county …

The commission, in appropriate cases and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, may make special exceptions to the terms of the zoning regulations in harmony with its general purposes and interests and in accordance with general or specific rules adopted by the commiss…

Any party aggrieved by any final judgment or decision of the commission, within 15 days, may request a review of the record by a five member review board appointed by the Lee County Commission, one member being the county planning director, one member being the county public work…