Alabama Code Adoption of Supplements Act No. 2012-363

Section 1. (a) Those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2010 First Special Session and the 2011 Regular Session as contained in the 2011 Cumulative Supplements to Volumes 3 to 12, inclusive, Volumes 13 to 16A, inclusive, Volumes 17A to 20, inclusive, Volume 22, and Volume 22A, and the 2011 Replacement Volumes 12A, 17, 21, and 21A and the additions and deletions made by the Code Commissioner for editorial purposes, as edited and published by West Group, as the Code Publisher, which volumes of the 2011 Cumulative Supplement and 2011 Replacement Volumes are identified and authenticated by the Great Seal of the State of Alabama placed upon the front and back of each of the volumes of the cumulative supplement and upon the first inside page and the last inside page of the replacement volume, are adopted and incorporated into the Code of Alabama 1975.

(b) The following corrections are made to the 2011 Cumulative Supplements:

Section 2. Those local and permanent laws of the state previously enacted and contained in initial 2011 Volume 22F (Local Laws Dale--Escambia Counties) and the local and permanent laws pertaining to various counties enacted during the 2010 First Special Session and the 2011 Regular Session as contained in the 2011 Cumulative Supplement to Volumes 22B, 22C, 22D, and 22E and the additions and deletions made by the Code Commissioner for editorial purposes, as edited and published by West Group, as the Code Publisher, which volumes of the 2011 Cumulative Supplement are identified and authenticated by the Great Seal of the State of Alabama placed upon the front and back of each of the volumes of the cumulative supplement, are adopted and incorporated into the Code of Alabama 1975.

Section 3. The adoption and incorporation of the supplements and replacement volumes specified in this act shall constitute a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975, for purposes of Section 85 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. This act is a law that adopts a code for the purposes of Section 45 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.

Section 4. It is declared that West Group, as the Code Publisher, has certified that it has discharged its duties and responsibilities to edit and publish 2011 Replacement Volumes 12A, 17, 21, and 21A of the Code of Alabama 1975, by combining the material in the previous bound volumes with the material contained in the cumulative supplement without making substantive changes, but making, under the supervision and pursuant to the direction of the Code Commissioner, nonsubstantive changes and corrections as may have resulted from changes in reference numbers, changes of names and titles of governmental departments, agencies, and officers, typographical errors, grammatical changes, and misspellings.

Section 5. The adoption of this act shall not repeal, supersede, amend, or in any other way affect any statute enacted into law during any 2012 session of the Legislature.

Section 6. Upon passage and approval of this act, the duly authenticated volumes of the 2011 Cumulative Supplements and the 2011 Replacement Volumes shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State, who shall file the volumes of the supplements and the replacement volumes in that office. The volumes of the supplements and replacement volumes shall not be removed from the office of the Secretary of State, but the Secretary of State, upon request, under proper certificate and seal of that office, shall certify any part or parts thereof upon payment of the fee specified by law for similar services.

Section 7. This act shall become effective immediately following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

Approved May 14, 2012.