n To establish the Alabama Transportation Rehabilitation and Improvement Program 2( ATRIP-2) providing a $ 1.2 billion bond issue for the rehabilitation and improvement of county and municipal roads and bridges.
n To amend the Alabama bid law to exempt the repair of brand name equipment by the factoryauthorized dealer.
Legislative Policy
In addition to its strategic goals, the Association has adopted the following legislative policy consistent with this Foundation Principle:
g Support for allowing the county commission to call a local referendum to impose a renewable temporary local gasoline and motor fuel tax to fund specified local road and bridge projects.
g Opposition to any measures, including budget appropriations, which would divert taxes currently earmarked for roads and bridges to other state functions.
g Opposition to reducing the current level of federal or state funding for county road and bridge projects.
g Opposition to weakening Alabama’ s law related to weight or axle-spacing restrictions on state
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and county roads or to add new exemptions to such laws.
g Support for providing that fines collected from persons convicted of driving overweight vehicles on county roads and bridges be distributed to the county’ s road and bridge fund.
g Opposition to establishing a commission to administer the Alabama Department of Transportation. Opposition to any changes to current law setting speed
limits on unposted county roads.
g Support for amending current motor fuel and gasoline tax statutes to include taxation of any alternative fuels utilized to propel any motorized vehicle.
g Support for amending Alabama’ s severance tax law to ensure that counties receive proceeds sufficient to ensure proper maintenance and repair of roads and bridges utilized for the transportation of materials severed within the county.
g Support amending the Alabama Public Works Law to exempt the awarding of annual in-place contracts for the paving and resurfacing of county roads. g