Code of Alabama - Title 45: Local Laws - Section 45-49-71.01 - Monthly report of receipts and expenses; annual examination of books and accounts

Section 45-49-71.01 - Monthly report of receipts and expenses; annual examination of books and accounts.

(a) The Mobile County Commission shall cause to be printed and upon request be distributed to any newspapers within the county, and to any members of the electronic media or others, a monthly report of receipts and expenses of the county, detailing for each fund of the county treasury receipts and expenditures and the nature thereof, by the tenth day of the succeeding month. The report shall be included on the agenda of the next meeting at which time any citizen of the county shall be given an opportunity to be heard, for or against the estimates of any item relating to the report. At the end of each fiscal year, the commission shall cause a full and complete examination of all the books and accounts of the county to be made by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, and shall cause the results thereof to be distributed in the same manner as the monthly report.

(b) The provisions of this section relating to the duties of the members of the county commission are cumulative to any laws or parts of laws heretofore or hereafter enacted except to the extent there is a direct conflict herewith.

(Act 86-414, p. 610, §§ 1, 3.)

Last modified: May 3, 2021