(a) The Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, hereinafter referred to as the Barber Museum, is exempted from paying any state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes with respect to tangible personal property purchased solely for display as a museum exhibit primarily within the confines of the museum property.

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Terms Used In Alabama Code 40-9-25.14

  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidence of debt, deeds and conveyances. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) All personal property owned by and all real property leased to the Barber Museum by the City of Birmingham and improvements thereon, at such time as the leased real property may be purchased by the Barber Museum, and all improvements made subsequent to the purchase, are hereby or shall upon their purchase be exempted from any state, county, and local ad valorem taxation. Provided, however, this exemption shall not apply to any portion of the property that is not used in connection with the organization’s museum or motorsports park operations, or that may be sold to any third party, or that may be leased to any third party for any purpose not connected with the museum or motorsports park operations, nor shall it apply to any real property purchased after July 1, 2006, and added to the Barber Museum complex, except as described herein, nor to any other property owned by the Barber Museum.