(a) Beginning in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and in each fiscal year thereafter there shall be appropriated from the State General Fund to the Alabama Agriculture Center Board the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000).

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Terms Used In Alabama Code 2-6-12

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • following: means next after. 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
  • year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) This annual appropriation shall be in addition to any and all other appropriations to the Alabama Agriculture Center Board. The annual appropriation to the board in the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000) shall continue in each succeeding fiscal year as long as a restoration, renovation, and improvement agreement of at least thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) remains in effect between the board and any public institution or corporation of the State of Alabama for the renovation and rehabilitation of Garrett Coliseum and the Alabama Agriculture Center, located in Montgomery, Alabama.
(c) In the fiscal year following the expiration or termination of the above agreement, the provisions of this continuing appropriation shall cease. However, in any event, the continuing appropriation shall cease and no longer be in effect after fiscal year 2042.
(d) The appropriation authority granted in this article shall become null and void after September 30, 2015, if by that time the board has not entered into a restoration, renovation, and improvement agreement with any public institution or other entity through which the use of private funding is primarily used to restore, renovate, and improve the facility.