(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Property Protection Act.

Attorney's Note

Under the Alabama Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Violationup to 30 daysup to $200
For details, see Ala. Code § 13A-5-7

Terms Used In Alabama Code 35-1-1.1

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • following: means next after. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • 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
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • 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) For purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings:

(1) AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST PROPERTY. All real property used for raising, harvesting, and selling crops or for the feeding, breeding, management, raising, sale of, or the production of livestock, or for the growing and sale of timber and forest products.
(2) CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITY. Any of the following: a. A chemical manufacturing facility. b. A refinery. c. A plant or facility producing electric energy no matter how generated or produced. d. A water treatment facility or wastewater treatment plant. e. A liquid natural gas terminal. f. A telecommunications central switching office. g. A gas processing plant, including any plant used in the processing, treatment, or fractionation of natural gas. h. A seaport facility as defined in Section 40-13-1. i. Aerospace or spaceport infrastructure. j. An airport as defined in Section 23-1-411.
(3) FOREIGN COUNTRY OF CONCERN. China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. This term shall not include Taiwan.
(4) FOREIGN PRINCIPAL. Any of the following: a. The government or any official of the government of a foreign country of concern. b. A political party or member of a political party or any subdivision of a political party in a foreign country of concern. c. A country or government identified on any sanctions list of the United State Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
(5) MILITARY INSTALLATION. A base, camp, post, station, yard, or center that is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense or its affiliates, encompassing at least 10 contiguous acres.
(6) REAL PROPERTY. Land, buildings, fixtures, and all other improvements to land.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law, no foreign principal shall acquire title to, or acquire a controlling interest in, any of the following:

(1) Agricultural and forest property.
(2) Real property on or within 10 miles of any military installation or critical infrastructure facility.
(d) Subsection (c) shall apply only to the purchase of or other acquisition of title to real property on or after August 1, 2023. The purchase of or other acquisition of title to real property prior to August 1, 2023, is governed by the law in effect immediately prior to August 1, 2023, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
(e) No title insurer, title agent, real estate licensee, or other settlement provider as defined by the Real Estate Procedures Act, 12 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., shall be liable for any violation of subsection (c).
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