(a) Any gas system operated by any investor-owned company, city, county, municipality, or public gas district which comes under the supervision of the commission for the purpose of enforcing the gas pipeline safety requirements of this article, shall pay annually on October first of each year an inspection fee to the commission of $.50 per active service line for the previous calendar year ending December 31, for each active service line in said system.
Terms Used In Alabama Code 37-4-88
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
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.
Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
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) Any investor-owned company, partnership, public housing authority or public entity created by Act of Congress or state legislature that uses a master meter for one or more units, shall pay the inspection fee based upon the number of all units on premises served by said master meter.(c) All provisions of this section are applicable to any and all liquefied petroleum gas installations that come under the enforcement provisions of the commission.(d) All said inspection fees collected under this provision shall be paid into a fund to be known as the “gas pipeline safety fund” and shall be kept separate and apart from all other funds by the commission.(e) Payment of gas pipeline safety inspection fees provided for under this section shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of Section 37-4-23 and Section 37-4-24.(f) In the event said “gas pipeline safety fund” accumulates by September 30 in any year to an amount equal to 110 percent of the amount budgeted in that current fiscal year for the purpose of enforcing the gas pipeline safety requirements of this article, the commission shall suspend the collection of said inspection fees for one year.(g) Upon July 25, 1983, the additional revenue generated herein shall be over and above the appropriation of the commission for fiscal year 1983-84.
