Ala. Code § 2-6-10 Short Title.
2-6-10. Short Title.
This article shall be known as the Garrett Coliseum Agricultural Center Restoration and Improvement Act.
(Act 2010-751, p. 1903, §1.)
Garrett Coliseum Agricultural Center Restoration and Improvement Act.
Ala. Code tit. 2, ch. 6, art. 1A
in effectAla. Code § 2-6-11 Legislative Findings.
2-6-11. Legislative Findings.
The Legislature finds that the Garrett Coliseum and the Alabama Agricultural Center, hereinafter the facility, is a significant historic facility owned by the State of Alabama and which faces imminent closure because of operational and public safety concerns if it is not restored, renovated, and improved. The facility was designed in 1949 by Betty Robinson, the first woman graduate from Auburn University with a degree in architecture. The facility, completed in 1953, is of historic and cultural significance to the State of Alabama and its restoration will enhance opportunities for economic development that will benefit the state. The Legislature further finds that the most efficient way to restore the facility and to operate it profitably is for the Alabama Agricultural Center Board, hereinafter referred to as the board, to enter into agreements with public institutions and other entities through which the use of private funding is primarily used to restore, renovate, and improve the facility. To assist the board with the restoration, renovation, further development, and improvement of the facility, the Legislature will provide for an annual continuing appropriation to the board as specified herein.
(Act 2010-751, p. 1903, §2.)
Ala. Code § 2-6-12 Annual Appropriation.
2-6-12. Annual Appropriation.
(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).
(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.
(Act 2010-751, p. 1903, §3; Act 2011-694, p. 2122, §1.)
Ala. Code § 2-6-13 Use of Funds.
2-6-13. Use of Funds.
The board may utilize the funds appropriated herein to accomplish the purposes of maintaining, restoring, renovating, and improving the facility as it deems appropriate or for any legal purpose approved by the board.
(Act 2010-751, p. 1903, §4.)
Source: Alabama Legislature (alison.legislature.state.al.us)URL: https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/code-of-alabamaFetched: 10/20/2026