Alabama § 29-1-23 Purchase of Legislative Chairs or Desks by Members of Legislature; Establishment of Price; Disposition of Generated Revenues; Disposition of Unsold Chairs or Desks

Alabama Statutes

§ 29-1-23 — Purchase of Legislative Chairs or Desks by Members of Legislature; Establishment of Price; Disposition of Generated Revenues; Disposition of Unsold Chairs or Desks

Alabama § 29-1-23

Title 29Legislature

Ch. 1General Provisions

Art. 1Members, Terms, Records, Etc

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Ala. Code § 29-1-23 (2026).

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(a)Any provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Historical Commission shall establish a rate or price for the production of each restored desk of the legislative chambers to be used in the renovated State Capitol building. The legislative chairs and/or desks used in the chambers shall be sold for a price to be established by the Historical Commission. The last member of the Legislature who sat in a chair in the chambers shall have first choice in purchasing that individual chair and/or desks. Present members of the Legislature shall be given an opportunity to purchase any remaining chairs and/or desks and then former members shall have a choice of any remaining chairs and/or desks after the present members have made their purchases. Any such desks or chairs which are unsold

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(a) Any provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Historical Commission shall establish a rate or price for the production of each restored desk of the legislative chambers to be used in the renovated State Capitol building. The legislative chairs and/or desks used in the chambers shall be sold for a price to be established by the Historical Commission. The last member of the Legislature who sat in a chair in the chambers shall have first choice in purchasing that individual chair and/or desks. Present members of the Legislature shall be given an opportunity to purchase any remaining chairs and/or desks and then former members shall have a choice of any remaining chairs and/or desks after the present members have made their purchases. Any such desks or chairs which are unsold shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, who is authorized to sell existing legislative members’ desks or chairs at a price equal to the price established by the Historical Commission.
(b) The revenues generated by legislative desks and chairs sold by the Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the Senate shall be collected by them and deposited in the General Fund of the State Treasury for the payment of reproduction or replacement costs by the Historical Commission.
(c) The Clerk of the House or the Secretary of the Senate may have any unsold legislative desks and chairs, under the provisions of this section, delivered to the Department of Archives and History for preservation or disposal.