§ 41-9-246 — Board of Advisors

Alabama § 41-9-246

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 41: State Government
• Ch. 9: Boards and Commissions
• Art. 10: Historical Commissions
• Div. 1: Alabama Historical Commission

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(a) There is hereby established a Board of Advisors to the Alabama Historical Commission. Said board of advisors shall consist of no less than 15 persons. Each of the below listed societies, organizations, individuals, commissions, and institutions shall have the authority to name one member of said board and shall submit the name of said person to the chair of the commission prior to the annual meeting of the commission:
(1) The Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy;
(2) The Alabama Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution;
(3) The Alabama Society of the Daughters of the American Colonists;
(4) The Mobile Historic Development Commission;
(5) The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama;
(6) The Huntsville Historic Preservation Commission;
(7) The Alabama Department of the Sons of Confederate Veterans;
(8) The Gorgas Memorial Board;
(9) The Hobson Memorial Board;
(10) The Cahaba Advisory Committee;
(11) The LaGrange Historical Commission;
(12) The Fort Morgan Historical Commission;
(13) The USS Alabama Battleship Commission;
(14) The Tennessee Valley Historical Society;
(15) The Montgomery Antiquarian Society;
(16) The Helen Keller Property Board;
(17) The Birmingham Historical Society;
(18) The Board of Trustees of the Mobile Museum Board;
(19) The Board of Trustees of the Montgomery Museum Board;
(20) The head of the department of history and the head of the department of archaeology of each accredited, four year, degree granting university and college located within the State of Alabama;
(21) The John H. Forney Historical Society;
(22) The Tuscaloosa County Preservation Society;
(23) The Blount County Historical Society;
(24) The Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society;
(25) The Dale County Historical Society;
(26) The Etowah Historical Society;
(27) The Hale County Historical Society;
(28) The Huntsville Historical Society;
(29) The North Alabama Historical Society;
(30) The Old South Historical Society;
(31) The Pike County Historical Society;
(32) The Society of Pioneers of Montgomery;
(33) The Eufaula Heritage Association;
(34) The Marengo Historical Society;
(35) The Historic Mobile Preservation Society;
(36) The Alabama Society, Sons of the American Revolution;
(37) The Alabama Society, Southern Dames of America;
(38) The Huguenot Society in Alabama;
(39) The Alabama Society of the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century;
(40) The Coweta Memorial Association; and
(41) Any other local or regional historical society duly recognized by the commission which may exist or which may be created subsequent to August 19, 1966.
(b) Said advisory board shall meet annually at a place to be designated by the commission and shall serve without compensation. The board shall advise the commission on matters relating to the historic and architectural assets of the State of Alabama and assist the commission in compiling and maintaining an inventory of such assets and in carrying out all of its various duties.
(c) There may further be added to the advisory board by the commission such other civic, charitable and patriotic organizations as it may from time to time deem to be to the best interest of the commission.

Legislative History

(Acts 1966, Ex. Sess., No. 168, p. 190, §16; Acts 1969, No. 768, p. 1366, §3.)