§41-10-239. Property rights not to be affected by article; sections imposing licensing requirements, taxes, etc., are void if such requirements not otherwise imposed.

It is the intent of this article that it shall not restrict or impair the real, personal or mixed property in which any individual person, industry, business, utility, industrial development board or similar board or authority, public or private corporation or the Alabama State Port Authority has any legal, equitable, absolute or conditional right, title or interest, whether by fee simple, leasehold, easement, possession, contract, license, permit or any other form of ownership or other rights thereto whatsoever or any existing or future rights of way required by the State of Alabama Department of Transportation for the construction of Interstate Route I-210 and the construction of the new Cochrane Bridge and its roadway approaches and any future connections to or between these two highway facilities. In the event that any individual person, industry, business, utility, industrial development board or similar board or authority, public or private corporation or the Alabama State Port Authority or the State of Alabama Department of Transportation shall at any time be required to obtain any license, permit or other certificate, or be made subject to any tax, assessment, fine, penalty, law, rule, regulation, ruling, ordinance or order of any city, county, state, federal or other governmental, quasi-governmental or public entity or any agency of any of them, to which such individual person, industry, business, utility, industrial development board or similar board or authority, public or private corporation or the Alabama State Port Authority or the State of Alabama Department of Transportation would not have been subject in the absence of this article, then, notwithstanding any severability provision herein to the contrary, any section or sections of this article causing that effect shall immediately become null and void without any further legislative or judicial action.

(Acts 1985, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 85-950, p. 292, §10.)